Guardian

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1. Traveling by air....what about a car?

   Guardian posted a topic in Travel

   This is my first time traveling and immediately two places want my long experience,(NICU). The first place I can drive to, the other is far across the country. When one goes by air, (I would not drive to Tuscon), how do you get a car? Is it not expen...

2. Deathbed visions

   Guardian replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Storm, The crow in the ancient Celtic teachings, (and others), is the animal totem or energy that represents the "Otherworld", or the doorway to the other dimensions. The transition of the dying is the passing through a doorway into another expe...

3. Deathbed visions

   Guardian replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

   Dear ones, I myself have experienced visions etc. of the sort already described here and they are quite common and helpful to the dying as well as the living. I wish to correct "CuriousMe", however. The quote that is often attributed to Nelson Mandel...

4. Travel Companies (On Assignment)

   Guardian replied to midimples's topic in Travel

   Hello, First my thanks to Nightingale and the moderators who do such a good job for this discussion board. I am an R.N. with 33 years experience, (28 of it NICU 26 yrs,-Level III, the last 2 yrs at a Level II nursery, (I prefer more challenging pts....

5. Do Any Travel RN's Maintain a Small Home?

   Guardian replied to Guardian's topic in Travel

   whoops...! I spelled only wrong and I am a good speller! Colleen

6. Do Any Travel RN's Maintain a Small Home?

   Guardian posted a topic in Travel

   Dear Nurses, I am interested in travel nursing, but wish to stay a bit closer to my home of Lexington, Ky. I am not interested in selling my small condominium, and I am using my retirement account to exist on...as I have been out of work for over 7 m...

7. Travel Nurse Question

   Guardian replied to twiceaslucky's topic in Travel

   Hi, After exploring this thread, I now realize that O'Grady-Peyton is part of The Evil Empire...and I want nothing to do with that after all these years. In fact, the more I read this thread, the more I am turned off by travel nursing and realize ho...

8. Travel Nurse Question

   Guardian replied to twiceaslucky's topic in Travel

   Hi, I'm interested in traveling for the first time in my 33 years as a nurse. I have a diploma, BSN, plus 8 years of graduate school and 28 years of neonatal ICU nursing, (26 at a Level III). I do not wish to sell my small condo in Lexington, Ky.as i...

9. So.... How many years have YOU been a nurse??

   Guardian replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Disabled Nurse, Please tell me more about your failed back syndrome. I have similar problems and have had a very rough summer. I have had surgery only once and don't consider myself yet disabled, but have lived on savings for the last two months...

10. Where are the Change Agents?

    Guardian replied to hbscott's topic in Activism

    I agree with the first responder to this post. The thing that leads to "soul deadness" and perpertual stress is hospital and nursing management. When I read Echo Heron's books, it is clear that ongoing physical and emotional stress is ultimately why ...

11. Where are the Change Agents?

    Guardian replied to hbscott's topic in Activism

    BTW....I have been very idealistic in my career and have been a nurse for over thirty years. I now have a serious chronic pain problem, the result of a combination of genetics and taking care of others more than myself....simply ongoing stress that g...

12. Where are the Change Agents?

    Guardian replied to hbscott's topic in Activism

    What so you do now hbscott?

13. Where are the Change Agents?

    Guardian replied to hbscott's topic in Activism

    I agree with the first responder to this post. The thing that leads to "soul deadness" and perpertual stress is hospital and nursing management. When I read Echo Heron's books, it is clear that ongoing physical and emotional stress is ultimately why ...

14. So.... How many years have YOU been a nurse??

    Guardian replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse over 30 years, have enough education to have 2.5 masters degrees and am generally very tired of it, even though I'm grateful for the experience and income it has given me. I'm not unproud, just generally fed up with it.

15. What's a good book to read about the realities of nursing

    Guardian replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

    All of Echo Heron's books, especially "Tending Lives." I've been a nurse thirty years. For 2months of this summer I have lived off my savings due to a chronic pain problem. To be totally honest, I miss the thinking on my feet in critical care, but re...