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• Nursing Academia – We Need New Blood!
• The ER is the ER is the ER...
• Interview Questions & Hand Eczema
• How do I handle insubordinate CNAs?
• Temperature-Controlled Laminar Airflow Helps Atopic Asthma
• How sad is the NICU? Is there a personality type best suited to it?
• Succ vs Etomidate
• Taking Teas V on Monday, last minute advice?

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Nursing Academia – We Need New Blood!

When our aging nurse faculty workforce soon begins to retire en masse, who will be there to replace them to teach the next generation of nurses? Where are the younger educators who should be waiting in the wings? What ideas do you have to avert a disastrous nurse faculty shortage and to attract younger nurses into the wonderful career of nursing education?

The ER is the ER is the ER...

It's a military healthcare free-for-all! Imagine a world in which all your ER visits were free, your doctor appointments cost nothing, all your prescription medicines were yours for the asking, and there were no copays or annual deductibles. Does it sound like Utopia, a fantasy land? Actually, it exists today! Welcome to Army Healthcare. The price for this plan is service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Interview Questions & Hand Eczema

Excelsior graduate struggling with hand eczema. I'm concerned that hand washing on a full time schedule will be a problem. Should I mention this in a job interview? Should I seek part time employment? In general what interview questions should I ask? What kinds of questions should I be prepared to answer?

How do I handle insubordinate CNAs?

I love what I do, and who I do it for, but on this new floor there is NO teamwork. There is one particular CNA (we only have 3 day shift CNAs) who just will not do her job, and will attack the nurses who ask her to do her job. I watched one day as a nurse had two cath lab patients arrive at the same time. THe charge nurse asked a CNA, in front of the other bad CNA to take vitals on one of them. The bad CNA then waited for the assigned nurse to come around to scold her for asking for help. The assigned nurse told her that she never asked for help, and didn't ask the charge nurse to seek it out either.

Temperature-Controlled Laminar Airflow Helps Atopic Asthma

For patients with persistent atopic asthma, environmental control for one year, using nocturnal temperature-controlled laminar airflow (TLA), improves asthma-related quality of life and reduces airway inflammation, according to a study published online Nov. 23 in Thorax.

How sad is the NICU? Is there a personality type best suited to it?

I have considered a lot of details regarding my future career and there are many areas of nursing I think would be very satisfying and rewarding, not only personally but intellectually. I am very interested in taking care of preemies and babies, not only because I find children and babies' bodily functions less disgusting, but also because I am intellectually interested in caring for them and their families.

I am not sure if I can handle the sad aspects of the job.

Succ vs Etomidate

What are you seeing most for bedside procedures, like intubation? We always used to use succ, along with versed, ketamine, etc. Now am seeing a trend towards etomidate. I'm wondering what others are seeing. I like that etomidate doesn't affect cardiovascular numbers like succ does. Wondering if this trend is a good one or if I'm missing something?

Taking Teas V on Monday, last minute advice?

I am taking the Teas V on Monday and didnt know if anyone took it very recently that can offer me some last minute items to focus on? I have the ATI manual and I have taken 3 investment licensing tests and have passed them with no problem in the past but feel there is so much material on this exam that I need to immediately know! I have focused on what I feel will be on the test but any other help would be much appreciated!