pmcd8243

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1. Fun poll: Did you get oriented, or did you get orientated?

   pmcd8243 replied to SuzieVN's topic in Humor

   When a persons knows where they are they are oriented as AAOx3. When a person is being instructed about a new position they are being orientated as in "For the first week of my new job a will be orientated."

2. Pay for classes?

   pmcd8243 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just a quick question. When you renew your BLS, ACLS and PALS does your hospital 1) Pay for the course? 2) Pay you your normal salary for the time in class? Just want to know, Thanks, P

3. Traveler tax loophole!

   pmcd8243 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   In your original post you said the agency was giving you $750/week per diem. That works out to $100/day. On the days that you don't work and the days you do not stay overnight you are required to pay taxes on this amount. On the days you do stay over...

4. Traveler tax loophole!

   pmcd8243 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, short and sweet. Travel allowances less then or equal to IRS per diem scales are tax free and do not require receipts if and only if the traveler can document they were away from their tax home for more then one day and had to stop some where to ...

5. slave labor

   pmcd8243 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   These Federal laws supercede any local lawe in reguard to pay. If you do not get a lunch break at least get payed for it. The Nancy Nurse act is why nurses are treated so badly in the first place. http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs53.p...

6. Male Nurses: Why no escort?

   pmcd8243 replied to pmcd8243's topic in General Nursing

7. Male Nurses: Why no escort?

   pmcd8243 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been a nurse for 25 years and a man for 48 years and I always wondered why male physicians require an escort when examining a female patient but male nurses can spend hours on end, on attended, with female patients. It seems like once a week a n...

8. Explain How Nurses Strike...

   pmcd8243 replied to THISISGONNAHURT's topic in General Nursing

   This is where the rubber meets the road and all of those who slam strike replacement nurses do not think it through. Without"scabs" nurses would not be able to strike. Its 0700 on Monday and the strike is called. All of the union night shifters are o...