waicurn

waicurn specializes in ICU, Transplant, Dialysis..

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1. Low pay in Seattle

   waicurn replied to WAstateRN's topic in Washington

   Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! Here...

2. Salary in Seattle for RNs---low, or is it just me??

   waicurn replied to sweetcaroline's topic in Washington

   Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! Here...

3. Interview tips for U of W, my first interview since graduation

   waicurn replied to 5860TomCat's topic in Washington

   If you want a job at UWMC or HVM, just keep pursuing them! If you don't hear back from them, it's most likely not because of you, but because they're short-staffed in every level!

4. Letter to WA politicians re: low nursing pay in WA

   waicurn posted a topic in Washington

   Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! He...

5. IABP Removal

   waicurn replied to BJRN76's topic in CCU

   I'm curious about what the incident rate of complication from IABP removal really is now a days. It doens't seem too long ago when the nurses can't remove cvp lines, chest tubes, and all sorts of other things. I wonder if IABP is just the next thin...

6. Euthanasia/Spirituality

   waicurn replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

   :) ok. i've stated basically all there i need to in expressing my view on this topic. thank you all, especially bbella and sbic56 for stirring my marbles a bid. anybody wanna talk about genetic engineeing? kidding !! not going there just yet! :...

7. Bulletin board networking versus live chat

   waicurn replied to Step's topic in General Nursing

   thanks! nurseratchett29!

8. Euthanasia/Spirituality

   waicurn replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

   We say we "put down" our pets... for reasons such as? And if the pet was a human, wouldn't we at least spend a few hundred thousand dollars for such thing as an angiogram, then a triple-by-pass heart surgery followed by a week of cardiac rehab (how ...

9. Help with grants!

   waicurn replied to Tkb_2003's topic in General Nursing

   Hey Trista! Welcome! I'm pretty green too... infact, more like a sprout! :) Found a link for you: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/grants/default2002.htm#nursing You already went to your school Financial Aide Office and fill out the federal forms already rig...

10. LPNs and advanced certifications

    waicurn replied to norinradd's topic in General Nursing

    well, that is somewhat true, but don't count on it to hold as much water as you think it does. i had a pre-med degree before i got my cna,, emt, lpn, and now, rn. i had more "'advance' understanding" of a&p, micro, physics, organic chem, biolog...

11. Euthanasia/Spirituality

    waicurn replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Sbic56, BBelle and everyone, I'm glad we are having a nice discussion about this topic. It's good to stretch like this once in a while. :) Ok, I think we pretty much agree on 95% of this stuff... and the fork occurs at the point of "Being read...

12. Bulletin board networking versus live chat

    waicurn replied to Step's topic in General Nursing

    i downloaded the chat shareware... but it just keeps on saying "waiting for connection..." or something like that.

13. 2 questions, most "medical" and most "positive" field

    waicurn replied to nurse_gigolo69's topic in General Nursing

    what? i'm a little dense... but what do you mean?

14. 2 questions, most "medical" and most "positive" field

    waicurn replied to nurse_gigolo69's topic in General Nursing

    1. liver transplant and burn unit... those are some of the sicketst patients i've heard of. 2. air force reserve flight nurse on the route that flies between washington and hawaii. they only perform their duties while enroute. then they spend 2 t...

15. Euthanasia/Spirituality

    waicurn replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

    you know... from reading this thread, I think peole's definitions of "assisted suicide" are all different. For example, I say I don't agree with "assisted suicide," but I am perfectly fine with "pulling the plug" because the way I see it, vent and h...