ambermichelle

ambermichelle specializes in nursing family members with rare disease.

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1. What ONE thing is most important in a new health care system?

   ambermichelle replied to country mom's topic in General Nursing

   Covering everyone regardless of whether they have a preexisting condition or a job. A lot of sick people lose their jobs, and as soon as COBRA runs out (if they can afford it in their unemployed state), they have nothing...until they have run throu...

2. Who is the oldest Nursing Student here?

   ambermichelle replied to APP's topic in General Students

   I am 90% sure I am going to start an LVN program nights in August. I have a "great" but not fulfilling job in engineering that I will be eligible to early retire from in a couple of years at 55, and I want something for a second career that floats m...

3. security clearance interview

   ambermichelle replied to pattyrn376's topic in Government

   At work I know several people with security clearances and prior arrests. Just be open and honest because this is extremely minor. But don't try to joke with the interviewer, they typically don't have much of a sense of humor. It is best to tell t...

4. Why would you wear low rise jeans....

   ambermichelle replied to msdeannah's topic in General Students

   I am praying hard for the pendulum of fashion to swing back the other way. I wear a 0 in jeans, petites are too short, and the only thing I can find are low rise. There are no "mom jeans" for sale in that size. I do have my old ones I used to wear...

5. How do you tell someone they smell bad?

   ambermichelle replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Anybody can have an unusual day and smell bad occasionally. But if this occurs again, I would tell her nicely. Of course she will be offended or hurt. But is it better to find out now and deal with it, or go through life wondering why you don't ge...

6. "Atypical" Nurse? How discouraging...

   ambermichelle replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

   The comments you have received are anomalies and do not represent what most people think. In fact, probably almost no one would agree with them. So ignore them. Everyone is not always going to agree with everybody's lifestyle, personality, anything...

7. Venting about BON involvement in DUI

   ambermichelle replied to Nursing NCO's topic in Recovery

   nursing seems to be the only job, outside of the military, where if you get a dui in your off time it directly affects your career. where i work, (engineering for a defense company) you lose your security clearance automatically with a dui. dependi...

8. Socialized Medicine the myths and the facts

   ambermichelle replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I do have a question that I have been wondering about for a long time regarding coverage in countries with socialized medicine. My son is a hemophiliac and his medications (Recombinate, Factor VIII) are unaffordable (unless you are a millionai...

9. Non-BSN to MSN advice?

   ambermichelle replied to natty553's topic in New Nurse

   I certainly am no authority, but I have looked around a little myself for MSN programs, since I already have 2 Bachelors degrees. Most of the ones I found want a BSN. Those that don't, at least want you to be an RN first. You could get your RN wit...

10. Do nurses have good medical insurance?

    ambermichelle replied to ambermichelle's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all of you for your examples and thoughts. I see now that it's about the same as most fields. One advantage you may have as nurses is that you often have more choices of employers, and while not recession proof as many threads have pointe...

11. Do nurses have good medical insurance?

    ambermichelle replied to ambermichelle's topic in General Nursing

    Nurturer3, Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that, if your medical costs reach a certain amount, that YOU pay everything over that, or the opposite, that your cost is capped at a certain amount and above it they pay everything? I have heard of ...

12. Discuss Reform: excluding Single-Payer and "socialized" alternatives.

    ambermichelle replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism

    Hi, You spent a lot of effort on your reply and I like a lot of your points. It may be that we don't need a complete overhaul, but you admit there are a lot of people who are uninsured. 1% of hundreds of millions IS a lot of people. I believe insu...

13. Do nurses have good medical insurance?

    ambermichelle posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all, I would like to know what kind of medical insurance benefits nurses normally have under various levels of certification and from different types of employers. I am not a nurse -yet- but I am looking at it as a second career after I early ret...

14. Strange job interview...thoughts on this?

    ambermichelle replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you will know soon, but I would lean towards the view that she already thought she would hire you, and was trying to show you what they had to offer. That happened to me in my first real job (which was engineering not nursing). Being inex...

15. Social sorority and nursing school.

    ambermichelle replied to Prettyladie's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter is a junior in a sorority of smart girls with an average GPA of 3.2 at a difficult university. They have several parties a year but most of their events are volunteer or school related. They have weekly chapter meetings and many more ti...