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  1. Vent thread "universal" health care

    So now if this could please be on the Times Square Jumbotron. Thanks nicurn001
  2. Vent thread "universal" health care

    Gotta vent here. Three times this week a patient or family member who was looking for more and more benefits added to their (already insured and covered and provided for) health care needs told me "THIS IS WHY WE NEED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!" Ok, no...
  3. Red bulls, No-doz, Coffee and Caffeine pills!!

    Warm drink and protein snack between 2 and 4. I always felt a "low" and had a hard time thinking toward the end of the shift but this seemed to help. Sleeping in the daytime was never my strong suit. Best of luck.
  4. anyone have an idea how to ....

    There's also the trump card "You know, I really made the decision based on my family's needs." They are sort of boxed in then, because they are not supposed to ask about family junk.
  5. Nursing vs. Teaching?

    I am not sure why you say that it would definitely be a pay cut. Working 10 months a year, all holidays off, starting pay in my area is close to identical starting RN pay. Follow your passion. As was said above, you can teach nursing. If it is intera...
  6. Pharmacology made easy????

    Caliotter3 makes an excellent point. If you lay the groundwork you in the science underlying the pharm you will find pharm much much easier.
  7. Read Dave Ramsey's books. Any of them. Get out of debt today. Travel nursing comes to mind, and frankly it might pay similarly well enough to pay off your loans pretty quickly, if you get some marketable experience first. Kudos to you for expecting...
  8. New grad doesn't want to work on the floor...

    Consider your first year in the field working as an extension (and completion) of nursing school. Then, no one can argue that you are not a "real"nurse. Take a year of med surg nursing on a floor, consider it a class that pays you, rather than vice ...
  9. And What Did YOU eat today?

    coffee, corn flakes and half a banana with milk (at home), an apple (the little bagged kind), a cheese stick and one very large fountain diet coke (in the car --- homehealth nurse). I plan a decent dinner, but dh is out of town, so maybe a handful of...
  10. Eliminating the Charge Nurse on a Med-Surg unit

    1) The first dayshift nurse to arrive. Like it, or get there earlier. 2) By team agreement, seniority rules, call the house super if you are peeved or swamped or somebody's crashing. In low census, by definition, there is less work. No, I did not lik...
  11. Like the law of gravity, economic laws will rule. Nurses are willing to work these jobs because on balance the it is overwhelmingly worth it to work in the healthier environment than to risk further injury. Same reason that oil riggers and coal mi...
  12. not looking "put together"

    > we watched Breakfast At Tiffany's recently. Hepburn's eyebrows were way bushy by modern standards. I'll keep mine, thanks. >
  13. home remedies you would NEVER try

    Rub a wart with a chicken gizzard to make the wart go away.
  14. Are nurses allowed to wear "doctor-like" lab coats?

    Looks great to me. I have several styles, was required to wear one of them for clinicals. Got used to the pockets. If you feel comfortable and confident it will look fine. I have heard of facilities with rules about who can wear what (student docs i...
  15. Days vs nights

    i found the exact opposite to be true. bottom line: day shift has more staff so work is shared. on nights i was the rn, lpn, cna, unit secretary, admit nurse, line nurse and anything else. you name it, if somebody has that job on days and it's a spec...