JustMeRN

In my opinion clinical experience is important and outpatient experience helps. With the experience you listed you might get some bites depending how competitive the specialty is in your area. And yes, more than half your time is spent in office task...

Write them for month frequencies. So instead of 1w8 write 4m2. So in your case, if you want to see them once a week but don't need another visit this week do 3m1 followed by 4m1 and adjust your visit dates accordingly. Writing for visits in a mont...

You are allowed opinions sure. However, vaccines and the question of vaccination is not an opinion based argument. It is a fact based argument, and the facts are clear, vaccines are oberwhelmingly safe and effective. There is no evidence to the co...

I read up a lot on cosleeping when my littles were little, we had a side car sleeper, best thing ever. I'm not saying cosleeping can't be done safely, just pointing out that bed sharing is frequently encouraged for easy night nursing even though be...

im a firm supporter of cosleeping, but bed sharing is considered one of the highest risk factors for SIDS, a blog I read said that the risk of bed sharing basically cancelled out any benefits from breast feeding in terms of SIDS risk. Also, pacifier...

im not saying that breastfeeding shouldn't be encouraged, my point is the evidence is not inconclusive enough to warrant the aggressiveness that has become the breast is best movement. Woman are literally so scared of giving their infants formula the...

Have you seen this one? Breast-feeding Benefits Appear to be Overstated, According to Study of Siblings

But what you are not doing is providing evidence beyond your opinion that formula carries enough health risks that infants should be given pasteurized donated breastmilk above formula. And I'm not going to yell, because quite frankly I'm not sure wha...

Can you specify where you are getting your information from? Everything that I have read recently published is coming to the conclusion that the benefits of breastfeeding have been overstated, the benefits over formula are small, and when taken into...

Nearly 12 years ago I had my healthy, full term son with every intention to breastfeed exclusively. I was ready. When he was just a few hours old he had a low blood sugar, over the next 12 hours I would nurse, then the wonderful on nurses would cup ...

To the part I bolded, can you back this up with anything? What risk does formula carry? Do you also realize that you have gone ahead and continued to guilt trip moms who can't, or choose not to breastfed? You are perpetuating the guilt heaped on w...

I do admits exclusively, and when I'm training someone new I always tell them adl questions should not be about what the person can currently do, but what is the ideal situation that would result in the best care of the patient. Regardless of wether ...

nope, nope, and nope. In my opinion home health is not the place for new grads, and that scenario sounds terrifying. Keep looking, and good luck!

Yes, a new medication for pain, the pain would be the treated condition (or the identified cause of the pain ie arthritis, fall, fracture). You should always have a change in treatment, this is your skill. New meds (the condition treated is the diag...

Initially yes, now no. I make my notes as thourough as possible so reviewers have very little questions at this point. Initially it felt like I just couldn't get it right! What really helped is when they requested I change or fixed stuff I asked for...

Goodness no way. Find new employment and report them. Agencies like that are what makes it so difficult for the ones doing it the right way!

As an LPN you should be getting pretty basic stuff, daily wound care, follow up visits for Chf, copd etc. the most difficult paperwork is oasis, which you will not be doing. 6 revisits a day is very reasonable, as long as you don't have crazy drive...

Holistic nursing practice is not naturopathy. When adding the term holistic to nursing practice you are encompassing the whole patient, not the disease. Naturopathy is a whole lot of nonsense quite frankly. There's a whole blog from a young woman wh...

Yes, you can take term breaks,up to three months I believe. During term break you pr student portal sort of locks down so you don't have any access to course content. Once you have a student mentor just let her/ him know about your plan and they can ...

Now that I have read the whole thread I'm changing my advice a bit. You are being exceptionally childish and ridiculous. Working as a nurses aid in the hospital does not give you some super special skill set that make you amazing. You are delusional....

Several of the nursing classes require you to use your current position as an RN to complete tasks, so, no, you can't do the program if you aren't working as an RN. That said, lower your expectations while job hunting. Take a job at a SNF of LTC or a...

I called in sick once on Christmas, because I had a temp of 103. It wouldn't even cross my mind to call in sick on a holiday just because I didn't want to work it. Your question honestly is disgraceful and embarrassing. You knew what you signed up f...

Some days/ patients you make a difference, some you don't. The differences are not always as dramatic as you probably saw in oncology. Sometimes the wins are very small (your Chf patient threw away the salt shaker, or weighed himself every single day...

For me I stumbled in. I was an excellent student in highschool, top of my class. Came from a poor area, my parents barely finished highschool. I was accepted into a 4 year school to study education, but we were not able to figure out how to navigate...

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