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I acknowledged that. Just because there wasn't a law, doesn't mean the concept and implication of patient confidentiality didn't exist.

So prior to HIPAA, there was no such thing as the concept of patient confidentiality? K. Pretty sure HIPAA is not HIPAA worldwide, either.

I am a nurse, thank you!

Just as other professions outside of nurses save lives. I never even implied that saving lives only happens in acute care hospitals. OrganizedChaos first said that medical assistants only work in clinics and are never in a position to even perform CP...

OP, I was a medical assistant for about ten years before I graduated nursing school and got my first RN job 😊 as an MA, I worked in primary care clinics and it was this experience that lit a fire under my butt and made me want to pursue nursing. I...

Why do you feel the need to put down other professions? I worked in a clinic that did not employ nurses on site so yeah, I was the one administering first aid. without another clinic at the very least OR hospital or urgent care less than 9 miles radi...

You quoted me and asked when in nursing school it was taught that all siderails up is considered a restraint so I answered you. To be more specific, it was included in basic skills learned in the first part of class. Nobody is being rude to you.

Maybe school for RN and LVN are different. Otherwise, I can't explain why you didn't learn this the first week of class like my fellow nurses and myself.

Nursing School 101

...No.

I took that from my contract, so no I don't have a link. If it's not easily available to outsiders, I don't feel comfortable sharing more than I already have. Perhaps you can contact MNA directly.

33.45 hourly for BSN with 1 yr experience for inpatient, 28.77 for ambulatory is what I came up with

I did think that was a little odd too; my instructors were also the ones with access to the Pyxis and Omnicells.

I apologize, we all know that it's hard to decipher tone over written word. I completely agree with everything in your post and this is how all of my clinicals went, in various hospitals even. Because of the consistency throughout organizations here...

OP, I actually have an answer for you. If it looks like a cheap, trashy, bleach blonde job (I'm picturing Christina Aguilera's hair 10 years ago that coordinated so well with her sketchy spandex onesies), dye it all brown. NOT SAYING THIS IS TRUE, bu...

I definitely feel that it helped. Our class was taught the decision tree, and even though I found myself jumping off the decision tree, falling out of it, and arguing against it, I stuck to it and I'm glad. I had some really hard questions on the NCL...

I hope I don't become jaded either, as some of these folks seem. However, I'm an "actual nurse" with a significant background in patient care but less than yours, and I found the comment to you "come back when you're a real nurse, blah blah, you don'...

Wholeheartedly agree. As nurses, we have a passion (and duty) to educate. So so difficult when we barely have time to teach our own patients.

Yay! Happy to hear you've decided to start your nursing journey! Although it wasn't ideal, I maintained a full time job throughout school because I couldn't afford not to. In my opinion, volunteering at a hospital and/or becoming a CNA will provide i...

I do want to point out that although I am in a RN-BSN program now, I'm not just a student. I'm an "actual nurse" with an "actual nurse" job. The posts from students (and mine included) have not occurred to me as giving a know-it-all-attitude. Speakin...

OP, I am a recent grad and I completely understand because we went through the same thing. We received our patient assignments and "co-nurses" then never saw our nurse for the rest of the shift. Your school must be doing it differently, but our instr...

OP was mimicking the way that NurseLeigh responded to OP. ACTUAL NURSE NurseLeigh is the snide snarky one if anything!

Honestly OP, I'm really happy for you and I'm excited for you. I'm pretty sure that if you showed any fraction of this genuine passion you've shown here in your posts throughout your application/interview process, you landed the position. In my stat...

YES!!! apply! I was hired as a new grad on my dream unit. my managers happened to have graduated from my school therefore that stood out to them as far as getting an interview. you never know when a little confidence or guts will pay off, and you hav...

You mean a TCU?