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Your professor has spent too much time behind the walls of research, and very little time in the clinical world, my dear. He doesn't know what an NP is or does. Why would there be a job market for PAs and not NPs? Either he is ignorant or this ridicu...

The only reason some folks get nasty when they're having a bad day is because people have usually tolerated it. As subservient nurses, we used to make good punching bags. Now, we know that we can stop this unprofessional behavior, with assertiveness...

To AAC.271, BSN, RN, EMT-B: Gee, back when I graduated in '74 we were "highly trained, well educated advanced professionals many of whom [were] in hospital leadership positions or running independent practices." And you think your generation is the ...

I just saw this news - and as an A/GNP student, I think this is excellent news for the profession, and it's about time!

Your poll leaves out adult/geriatric NP. There's a big need for those who will work with older folks.

Hi folks! I start in May for the summer semester, with Gonzaga U. in Washington. This is a second masters program, so I start right in with a bang, with Advanced Pathophysiology. I've got the textbook already, and it's really intimidating. A challeng...

My biggest nursing challenge has been the unwillingness of hospital administrators to see nurses as their most important asset. Instead of spending more money on PR, spend it on the things the nurses ask for to be able to do their jobs better. Increa...

I'd want to know her temp first (is she septic from pneumonia or ??) as well as her BP (will I bottom her out with the Lasix if she's in cardiogenic shock?) and while we're at it, what's her cardiac rhythm? But out of these choices, I'd go with givin...

Dear Newbie, you will "get it." You had a really rough shift, and you're new. You probably have a paper "brain" of your notes from report, right? Re-design it, at home, and for yourself. I had to re-design mine many times over 40 years of nursing. ...

On TV or radio, I frequently hear that someone's heart was restarted by a de-fib-U-lator, not a de-fib-RILL-a-tor. This makes me so crazy I usually have to call the station to correct them!

To passionflower - An apology is due from me for being so slow in responding to your helpful and interesting post. I posted elsewhere about me being occupied for the past few months in being nurse to my older cat. Made me feel needed again. I've tho...

To Havin' A Party! My apologies for taking four months to respond to your kind suggestions. It has been a rough year. I'm still looking, but I think you are right to say "stay healthy." That's a priority now, since it hasn't been for the past 40 yea...

To mtngrl and all of you who have reached your limit: Count me as one of you, please. I am 64, with 40 years RN experience this month. For about the past 20 years, I have enjoyed nursing less and less, but it took me until now to admit it! It was a g...

I agree with "lamazeteacher" who said that no one likes to be confronted in a superior way. However, most people who do this do not even realize that's how they come across. I also think that there are unethical people in both younger and older group...

In reply to BabyLady, who has less than one year of experience, we older nurses know quite well what happens when you quit a job. Oh, you thought we were stupid and didn't know that? I had my first nursing job probably long before you were born. I w...

Your positive attitude is a winner, Viva. Wish I felt the same, but I'm still worrying about how to pay the mortgage. I went to school a long time ago to become a nurse, and have been back to school twice, have a masters degree, and am feeling really...

Hang in there, Victoriashe - I've been in this situation before, and even we both feel pretty low, I think what we're supposed to do now is just rest for a while and care for ourselves, while collecting unemployment checks. We've cared for everybody ...

Thank you, Viva! Sounds like we're in the same brier patch.:chair:

How about fired at age 60? I was, not long ago, and am still unemployed, and waiting for unemployment checks. No, there is very little respect for experience. Especially if most of your experience was in another part of the country, not local. So you...

I empathize, Pookie. Yes, it happened to me as well. This profession is not the one I went to school for, over 30 years ago. Back then, the RN supervised the floor, prepared and gave all the IV's and IVPB's, and made rounds, checking the essentials l...

"Get yourself a great, really great stethoscope. It will cost over a hundred dollars, and as a new grad, you might have to save up for it, but it will be an investment in your patients' quality of care. You will hear crackles and wheezes before thing...

Oh, absolutely, it's all about money. Physicians bring in patients whose insurance pays the bills, including our wages. So the hospitals sing their praises and are at their beck and call. When the physicians want something, hospitals bend over backwa...

I've worked as the RN for an ALF. I always called in a home health IV agency to start the IVs, due to the liability, and the fact that there was enough work to do already. I instructed the caregivers (usually CNAs) in how to do personal care around ...

I agree, they've been top-heavy. But now, they are laying off some good managers. They're very focused on best practices, which is great, but don't supply unlicensed assistants unless you break down and cry for help. You're doing all your own bedbath...