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    The film: Vaxxed.

    Extra Pickles replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Using
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    Extra Pickles replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    or that they have an autistic child that has nothing whatsoever at all to do with their own
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    Extra Pickles replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I'm totally with you here! I have to talk to patients all the time about their medications and that includes vaccinations. best I can think to do is just give them the real hard facts on legitimate...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    Extra Pickles replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    All we can do is educate, provide the real facts and the real data and direct them to valid websites. People who would rather believe the nutcase brigade seem to me to be the people most likely to not...
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    UH Second Degree Nursing

    Extra Pickles replied to FutureInHlthCare's topic in School, College Programs

    University of Houston? University of Hawaii? Something else? Don't know it but I never heard of a nursing program for RN that is only one year. Is it a one year LPN program and UH stands for something...
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    License Transfer

    Extra Pickles replied to Wage35's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I think the point Been There Done That was making was that you aren't likely to find someone else on this message board with exactly the same situation, which is being a nurse for 15 years in MN with...
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    Look who's back..back again...Jahi's back...

    Extra Pickles replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    Her family isn't paying for her care we are! She is in New Jersey getting free medical care through Medicaid because of a legal loophole her family is exploiting. They are claiming a religious...
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    Look who's back..back again...Jahi's back...

    Extra Pickles replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    this girl was signed off as dead two years ago and she has a body that is still functioning? i would have bet money that her organs would have shut down long before now. No blood flow to brain, no...
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    Am I right or my teacher?!

    Extra Pickles replied to Tobenursemj's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    nursemjanney did you really argue with your teacher over this? I don't think anyone can give you articles to back up your wrong answer because it was just wrong. if you don't suction a patient who...
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    Going back to school @ 26

    Extra Pickles replied to lengland's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    you're too old to start a career as a prima ballerina lol but not too old to become a
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    how long does ATT takes

    Extra Pickles replied to rubberband's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    it isn't taking long at all you only sent in your application two weeks ago! if the mail is like usual it would take days to even get it and then they process in order they receive it, if there is...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Extra Pickles replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    My schooling included everything you described was in yours and it wasn't a BSN program. I know it prepared me at least as well as you believe yours prepared you, but I don't have a BSN, so I still...
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    switch from medical school to nursing?

    Extra Pickles replied to gj101's topic in General Students

    oh gosh you are really being taken for a ride OP! I'm so sorry to say it but the best thing you can possibly do right now is to not have a baby with this woman! If that happens you will be tied...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Extra Pickles replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    because it costs them money. better to blame poor outcomes on those stupid, poorly educated nurses! then it's not the hospital's fault because after all they told them they need to get BSN degrees to...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Extra Pickles replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you commuter, because now we know the real answer, which is to throw out all the BSN and ASN grads and make Diploma School graduates the entry to practice! Yay! ? There are competent nurses and...
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    Takin Nclex

    Extra Pickles replied to Jennichon's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I don't think anyone here can tell you why you keep putting off taking the exam, only you know f you're afraid or lazy or whatever. I think if you keep psyching yourself out you will make sure you...
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    Student nurses with disabilities

    Extra Pickles replied to sara2013's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I think until she tells us what her cognitive functioning level is or what the exact problem is everyone is only guessing at what they think she can and can't do which is really a waste of time. I did...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Extra Pickles replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    A BSN new grad does not have better outcomes than a ADN new grad. BSNs having better outcomes has a lot more to do with having much more experienced nurses going to get the BSN degree later on, you...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Extra Pickles replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Do Bachelor Degrees Save Lives? is the title of this op ed piece and the answer is a simple No. Competent Nurses Save Lives and they arrive at that competency by a number of routes, all of which are...
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    Extra Pickles replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I think you have all been smoking too many parabens
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    Oversea's nursing with US license

    Extra Pickles replied to sunnut's topic in General Nursing

    how about working on a cruise ship? it's not one spot all the time but it's traveling and to different countries, I don't know about how it works but I'm thinking about taking a cruise and it jumped...
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    Extra Pickles replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    One time I had a student with me and she was going on and on and on about natural this and natural that, how we use too many drugs and too many chemicals, I did wonder how well she'd do in nursing,...
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    Extra Pickles replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I think that saying parabens six times in one short paragraph is a lot LOL. I don't wear perfume at work. hairspray keeps me from looking like a sheepdog so I think I'm not giving that
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    Who do you work for the patient or the facility?

    Extra Pickles replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    isn't it kind of a crazy answer to say Leave the bipap off tonight and see how he does?! What if he doesn't do well? you don't have the equipment and if he goes into respiratory failure it's on your...
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    Entitlement/ superiority attitude of some nurses?

    Extra Pickles replied to Infofreak411's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A consulting firm came in and asked why the techs were running around and the nurses sat with their cell phones, did this actually happen, or did someone at work tell you it did? because if a...