grannynurse FNP

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  1. One of the reasons I am return to a graduate program to obtain my MSN as a Family NP, is because I miss the patient contact. When I worked as a case manager, I had daily contact with my clients,...
  2. What is the #1 healthcare problem in the USA?

    i would like to address some of your comments. and perhaps, i am in the unique position to respond, as i suffer from asthma, am an insulin dependent diabetic and am hypertensive, as well as having a...
  3. Too Many Crabby Nurses!!

    I have been a nurse for thirty-seven years and have seen many nurses and many attitudes, on many different days. Attitudes change, just like the seasons change. They become volatile and then...
  4. When did you start working?

    Well Joni, back in the old days, 1971 I started working a week after my graduation. That, of course, was after taking off a week from my old position, as an LPN. And I had to wait until July to take...
  5. ANA rec BSN vs ASN

    I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your view regarding unions, United, GM and globalization be the causes of the downturn in retirement benefits. The major cuase, for western industry, has been...
  6. questions about Air Force nursing

    I was not on active duty Air Force but was in the Air National Guard. And did my OCT at Lackland (?) Air Force Base. Yes, I need to know how to swim but that was not a problem, I was a sufer, in San...
  7. When I went to my associate degree program, 1969-1971, all of our faculty had to have or be working on a MSN. Today, 2005 all most all of the faculty has their PhDs or are working on them, including...
  8. What are the pros of getting your BSN?

    I am currently a student in an MSN program. I began my education in a diploma program, went to an associate degree program, went on to get my BSN and a MS in Hospital Administration. I advise anyone...
  9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    I don't know if this qualifies as a ghost story but here it is. I was taking care of a 12 year old with aplastic anemia. A week before she die, every day, at 12:15PM I would get a cold chill across...
  10. Yelled at by NA for shaving pt.

    Is it a unit or facility policy that patients be shaved with an electric shaver? If it is, then you were in error. However, even if it isn't, no matter how careful one is, you can still nick the...
  11. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Would you believe it was because my parents would not allow me to remain, in California, when they moved back to NYS? I was offered a scholarship, for 62 credits, at a NYS DMH School of Nursing. The...
  12. State board "delinquent"status

    I don't know what it means in California but I can tell you what it means in Florida. I allowed my license to laspe, in 2000, in Florida. I went to reactivate it, in 2004 and found that they had...
  13. Fire Ants

    I had been bitten numerous times and experienced the usual symptoms of minor infection and itchness. The I was bitten and had a severe respiratory reaction to just a few bites. I now carry and epi...
  14. What will YOU do with your first "real" paycheck!?

    I bought my daughter a bunch of new summer clothes. Grannynurse
  15. NJ vs Florida license

    Are you going to continue to work? School nursing does not pay that well, here in Florida. And I'm not sure if Naples Community has an OB unit. If not, the nearest one is a Lee Memorial in Ft....
  16. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    I suggest you update your facts a little. One, you cannot receive SSDI unless you have nine or more quarters paid into it. Second, no one receives social securit benefits unless they or a parent has...
  17. Personal Health Insurance?

    I agree, going on line is a bad idea. Any good insurance company will rule out pre-exisiting conditions. And the ER record will verify that your brother's infection is pre-existing. Take him to a...
  18. A fifty two hours wait is a very long time but it is not that usual for a patient to have to wait for a bed, in any hospital, Canda or the United States.
  19. is RUE a mistake?

    The clincials of EC are not a walk in the park for anyone. And they make it very clear. Your mother was tested on every aspect of her nursing care, from introducing herself to the patient to doing a...
  20. Nursing Issue - Medication Aides

    Sorry but I am the world's worse speller. And my spell check doesn't work on this board. And I don't always have access to a dictionary. So, you will have to just put up with some of us spelling...
  21. Army Nursing Questions. Please Help!!!

    You are classified as a medic. It is akin to being a paramedic in civilian life, although I know there are paramedics who will disagree. You can work on your pre or co requistes, while you are on...
  22. Nurses with disabilities

    I am also a disabled nurse. The fact that your facility is unwilling to accomodate your disability may be a violation of bot5h your state and federal law. I suggest you look into that, inside of...
  23. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    I find your comments both amusing and judgemental. I am a chronic pain suffer, as well as an insulin dependent diabetic and an asthmatic. And guess what, I am under the care of physicians, on a...
  24. I am an insulin dependent Type 2 diabetic. It has been some years since I did any diabetic teaching and am now preplexed at some of the information that I have received, both as an inpatient and as...
  25. Diabetic Education Inpatient? Outpatient?

    Yes, endocrinologists are in short supply. And likely you are correct in your judgement of the physician. And a good family practice physician will refer for evaluation, as to the need for insulin....