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1. Why the nurses get no respect...

   daveFL replied to daveFL's topic in General Nursing

   The sarcasm in some of these posts are exactly what I was talking about in my original comment about the negative attitudes towards nursing from some nurses. This is why I don't undertand why so many RNs complain about their jobs. Nurses today are no...

2. Why the nurses get no respect...

   daveFL posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello, everyone. I know this topic has been severely beaten, but its not dead yet because so many of us are still talking about it. I thought I would share my opinions and I invite everyone to comment, whether you agree with me or not. I'm working...

3. Survey: What do you believe: "Nursing Shortage" Crisis or Opportunity?

   daveFL replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Isabel, Forget about short cuts with INS. They have been under so much pressure to get their act together since the terror incidents that there's no such thing as a short cut with them. Whatever was difficult and took a long time with will be more d...

4. Survey: What do you believe: "Nursing Shortage" Crisis or Opportunity?

   daveFL replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   StudentNurse, I didn't intend any offense when I wrote "cheap nurses" and I wasn't refering to anyone in particular. By "cheap nurses" I meant nurses the hospitals could hire from outside the country and offer them slightly less money and benefits t...

5. Survey: What do you believe: "Nursing Shortage" Crisis or Opportunity?

   daveFL replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I've noticed that most nurses complain a lot about burnout, low pay, and lack of respect, but people complain about these things in just about every profession. My first time around in college I did a business degree and I've had decent jobs in the ...

6. Survey: What do you believe: "Nursing Shortage" Crisis or Opportunity?

   daveFL replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I see the "shortage" as an opportunity, so long as the INS doesn't issue 500,000 visas for foreign nurses to come in a create a glut of cheap nurses to displace us all.

7. Are you MAN enough to be a Nurse?

   daveFL replied to Cascadians's topic in General Nursing

   I hope it is successful. As a guy who intends to enter the profession next year I agree there are definitely feminine stereotypes associated with it, but that's only because nursing has traditionally been a profession dominated by women and that cer...

8. Is nursing really all that bad?

   daveFL replied to daveFL's topic in Career Support

   Hello, Disabled: I was a bit confused about the 29k salary you were talking about because I know for a fact that RNs this far south (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale) make much more than that. Yes, the sign-on bonuses are huge and they'll probably get even bigg...

9. Is nursing really all that bad?

   daveFL replied to daveFL's topic in Career Support

   Thanks to everyone for the advice. To answer Disabled's question about the Nurse Anethesia program, that is at least a couple years away for me because you have to have to be an RN with at least a year of full-time ER/Med surg/ICU-type experience be...

10. Is nursing really all that bad?

    daveFL posted a topic in Career Support

    Hello all, I'm new on this site, and I also just started nursing school. I've been reading some of the posts about how bad nurses are treated and about the low pay, and all that sounds a bit discouraging but I still want to make the switch because be...