Huan

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1. If healthcare reform resulted in salary caps of $40k for nurses would you stay?

   Huan replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

   40 thousand sounds pretty unrealistic. That's $19 an hour. Starting pay for a newly licensed nurse in my conservative section of North Florida is over $21 per hour with full benefits and increases to 27 over time. So would I leave if this Rush Limb...

2. Treatment of neurogenic shock

   Huan replied to dorimar's topic in Neuro

   When my lab dummy goes into neurogenic shock on Friday I'm going to call the "doctor" (ICU nurse/teacher who will calmly make me look like a fool) and ask if she might want to prescribe...dopamine as a vasopressor and atropine for the bradycardia??? ...

3. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

   Huan replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

   I was a Journeyman Mechanic working out of Local 234 Pipefitters Union in Jax, Fl. I've worked on the chillers and boilers at lots of local hospitals and have decided to go for an inside job. Of course machines are a little more predicable than peo...

4. What do I tell my kids??

   Huan replied to GregAnurse2b's topic in Male Students

   Career Day sounds good. While your there you might talk about career fields that male nurses participate in like CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue). I retired from an Air Force CSAR unit where an RN degree was a ticket to a lot of interesting experien...