flyingsolo

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1. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

   flyingsolo replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

   [/color hospitals hire nurses from other countries to come here for the same reason they hire people from other countries to pick the fruit--they expect a lot less and they consider coming to this country as dying and going to heaven. why do beautif...

2. So How Long Does the Misery Last?

   flyingsolo replied to HardworkinRN's topic in Urology

   That information is great! I just have one more question: how long do they train you when you get there fresh from school--I mean, is there an overlap thing with another experienced nurse, or do you learn kinda OJT? That's an early schedule, I mean, ...

3. So How Long Does the Misery Last?

   flyingsolo replied to HardworkinRN's topic in Urology

   I am seriously considering dialysis nursing when I finish school a year from now--but after reading this thread, I am thinking it is very much technical things, whereas I had thought that it was more holistic. Is hooking the patient up each day that ...

4. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

   flyingsolo replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

   What I wrote was not opinion, but directly from my husband who lived in Riyadh for seven years. The part about burying the women in a hole in a desert came from the book PRINCESS. My daughters both visited him there and just hated what they felt was ...

5. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

   flyingsolo replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

   I totally agree: some of us are more "political" than others, and would deliberately not share our careers and skills with a country whose treatment of people we did not support. Others can call it learning about another culture. It's all in how you ...

6. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

   flyingsolo replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses in the US earn an average of 50k a year, and that is over 4k a month. You should be getting a LOT more than that to take the risk of living in Saudi Arabia, where you cannot go outside the compound without a black ankle-length cover-up, can ge...

7. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

   flyingsolo replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

   Ditto on the Middle East---in addition to the dangers, there is the reality that they do not respect women, and why would any self-respecting woman bother to go there? All things are political, if you really look at it. I have heard that Calif. of...

8. The Older Nurse in the Workplace

   flyingsolo replied to rpv_rn's topic in General Nursing

   I am 56 years old, and have three semesters left to get the bsn, rn. I am hoping that I have at least ten years from then to work: I had "early retirement" and found out, late, that work is better than not working. I am thinking that, as I have read ...

9. Andrea Yates R.N.

   flyingsolo replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

   I think she is getting a new trial. She is obviously crazy and putting her in jail is not the sensible thing to do. Mothers tend to GIVE their own lives for their children, not take the children's lives--she is, was obviously insane. How a jury could...

10. What is ur average 2 week take home pay?

    flyingsolo replied to chioma829's topic in General Nursing

    I think most people are under the impression that most nurses make about fifty thousand a year to start. If the gross pay is significantly less than that, we all would want to know. Years ago, they used to pay "new" nurses a LOT less than they paid t...

11. Well, it looks like I am going to get my BSN instead of ADN after all.

    flyingsolo replied to Nutmeg5575's topic in Maryland

    What's an ADN?

12. Salisbury University

    flyingsolo replied to hittme123's topic in Maryland

    are you enjoying SU? I am so excited about going there this fall, but know little about it, and have only been in the town once.