Rod, Male Nurse

flying in for clinicals? nope! you have clinicals, you have labs, you have SIMs. As an LPN you would be reentering in with alot of new classes left ahead of you and there is no way you could possibly do what you are thinking. Some quarters you would ...

In florida...an ADN nurse can teach LPN clinicals but nothing else. BSN can teach LPN clinical and lecture and also ADN clinicals. An MSN is required to teach ADN level lectures.

Hi Novice7, first and foremost you cant please everyone. How many students are you teaching and what percentage are leaving poor comments? One quarter I taught 108 students and if I had to guess I got about 5 bad reviews. If I taught a class of 20 an...

At the school I teach at there is no pay difference between PN instructors and RN instructors...the pay difference is in the degree they have. MSN is higher pay...if you only have a BSN you cant teach RN students in the classroom or lab setting but c...

Dosage calc can be a huge hurdle for some students. Here is one strategy that I employ when I taught pharm and had to teach rookie students. I have a mathematical mind and I quickly showed them how "easy" dosage calc was by doing it "my way" on the b...

Just my opinion.... There is always some truth if to the evals if you are consistently getting the same comments and/or a good portion of every group you teach has negative things to say. You should really look at what the students say and try not to...

By default, the students who are recording lectures are going to be those who are seeking any way to improve their comprehension. I think the students who check out when recording would likely check out even if they didnt have a recording to fall bac...

99 days out of 100 i am happy with my job as a nurse educator rather than working as an NP. Not EVERY college pays poorly. My starting pay was par with a starting NP salary. I can also say that the depth of my knowledge has increased leaps and bound...

Don't dictate where I poop.

I am in the process of applying. Start date of may because I dont need the additional educator courses as I already have an MSN in nursing education. It appears that its all the same except for the first semester and last semester so from summer to s...

If you facility has a ban on Phenergan IV, why were you able to scan it and administer it? That is a change that needs to take place in another department so that IV Phenergan isn't available to anyone but pharmacy. As for the vanco, it sounds like y...

Sometimes staying in one location works out...sometimes it doesn't. I only did travel nursing for a couple years but I did learn a bit about it. If you are in areas that have snowbirds (people who fly south for the winter) such as AZ or FL, you are a...

I am not a fan of agency nurses only getting an hour or two of subpar orientation. A good nurse can hit the ground running but I feel that even most good nurses need more time to become oriented to the facility. You can be a fantastic nurse but if yo...

I have worked with some incredible agency nurses in the acute care setting...but in my opinion those nurses were only about 30% of the agency nurses I have encountered. Several factors play into this. Agencies get paid when their employees work so if...

Wow. I don't have time to read everyone else's comments but this is just sad. My first impression is you should have left nursing many years ago. I can almost guarantee that you aren't the only person miserable in this situation. Your family is tired...

To be short and sweet, you are picking up a shift so you have nothing to stand on aside from saying they should have let you know first. It isn't like they took away a new hire sign on bonus after the fact. They may have been sloppy about their metho...

I'll start with saying this, there are three sides to every story: yours, hers, and the truth. I am an instructor and on a daily basis I overhear students complain about stuff like this. Unfortunately, I know that with many instructors they lack the ...

I don't think it would hurt anything to let your previous manager know your intentions with the VA and that they are listed as a contact on your application (especially since you are still there prn if I am reading that right). I wouldn't worry about...

you need to change your work conditions. My first year of nursing was exactly as you described. Short staffed, no help, 8 patients for each nurse on a telemetry unit and CNAs that have over 20 patients each. It wasn't safe but I learned. I became a t...

I am almost positive one is a prerequisite for the other and cannot be taken at the same time.

I agree that NP schooling should be heavier on the sciences and clinical hours. That is where my issue is. We are fighting for full autonomy, but at the same time we can become NPs with zero experience with patients, way less than 1000 clinical hours...

I started NP school with 3 years of experience. I am almost done and will have about 5 years under my belt. I worked med-surg/tele/ortho but moved into intermediate care/progressive care. If I had any recommendations it would be to move up a level of...

Georgetown. It is highly reputable and their standards of learning are higher in the online programs than what will be found at Grand Canyon. Im not saying you wont/cant be a great NP with a degree from Grand Canyon. Georgetown is just the better cho...

exactly.....why is there even talk of lawyers and other garbage?

It should be required that a nurse practitioner have worked as an RN. The requirements are so relaxed now that non-experienced nurses can become NPs. There is a huge difference between reading about the s/s of someone who is septic and actually havin...