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  1. Hello, I am a Master of Nursing Education major. I will need a masters prepared preceptor with a Texas nursing license for 90 clinical immersion hours in Fall 2015. I live in Houston, Texas. The...
  2. Preceptor needed in Houston, TX

    Thank you. I found
  3. Your behaviors in nursing school are as important as your ability to cram. Believe me, they will throw you out on your behind with a 4.0 GPA for the following reasons: 1. Caught lying, 2. Caught...
  4. LPN being scheduled to work as CNA....

    They are paying LPN salary for CNA's on a permanent basis. One of the following, therefore, should be true. 1.They are inept at their job and it will show up in the baseline when the hospital is over...
  5. New nurse - Bedside nursing is not for me

    Just letting you know, there are nurses lined up for the non-bedside jobs. Nurses with decades of experience who cannot take the physical beating any more. It is they who will get the breaks first....
  6. Preceptor needed in Houston, TX

    Thank you
  7. Preceptor needed in Houston, TX

    Thanks, I am trying every
  8. Here is the Medscape link if you are on it:...
  9. You don't get taxed by the state either and can get a very nice house for
  10. Learn to suck up, make inappropriate jokes, let them call you by your first name, and nicknames. They will still give you a bad review. But it will be used against you only when your superiors want to...
  11. First year teaching is always like that. They cannot afford to hire an instructor for every subject, so you will have to grow into the role. Believe me I was sent to sub 10th Grade Arabic. I made the...
  12. I would love to live and teach in California, but a program without a Director and short on staff spells DISASTER. If I were you, I would look at another school, because I can bet my nurse's cap no...
  13. School Nurse sued under 4th Amendment

    NewYorkerGirl, Even my school district did not give us instructions in this area. I just used common
  14. Should I join a teachers's union?

    It is still close to
  15. School Nurse sued under 4th Amendment

    [h=2]Protecting yourself
[/h] Because Ms. T was given no guidelines or information when she started her job, she could not have protected herself. However, guidelines did exist, and those...
  16. School Nurse sued under 4th Amendment

    The appeals court stated that the school and the school district were really at fault here. Nursing guidelines did exist, but they had never been explained nor distributed to nurses in the school...
  17. School Nurse sued under 4th Amendment

    More info: The attorney acknowledged that this was an unusual case. "There have been cases dealing with searching children in school, but they generally apply to looking for weapons or illegal...
  18. Nurses Who Don't Want to be Nurses

    A lot of nurses who came into nursing thinking they would do something noble, don't want to be nurses any more because of the corporate
  19. Nurses Who Don't Want to be Nurses

    What can be more noble than putting food on the table via hard work and not being a burden on society? Considering what nursing these days is more about saving the corporate hind side and less about...
  20. This is where those of us who are there for the money will be differentiated from those who really wish to serve. We want to save Americans as long as we can kill other people to do so. We are not...
  21. Liability issues

    Hello all, My principal expects me to treat everything and anything that may happen as long as I am in the premises. Children who go home and come back to play on the ground have been brought to me...
  22. Liability issues

    Thank you all for the information and support. Good thing is, I have my own liability insurance now. Already feel sorry for the next nurse. I hope the principal gets a shock when the next nurse...
  23. Every Bump and Bruise noted for parents?

    I did, or called on phone, because the one time you did not, you would get a parent screaming like a banshee, and the principal having you on the mat for
  24. Has home health ruined your bladder?

    Keep a bottle and wipes if there are no Mc Donalds (get your car glasses tinted). BTW I never use their toilet paper as it is surely contaminated. I also never use patient bathrooms unless there is an...
  25. Liability issues

    OK folks, I resigned not only from the school but from the district. My principal, I and the district nurse manager had a meeting in which the principal lied in her teeth saying the child had not gone...