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

    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 daughter who is about to graduate from welding school a...
  2. Do you ever pick up your phone on your day off when work calls you?

    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 want to call someone in. I never answer a call from ...
  3. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

    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 sitting one to one on another patient. I wound up with ...
  4. When Nurses Dream...and Have Nightmares!

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

    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 better than I can get as an LVN at a SNF or hospi...
  6. How would Medicare for all affect 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 combined. School Teachers, at least in my state, are in...
  7. How would Medicare for all affect 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 Security. Also, in spite of what you may believe, no one ...
  8. How would Medicare for all affect 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 countries is, if I’m not mistaken, Germany with a...
  9. How would Medicare for all affect 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 if we don’t want to. And even if I was allowed to ...
  10. How would Medicare for all affect 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 they don’t look at the long term. And if it does there w...
  11. How would Medicare for all affect 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 have worked for years to keep away from them and reduc...
  12. How would Medicare for all affect 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 hoard of hopefuls are jumping on the band wagon. So t...
  13. How would Medicare for all affect 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 long time ago so even if they wanted to fire me or I bec...
  14. How would Medicare for all affect 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. Well, I for one don’t pay premiums for my employer provi...
  15. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

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