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  1. Failed Second & Third Exam

    bellini replied to Shookclays's topic in General Students

    This is great advice. Testing yourself promotes better retention, recall, and organization within memory of the to-be-learned material than does re-reading or re-study of the same material. Having to...

  2. Pharm distress!

    bellini replied to Niquolea26's topic in General Students

    Not familiar with ATI Pharmacology Made Easy, but anything with "Easy", or "Simple" or "Fun" in the title is suspect. Learning hard things is hard. Learning boring things is boring. Lippincott's...

  3. "Nurse Bedside Shift Report" Survey

    bellini replied to kangoshichie's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Report is for the transfer of information between professionals. If you have been doing your job, you have been teaching and updating and involving patients and families for a good deal of...

  4. How do you address nurses with a PhD?

    bellini replied to SWGOH's topic in General Nursing

    The CNO is at the table. And I find your tone

  5. How do you address nurses with a PhD?

    bellini replied to SWGOH's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, the regulatory body has mandated that nurses with doctoral degrees may not call themselves "Dr" when providing care. They may only do so outside the care context. See link I’m a nurse with a...

  6. How do you address nurses with a PhD?

    bellini replied to SWGOH's topic in General Nursing

    In some jurisdictions, the nursing regulatory body has actually decreed that only physicians be addressed as "Dr". The rationale given for this is that patients would be confused by non-physicians...

  7. CVOR vs CVICU

    bellini replied to bauern5513's topic in Critical Care

    I don't expect the CVOR nurse to know let alone report "everything". I get that from the EPR before the patient arrives, and in the report from the anesthesiologist and the surgeon when the patient...

  8. Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    bellini replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    Here, the union makes a big stink about mandatory flu vaccination. But the union would make an even bigger stink if the hospital did not provide

  9. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    bellini replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, this place sounds like really bad news...When you are starting out on your career, you don't necessarily know what is dysfunctional. When someone with only three years' experience and the...

  10. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    bellini replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I will add to your excellent comment that anyone who knows anything about education knows that high anxiety hinders learning. An ICU nurse needs to learn how to function under pressure, but this is...

  11. Feeling like the dumbest nurse on earth

    bellini replied to Aloe_sky's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree. This is truly bullying behaviour. When I was a fledgling ICU nurse, the unit educator was a similar type...always commenting loudly on other people's stupidity and implying her own...

  12. Online statistics class

    bellini replied to britthohenbrink's topic in General Students

    I have taken two stats courses...one at the undergrad level and one at the master's level and achieved an A+ on both. However, the first stats course that I undertook at the master's level, I had to...

  13. It's not my job to pray with you.

    bellini replied to kickatthedark's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    These studies are not scientifically defensible. How does anyone know that no one was praying for the patients in the control

  14. New to ER, coworker makes me feel stupid.

    bellini replied to ConfusedAmanda1's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I think it was Eleanor Roosevelt who said, "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." Yes, this does sound like jealousy. As you have said, it's good to focus on the people who are...

  15. Opinions!!

    bellini replied to 81shelbay's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I agree with what others have said...if you get stuck, move on to the next section. What has always worked for me: write something down, even if you are well aware that it is not very good. Put it...

  16. Simulation lab is getting out of hand

    bellini replied to aeris99's topic in General Students

    Agree. There are entire courses that address how to properly conduct a simulation scenario. And, I will add that the instructors seem to be unaware that simulation scenarios are at least as useful for...

  17. Credentials

    bellini posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Just wondering what others think about this issue...My workplace has a policy on credentials required for management positions. Nurse managers must have a Master's degree or be enrolled in a Master's...

  18. Credentials

    bellini replied to bellini's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes, I am free to seek employment where there is some clear statement as to the real value of education.

  19. I must vent...

    bellini replied to Lola7211's topic in General Nursing

    You are right. Patients do not understand our roles and the things we do and that is why we need to educate them. I would have told this patient exactly what I did that ultimately saved his life (8...

  20. Some people are too smart for nursing

    bellini replied to Careerchange88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In my experience, such comments as "You're too smart to be a nurse" are made by the unintelligent. I have had very intelligent patients comment on the volume of data gathering and analysis that...

  21. App error - do I till have even a tiny chance of getting the job???

    bellini replied to GabesMommy2014's topic in Nursing Career

    It is better to bring attention to an error than have someone else discover it and think you were trying to cover it up. Good luck with your

  22. App error - do I till have even a tiny chance of getting the job???

    bellini replied to GabesMommy2014's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to change jobs under the circumstances...there is no reason that you can't be honest about your reasons. They are very good reasons. As to the...

  23. An Idea Whose Time has Long Come: EMPLOYEE satisfaction scoring?

    bellini replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It seems like we are constantly being asked to complete some sort of satisfaction survey. And yet nothing ever changes. So I don't bother

  24. An Idea Whose Time has Long Come: EMPLOYEE satisfaction scoring?

    bellini replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There is research evidence to support this. Not that hospitals do anything based on evidence when it comes to

  25. Telling the truth on a peer evaluation for a group project?

    bellini replied to JESSICAAA159's topic in General Students

    Slightly different slant on group work...I did my post-diploma BScN and the majority of assignments (presentations and papers) were group projects. Ostensibly, the purpose of this was to foster "team...