andywolfe

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  1. "Cost of Hiring New Nurses on ADVANCE for Nurses (This article includes the chart referenced earlier in the thread, breaking down the specific costs involved in getting a new graduate RN from the hiring process to "competency" and showing those costs...
  2. In this country, for every 1 hospital like parkland, there are at least 10 other hospitals that are training med surge nurses in a time period of 6-8 weeks. THIS IS A FACT!!!!
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  4. I would encourage you to look at the training for community hospitals. My original post did exclude hospitals that have Versant training programs and other programs that are similar to it. Here is an example of one of them "Looking for a company ...
  5. I am sorry but i am only writing the facts. If you like I can copy and paste the links to job description and names and numbers of the hospitals that are providing 6-8 weeks of med surge training and a max of 3 months of internship for ICU position ...
  6. Weird, but missing my old state's nurses union!

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  7. Again my original post does exclude higher acuity unit like ICU, NICU, etc etc. You can call community hospitals throughout USA and they will tell you that the training for med/surge unit is about 6 weeks and 2 extra weeks if you need it. Now in t...
  8. Again these values don't relate to me or the majority of the hospitals that hire med/surge nurses. We don't get 6 months and 1 week of training as you have indicated in the post above. My training lasted only 6 WEEKS. Only class time I had was for...
  9. I will say it again the last line of the 1st paragraph in my original post does state that my figures are excluding specialty nursing unit like ICU, NICU etc etc.
  10. Weird, but missing my old state's nurses union!

    Before writing something you may want to do some research about the subject at hand. Homeowners in Texas do have to pay property Taxes. Here is the link to it. Property taxes in Texas And here is a direct quote from the web site “Property taxes ar...
  11. Weird, but missing my old state's nurses union!

    I highly doubt that this will happen in my lifetime. At this moment in time and for foreseeable future, public seems to be really against Unions. I admit there are certain things that are wrong with some unions; however, overall the unions are good...
  12. Here is a quote from National Bureau of Economic research about the tax breaks that corporations get for providing so called a valuable health insurance benefit. "]Currently, employers' spending on health insurance premiums is exempt from taxation...
  13. It may be the state that you are in. The insurance that I am looking at has similar if not the same schedule of benefits as one provided to me by employer and it doesn't cost a $1,000 per month in premium. Now let me give you some details about th...
  14. Dealing with the insurance companies for the purpose of selling it to consumers doesn’t tell you the true cost of providing the service. There is an inherent bias that comes into play since your income is completely dependent upon selling the insura...
  15. “5:26 am by Multicollinearity You are way off base regarding COBRA. The COBRA payment amount is the amount the employer is paying for your health insurance to the insurance company plus a 2% administrative fee to cover the cost of administering the ...