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  1. Crusty old bat in new RN role..

    I had been at the position 2 days and they hadn't even met me. Your post was just plain ugly for no reason, but I see you at least sign your emails appropriately. SHE SAID SHE WAS PUSHED. I've...
  2. Crusty old bat in new RN role..

    I wish I could say this was isolated and would probably never happen again, but I've run into many situations similar. Starting in NICU, I ran into people who took eat their young to a whole new...
  3. Crusty old bat in new RN role..

    What am I missing here? She PUSHED you? Oh hell no. I've dealt with many inexperience, insecure, bossy, rude, mean, and nurses with just no precepting skill at all; but it would be a cold day when...
  4. How much is a normal raise

    We are always told everywhere it is against policy and you can be fired for discussing salaries. I'd like the data source on the comment that it is illegal. I think people SHOULD discuss...
  5. Funniest thing you've heard in an interview

    OMG...I got the what kind of tree are you one. I said do you mean like a web document object model tree? I'd be the application interface I guess. Half of them were laughing, especially a guy on...
  6. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    AMEN! Great post! I'm so sick of the college I'm going to feeding students the line of BS that older nurses did what they were told and didn't question anything or use evidence based practice. If...
  7. Lied to in Interview

    I guess I'm kinda stunned you've been in nursing this long and never been lied to. I'm lied to quite frequently. Last position I was told I would have complete training for a new area. It consisted...
  8. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    I'm old enough to remember hearing LPN's say the same thing. I worked with LPN's who did everything in ICU but IVP, now you almost never see one in an ICU. I watched nurses with decades of...
  9. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    The BSN in TEN law they were pushing grandfathered in those who are working in nursing already. My question is, if approx. 65 percent of nurses are associates....why do we have NO
  10. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    My program took down my discussion post and gave me a 0 for not drinking the Kool Aid and saying bs that I'm soooo much better a nurse because of the degree change. The ANA is NOT my friend, this is...