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Ohthehugemanatee posted:We're the rarest of the rare. I wouldn't worry about it. It used to be FNPs got hired everywhere and in the last few years I've started to see them essentially blocked from inpatient work because it's just too much of a crapshoot as to if they can hack it. There's a huge demand for inpatient trained providers and it's basically just us vs the PAs. Still good advice! Yeah my plan is to definitely work for a few years to see what I like and to get experience. Then I'll go from there. Good god, I got an extra hour of sleep this morning and feel worse than when I wake up at 0430 for clinicals. Is that what the rest of my life is going to be like?
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Yesssss, I just got my first job offer at my dream hospital/unit!
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This is a warning to all mursing students: no mater how outrageously goony you act, volunteering to be a frosh leader will lead to uncomfortable amounts of being groped by your fellow students. That is all.
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amethystbliss posted:Yesssss, I just got my first job offer at my dream hospital/unit! Details! Also, did anyone use the Lacharity - Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment book to study for the NCLEX? We're assigned random chapters for an EBP class I have, and so far on the two I've taken I'm doing... very poorly. The rationalizations make sense and are helping, but its a bit concerning still. I found some scores on allnurses and most people seem to score similarly to what I have been doing. In my last semester, so NCLEX reality is starting to sink in.
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Aug 27, 2016 16:18
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Nine of Eight posted:This is a warning to all mursing students: no mater how outrageously goony you act, volunteering to be a frosh leader will lead to uncomfortable amounts of being groped by your fellow students. That is all. I'm a new nursing student. Details.
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Iron Lung posted:Details!
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Nine of Eight posted:This is a warning to all mursing students: no mater how outrageously goony you act, volunteering to be a frosh leader will lead to uncomfortable amounts of being groped by your fellow students. That is all. i cant tell if this post is filled with typos or unfamiliar jargon
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Aug 27, 2016 20:34
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I don't know what a Frosh is, but I served on my nursing school's student government and never got groped once. I think I got ripped off.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:10
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Nine of Eight posted:This is a warning to all mursing students: no mater how outrageously goony you act, volunteering to be a frosh leader will lead to uncomfortable amounts of being groped by your fellow students. That is all. Holy poo poo do I hate that word. It's on the same level as preggers.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:35
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Basically. I'm a nurse, end of story.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:07
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I'm pretty sure frosh = freshman. But I'm not sure what a frosh leader is.amethystbliss posted:I've been hired on the birthing unit of a big city hospital that sees its fair share of addiction, CPS involvement, etc. My background is in psych, but I also really love maternity nursing and this particular unit will allow me to do both simultaneously. The hiring manager loved the idea of hiring someone with a psych background, and is happy to work around my psych NP school obligations. And the pay is awesome, so I'm thrilled! Thats awesome! Congrats. Hope to have a similar story in the next few months  .
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Aug 27, 2016 23:26
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Hughmoris posted:Holy poo poo do I hate that word. It's on the same level as preggers. Wait, it was mursing student? DISAPPOINTED
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The mursing thing was a joke, I hate the word too. I was gonna say that I was really surprised that y'all are not familiar with the concept of a frosh week, but I guess the fact that new students are generally not of drinking age in the US would put a damper on that. The internet seems to think it's derived from Freshman and a german word for frog. In Canadian universities, Frosh week is generally a week of new student orientations and activities, along with the encouragement to engage in mildly embarrassing tasks and drinking lots. Older students volunteer to guide the newer ones through all of this and rowdy behaviour tends to happen easily, especially in cities like Montreal where there are 5+ universities holding these events at the same time.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:57
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Murse is a plague upon the land. Thanks Fockers.
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I'm about to pull the trigger on a RN program through my community college. I'm pretty psyched for it but I'm a little worried about the PAX Exam. The advisor I had told me it was basically like the ACT. I looked into some practice tests and study guides and I'm pretty good with math and the reading/verbal part, but chemistry and geometry...I literally failed chemistry at the same community college 10 years ago. I obviously care more now and feel like if I studied hard and applied myself I'll do a lot better but the fact is I still suck at chemistry. Do RNs really use that much chemistry and geometry? I don't want to study hard for the grade without really learning anything only to become an RN and deal with something I'm innately terrible at.
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Yeet posted:I'm about to pull the trigger on a RN program through my community college. I'm pretty psyched for it but I'm a little worried about the PAX Exam. The advisor I had told me it was basically like the ACT. I looked into some practice tests and study guides and I'm pretty good with math and the reading/verbal part, but chemistry and geometry...I literally failed chemistry at the same community college 10 years ago. If it is anything like the TEAS test I wouldn't stress about it too much.
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Nine of Eight posted:The mursing thing was a joke, I hate the word too. im 30
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OMGVBFLOL posted:im 30 I'll abstain from making a "daddy issues" joke  . For all of you in school, remember to socialise and make friends, it's always good to have someone supporting your mental health throughout the next few years.The Nursing Leadership course I'm taking this semester is pretty depressing in a way rather similar to when I was in political science: Here's all these ideal and cool things nursing leadership could improve! Here's what the government/healthcare field is doing instead! Good luck future generation!
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Nine of Eight posted:I'll abstain from making a "daddy issues" joke Really? My nursing leadership class is: Nursing needs to be even more focused on customer experience! Here's ways to encourage your team to make customer satisfaction a priority! Here's information on working through conflicts when your team members push back against ideas from Leadership! Remember, senior leadership in hospitals have extensive experience in fields such as customer relations, brand messaging, and managing budget to increase returns, so trust them to make informed and considerate decisions in your field! Good leadership is open to hearing new ideas for ways to improve from service level employees, but good employees listen and understand to rationale if an idea isn't feasible to implement. Also, here's a bunch of poo poo on PICO and Nursing Research because gently caress You.
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I graduated with an associate's in nursing because it was cheap as poo poo and I could pay out of pocket without incurring any debt. It gave me the meat and potatoes of nursing with one or two arbitrary classes on the side. Now I am doing my BSN because my hospital is paying for it (yay debt free education!) and it just makes me mad that I am wasting time / money / resources taking classes like nursing leadership and theory which is all a bunch of bullshit that in the end will net me a $0 pay increase. I guess it would be good if I ever wanted to actually get into management, but screw hospital politics. edit: Also all the papers that I am writing only get dinged on points for grammatical errors / APA format, not on actual content  .
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Aug 29, 2016 16:21
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Etrips posted:I graduated with an associate's in nursing because it was cheap as poo poo and I could pay out of pocket without incurring any debt. It gave me the meat and potatoes of nursing with one or two arbitrary classes on the side. Now I am doing my BSN because my hospital is paying for it (yay debt free education!) and it just makes me mad that I am wasting time / money / resources taking classes like nursing leadership and theory which is all a bunch of bullshit that in the end will net me a $0 pay increase. I guess it would be good if I ever wanted to actually get into management, but screw hospital politics. Are you me? Essentially the and thing here. Between GI Bill and work my ADN to BSN was free but holy poo poo most of the classes were worthless. Genetics and pharm were on because I actually learned some science behind stuff. My papers got dinged only for APA formatting, never content.
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Etrips posted:
Same. In my EBP class over the summer, I missed 5 points out of a total of 298. 2 were stupid quiz questions, and the other 3 were APA points. If I'm not required to do APA-style charting when I'm working, I'm going to be so pissed I learned it all for the last decade of my life (previous degree too).
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Annath posted:Really? My nursing leadership class is: Nursing needs to be even more focused on customer experience! Here's ways to encourage your team to make customer satisfaction a priority! Here's information on working through conflicts when your team members push back against ideas from Leadership! Remember, senior leadership in hospitals have extensive experience in fields such as customer relations, brand messaging, and managing budget to increase returns, so trust them to make informed and considerate decisions in your field! Good leadership is open to hearing new ideas for ways to improve from service level employees, but good employees listen and understand to rationale if an idea isn't feasible to implement. When you live in a country where the government owns all the Hospitals, customer experience is somewhat less of a priority. What are they gonna do, stop paying taxes? Here senior leadership just fucks everything up because Doctor compensation was raised to be the highest in Canada when we're the cheapest province to live in and then the government cut everything else to compensate 
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Haha your school indoctrinated docile workers lolololol. Where was this?
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Our leadership class was about how we need to trust ourselves to make the right decision. Also not to be afraid to speak up if we have ideas or see something that needs to be changed. We got a few opportunities to do things with the union as well as nursing students. North v South.
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visited an autopsy today because of school. during the entire procedure i was pretty focused, took in everything. nothing really bothered me except for the slightly rotten smell. but since then i've had images of open ribcages in my head. just wondering who actually digs this poo poo, it's pretty far from what you'd think nurses would do, which is helping sick people, but maybe it serves a point somehow? give me your input please 
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Aug 31, 2016 22:03
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Seeing the anatomy 'in the flesh' as it were?  I got nothin'
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Aug 31, 2016 22:11
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Being able to visually understand where structures are located is important for caring for humans comprised of those structures? Are you actually confused as to the value of anatomy lessons for a future in medicine?
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nah, it's just that surgical procedures is pretty far from what i imagined i'd do. mostly just mildly freaked out
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That's normal for probably the first couple of times being around it. I saw an organ procurement case early on and that was pretty wild.
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Working for the ME is my dream retirement job. No sass from patients and no family drama, just slice and dice.
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Koivunen posted:Working for the ME is my dream retirement job. No sass from patients and no family drama, just slice and dice.
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what are these acronyms! I posted in the HC Workers thread but I was offered a residency/immersion opportunity in the Obs department at a L1 trauma center near me. I'm super excited. Especially because our group was given a whopping 0 ED days for our complex care clinicals and thats where I'm most interested in ending up. Obs will be an awesome opportunity in that regard!
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Obs is an observation unit, for when 'acute' is 'sorta'. ED is emergency department. Level 1 trauma center means ED is semi serious. I work cardiac OR, open sternotomy 3 to 5 days a week. You get used to things, but stab phlebotomy still disturbs me. So do guillotine amputations. The county MEs office is in an adjacent building. They have an opening currently, $16/hr, high school diploma, some anatomy knowledge desired. Ymmv
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Etrips posted:I graduated with an associate's in nursing because it was cheap as poo poo and I could pay out of pocket without incurring any debt. It gave me the meat and potatoes of nursing with one or two arbitrary classes on the side. Now I am doing my BSN because my hospital is paying for it (yay debt free education!) and it just makes me mad that I am wasting time / money / resources taking classes like nursing leadership and theory which is all a bunch of bullshit that in the end will net me a $0 pay increase. I guess it would be good if I ever wanted to actually get into management, but screw hospital politics. Is it common for hospitals to reimburse for tuition? I'm looking at entering either an associates or accelerated bachelors program soon and I'm wondering if it would just be better to take on the debt and knock out the BSN in a year and a half rather than spend two years getting an ADN and then earning my BSN later.
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tofes posted:Is it common for hospitals to reimburse for tuition? I'm looking at entering either an associates or accelerated bachelors program soon and I'm wondering if it would just be better to take on the debt and knock out the BSN in a year and a half rather than spend two years getting an ADN and then earning my BSN later. Usually they offer some sort of reimbursement because they want people to have their BSNs. Now I've only worked at two hospitals, and they had two wildly different contracts for reimbursement. My first gig I had would pay for up to $5,000 / year but once you finished school you would be tied to that hospital for two years. The current place I'm at offers $6,000 / year and requires no contract. 
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Etrips posted:Usually they offer some sort of reimbursement because they want people to have their BSNs. Now I've only worked at two hospitals, and they had two wildly different contracts for reimbursement. My first gig I had would pay for up to $5,000 / year but once you finished school you would be tied to that hospital for two years. The current place I'm at offers $6,000 / year and requires no contract. My hospital is a whopping $2500 per year! It's pathetic.
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B-Mac posted:My hospital is a whopping $2500 per year! It's pathetic. Yeah, my hospital offers $2500/year for BSN and $3500/year for a graduate degree. Maybe I can stretch my Masters over 10 years.
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Hughmoris posted:Yeah, my hospital offers $2500/year for BSN and $3500/year for a graduate degree. Maybe I can stretch my Masters over 10 years.
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Wild Horses posted:visited an autopsy today because of school. It is a far cry from what nurses do. The closest thing you'd do is end of life care for someone who's deceased. As Roki B said, it was likely a lesson in anatomy or to enlighten you in the different aspects of what happens to our dead patients. Open ribcages are cool as poo poo. I remember the first time I saw a sternotomy saw in use. The whole OR smelled like burnt bone afterwards. Also, open cardiac massage is also cool as hell.
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