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Do any of you movers and shakers out there have any experience becoming a continuing ed credit provider? I did some preliminary searching and found what is required for my state and I know I need to apply with the ANCC or some other organization that...

I agree. Sometimes asking the question that your mind is processing can be received poorly. We weren't there so we can't say but perhaps you don't exude confidence with your questions? For example, your discription of the Zocyn situation seems prett...

The problem with comparing what we do to celebs and athletes or even high earning business people is we don't really make the hospital money, per se. Pwople will pay 150 dollars a ticket or more to watch someone throw or kick a ball but they don't th...

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Hmm...There mere fact that you are asking this question tells me that you don't have an experience problem. You have a self marketing problem. When the time comes to shine up your resume and get ready for interviews take time to study how to market y...

You won't get over the nerves until you get the experience. Don't do any intervention unsupervised that you've never done before. Bring an experienced nurse you trust with you to walk you through. Take your time and know what you're doing any time yo...

I certainly "get it." I would never want to be accused of rape/battery for simply doing my job. I will stop what I am doing in a heartbeat to help a male colleague get a task done and would fight anyone that made any false accusations. Unfortunately,...

I dunno...I think having that attitude is exactly what makes many nurses miserable. "Its just a job." "I'm just a robot following the doctor's orders." I know for me having those thoughts made it very hard to go to work some days. Nursing is a baby i...

Love this. I was an advocate of the ACA for that exact reason...it SEEMED that it was going to FORCE competition. Business people and advocates of free market are always screaming to let the markets regulate themselves. In theory the ability to choos...

As an ER nurse I can say you definitely did the right thing. We get patients from LTC that are sent for normal chronic complaints without ANY intervention prior to calling EMS...you saw a change, you did the interventions available to you so yes, you...

Cocoa, There are MANY comments and so far the ones I have read contained some solid advice. I too would like to echo the sentiment that what you are feeling is NORMAL. I can't think of the theorist that talks about the stages of nurse psychological d...

There's typically a new grad "hiring season" at the start of the new year. Don't waste time applying for non-new grad positions. Find out when the hospitals you are interested in accept new grads.

She didn't say she had a nurse position. She just said she had a position...

Hmmm...I hate to generalize, but there is definitely one thing to keep in mind with what we do - it is female dominated. So with that being said there are definitely situations where there's "too many women in the kitchen." One of my fears when going...

Completely agree. Being a new nurse is already hard enough much less being on an high acuity, advanced level unit. What you are feeling is normal and it probably takes about a year to completely get over the jitters and be confident in what you're do...

LOL I am with you. I shower after work unless I work out the morning before. Then I'll shower again after work. Unless I had a spectacularly low body fluid day AND showered before shift, I always shower after work. The thought of laying in bed after ...

I don't find that particularly fair to the OP. I get that you don't want to cater to someone and reinforce bad behavior but why risk getting one of your own insulted, humiliated, or worse. All to make a point to some sick old person who's days on thi...

OP, I am sorry you were treated poorly based on your appearance. Ignorance and just plain meanness is something that all of us will deal with regardless of our own race/religion/ethnicity. I can't agree with those who say, "Don't take it personally,"...

You should definitely feel that way. Everyone does. And at the end of your new grad orientation you will STILL feel like you don't know anything....and you will make mistakes. All that is okay. The important thing is not doing any harm to your patien...

I am not sure why anyone would go LPN unless for some other reason they had no choice. That is absolutely no disrespect to LPNs - as someone already stated there are way more opportunities with your RN. No one ever said you HAD to work in the hospita...

I second this. I will also like to add one key thing. As someone who feels like a career student (all while HATING school) I can tell you there is one very big thing when it comes to passing that has little to do with how much you study or how well y...

Forum comments like this always make me laugh and they are part of EVERY kind of forum...if someone finds and old thread and responds for future people or have a question, they get harassed for bumping an old thread. If someone makes a new thread bec...

Hmm..was she not tachy there? Typically everyone that age with those complaints and that history gets at least an EKG, if not the full workup. Then again even if she wasn't tachy then you still follow the stroke pathway and get a trop. Very odd.

She's overcompensating because she feels inferior...

Can't say I know much about Cali other that I've heard they won't even consider you without a BSN at least. Are you getting interviews or are they not even calling you in? Are you applying for new grad positions or experienced. At this point definite...