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    Despite High Demand For Nurses, Colleges Aren't Keeping Up

    Emergent replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The diploma programs of yesteryear were excellent apprenticeship type systems that truly did utilize the hard work of nursing students. They built character in the young women, and took no-nonsense...
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    Centinela Hospital ER so scary

    Emergent replied to diane e's topic in General Nursing

    Our healthcare system is becoming unsustainable. We are all being held hostage by unrealistic standards and expectations. We have a population that is unhealthy, beset with chronic ailments that...
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    Should I quit my program?

    Emergent replied to cj_94's topic in General Nursing

    That's the
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    Should I quit my program?

    Emergent replied to cj_94's topic in General Nursing

    I'm fairly old school, and in my day if you were not physically able to do a job you were not given special treatment. Maybe the instructors that you feel have prejudged you are in that school of...
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    Should I quit my program?

    Emergent replied to cj_94's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you're getting my point, it doesn't matter what your intent was, what matters is the perception of the instructor. I'll bet anything you are coming across the wrong way. I speak from...
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    Should I quit my program?

    Emergent replied to cj_94's topic in General Nursing

    It's very difficult to judge all this from an internet post. I will say, many others have had experiences like this in nursing school. I had an instructor question whether I could ever be a nurse...
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    How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    Emergent replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Sorry, I don't believe you. Have a blessed
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    How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    Emergent replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I suspect that you just wanted to bring up the issue of the existence of God, and so framed it as patient-related in your opening comments. I think it would be better if you were more...
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    I hope this is not true about colleague violence

    Emergent replied to porscheXN's topic in General Nursing

    I think the era of blaming everything on low self-esteem has passed. It's such a pitiful part of psychobabble
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    How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    Emergent replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I've been a nurse since 1993. In that time not one patient has asked me if God
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    Switching from part time to per diem during pandemic

    Emergent replied to RNthereyet?'s topic in General Nursing

    If you are happy where you are working, don't do it. If you want to see something else after the traveling is done, go ahead. They won't take kindly to the fact that you might create a staffing...
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    new to agency nursing and having troubles

    Emergent replied to ~magnolia~'s topic in General Nursing

    First of all, your license will not be on the line because of the things you mention. Remember, you are a guest in the facility where you are an agency nurse. You are not there to fix all their...
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    Did anyone start as a new grad in home care?

    Emergent replied to nurse1045's topic in General Nursing

    I did home care a little bit as a stopgap after my husband died. I had kids at home, two of which were one and three and only wanted to work one or two days a week. Both of the cases I had were...
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    Now that I've gotten it....

    Emergent replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thanks. Feeling fine
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    Hailed as heroes, hospital workers for years have been bitten, hit, kicked. And ignored.

    Emergent replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Nursing

    This is happening more because America has been on a moral decline for many years. Permissive child rearing practices coupled with materialism and excess are destroying us. Our nation is in
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    RN coworker discouraged me

    Emergent replied to LPNwithBIGdreams's topic in General Nursing

    Not a businessman from New York who has the maturity of a 2 year
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    Now that I've gotten it....

    Emergent replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am currently on a 14-day quarantine after a known exposure at work. I'm only on day 3 now. I'm not worried about myself at all, I've known many people who have gotten it and haven't had a...
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    RN coworker discouraged me

    Emergent replied to LPNwithBIGdreams's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious about the possibility of the vaccine triggering type 1 diabetes. Because this happened in your family, you should not take this vaccine? There viruses everywhere, I'm interested in how...
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    "CENTI"meter vs "SONO"meter

    Emergent replied to itiswhatitis's topic in General Nursing

    It is just another variation in the English language. There are many regional differences. Language is fluid, it's always changing. It is what people use, and what is understood by others. There is no...
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    Should I Quit or Give up? Glucometer Failure ?

    Emergent replied to cj_94's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse almost 30 years and I'm still inept in working all the doodads and attachments on a standard wheelchair. And, transferring a phone call or paging overhead? That causes extreme...
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    Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    Emergent replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I totally respect people's discomfort and suspicion of this new vaccine. What I found amusing was, a colleague of mine who is rarely seen without a Pepsi in her hand, sooo concerned about putting...
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    Who should call family during ICU transfer? (did I goof up?)

    Emergent replied to Ioreth's topic in General Nursing

    Get out of the habit of losing sleep over things like that. With all you had going on, someone will sort it out down the line. I'm sure the family found
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    New job. Got injured. Fired for unexcused absences during new hire probation period... what did I do wrong?

    Emergent replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    I would word it that, while orienting to the new job, you were injured and weren't able to complete orientation. Something along those lines. It's not that you are failing, it was just that that...
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    New job. Got injured. Fired for unexcused absences during new hire probation period... what did I do wrong?

    Emergent replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you should seek work in a setting that won't aggravate the problems that were discovered. Even though it seems very unfair, if I were an employer I might get spooked by a new hire having a...
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    Narcs

    Emergent replied to Nurseybl06's topic in General Nursing

    There are agency nurses who are agency nurses for a reason. I call those type the 'moving