vss04

vss04 specializes in cardiac nursing.

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1. Health Care is a right

   vss04 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   I´m not the one to critizise the american political/economical system but from my (rather small) corner of the world (Sweden ) I will try to explain how our system works and why I can´t look upon it as communistic in any way.The basic thought behind ...

2. Health Care is a right

   vss04 replied to headsup's topic in Activism

   Being a nurse from Sweden I follow your discussions with great interest. Although my skills in the American language have many gaps I´ll try my best to describe our insurance system. It has for many, many years is a public insurance system where eve...

3. Nursing Reputation?

   vss04 replied to sheraz86's topic in General Nursing

   We do have a lot of doctors from other countries, maybe not so many nurses, although that should mean a lot of positive things for nursing in Sweden, as a profession, I think. (To be honest, during the last decades there´s been an increasing number o...

4. Nursing Reputation?

   vss04 replied to sheraz86's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I´m from Sweden and I´ve heard similar thoughts about nurses in Kuwait from a doctor i know who comes from that country. Here in Sweden we are well respected as professionals, from the public but also from (most) of the doctors. Gunnar :typing

5. Swedish nurses on strike!

   vss04 replied to vss04's topic in General Nursing

   We aren´t all on strike, so healthcare is still carried out even if in a smaller scale at those places where nurses are striking. The question is rather, will our opposite part ever listen to us? Many, well most of us, are working for the "state" ev...

6. Swedish nurses on strike!

   vss04 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Being sadly underpayed Swedish nurses has been on strike for some weeks now. When I´m writing this there´s no solution in sight. After three years of university studies it doesn´t show at all at the end of the month when the paycheck arrives. Paymen...

7. Fellow RN died this morning.

   vss04 replied to Ali_Oop07's topic in General Nursing

   Although I don´t know your fellow RN I sympathize with you in your grief. I´ve often thought about the risks one takes going home after the nightshift, for me, often by bike but sometimes also by car. I have the advantage of living only 7 kilomet...

8. Done one year as a nurse, thoughts...

   vss04 replied to vss04's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I´m quite sure that most nurses and other professionals in America are just as nice and friendly as they are in Sweden :smilecoffeecup:. My satisfaction over my work could be explained from the fact that I became RN rather late in my life (t...

9. Done one year as a nurse, thoughts...

   vss04 posted a topic in General Nursing

   So, I´ve made my first year as a nurse, working in a ward for patients with different kinds of heart failure/diseases. So, what do I feel today? Well, there´s +/- of course, although the positive sides dominate (otherwise I shouldn´t still be there!...

10. Two months as a nurse, tired but happy

    vss04 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Got a job directly after exam at a cardiac clinic. I´ve been working in the same place before as a nurse assistant to finance my studies. It´s quite a difference, I must say, to work as a nurse. Swedish hospitals, as in many other countries have e...

11. Needing a little input/advice from the guys...

    vss04 replied to EdBSN09's topic in Male Students

    No, you are not in the wrong profession. Nursing needs all kinds of personalities to deliver the "right" kind of care. Since I been studying to be a nurse at a quite "old" age, I´m 53 years old now, I guess that you will see focus of interest will be...

12. Need translation help!

    vss04 replied to vss04's topic in Online Learning

    Thank you Kristyn81! It was really helpful. Although I read many articles in english and almost every movie on TV is english it´s quite another thing to write an abstract in a scientific manner. Thanks again! vss04, nurse to be in less than five wee...

13. Need translation help!

    vss04 replied to vss04's topic in Online Learning

    Of course! I´m sorry! Got an advice from one of my teachers to reach out for help from anyone, really good in english (or american). Thought it could be a good idea to ask fellow nurses round the world. Maybe it was not such a good idea? Anyway, got...

14. Need translation help!

    vss04 replied to vss04's topic in Online Learning

    Thank you, mange takk, tack så mycket, kiitos paljon! Engelska är lite svårt emellanåt! vss04

15. Need translation help!

    vss04 replied to vss04's topic in Online Learning

    Well, the job is already done, my problem is just the english language I must use in the abstract. The rest of the essay is held i swedish. My request was only about spelling, grammar and so on... vss04