Sept 7 - Sept 13 Hottest New Topics

• Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders Up Over Last Decade
• Non Nursing job suggestions needed for former OB RN
• Careplans and Quarterlies
• New Nurse-Legal Nurse Consultant
• Anyone get an Officer Commission with a useless Bachelor's?
• ICU to OR
• What options does an LPN/LVN have with the Navy?
• Any hiring bias towards new male nurse 50 years old?

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Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders Up Over Last Decade

Although hospitalizations with a principal or secondary eating-disorder diagnosis increased by 24 percent from 1999-2000 to 2008-2009, there has been a decrease in hospitalizations with a principal diagnosis of eating disorder from 2007-2008 to 2008-2009, according to a statistical brief based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) published online Sept. 8 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Non Nursing job suggestions needed for former OB RN

I worked in obstetrical nursing for several years, and now work in the Pharmaceutical industry. I don't really like my current job (data management) and want to branch into something else. I thought the best people to ask for suggestions regarding job ideas would be other nurses. Does anyone have any suggestions for a career change that will use my medical/nursing background?

Careplans and Quarterlies

I am a fairly new DON and need some MDS advice. The current MDS nurse wants the floor nurses to do careplans when they write new telephone orders that would warrent careplanning a new diagnosis or behavior. She is also wanting the nurses to do all the quarterlies for her. It is my understanding that MDS 3.0 requires the MDS nurse to do the quarterlies. My nurses are already overwhelmed with everything else they are responsible for. Any advice?

New Nurse-Legal Nurse Consultant

I just recently passed my boards and am now officially an RN! I am not a bedside nurse and have never wanted to do bedside nursing. I really want to do legal nurse consulting. I am currently working at a hospital in the NICU as a secretary and previously worked on a telemetry floor as a secretary for 3 years. I have almost 5 years total of hospital secretary work. Do you think I will be able to become a successful legal nurse consultant without do any bedside nursing prior?

Anyone get an Officer Commission with a useless Bachelor's?

I am currently waiting for decision on my ADN starting January. I have been looking at my choices for the future and was thinking of the reserves and active. I was told to go ahead and apply to see if I would be chosen for an Officer rank since I have a Bachelor's. But I do not want to waste anyone's time if it's a long shot. My degree is in Merchandising and everyday I regret it. It has been the most useless money pit of a degree ever. GPA isn't high enough for ABSN and probably not good enough for an Officer rank. Do you know anyone who has gone in as an Officer with a REALLY non-related degree?

ICU to OR

I'm beginning an RN-MSN program and will eventually have my NP. I'm wondering, if going to the OR is going to hold me back in future job opportunities as an NP? I am pretty open to working in a clinic or being employed in the hospital setting and rounding with physicians, etc (as an NP).

What options does an LPN/LVN have with the Navy?

I am 23 years old with 3 years of LPN experience. I don't currently have a college degree (just a diploma from my LPN program). I want to go as far as I can with my nursing career, and I'm at a point in my life right now where I feel that the Navy could be right for me. I gentleman that I work (a veteran) with has been encouraging me to join the Navy, but he doesn't know much in regards to where I would stand as an LPN.

Can anyone offer some information about how I'd start, and where I'd end up? Could I enlist as an LPN and work my way up via school/training and come out a BSN? I know I need to speak with a recruiter to get the hard facts, but I'd love to get a little bit of info here before meeting with him/her.

Any hiring bias towards new male nurse 50 years old?

I am considering a career switch into Nursing. I have a great local Associates Program I could attend while still working part time and be done by about the age of 50.

What I am wondering is if in the WI market, and most likely a small progressive rural hospital setting, is there any bias against (or for) male nurses who are 'older' when they are starting?