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  1. Women's Right to Choose

    No you can't assure us, because the science behind it all is very unclear, particularly as a lot of it is financed by pro life organisations, we still to this day don't know the facts on this. I have...
  2. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    They have a 2 year on the job training and are put on a register different from nurses, they have limitations such as no IV drugs but yes, they're basically upskilled HCAs doing the nurses role. Don't...
  3. 1.5 million a year profit per facility in LTC

    This post seems to go all over the
  4. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    In the UK our Conservative government decided to get rid of Bursaries and student fees so now its just like any other profession, you build up your debt get your qualification and then get your job....
  5. Women's Right to Choose

    I find the idea of aborting a baby because you messed up a morally bad call but I still think that option should be available as my moral's are mine. The idea that people would ban abortions for...
  6. And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    Guy took a CVC out with the patient in a chair, air embolism and death followed. In fairness he was a fantastic nurse who showed true remorse and learning, but he was back to work a month later. I'm...
  7. Need advice

    You should have seen the state of me and my cohort you'd have
  8. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Well, I mean, they're slightly more relevant than your anecdotal evidence which is basically this happened to someone but I can't or won't tell you why. Not looking for a fight, I was looking for...
  9. Reasons nurses get fired

    Kinda reading the ease at which you can lose your job in the US
  10. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    Homeland season 7 one of the episodes had a post cardiac arrest guy unresponsive on nasal cannula, must have been really
  11. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Why did they wait years? I don't believe it would be due to a lack of available surgery, the NHS is far from perfect but in all my years of nursing I have never come across a delayed surgical...
  12. Reasons nurses get fired

    In the UK? Convictions. Theft at work. Losing your pin. I've seen very very few firings in my 10
  13. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    I smell pear drops doesn't work the same as the dramatic unconsciousness of a hypo I
  14. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    I don't take them seriously and I don't take this one seriously either, single payer systems have 1-1 or 1-2 mandated so claiming american systems have 3-4 just goes to show how for profit...
  15. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Yeah, kinda like the police, the schools, the garbage collectors, the fireman, the emergency room staff, the military and all the other things you are already forced to pay
  16. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Yeah we can. One of the biggest complaints from the private sector is the quality of public sector pensions. We get it though, you've got yours. Lets be honest about this first, they did not have a...
  17. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    The American way, liberty at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and the suffering of millions who can't get insurance.
  18. Wrong heparin route???

    10000 units is often a loading dose anyway, why do you think you're going to kill a patient with this? 10000 units is not a significant amount for the majority of
  19. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    And here we finally have it, I'm surprise it took you this long, this is normally the go to for right wing main stream media libertarians, find the one authoritarian state run system in a less...
  20. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    I can't imagine living in a world so scary that doctors having to treat patients is such a worry. Number 1 cause of bankruptcy is health care costs. 20,000+ people a year die due to no healthcare....
  21. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    a) Yeah you can. b) As discussed you will be saving money on what you already pay... c) What is the relevance of that? You'd pay less in income tax than on insurance as explained so your last...
  22. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Multiple studies already show that it would SAVE money, we've been discussing that during this thread. https://www.thenation.com/article/thanks-koch-brothers-proof-single-payer-saves-money/...
  23. I'm happy to give my fish away as long as those with more fish than they could ever need also give their fair share of fish to help those without any
  24. I used to enjoy a bit of fishing, just chilling on a river bank in the sun. I don't think I'd ever want to go back to non-12 hour shifts, There were many times I would work a good 6-7 days in a
  25. A stunningly stupid thing to say, its inconceivable to me that someone would even contemplate saying this. We live in a world where Trump is president so another elected politician saying stupid...