Brian's Notes

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who submitted their articles for our Article Contest. They were all great! Keep them coming! The following authors are the winners of our 9th Article Contest!

Latest Article Winners

1. Thank-you Son
2. Nursing Me Black
3. Does God Make Mistakes?

Sept 13 - Sept 19 Hottest New Topics

• Entry into Practice: Diploma Programs for Registered Nursing
• You Can't Make This Stuff Up!
• 13 things a nurse won't tell you
• Hospital Requiring Employees to take H1N1 Vaccine
• Should I be a CNA -- I'm 44yrs old!!! Is it too late for me?
• New mom wanted to go to a Nursing School
• Earn As You Learn Information

Student Resources: Nursing Diagnoses

A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and/or potential health problems or life processes. A medical diagnosis, on the other hand, is the identification of a disease based on its signs and symptoms. read more

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

As a nurse of some years' duration, I've often been accused of harboring a rather warped sense of humor. I'm not sure what happened, or when I devolved from a normal person who laughs at knock-knock jokes and funny animal videos to a degenerate who cackles madly at bodily functions and the infinite variety of stupid people tricks. All I know is, I've seen some crazy stuff since I've been in this field........and every single one of these stories is 100% true. read more

13 things a nurse won't tell you

I really like the Reader's Digest new monthly article. 13 things _____ won't tell you. This month it was teachers. So here are some I would like to see listed for nursing... read more

Hospital Requiring Employees to take H1N1 Vaccine

Just wanted to get some thoughts on a hospital requiring all employees who have contact with patients to take the H1N1 Vaccine. Thoughts about this being REQUIRED. If an employee refuses, they have to wear a mask for the entire flu season from the moment they walk on hospital grounds until they leave? read more

Refusing Mandatory Vaccination

Hello. I will soon be enrolling in a nursing program which requires many vaccines. Is there any way I can refuse to take these vaccines due to health and religious concerns? Thank you. read more

New mom wanted to go to a Nursing School

Hello. I will have a Baby on November and I am in the process of getting my ADN. would it be possible to study nursing and have a baby? how difficult would that be? To all the mommas here who went to a nursing school, how did you manage? did you have a hard time studying and passing? in my situation, i have no family here to look after my child and my husband is working 12hours a day. I am pretty sure the the baby sitter will cost me a lot of money too. Thank you for reading. read more

Earn As You Learn Information

Hi. I just want to say that I am new to this board and hope to be as helpful as you all regarding new RN students. I am still very new to all of this and seek out advice from the experts or those who have gone before me... read more