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  1. Should I do transition to practice in Psych??

    If it is your passion, though, from what I've read, psychaitric advanced practice nurses are in demand, and paid well.
  2. Wage Deflation In Nursing

    As long as people's ideas of nursing reflects the reality of 2000, egged on by nursing school marketing, people will line up for their ADNs and BSNs. I'm surprised at how little research people do before committing themselves to 3 to 5 years of inten...
  3. Good choice. Hopefully the stethoscope I chose will work out, but if not, I'll do what you did.
  4. My acceptance letter..

    Congratulations, jasilady. You made it on on your own hard work and brains. I wish you great success.
  5. Wage Deflation In Nursing

    ahh, but that's not outsourcing, like customer support line jobs. that's in-sourcing, which they didn't tell up about. they lay off 25 people virtually all at once, followed by hiring 25 younger people? that kind of pattern is hard to bury, even f...
  6. Drug Shortages

    The amount of money pharmaceutical companies pay out in lawsuits pales in comparison to their marketing budgets, which easily exceed their R&D budgets. And don't conflate lawsuits by the public with legal fines drug companies are forces to pay fo...
  7. HIPPA is a joke.

    When you use a lot of expensive medical services, chances are that you're not going to be able to hide the fact from your boss. In a small company, one employee with cancer or other expensive illness can cause the rates an insurance company charges a...
  8. ADN's being pushed out

    In a local magnet hospital, ADN RNs are being "encouraged" (i.e., effectively forced) to get their BSN. I had a classmate from that hospital in my microbiology lab, and she hadn't taken a college class for a while. I'm pretty sure the hospital is pay...
  9. Wage Deflation In Nursing

    They told us that nursing jobs could not be outsourced, and that nothing could stand in the way of the steady increase in those jobs, and that for reasons of limited faculty availability and the shortage of potential students who could make the grade...
  10. You can get the same stethoscope cheaper on-line, including the cost of shipping (and normally, no sales tax). I got and ADC Adscope 601 with interchangeable parts for quite a bit less than the bookstore's price Classic II SE price. It seems very nic...
  11. Feeling overwhelmed with gratitude

    Congratulations, LCinT. There are indeed a lot of good people, or a lot of good things done by people.
  12. Drug Shortages

    Propofol — there was a circus of recalls within the past few years for contamination with minute stainless steel particles, exotoxic bacteria, hepatitis C. Instead of making single-use vials, Teva used cheaper (maybe they had a lot of them) larger vi...
  13. Positive Thinking Is Useless By Itself

    So that's why people in comas get no service. The new age law of attraction thing is about having the right energy and that sort of thing, rather than petitioning the gods for favors. As far as Matthew 7:7 is concerned, you're assuming logical ands b...
  14. Positive Thinking Is Useless By Itself

    Thoughts are made of gravitons, so they attract one another. They form great thought clouds. I think I saw it on Futurama. Remember the giant flying brains?
  15. What are some tips for Microbiology?

    it's generally a prerequisite, and you will get a lot more out of the class if you take it first. my microbiology professor happened to be a chemistry freak, which for me was pretty cool. i did a little project on the metabolism and energy yield of a...