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Dec 19 - Dec 25 Hottest New Topics

• Nursing service reaches higher level with doctorate
• Metabolic Syndrome Increases Risk of Hyperuricemia
• How Can Hospitals Afford Not To Hire?
• Nursing in the next 10 years
• Finally understand the Facebook no-no's
• I'm 53 and want to be an LVN (Clock is ticking)
• Excited for psych clinical!!
• Do I want to be a nurse for the wrong reasons?
• TEAS and Critical thinking test

Nursing Jobs

• Associate Degree Nursing Instructor - Santa Barbara City College - CA
• Evening Clinic Nurse - Foothill-De Anza Community College District - CA
• Operating Room Nurse - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH
• ICU Nurses - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH
• Psychiatric Liaison Nurse - John Muir Health - Concord

Nursing service reaches higher level with doctorate

When Lisa Bratton-Henry graduated from the Shadyside Hospital School of Nursing in 1986 as a registered nurse at age 19, she had no idea nurses could be "doctors."

"Never in a million years," she said.

Now a cardiology nurse practitioner, she was part of the first doctoral class in Carlow University's 81-year history. She and nine others were awarded doctorate of nursing practice degrees during a ceremony Friday night.

Metabolic Syndrome Increases Risk of Hyperuricemia

Patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) who have hyperuricemia are at increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and sudden cardiac death, according to a report published in the Dec. 15 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology.

How Can Hospitals Afford Not To Hire?

Everything leads to believe that new nurses are needed. The aging population, the baby boomers, the aging nurses working, longer lives lived, more chronic diseases present etc....

My dilemma and question is, how can hospitals and health care facilities afford not to hire newly graduated nurses. They should be getting the manpower from somewhere. Are they relying only on overworking the experienced staff only. If they rely only on experienced nurses they are using a constant amount of people for a growing population of people with diseases.

This is what I do not understand...

Nursing in the next 10 years

What do you think nursing will be like in 10 years in terms of education, work environment or professional developement?

Nursing is going through changes and advancements in different directions very quickly. Wondering what is going to be required of a nurse in 10 years to practice successfully.

Finally understand the Facebook no-no's

I've been having a lot of problems with a co-worker lately, and when she requested to be my FB friend, I thought about it long and hard before I accepted. I'm a nice person, and I give people the benefit of the doubt the majority of the time. She had been a lil nicer to me, so I thought this might be her way of mending bridges.

Wrong.

I'm 53 and want to be an LVN (Clock is ticking)

Am I nuts?

I think I would be a very good student and am at a time in my life when I can devote a lot of time to studying. Do you think I could get accepted into a nursing program?

Healthwise, I have very good control (using meds) of high blood pressure. I'm overweight, but working on reducing that.

I've raised six children and although I don't have a college degree, I do have 60+ college credit hours with a grade point average of 3.7 - before grade inflation. haha

Frankly, I was thinking of doing a phlebotomy course because I am so ready to get out of the house and do something, but nursing has always interested me.

I'm going to go for it, but realistically what are my chances of getting in? (Assuming I have good TEAS scores?)

Excited for psych clinical!!

I'm getting ready to go into my FIFTH semester of my BSN program (Hallelujah, right?!) and it's psychiatric nursing and public health. While I like public health, I'm absolutely in love with the idea of psych nursing, and I've always been more drawn to that population. I was the nursing student that got in trouble for talking to my patients for too long in the room during med-surg clinicals. And whenever possible, I requested patients that had a psych background because I was fascinated to see how the connections played out to their physical health.

Anyone that has been through psych clinicals - I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Do I want to be a nurse for the wrong reasons?

When I think about nursing, I envision working in hospital settings. Not so much nursing homes or doctor's offices, but in the middle of the "goodies". I love the smell of hospitals, all the equipment, the atmosphere, etc. I want to know what everything does and how it works. I want to put in that IV, adjust that oxygen, make a patient feel more comfortable, chart that information. I want to know how to use a stethescope, take the BP of a patient, learn about treating different diseases, injuries, and all the things a human body can go through and how it can be healed.

Now here is where I am worried that I am wanting to be a nurse for the wrong reasons. Do I like people? Generally, yes. Do I want to hear about their life stories? Generally, OK. But what I do not like are the people that go on and on about every little ache and pain, over and over again.

TEAS and Critical thinking test

I am going to Denver community college for LPN- RN. But they told me that I have to take TEAS and Critical thinking test to get into LPN-RN program.Have anyone taken this test ? I have no idea what kind of test is it , is it hard? I am kind of nervous . So any information regarding this test would be greatly appreciated.