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  1. Martin Health vs. Boca Regional

    Buyer beware replied to sharij752's topic in General Nursing

    Where do you live? You are talking about two completely different hospital venues that cater to two completely different clientele. I have no idea why Boca is wanting a lickety split answer from you...

  2. Veteran with +-2 years CC and mediocre grades. Which route?

    Buyer beware replied to Blopple's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    OP: like everything in life there are two sides to every coin. In Asian philosophy it's represented as the ying and yang, and frequently represented as darkness and light. Your light is that you have...

  3. Regret leaving the bedside?

    Buyer beware replied to anchorRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You know every once in a while the intersection of outstanding intellects sends shivers down my spine. I also want people to achieve their dreams but only in a prepared way that turns those dreams...

  4. If you could speak your mind...

    Buyer beware replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The big one is "I'm a nurse." It's an easy ruse because everyone knows nurses have no set of skills in

  5. Do you feel safe at work?

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse4babies's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. I was up in Thomasville, Ga. when I saw a report about this on the local Hee-Haw news station. It happened in Titusville, Fl. Not much changes down through the years. For some reason hospital...

  6. If you could speak your mind...

    Buyer beware replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe the visitor was a family member-brother or sister-who decided at that moment to make their existence known to you. Stranger things have happened before. Consider it a gift. That's right! A...

  7. Jersey College Review - Good or Bad

    Buyer beware replied to dazenu's topic in General Nursing

    You know Pickles did you ever wonder why the schools that have the best graduation and retention rates do the least marketing? Like Harvard, Yale et al. It's because their reputations precede them....

  8. Jersey College Review - Good or Bad

    Buyer beware replied to dazenu's topic in General Nursing

    OP: Just listen to your own assertion. "Every business is rated by bitter customers." If that statement was even remotely plausible all business ratings promulgated by the dubiously credible BBB...

  9. Ageism - 61 Yr Old & Need to go Back to Work after 3 Yrs off Taking Care of Wife

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Only when I sense someone is blowing smoke up my gluteus maximus. But hope does spring

  10. Single male NP students and work schedule

    Buyer beware replied to anchorRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Don't mind so much the make money concept. They have to pay the bills. But the for-profits expend tons more money on marketing than they do on the actual educational component of school as evidenced...

  11. Took the NCLEX June 2016 and Passed in 75 Questions!

    Buyer beware replied to Samantha2587's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That's great!!! You should franchise your brain. You would make a

  12. Single male NP students and work schedule

    Buyer beware replied to anchorRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Op: Be very careful with the school you choose. Many schools especially for-profits sell themselves by marketing the "flexibilty" aspect of their Nursing and NP programs. This is a come-on. If any...

  13. How do you saline-lock? / What is saline-locking?

    Buyer beware replied to 757RN's topic in Patient Medications

    This kind of question begs the question: why do we care? Google the damn

  14. TNCC what is it good for?

    Buyer beware replied to Broc's topic in Emergency

    And lest we forget, a great way to bulk-up the ENA's bottom

  15. Discrimination in PT care??

    Buyer beware replied to xdrowe's topic in General Nursing

    And now for a tale from bizzaro land. I worked with a doctor in an ER down South. He was an MIT graduate. He was a great doc with a wonderful sense of humor. Everybody loved and respected him. One...

  16. New Nurse Having Bad Experience with Nursing - How can I get on track to ED Nursing?

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    This "new world of nursing" has been going on since Hitler was a corporal, but I thank you for bringing it up again as nobody was listening even back then in the olden

  17. New Nurse Having Bad Experience with Nursing - How can I get on track to ED Nursing?

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    OP: six years at the hospital as a phlebotomist and they said they didn't have time to go through the applicants...come back next year." Why this is called the old fashion bum's rush. I'm not saying...

  18. Did your credits from Chamberlain College of Nursing transfer to a different university?

    Buyer beware replied to brainfried's topic in General Students

    Yes, this is so true. Ask the school. The inability to transfer credits is part the entrapment plan used by the for-profits. You see they want to squeeze every dime out of you that they can. Since...

  19. Regret leaving the bedside?

    Buyer beware replied to anchorRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Your words give some of the best insight into the lemmings-like rush that many nurses, even brand new inexperienced nurses, feel is necessary to legitimize themselves by way of becoming a nurse...

  20. Ageism - 61 Yr Old & Need to go Back to Work after 3 Yrs off Taking Care of Wife

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    OP: you want frankness, right? You don't want sugercoated pablum, correct? OK, tell me have you noticed that not one of the previous threads identified which company or locality they actually work...

  21. What do you think? My mother is told she is a drug addict by her primary care physician

    Buyer beware replied to lhome's topic in General Nursing

    OP: the history of pain management has been just like everything else in this country a study in one extreme or the other. 15 years ago the word was out through many authoritative agencies that pain...

  22. Looking nurse practitioner preceptor

    Buyer beware replied to Bhatianeena's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I want the U.S. nursing world to know so it should no longer be the most outrageous best kept secret of all time. When you go to a school that tells you you will be reponsible for finding your own...

  23. How do I quit my job the RIGHT way?

    Buyer beware replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    OP: blah, blah etc. You could call your boss a fat philandering, incompetent slob and see where that goes if time is of the

  24. Allina Health not hiring online NP grads

    Buyer beware replied to RockMay's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Good for Allina Health. Since the so-called nursing leadership has abdicated their responsibility to hold these for-profit loan mills to account, it's good to see that Allina is doing what the...

  25. Fast track nursing programs

    Buyer beware replied to Jessicalou7's topic in General Nursing

    Fast tract? That is a marketing ploy used by a variety of unscrupulous nursing educational/business providers. They exsist to find the fastest way to your funds. Do your due diligence and research and...