chillnurse

Actually, Some chick in one of my undergrad classes pulled up a picture of the tampon in lemonade. It was some sort of picmonic I guess. Give me a few hours and I'll write a double blind peer reviewed 15 page article over the benefit of picmonics also. Let me pull out my monocle. I am also glad somebody finally realized I don't put a bunch of time into my posts. I am glad you guys do. Keep it coming lol.

yeah that article about that nursing student was pretty funny. man we would have gotten failed if we played on our phone in clinical in RN school. I got written up for basically pooping longer than 15 minutes once. They were hard on me since I was a male. yes a male. somebody called me a chick in this thread. thanks for not looking at my profile, lol jk. plus most females capitalize their sentences properly. I would but shift is too far away on this keyboard. I mean there is a happy medium between Honey-Badger and florence nightingfail. If you don't know honey badger you need to youtube it.

medical journals, not nursing journals. I agree that the PA education is better than many NP schools also. *GASP* I have stated this in previous posts. I still went NP though due to less restrictions on us, which I am all for of course, but still puts patients in dangerous situations with all of these theory based roflmao courses provided in the ever so popular for profit online programs. Sad thing is students and graduates of these courses couldn't diagnose themselves out of a paper bag since they lack the understanding of anatomy and phys that many of these for profit online programs LACK and replace with PHD level theory trash. I do not hate nurses, nursing, or the profession, actually I don't hate anything, but I do disagree with the over theoretical-ness or whatever you want to call it of the nursing profession. I also almost did fail theory in graduate school bc i told the dean theory was a bunch of worthless bunk to put into a masters program based on CLINICAL PRACTICE. thanks for all the comments folks.

I read nursing journals in school. Never will again. I'll stick to epocrates and uptodate. Where they leave out the fluff and to straight to the point. If we followed all of the stuff they put in those nursing journals, I'd admit like 1/2 of a patient per night because I'd be questioning him about his deep spiritual needs and asking him about his childhood problems all evening. I shall pass. I don't hate nurses BTW, am just not a fan of the ridiculous amount of theory which very little is useful to practice. Again, all of this theory stuff is why a lot of fnp grads have trouble finding jobs. The MD looks at his resume and sees theory theory theory and goes ROFLMAO.

I have been pondering this question for around 2 years now. I still have been unable to provide myself with a reasonable answer to this question. My stack of books was probably about 1 foot taller in undergraduate. This is an anomoly of the universe. I really am having much trouble exploring this question. The only two reasons I can come up with is 1. money for the book making companies. 2. Overkill regarding the amount of materials they expected us to read (I never used anything except my medsurg, peds, ob book). This question is probably on par with the meaning of life question that has been in contemplation for many thousands of years... Can somebody please help me?

A non partially offensive post would not have 40 responses. Success. :) works huh

Actually I like my job. Doesn't require nursing diagnoses. Medical diagnoses are more fun. Oh look his creatinine high he's got an AKI. Time to find out why. Not.... Hmm diarrhea. Increased chance of skin breakdown. How can I over complicate this. IMPAIRED SKIN INTEGRITY RELATED TO INCREASED STOOL and nutritional deficit related to the diarrhea also. I'm so use some protective cream and change his brief more. Oh wait the prior is a medical int unless you just use baby powder. I'll take the AK I plz.

Another thing I never understood. NURSING DRUG MANUALS. These things are thicker and have more elaborate over kill explanations that anything I ever used in graduate school and practice. It's just a for show thing. Just as those nursing diagnosis manuals that are 10 x as big as my pocket hospital medicine guide. Excuse my typos just got off a 12 he shift of doing discharge summeries since it was slow.

I do I feel much better. 240 bucks is a lot

If you are expecting an elaborate article, you won't get it here. 1. cost too much to transfer license from another state. About 220 bucks just for me to transfer my RN license since I am moving to another state. Lame. it's not like ive performed any crimes in the past few months. 2. Phd in nursing- LOL? Who would get a phd in nursing? it is not like it is as an elaborate field as chemistry, biology, or psychology. WHAT A JOKE. This is pretty much just a bullbeat way to try to OVERLEGITIMIZE the nursing profession. What are you performing double blind controlled studies on.... HOW TO GIVE A BEDBATH OR BREAK THE SEAL ON THE ASPIRIN TABLET???? Keep it simple folks. 3. Overcomplication- nurses are probably the worst at over complicating things. I remember back in undergraduate, we were taught those elaborate care plans. Do you know what care plans are? GARBAGE. You never use them and nobody cares about them. Unless you are one of those old hags with a Phd IN NURSING..... You know what else is dumb. NURSING DIAGNOSES. you know what those are? cheap copies of medical diagnoses, aka nurses trying to legitimize themselves with medicine. I remember having to come up with these stupid things. IMPAIRED NUTRITION SECONDARY TO DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING. ARE YOU KIDDING ME, NO CRAP, IF YOU CANT SWALLOW YOU CANT EAT. NO CRAP ROFL. I also remember the nursing skills manual. 10 pages on HOW TO FOLD A FREAKING WASHCLOTH AND MAKE A BED. Go home overcomplicators, go home. I also remember having to learn indepth about diagnoses such as cardiac tamponade. WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU PAGED THE DOCTOR AT 3 AM "Hey I think this patient is in cardiac tamponade, you know when they stick the tampon in lemonaide???" ARE YOU KIDDING ME... NEVER. I could go on and on about point 3. Overcomplication is a simple way to try to self-legitimize. Something the PHD level nurses are professionals at. Good professionals simplify as much as they can, not do this garbage.

why limit yourself. broader scope= more marketable. simple

I only know one acnp, all the rest are fnp. Our hospitalist group employs only FNP since we see kids in the hospital also. FNP all the way. Of course I am biased though so.... I do a reputable program with a good rep. Not these 80k tuition online for profit programs people do. 80K for an FNP program. WOW those people are suckers. good luck :)

Hospital rules. More fun than clinic. It is in our scope. Otherwide I'd be unemployed. From er to icu patients on 4 pressors. We fit it covered

i moved from TN to ky for a better job area. U from east TN? thats where i moved from. knoxville area sucks, but cleveland and chattanooga have more jobs then even where i am in KY. i moved cuz of GF though. look into working around chatt, i had a few of job offers there for mega bucks

buy me beer. jk. you shoudlnt have to offer anything. Id take anybody pretty much as long as they are human and not ridiculous. I mean since when has humanity stooped so low to where we don't help each other? Oh wait its always been like that.