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• Why Do Nurses Eat Their Young?
• The Ethics of Managing Your Personal Time
• Obesity in Pregnancy Linked to Fetal and Infant Death
• If you could meet an allnurses.com member who would it be?
• If you love your job, what is your specialty?
• Compassion: A Dirty Word
• Just for fun; Quotes you use for encouragement
• Hiring outlook for ADN vs. BSN in your town?

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Why Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

Have you heard that phrase before? I graduated my Nursing Program way, way, back in 1955 and it was around even then. The perpetrator is usually a senior nurse with longevity but could be a new graduate bursting with new knowledge and techniques and anxious to give them a workout or it could be a Supervisor or someone with a higher or lower rank than the victim. Regardless who is creating the problem it is interesting that old cliché is still around in this the 21st Century.

The Ethics of Managing Your Personal Time

There's a lot said about ethics in nursing, and much of it -- most of it, probably -- pertains toward the ethical treatment of patients. Not charting meds you haven't given or procedures you haven't done, admitting your med errors and setting about to mitigate the damage just as soon as you realize you've made an error, truth and honor in communicating with other members of the health care team. Those are all examples of nursing ethics and I won't denigrate their value. But it seems to me that managing your personal time is as much about ethics as any of those other topics.

Compassion: A Dirty Word

I'm beginning to feel as though the word "compassion" is a dirty word. Maybe it's the way people use it these days. It doesn't seem to be about an actual feeling of empathy toward a patient, family member or even a colleague. It seems to be more about "ME ME ME." The word is used more as a bludgeon to impugn someone's character, motives or behavior than as a descriptor. It's used to induce -- or to attempt to induce -- feelings of guilt rather than to praise or validate.

Obesity in Pregnancy Linked to Fetal and Infant Death

Early pregnancy obesity significantly increases the risk of fetal and infant death, independent of risks associated with congenital anomalies and maternal pre-gestational diabetes, according to a study published online April 5 in Human Reproduction.

If you could meet an allnurses.com member who would it be?

Are there any members on allnurses.com whom you would love to meet and why?

If you love your job, what is your speciality?

For those that just love your job and wake up happy to go to work, what is your speciality? Have long have you been in it? What other areas have you worked before you found your niche?

Just for fun; Quotes you use for encourgement

What quotes or sayings do you tell your self when there are bad days in nursing school?

Hiring outlook for ADN vs. BSN in your town?

I am wondering what the job outlook is like in your town for an ADN vs. a BSN. Are hospitals still as willing to hire ADNs? ADNs, how fast were you able to find work when you graduated? Where are y'all located? I am in the Dallas, TX area and would love if anyone had any information on this area.