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  1. Can you be pregnant in nursing school?

    Buyer beware replied to leikela91's topic in General Students

    Do you know how many nurses are pregnant while on the job? No, I guess you don't. Lots. Gives ME a backache just thinking about

  2. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    Buyer beware replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    No. I over spend on a nurse I know who likes luxury items all to no avail. She still wants to marry that Jewish doctor nonetheless. But, I love her...I love her... I love her.....!!!!!! Do you suspect...

  3. Allina Health not hiring online NP grads

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

    Every once in a while someone expresses the God's honest truth about a situation. This is that once in a while. What has happened in nursing education has nothing and everything to do with nursing...

  4. Chamberlain

    Buyer beware replied to Tamik's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    Since when do for-profit schools have standards that would bar anyone from being accepted. If you're dead set about going to this school you should know you will graduate, if you graduate, with about...

  5. How does one gain experience if experience is required?

    Buyer beware replied to Jmarty31's topic in General Nursing

    OP, in years past if an employer really needed a warm body they would pair you up with a preceptor who in many cases, not all, had the ability in knowledge, temperment, and altruistic drive to really...

  6. Am I right to be angry?

    Buyer beware replied to Knytstar's topic in General Nursing

    This situation describes what the word "inappropriate" was invented for. This "urgent care" establishment needs to tighten up the

  7. I know it's horrible to live off loans but...

    Buyer beware replied to Cats&Tea&Climbing's topic in General Nursing

    The student loan thing is a total disaster in this country. "It's not free money and very expensive at that. Read the fine print to see they are a life altering trap. The for-profits colleges...

  8. I know it's horrible to live off loans but...

    Buyer beware replied to Cats&Tea&Climbing's topic in General Nursing

    OP: I understand your compulsion to want to retain as much dignity as possible under the circumstances, but if you want the benefit and wisdom of folks who have been there you have to be more...

  9. Online Bachelors Degree

    Buyer beware replied to alexisbord2's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I do not usually recommend for-profit schools but Chamberlain may be the exception. I know of several nurses who have actually graduated from there and since you are a nurse already that's good....

  10. Travel nursing with a tiny house?

    Buyer beware replied to DeenieRN's topic in Travel

    All road prohibitions aside, the tiny houses in my sig-other's vernacular "are "so cute." Pro's and Con's: From my perspective this isn't a real house so I question it's resaleabilty let alone...

  11. Theft at work?

    Buyer beware replied to nifty_n's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You're right! If I had a nickle for every disappearing scope, I wouldn't be rich but I'd be a lot less regretful. Remember most people in a hospital are not paid the incredible fortune nurses are...

  12. Pros and cons of psych nursing?

    Buyer beware replied to AngelusLapsus's topic in Psychiatric

    Just from a nuts and bolts point of view, I've always felt it was important to be well rounded in taking care of all types of patients. This approach will give to what I call a "push comes to shove"...

  13. Carolinas College of Health Sciences

    Buyer beware replied to futurenurse/vettech's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I'm assuming when you say an "unexpected turn of events" you may mean for the worse. For this I offer my support in the following words. I have done a little research on the school you cited....

  14. Eaten Alive in the ED

    Buyer beware replied to MillennialNurse's topic in Emergency

    And the responce to that question will always be a tacit "No not really" as they go skipping by. There's two things I would like to have done to help ameliorate this situation: 1. Retroactively give...

  15. Eaten Alive in the ED

    Buyer beware replied to MillennialNurse's topic in Emergency

    OP: May I ask, what city do you work in? Let me preface this by saying that I am by nature a friendly, considerate, helpful person. But this kind of overt surly lord of the flies behavior is not...

  16. How do you handle co-workers who are extremely dramatic and are easily stressed?

    Buyer beware replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What I do is conduct a pharmacological assessment of the meds they're routinely on and then try to guess which ones they missed that

  17. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    Buyer beware replied to nikkole318's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Down through the years there have been so many "rude" and crude remarks that they have all melded into one big morass of scar covered insults. But my significant other, who is also a nurse, said,...

  18. Is money everything in this profession?

    Buyer beware replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Seems like AHS publishing the "sunshine list" has done nothing but created hatred in the AHS happy family of

  19. Is money everything in this profession?

    Buyer beware replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    WhyNurse I understand you are a new recruit and have many many "philisophical" questions. But it is important to know that the pursuit of money and ethical behavior do not have to be mutually...

  20. Difference between nursing skills and tasks?

    Buyer beware replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    Let's not over-think "skills vs. tasks." It's tantamount to the Medieval mental masturbation of Christian clerics trying estimate how many angels could fit through the head of a pin---useless!!! The...

  21. Difference between nursing skills and tasks?

    Buyer beware replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    Let's not over-think "skills vs. tasks." It's tantamount to the Medieval mental masturbation of Christian clerics trying to estimate how many angels could fit through the head of a pin---useless!!!...

  22. Those Who are Deciding on Expensive Schools

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

    OregonCowgirl, My beef is not with expensive schools. It is with for-profits and others with poor metrics that are clearly in "business" to financially rape as many babes in the woods as possible and...

  23. First nurse job 1.5hour commute

    Buyer beware replied to GRN005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Got a house on stilts, a five dollar bill, sittin' on the banks of a muddy muddy bayou. Lots better than the streets with crowded cars a pawn shop and a neighborhood

  24. Nurse vs. Kindergarten Teacher?

    Buyer beware replied to JustiPasano's topic in General Students

    Nurse vs. Kindergarten teacher = Apples vs.

  25. CMA and CCMA

    Buyer beware replied to Meganktar's topic in Nursing Career

    Meganktar, Ask the school if CMA and CCMA designations are actually one in the same. Possibly one puts more emphasis on the clerical side and the other the nuts and bolts of clinical interaction with...