Odimodus

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1. Male Nurses in NICU?

   Odimodus replied to smelendez's topic in NICU

   Just got accepted to transfer into a Lvl II NICU. Really looking forward to it! Most of the places I've worked so far had at least a few guys. I think this will be my first place where I may be the ONLY guy, but I'm not at all worried about the gende...

2. Funny Names

   Odimodus replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU

   Knew a guy in the army whose first name was H. Just the letter, H. We called him hache (spanish for the letter H). Also knew a guy in highschool whose first name was Major, and he had two brothers named Lieutenant and Captain. The father was military...

3. Question/Tx Corrections/non-med supv.

   Odimodus replied to houstonlvn's topic in Correctional

   I've heard of business majors being in charge of a hospital nursing unit. They are managers and as such handle the staffing, budget, and similar issues. Now the questionable part is when the medical side conflicts with the business operations side of...

4. Does anyone else get tired of the meetings?

   Odimodus replied to rn-n- 2005's topic in General Nursing

   Committees are an excellent way to waste time. I was once on a "paperwork" committee and we went over how to simplify forms and such for speed and efficiency, hospital system went and redid them the way they wanted without taking anything from what...

5. I flunked out in my last semester by a tenth of a point!! Please help me..

   Odimodus replied to nautica843's topic in General Nursing

   Dont give up. Find out what you need to do and dive back in. Retake the classes next go round. You made it this far. If you didn't kill the beast with the first volley, reload.

6. End of the Nursing Shortage

   Odimodus replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

   I kinda doubt your going to see a glut of nurses in the general market. In some locations you certainly could, such as cities with several nursing schools. Dreamon had it right in that many nurses wont or cant move to other areas where the demand m...

7. Too many nurses in San Antonio?

   Odimodus replied to jazzgirl73's topic in Texas

   Are you kidding? Too many nurses anywhere? While nurses probably do tend to get paid a bit less here than elsewhere the cost of living is alot better also. There is always room for improvement but the sky is hardly falling. Keep in mind also that...