HeartsOpenWide RN

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    RNs tell your hospitals to hire new grads

    HeartsOpenWide replied to DedHedRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    It cost about 60,000 train a new grad. And any newgrad willing to work for minimum wage is not going to last
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    Unlisenced assistive personell replacing nurse positions

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Italia23's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Ok, some critical thinking, but not the level of critical thinking a nurse needs to perform at at
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    Unlisenced assistive personell replacing nurse positions

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Italia23's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Because MAs are cheaper and in the office setting they are sufficient. I worked as an MA for a few years before getting my RN-BSN and although I have a new perspective on nursing I still think that...
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    Should smokers be admitted into the nursing program?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Elly Aker's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Do you ever eat fast food? Do you have a perfect BMI? Do you ever have a few beers? If you answered yes to any of these then by your reasoning you should not be in the nursing program either. I do not...
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    Getting pregnant at the end of nursing school..... terrible idea?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurse2B444's topic in Nursing Career

    Honestly, it would be hard for you to get a job 5 months after graduation let alone work for five months before having a baby. Five months is not an efficient enough amount of time to learn as a new...
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    A Violation of Hipaa?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to subliminalvermilion's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on the situation. I work in OB. If a person calls and says "Can you put me through to Sarah's room?" I will ask who is calling, ask Sarah if I can put the person through. If Sarah gives...
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    Sick of people who think Nursing will be easy!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to katebean04's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My advice? Get over it. People are going to say stuff just to tick you off, because they do not know any better, because they think they know what they are talking about, because....whatever! None...
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    (Postpartum) Are babies counted in your census?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to wife&mommyRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    California has it's ratios on that: Couples 1:4; post-part women only 1:6; NICU 1:2; Labor: 1:2; Antepartum 1:4. The baby exists and is a patient, how can your hospital not include it in the
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    Did you leave soon after your "One Year"?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to RNDreamer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    people that use this "one year" theory are the ones that ruin it for new grads. It cost about 60,000 to train a new grad. If the nurse leaves after one year the hospital is not able to re-coup their...
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    The CA New Grad Crisis?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    It is not the ratios, if anything that creates more jobs because more nurses are needed for less patients. The biggest problem of those you listed is that California is broke. Nurses that were going...
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    Nursing School/Tattoo Vent

    HeartsOpenWide replied to LikesToWander's topic in General Students

    This sounds like BS to me. Its not like you have orange hair and can dye it back, or a piercing you can take out. Maybe because I am in California and live in an area where people are pretty liberal...
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    Is it mandatory to have a BSN in most states?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to bear&moose's topic in General Students

    BSN are RNs. They have an RN just like the ASN; just more education. Do you mean and RN ASN with experience over an RN BSN new
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    Is it mandatory to have a BSN in most states?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to bear&moose's topic in General Students

    How many states require a BSN? A a grand daddy of...ZERO! Some facilities may require, some may prefer, but no entire state mandates a
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    what do you do if your teacher crosses the line

    HeartsOpenWide replied to amybear's topic in General Students

    A classmate of mine was being bullied by a teacher so she tape recorded the teacher and turned it into the Dean of the University. The teacher was put on
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    what do you do if your teacher crosses the line

    HeartsOpenWide replied to amybear's topic in General Students

    A classmate of mine was being bullied by a teacher so she tape recorded the teacher and turned it into the Dean of the University. The teacher was put on
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    California BRN

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Blondie24's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Four business days. And they post it after 4 am...yeah I was up at 0401
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    Denied time off for a critical doctors appointment? Can they do this?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to HeatherGurl84's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Your still in orientation. You are sick, they see you as a disability risk. I live in a at will state, but even states that are not from what I understand they can let you go for any reason during...
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    Hooters as Job History...Could this hurt my chances of getting a job?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to AMD88's topic in Nursing Career

    Why put it at all? I only put work experience and volunteer work related to health care. They do not care that I worked in a Pizza restaurant a few years back; tight shirt showing off my rack or
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    Is anyone's hospital following the new awhonn staffing guidelines?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to serenity1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Being from california we are already pretty close, but not following the guidelines to a
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    Getting a union

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    How does one go about getting a union in a hospital? How do you contact them to come to your hospital to talk to everyone about getting on board? Do you have to have a letter with X amount of...
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    How do you determine that you passed the NCLEX?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to IVqueen23's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Near passing is not passing. You have to pass to pass. But you were close, so keep studying. Focus on the one area you were below passing but still study on the things you were near passing so that...
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    Student caught stealing....

    HeartsOpenWide replied to RaggedyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Press charges and send a copy if the police report to the
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    Why Do Nursing Instructors Rely So Heavily On PowerPoints To Teach?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to SarahMaria's topic in General Students

    I had power points throughout my entire nursing education except my last semester. I had an old school nurse who had her PhD in education and did case studies. At first I was scared of the new...
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    Sick and tired of the AAS BSN debate

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Natingale's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    How do you put some one on
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    who has the hiring power?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to sourapril's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse manager. When I was trying to get a job at the place I work at now, right after graduation, I was trying to go through HR to get a job. Never got it and ended up working at a different hospital...