Ross1

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  1. Bipolar and nursing?

    It is important to understand that there is a difference between bipolar I and bipolar II. Bipolar II, does not include full-blown mania. People with bipolar II experience a milder form called hypomania....which is less severe and does not cause th...
  2. Moving to Australia to work. Advice?

    I would recommend that you check out the following: Nurse's Board of Victoria http://www.nbv.org.au/ To echo what another poster said, you don't simply "move" to Australia. You must go through immigration and obtain a work permit or "landed status"...
  3. "Socialized medicine"

    We already have partial "nationalized healthcare" in the USA in the forms of Medicaid and Medicare. For folks in the USA that are so opposed to national health care......remember, your sweet old grandmother has it in the form of Medicare and possibl...
  4. When circ's go bad...

    Thank you for the additional explanation. By the way, I'm Jewish as well, even have a graduate degree in Jewish studies, but at the same time, am opposed to circumcision, even for religious reasons, unless the male is capable of giving consent, whic...
  5. Should nurses have MSNs

    It is infighting like this that serves as one of the factors that makes nursing a less then desirable profession. Nurses have hard enough jobs as it is with the demands of patient care not to mention the pressures from MDs, patients, and their famil...
  6. When circ's go bad...

    I don't believe what I am hearing. Surgery imposed on another without consent for the goal of looking like others in the locker room? Any boy being born today will see both circumcised and uncircumcised penises in a locker room given the fact that ...
  7. Should nurses have MSNs

    Why don't you compare ASN/BSN salaries to Master's level PT and SW salaries. Can't speak for PT, however, if you look at MSW salaries in comparison to ASN/BSN RN salaries, you will find that it is usually the case that an RN with a 2 year associates...
  8. Florida RN moving to Toronto---need advice

    This is one situation where I would recommend that you consult with a Canadian immigration attorney. At a minimum, you will require a work visa which may be possible secondary to NAFTA........but if you are interested in immigration, a work visa do...
  9. When circ's go bad...

    That was just in the news last year. Sadly, the victim committed suicide last year. Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/reimer/
  10. When circ's go bad...

    I guess this discussion may be somewhat futile because minds are made up. But let's not forget what originally started the discussion. A new graduates observation of a severely botched circumcision. And it is that little boy and future man who is ...
  11. When circ's go bad...

    Excerpts From the American Association of Pediatrics 1999 Policy statement: CHICAGO - After analysis of almost 40 years of available medical research on circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new recommendations today statin...
  12. When circ's go bad...

    Well said! Thank you. All surgery has risks and clearly a percentage of circumcisions do go awry and it is the unfortunate boys/males who pay the price, not the doctors, not the nurses, and not the parents. There is no medical reason to be perform...
  13. When circ's go bad...

    Referring to the original posting, I'm sure that this baby boy is going to grow up to be an adult male with a dysfunctional penis. I cannot believe that in this day and age, especially with all the concerns about medical liability, routine infant ci...
  14. Associates Degree vs. Diploma

    Actually it doesn't apply in the US. If you look into various RN-BSN completion programs you will see that it is usually much easier to transfer credits from an ADN program into a BSN program then it is for Diploma programs. It all depends on how t...
  15. Associates Degree vs. Diploma

    Given the fact that you already have a B.S., an ADN will enable you to become an RN with the least amount of additional credits and coursework. When I investigated these programs myself, I found the ADN to be more flexible then the "fast-track BSN"...