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  1. nurse-to-be requests advice/insight from current lpn/rn/students re my education plan

    miya posted a topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Hello All, I would like some of your insight as to my current plan to become a nurse. Like all of us out there, I have several challenges to getting established in the career of nursing, but I think I...

  2. Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    miya posted a topic in General Nursing

    Oh my god! I haven't posted in a long time, but I just had to post again. I'm watching the premier of Grey's Anatomy -- any of you see this?? (new show on ABC) The Doctor, after being questioned by a...

  3. Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    miya replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    oh yeah!! I forgot about that one too! I was thinking . . .that nurse looked up in years, so to speak, chances are her "character" was probably a nurse before that kid even decided to go to college!...

  4. List of Hospitals in NYC/Westchester

    miya posted a topic in New York Nursing

    Any suggestions on how to go about compiling a comprehensive list of hospitals in the NYC/Westchester area? I'm doing some research for career planning. Any associations or professional journals or...

  5. eating at the desk

    miya replied to dkarlin's topic in General Nursing

    I was reading last night about some hospital, somewhere in which the administration was trying to pass a cost-cutting rule where the nurses would be required to clean the rooms after each patient in...

  6. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    miya posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was at my public library and found a Fundamentals of Nursing textbook. I sat down and flipped through it and I was thinking, "I could really do this . . . I can really see myself doing this with...

  7. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    miya replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    u missed something.

  8. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    miya replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    are you serious??? man . . .

  9. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    miya replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I figure it this way: For one, every single job in the world has parts of it one will absolutely hate - whether it's a typical piece of paperwork, one specific responsibility, whatever. That's...

  10. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    miya replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry I used the words duty and task. Semantics. Trying to ask a specific and concise question. Thanks for the

  11. Other Careers in Medical Field?

    miya posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have any of you considered working in another area of the medical field - whether you worked there prior to nursing, plan to work there after nursing, considered it as an alternative to nursing, etc.?...

  12. This is sick

    miya replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    was just wondering why you didn't think it qualified as a novel . . . Main Entry: 2novel Function: noun Etymology: Italian novella 1 : an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and...

  13. This is sick

    miya replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    Then what is

  14. This is sick

    miya replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    Um, I'm not a nursing student . .

  15. ER the T.V. Show

    miya replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    Malik is an LPN??? I had no

  16. This is sick

    miya replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    In the book Nurse by Peggy Anderson the author talks about slowly killing off patients. She wrote about how they would give them high levels of pain medication in frequent intervals. By the time they...

  17. In the ER Vein . . . Nurse by Peggy Anderson

    miya posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anybody else read this book? I'm just about to finish it. It's amazing to me, how different hospitals used to be only 25 years ago. The patients would smoke in their rooms (thank god that is over...

  18. ER the T.V. Show

    miya replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    I noticed that comment too. But that probably also hit the nail on the head in that many patients probably under-appreciate the role of nurses in the healthcare setting. A lot of people probably do...

  19. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    miya replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    yeah, it' still odd and, quite frankly, hilarious. to each his own is right. so long as it's not specifically harmful i guess it doesn't matter. but all these different "afflictions" that seem to be...

  20. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    miya replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just thought of something . . . the justification for these practices (like licking your baby clean) used is that it is a "natural" pracitce . . . isn't it also natural for many animals to eat their...

  21. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    miya replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    hmm, could this be a niche in the market? custom placenta bags? perhaps . . . isn't it somewhat unsanitary? to carry around an organ (isn't a placenta essentially an organ)?? I mean, isn't it like...

  22. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    miya replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    mother of a 3 year old here. all i keep thinking is: as if bringing home and tending to a newborn isn't overwhelming enough, i also have to tend to my placenta!! salting and herbing and patting and...

  23. Working during nursing school/clinicals

    miya replied to Plagueis's topic in Nursing Career

    I absolutely feel your pain. I'm dying to go to nursing school. There are 2 schools near me with part time evening/weekend programs that I'm trying to get into. I'm worried cause I got myself a C in...

  24. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    miya replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I cant' get that link to load. When was this article written? It says that the proposal will be considered in fall or winter. Is that fall or winter of this year? I am on the NYS Board of RNs and I...

  25. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    miya replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    any suggestions as to where i can find some facts, do some of my own research? I'm about to start my pre-reqs for my ADN and have some serious concerns (I'm in