Hey guys!
It's me...over here...with the gray beard...Yes, that is my old truck...PLEASE LEAVE THE DOG ALONE!
Just shy of 40 years with the wife I first grew up with, and am now growing old with: Raised two lovely daughters along the way.
I been in healthcare basically since 1966. Initially as a respiratory therapist, then as RN in the 1970s. BSN in the 90s. I am working on my MSN/FNP now. I've done most of the jobs you can do as a nurse, in acute care and in long-term care.
'Not too big on beer, but I do make a bit of homemade wine...mostly peach and concord grape. I'm not an expert, I just do this because I like to do it.
My wife, one daughter, and I live in rural Georgia. We all are more-or-less continuously enrolled in classes. We stay busy keeping up with with a pretty large piece of land. I trap wild hogs, shoot a deer once in a while from the back porch, and spend time with our church family and large extended family.
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There have been ups and downs over the years in nurse availability. Employers massage the market to try to relieve alledged shortages...Feds stick their noses into it once in a while too, bringing in nurses from other countries: Having once been pretty active in commodities futures trading, I love the shortages. Supply and demand moves the price of everything. If the 'market' is left alone, and nurses do not allow themselves to be abused with regard to Pt/Nurse ratios, it will cause pay rates to rise to a proper level. My belief is that the more
men there are in senior professional nurse roles, the more the pay will increase to appropriate levels....And NO, I am not calling for more unions! I'm suggesting that nurses conduct themselves as the professionals they are. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. I do not need a physician referral to become better than I am. (That is not to say that, as a professional, I do not appreciate the support of another professional.) But it must happen as a matter of mutual respect. That does not flow from any kind of manipulation.
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I will look in here from time to time. Thanks kindly for listening!
FNPwannabee
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