airwaynurse

airwaynurse has 22 years experience and specializes in Critical Care, Flight Nursing.

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1. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Snarky Fact check: The first person (HouTx) did share, with examples from their personal experiences, as had been my hope in writing the article from the start. My "article" as you say, was written...

2. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Yep.... REALLY see phony diatribes about my ability to believe as I like.....sure does make others mad and offended when I do doesn't it. BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS ANSWERED -- Biblical Errors Mistakes...

3. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Slight enigma present, right after saying, "I was with you until you started quoting the Bible. I think your reference material should be a little more current." You state that you are not bashing!...

4. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   llg, Webster's defines snarky as "being crotchety, snappish; sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner." Platitude, by definition, is "the quality or state of being dull or insipid....

5. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   llg, I guess that my worldview got in the way of your understanding. Treating people how you would like to be treated is simply this: showing respect, kindness, love and compassion to other...

6. Great Nurse = Great Leader???

   airwaynurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   How many times have you experienced the ramifications of this perceived axiom? The nursing profession is replete with casualties of this faulty premise. An excellent nurse/clinician is thrust into...

7. Emergency Nursing Pearls-Things they don't teach in Nursing school.

   airwaynurse replied to GOMER-RN's topic in Emergency

   Gomer and Scottaprn: I agreed with most of the pearls you shared. Helpful stuff. Off the top of my head let me say: There is such an intuitive component to what we do as nurses! The...

8. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Ratlady! Thanks for your kind words, thanks for your service! Congratulations on the BSN program, too! Kind regards and best of luck to you! The New BAMC facility was built about the time I left...

9. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

   airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   Nicktexas, You should probably read more carefully. The confusion that you seem to be having with my article is that what you find so "strange" is not in the article at all. Attention to detail...

10. 69 Medications Every New ER Nurse Must Master!

    airwaynurse replied to Michael M. Heuninckx's topic in Emergency

    Enjoyed this article Michael! Nuts and bolts stuff. Training and preparation is the key to any successful endeavor. I always taught new critical care nurses, flight nurses and paramedics (don't ever...

11. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

    airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Being deployed is definitely an Army thing. In 1995 the US ARMY Medical Department was cut deeply and a lot of the asset became Reserve Units. As far as comparing the services goes I'm not up to speed...

12. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

    airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

    It is certainly meant to be atypical as a pathway to being a nurse, that was my retrospective point. It does, however, demonstrate that a second career nursing student can succeed. By the way, a...

13. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

    airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

    nicktexas: Didn't give a whole lot of specifics; It was a general nature, here's how I became an RN, article that spanned about 6 years. Discretion is the better part of

14. Children learn by example

    airwaynurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Great toon! Much like the ability to obtain a manual blood pressure (or really understand what clinical data is obtained by it) nurse abbreviations are fading away....like the apothecary/Latin...

15. You just can't make "This Stuff" up.....

    airwaynurse replied to airwaynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Great work! armygirl2013! Congratulations to you and your perseverance! Thanks for your service as