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1. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Fiddleback replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   I use a plumber whose daughter is his right hand. She is one of the few certified master plumbers in the state and she makes well into six figures every year. One of my cousins has a 24 year old...

2. Do you ever pick up your phone on your day off when work calls you?

   Fiddleback replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

   Our managers and charge nurses are actually smart enough to know people won’t answer the phone when work is calling. So they developed the sneaky habit of using their personal cell phones when they...

3. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

   Fiddleback replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

   Spent six years working an intake unit where all our patients were fresh off the street and still seriously psychotic. I had one grab me from behind and try to choke me out one night while I was...

4. When Nurses Dream...and Have Nightmares!

   Fiddleback replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Having 50 or 60 blood sugars a shift my recurring dream always involves me trying to gets all those FSBS’s charted but I keep getting interrupted every couple of entries. Or is that

5. What do you like best about working in a jail?

   Fiddleback replied to Alexxoxox's topic in Correctional

   I actually work in a large state correctional facility. My employer is a large state university that provides healthcare to several of the state penal facilities so my benefits are good and the pay is...

6. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

   Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   This is a question I ask every time I look at my paycheck stub. I have a deduction for FICA and for Medicare. Then there is a deduction for State Retirement that is higher than FICA and Medicare...

7. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

   Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   What I think about these laws isn’t important. They survived the test of constitutionality at the time Roosevelt fist got them through. In reality, Medicare was simply an extension of Social...

8. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

   Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Each of the countries that make up your merry little group has its own Health care system and I doubt that any two systems are exactly alike. You also failed to mention that the most populous of these...

9. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

   Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I’m not opposed to Medicare for all - all who want or need it. What I am saying is there are people in this country who are happy with their benefits and we should not be forced give up what we have...

10. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Not without an act of the state legislature they can’t. And that’s not likely to happen in a state where nearly thirty percent of new hires quit within the first two years of employment because...

11. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    At no time have I said I am against a system that would provide DECENT health care to people who can’t afford insurance. What I am against is taking insurance plans that people are happy with and...

12. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    But Bernie is currently the loudest and most strident voice and he is calling his plan Medicare for All. As the loudest voice he is getting the most media coverage. So much so that a number of the...

13. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    How is it different from slavery? It’s different because I still have a choice whether or not to continue working there or not. I guess I forgot to mention that I passed the “rule of eighty” a...

14. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    There seems to be an assumption on some people’s part that Medicare For All would be better than any other insurance and everyone should be happy to switch their premiums over to a payroll tax....

15. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The “end of private care” probably comes from Bernie Sanders stating that BCBS would be reduced to only being able to cover nose