Feb. 22 - Feb. 28 Hottest New Topics

• Talked into a career in nursing by Stephen King.
• Nursing, the field of medicine or customer service?
• MD ordered placebo for pain PRN~would you give it?
• For all pre-nursing students
• University-Private Sector Research Partnerships
• Anyone applied to UMB, MGH,Simmons and Umass Med for 2009?
• Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

Talked into a career in nursing by Stephen King.

I suddenly found myself thinking back to when I was in school, takeing prereqs and being confused about what I wanted to do for a living. I remembered, above all else, I wanted to find my way into a career that made me feel proud, feel like I was of value to my community. Over the next few days, the idea of returning to nursing dominated my thoughts.
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Nursing, the field of medicine or customer service?

I'm sorry, but I didn't realize I signed up to please the customer. While the nurses go around reminding the patients this is a hospital, not a hotel, we get notices that we SHOULD make these people feel like they're in a hotel. Or "even if you know they're wrong, you should apologize and let them know that they're right" THIS IS AN ACTUAL MEMO THAT APPEARED IN MY MAILBOX.
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MD ordered placebo for pain PRN~would you give it?

I am an RN student who will graduate in May. I ran across a situation during my clinical the other day that I wanted to seek some experienced advice on. This was my 3rd or 4th day of clinical at this hospital so I was still getting oriented to everything and trying to familiarize myself with all the "policies and procedures."
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For all pre-nursing students

It has been noticed that due to mass media and just general word of mouth that there is a HUGE number of people scrambling to get into nursing school any way they can. I just wanted to provide a little information for those of you who are considering it and dismiss some myths that you have probably heard.
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University-Private Sector Research Partnerships

Imagine the effect the discovery of an alternate source of energy would have on our country and our economy – perhaps garbage from landfills could be used as cheap, clean, and “green” sources of energy. This would liberate us forever from dependence on foreign oil. Perhaps the cures for AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease are right around the corner. Future generations would be spared an enormous toll of human suffering. I personally believe we are on the threshold of these types of research breakthroughs.
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Anyone applied to UMB, MGH,Simmons and Umass Med for 2009?

Just wondering if anyone has applied to Umass Boston and Umass Medical (in Worcester), Simmons and MGH for 2009 direct entry and BSN @ UMB? I am a little confused on what is taking them so so long to get back to me.
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Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime colleagues. The program confers the title of doctor on nurses, but some in the medical profession say only physicians should call themselves "doctor."
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