sawbones

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1. Share Your Saying

   sawbones replied to angelique777's topic in Humor

   Mine from my ER time-Blunt force and penetrating trauma are wonderful teaching tools.

2. Substitute School Nurses

   sawbones replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   There are nurses in public schools ? Not around here, the local politicians got rid of all but 2. Replaced them with snotty med techs who try to pass themselves off as nurses. Should of seen the look on their faces when I asked them a few Q's then re...

3. i was fired

   sawbones replied to fil534's topic in General Nursing

   You may be working as a PCT, but in Ohio you are responsible to function at your education level. You can be held responsible as an RN even though you are on the clock as a tech.

4. ? obligation to travel company

   sawbones replied to reeree30's topic in Travel

   You don't owe them anything.

5. Icu Rn

   sawbones replied to GLK1010's topic in Travel

   If your going with OA, let them pay for your your rental. They do that with alot of there assignments.

6. Am I Getting a Bad Deal?!?!?

   sawbones replied to oneyearrn's topic in Travel

   If you settle for less than $30/hr, thats exactly what you are doing, settling. It doesn't matter where you are in your travel career, that is to low of an hourly wage to settle for. I will normally not work for less than $35, but thats me and I do ...

7. compare and contrast agencies?

   sawbones replied to cvryder's topic in Travel

   On Assignment has done well by me for 4 years.

8. Which has a highest pay and Free housing FASTAFF, OA or TRUSTAFF

   sawbones replied to ORnurse97's topic in Travel

   K cole21- Amen sister. As for others-I don't work for Fastaff right now, but I did a contract or two a few years back. If you don't care for a company, fine. Don't use there product, don't employ there services, don't benefit from having additional ...

9. Advice please on Huntington memorial in Pasadena and Los Robles

   sawbones replied to angelamarieRN's topic in Travel

   Irvine is beatiful this time of year.

10. Benefits And Bonuses

    sawbones replied to cdngirl's topic in Travel

    I've been with OA for almost 4 years, hit or a miss a contract. My recruiterhas been great. Family insurance is more than if you just do it yourself. They have garantee hours, actually all mine are 48hr/week contracts. I had one problem with housing ...

11. Cabg, Iabp, Crrt

    sawbones replied to sway's topic in MICU

    I started in CCU. Fresh caths/post MI. Pulling sheaths within 2 weeks. But my unit was 32 bed post intervention so sheathes were a dime a dozen. IABP within 6 monthes. Orienting to carge at 7 monthes. Prisma,CVVHD at 8 monthes. We got cabgs and valve...

12. Quitting a six figure job to become a nurse...am I nuts

    sawbones replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Not a manly profession ? Obviuosly she has never seen a VA lock down psych unit on night shift during a full moon. Not a manly profession ? After 27 years in the Navy, 3 tours in Vietnam, being in two aircraft crashes while on active duty and then st...

13. "You know you are an ER Nurse when..."

    sawbones replied to Divern808's topic in Emergency

    You know your an ER nurse..... 1) When the PD brings in the drug dealer who ate his stash, you lavage him while ordering chinese take out, then strain the "rocks" out of the spagettios using a coffee filter, while the arresting officer vomits on the ...

14. First week of nursing...help!

    sawbones replied to manofletters's topic in General Students

    Take a deep breath, let it out slow. Start at the beggining of the material and Go. Find subjects/material they spoke at length about. Concentrate on subjects they were repetitive with. The first few sentences of each paragraph in the reading materia...

15. Saudi Arabia

    sawbones replied to 3651bht's topic in International

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