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Speshull snowflaeks
We're now required to achieve our specialty certification. For us ICU nurses that means shelling out a few hundred to sit for the CCRN exam, although we get reimbursed if we pass. I really can't...
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Paging Dr. Nurse...
An interesting thing about the issue of the Doctor of Nursing Practice is that the news coverage and opinion pieces about it are mostly centered on what doctors think. Doctors, obviously, are not...
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What's happening to nursing anyway?
Does anyone else feel like nursing is going down the toilet? Man, I must be getting old if I'm saying something like that. I was speaking with some of the more experienced nurses on the unit...some...
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"All Nurses Should Be MSNs"
See, this is what scares me about nurses. This was a reader response to the APNs saying no to the DNP I posted about:Kudos to you and your physician colleagues for supporting the idea (whose time is...
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The bitter divide between sedation and coma
Is she not waking up because she's sedated? Are the medications making him stretch and move like that? Are the pupils not working because of the sedation?No....no, we're not using sedation. This is...
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