HeartsOpenWide RN

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    Why don't employers start lowering wages for nurses?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to hcer4507's topic in General Nursing

    Your still a student. Wait until you are a nurse and see if YOU would be willing to work for $10.00 and then come back here and see if you want to peddle the same talk. No offense, I am not sure I...
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    Is Doula/CBE experiance an advantage or frowned upon when pursueing OB/GYN nursing?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to SiennaGreen's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Why would it be frowned upon? It can only help you, unless you build a reputation for yourself as a doula that gets in the way and impedes the nurses work. Doula and CBE is totally different than...
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    is everyone who is dying in pain? wondering if i did the right thing,

    HeartsOpenWide replied to jrowmom's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I don't think that just because a person is dying that they are automatically uncomfortable. I do believe that a patient does not have to be "wryting in pain" to be in pain...this patient was dying...
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    CMA to RN???

    HeartsOpenWide replied to jillhunter98's topic in Online Distance Learning

    In my area LPN/LVN all work in LTC, most LVNs in hospitals are only there because they have been there a long time but will be replaced with RNs when they leave. TLCs are the best place to hurt your...
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    When to start applying

    HeartsOpenWide replied to rach78's topic in First Year After Licensure

    NOW. And call back again and
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    What are your thoughts on AROM?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to Mary C's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Some say it can really pick labor. If it is done it should not be done until the baby is
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    LPNs in OB - do they have them where you work?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to CandyGyrl1985's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a LVN on my unit but she can only do
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    Attention use-to-be new grads: when did you feel confident?

    HeartsOpenWide posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am a new grad. I graduated in May and took and passed my boards in June. I just started working on the 20th of July. I am working in OB which is my dream job come true. I believe my orientation...
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    Where on earth are CA students with a low GPA(3.3) applying!?!?!

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

    I do not know the average for sure but I had a 3.56 overall and a 3.7 pre-req and I was not the highest but not the lowest
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    Birth Doulas

    HeartsOpenWide replied to pamela100's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a doula and also a L&D nurse with a 1:1 ratio in a small rural hospital and I do not see how any nurse can be 100% of the labor support. A great deal of time is spent charting, calling the...
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    Where on earth are CA students with a low GPA(3.3) applying!?!?!

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

    Most JC do not use merit and only require a C or C+ average. Also, HSU is the only school in CA still accepting applications at the state level, but they do go by merit and when I got in the GPAs of...
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    Where are all the nurses?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Not to say that your place is like this, but I was told that LTC are not a good place for new grads to start because of the all laws/rules they break and all the corners the cut...not a good way to...
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    How is it that I haven't found a job yet???

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

    Apply for a Psych position. Apparently no one wants them and they have a high turn around rate. I applied to one on a Friday afternoon and got an invitation for an interview that next Monday, not even...
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    MAs are better than LPNs and RNs?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to SPN-RC's topic in LPN to RN

    Hello!!! I know! I got my MA education well below my BSN but the majority of people are monetarily raped getting their MA
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    And I continue my rant of MAs pretending to be nurses..

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    Medical assistants are not doing assessments. They are simply getting vitals and writing down what the patient tells them why they are there. The doctor does the assessment in the clinical setting. If...
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    And I continue my rant of MAs pretending to be nurses..

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    Asking some one if they have allergies and taking their temp is not a nursing assessment and therefore does not require a nursing degree. In my state, CA, certified medical assistants are trained in...
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    How to treat umbilical cord?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to sofiam's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Does anyone have a link to the AWHONN statement? I went to their site but the only thing I could find was CNEs that you had to pay for to
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    Is the Hurst review worth it???

    HeartsOpenWide replied to learae08's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!! They state a 98% first time pass rate. You can take their class as many times as you want. I took it 3 times during my nursing education. Last summer, last...
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    Are you a "Professor", or a "Mrs."?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to ReinventingMyselfAgain's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I am not an instructor, I just graduated in May. I just called my teachers by their first name but addressed them formally in E-mail; if it was applicable (i.e. some of my clinical instructors only...
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    And I continue my rant of MAs pretending to be nurses..

    HeartsOpenWide replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    MA's are hired over nurses in clinics because nurses are not needed in the clinical setting. The work of an MA in the office setting does not require the critical thinking of an RN/LVN. The skills of...
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    Let me be clear there is NO nursing shortage!!!!!!!!! and now THIS????

    HeartsOpenWide replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did get my "dream job" right out of school, and I worked my butt off for it too...I didn't just goes to nursing school; I have a lot of extra stuff on my resume. However, before I was hired I was...
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    House Dr. doesn't allow hospice in facility

    HeartsOpenWide replied to KY RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Report him to the medical
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    New name for the Nursing profession?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to danu3's topic in General Nursing

    I would not want to drop nurse all together but would not mind adding to it, maybe something like Nurse Professional. I don't know, I just got up and am leaving for work so I have not given it much...
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    MAs are better than LPNs and RNs?

    HeartsOpenWide replied to SPN-RC's topic in LPN to RN

    More clinics are going to hire MAs than LVN/LPNs. They are not hiring LVNs in many hospitals (not all), but I have never heard of an MA in the hospital at all. I do not know the rules on an LVN/LPN...
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    LPN VS MA Please help!!!

    HeartsOpenWide replied to donna65738's topic in General Nursing

    You MA instructors are way wrong on both points. Being an MA is not bad, but I would not go to any school that tells you the lies they are feeding you. Go for your LVN and turn in those instructors on...