bgxyrnf

bgxyrnf MSN, RN

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  1. I don't really give rip what other people say about my choice... it's my choice and it works for me. That said, I though nursing was easy to pass and the pay *is* decent for relatively little...
  2. It is... until you see how much it costs to live in the Bay Area region. And, Kaiser sets the standard when it comes to rate of
  3. NOT working for free... learning for free.
  4. Wow, I'm amazed at what I'm reading here. My attitude when I graduated was, "I just need to start getting some experience... I'll take whatever job I can find and then move on when I'm able." That's...
  5. You're jumping the gun here. Before you worry about trying to get into another program, you need to figure out why you're unable to perform in the classes that you've already taken. Without completing...
  6. Requesting to be laid off?

    I'll be blunt: What you're proposing is unethical, an abuse of a public benefit, and fraud... and conspiracy if they knowingly go along with it. UI is to provide a bridge for people whose lives are...
  7. I didn't work but I definitely had discretionary time that I could have invested in earning money had that been necessary. (I lived off of severance pay, unemployment, and a second mortgage in order...
  8. is Nursing School HARDER than Medical School?

    Funny, this. I've a friend who is a nurse and he was in a strip bar and chatting up one of the ladies who, it turned out, was a CRNA in another city. She had started stripping to earn money before she...
  9. I took Physiology, Microbiology, Statistics, and Human Development in one semester and ran the board with A's in each. My only tips are: 1) Get the books as soon as possible and start reading the...
  10. Nurses' Week - Upended.

    Nurses at the University of California celebrated Nurse's Week with a 2-day sympathy
  11. Nurses' Week - Upended.

    They do give us something... they give us paychecks and benefits. Nurse's Week is an anachronism and a throwback to the days of nurses as self-sacrificing angels of mercy. If we want to view ourselves...
  12. Giving last name in report

    We, too, use Epic but there is no place in a flowsheet for a name. We use a standardized phrase that only says, "Day Shift RN" or "NOC shift RN." OP, just do what your department or hospital policy...
  13. Speaking from the perspective of an engineer who has developed and implemented plant-floor automation I can say with some confidence that the primary thing that will keep nurses at the bedside is the...
  14. Robots could certainly play a role... There are many non-value-added activities in my day which could be shouldered by robots... A few which immediately come to mind include: Fetching water or meals...
  15. I don't mean this to be mean, I mean it to push you a little bit. Ignore the qualifier "nursing" and just look at the words... do you really not have any notion as to the meanings of the words,...
  16. Unions vs Non Union Hospitals

    I've worked at two non-union hospitals and at two, large unionized facilities. I prefer the predictability of the collective bargaining contract and the ability to have some input into what I earn...
  17. Doctor teaching nursing class

    I wish my nursing classes had been taught by physicians. Generally speaking, I find physician education to be much better than nursing
  18. I have been working with a patient who has a disorder of hypercoagulation, who has limited available vessels, who has lost multiple PICCs and midlines, as well as PIVs, due to clots (thromboses as...
  19. ED after ICU?

    It's really hard to help judge your likelihood of success given three unknown (to me) factors: 1) The details of your PICU experience and why it was such a poor fit. Six months of orientation is...
  20. Federal Nurse Staffing Bill Comparison

    That's not my experience in our ICUs. We do have mandate ratios, of course, here in California. But often times, the nurses in our ICUs are singled because the patients are too "busy" to permit the...
  21. I haven't read through this discussion but I offer the following from the perspective of a mechanical engineer who has studied fluid dynamics. What you want is the very smallest cathether in the very...
  22. Federal Nurse Staffing Bill Comparison

    ANA is worthless
  23. The only justification that I think you could legitimately make is whether there are four significant figures in the the problem statement. If so, you could argue that 333.3 is a reasonable answer. If...
  24. I disagree - in a sense... meaning that EVERYTHING can be improved... whether it *needs* to be really comes down to a return-on-investment or risk-benefit or failure modes & effects
  25. Quality = "the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something" (Google) Improvement = "being improved or made better" Project = "a...