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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 might have found myself a solution. Could you be ...

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 nurse says, "I'm just a resident, but you take 4 y...

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! When you see nurses protrayed like that, why in the...

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 websites I could go to? Thanks!

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 order to enable the administration to cut down on t...

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 pride." But I'm still a little concerned about adjust...

u missed something. nevermind.

are you serious??? man . . . really?

Hey, I'm 25 with a kid . . . all the more reason I need a drink on the weekends. :roll

sounds like typical college students to me . . .

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 a given. And , no one goes into nursing (well, sa...

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

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.? I'm still making my final decision to pursue a nu...

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 deals especially with human experience through a u...

Then what is it?

Um, I'm not a nursing student . . .

Malik is an LPN??? I had no idea.

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 give the next dose, the previous dose hadn't total...

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 with!), and the doctors would blatantly harass (s...

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 think, "she's just a nurse." I love that show though...

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 remedied by leaving the cord/placenta attached, it'...

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 young when they are threatened? Hamsters do it. O...

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 having your kidney removed and insisting on carrying ...

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 wrapping it for how many days? those first few days ...

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 my English 101 class way back in 1999 (it's a req p...