GeekyRN

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1. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

   GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Pardon me, but your rude vulgarity is only surpassed by your ignorance. 1. My system IS the USA system. 2. Please provide your citation for the tax burden of the "average American working stiff" and how the taxburden of (presumably the average Canad...

2. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

   GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Thanks for sharing Gromit, but the next time you want to spam your emotional tantrums in a website, you really should cite the crackpot rightwing website you took the material from, rather than just the citation from a newstory it references somewher...

3. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

   GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Gromit; Regarding your tripe in italic: think nurses and truckers pay more in taxes than billionairs, then you really should>> I didn't say they paid more dollars in taxes than a billionaire- I said they pay higher tax RATES than. (although co...

4. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

   GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   this is the kind of emotional rhetoric that has gotten us in the quagmires we are in, in my opinion. 1. Once again, the guvment does not "run" Canada's healthcare and the markets are in fact perfectly private. 2. Taxes in the USA are as high or highe...

5. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

   GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   Anyway, as I was saying earlier, and then I'm done here, but that book Imentioned, that's out now Sutton's "The No A**hole factor" talks about the loss productivity and talent that workplace bullies cost industry - finds that even those ah's perceive...

6. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

   GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   The problem with that is, the people who are most likely to be bullied and abused ARE the newbie nurses on the unit (and/or in the profession) that DON'T have the resources to fight back successfully - they haven't got a support system, the faith of ...

7. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

   GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   I couldn't possibly agree more. In the cockpit of an airline the crew MUST get along and there is no room for b.s. because of what's at stake. The same is just as true on a nursing unit but some people just still don't get it. I can't even believe t...

8. what steps did you take to become an oncology RN

   GeekyRN replied to cnj101's topic in Oncology

   ps - apologies, just remembered you are still in high school. Obviously make sure you are good at math and science and evaluate if this is the right career for you honestly. Then in early in your senior year or late in your junior of high school st...

9. what steps did you take to become an oncology RN

   GeekyRN replied to cnj101's topic in Oncology

   a few suggestions: get your med/surg experience if you don't already have it. be proficient there first. then do some prn hours on the oncology and make sure it's your bag. get your oncology drug admin certification. you can also look at an M.S. i...

10. Ever Been Fired?

    GeekyRN replied to lpnurse2004's topic in Geriatric

    I actually wouldn't recommend sending to HR. Don't give them any heads up.HR's job is to protect the company from lawsuits, not you. I would in fact see a labor attorney about a wrongful termination case. I'm not a lawyer and don't know bu I don't ...

11. New Grad RN.... In need of serious help!!

    GeekyRN replied to Dominicana1's topic in Massachusetts

    Unfortuantely I think the "nursing shortage" is largely manufactured. My opinion, but nursing is a second career for me, and they did the same thing with computer science all through the 90's , said there was a shortage which was really a ticket to ...

12. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

    Don't blame you.

13. Help! Did I screw myself?

    GeekyRN replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in NP

    Oh, and one last thing I've learned in 44 years... As JFK noted, life is NOT fair. (precisely why those who have it good should shut up and stop sniveling, but that's another story for another time).

14. Help! Did I screw myself?

    GeekyRN replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in NP

    I agree what's done is done. The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears erase a word of it. (Omar Kayan, the Rubinat) As someone else noted, you can't fi...

15. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

    Lolita; Made me jealous too this January when I got a crash course in patient perspective for the first time in my life ( stomach ache to ER to admit, to 15000 dollar bill for a 5 day journey). If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, a Democra...