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Over the past 7 years, I have become more aware of how the medical industry is just like every other major corporation out there, in it for the money. I am not talking about insurance companies, because we are all aware of how their first priority is their bottom line. I am talking about doctors making decisions for their patients not in the best interest of the patients, but in…
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I was lecturing recently, and the students are frantically writing down notes until a student raises their hand and asks this question. I give an answer indicating that it probably won’t be on the test, but it is good information to know, and what do I see? Everyone putting their pencils down…

I see a lot of nursing students wanting to be spoon fed the information, wanting to do very little…
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A lot of people ask me whether or not prior medical experience is a prerequisite for nursing school, and I summarize it in a word…no. This is the short answer, however, there is a longer answer. You don’t need formal medical training prior to entering nursing school, but spending some time in a medical facility around patients is a good idea. Why, you ask? Nursing is a highly specialized field…
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I know a lot of my students tell me that they want to specialize right out of school. Rarely does anyone say that they want to be an RN on a med/surg floor their entire career. Unfortunately, this is where the true “shortage in nursing” lies. If you truly want to be highly sought after in the nursing community, you should choose med/surg. You will always have a job and…
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I have noticed a lot more lately if everyone around me is always having a bad day or if it is just the world we are now living in? Granted, I work in an oncology clinic, so a lot of my patients are having bad days, and I am not talking about them. The employees, both at the cancer center and at school, constantly complaining and are just generally unhappy…
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Nurses that think they know it all scare me! Further thoughts from my last post about nurses knowledge.  There are a lot of nurses out there that think or claim that they know everything. Stay away from them! Nurses hold a lot of responsibility in their hands, and can you imagine if you don’t know a skill and claim you do? That is setting yourself up for failure…
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