car48

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1. FL is not following mandatory mask/social distancing protocol

   car48 replied to NewRN'16's topic in COVID

   I am an RN - RN follows my name the same as yours (I presume you are, from your posts you intentionally put in 1/2 truths, so it would not surprise me to find out you are in 8th grade or something). Tell you what, I will take your advice and try to ...

2. FL is not following mandatory mask/social distancing protocol

   car48 replied to NewRN'16's topic in COVID

   I picked TB because it is airborne. And speaking of "how did you get your license" wrapping a rag around your mouth does not stop any disease. If the masks helped at all (and they really don't) what little help they do provide goes out the window a...

3. FL is not following mandatory mask/social distancing protocol

   car48 replied to NewRN'16's topic in COVID

   I agree. The government should make a new task force of men armed with cattle prods to walk the streets and shock people whenever they touch their faces too. Furthermore, we should jail all people who are immune compromised. Sorry John, your wish m...

4. Dosage calculation

   car48 replied to thepersistentone28's topic in General Students

   I always double check the meds before I give them because in RL the math is not all that hard. 99% of the time in my experience most medication adjustments are nothing more than braking a pill in 1/2. But you have to know the math, because you have...

5. Can’t pass the NCLEX

   car48 replied to Kmmamea's topic in NCLEX

   I don't mean this to sound condescending or arrogant. However... Before you went to nursing school did you look at the NCLEX pass rate for your school? The 2 factors I used in determining what school I went to was cost and pass rate. Hind sight bei...

6. New Grad BSN, RN, PHN, EMT and can’t find work. Legality of working as a CNA?

   car48 replied to oceanhugger's topic in General Nursing

   Just wanted to add, California's regulations are really dumb. If you have an RN license, and they won't let you take a job as a CNA that is like saying "Sorry, you don't have a bike license. I know in your day to day life you drive a semi. But it w...

7. New Grad BSN, RN, PHN, EMT and can’t find work. Legality of working as a CNA?

   car48 replied to oceanhugger's topic in General Nursing

   I have never heard that. A CNA or LPN does not have a different skill set than us. We should be able to our job in addition to their job. I don't do their job on a regular basis, but a doctor doesn't do mine either - although going up the educatio...

8. Expelled from RN program, looking for options

   car48 replied to cjprenurse's topic in General Students

   I got straight A's in my pre-req's before nursing school. Took my first nursing test that I studied like crazy for and got 58. Everyone does bad on the first test I was told, but failure (esp. of that magnitude) was not something I was going to tol...

9. 41 yr. old business executive going to Nursing School

   car48 replied to ESP808's topic in General Students

   Do not take $ out of your IRA. If you want to go the entire graduate degree route over lets say 6 years (being optimistic), just not contributing the max amount to your IRA will cost you 142k by the time you retire (at an average rate of 7% return)....

10. The Wage Gap Myth

    car48 posted a topic in Men

    Not trying to start a gender war here, but would like to get someone to defend the idea that there is a wage gap. This video pretty much sums up why there isn't one to me: It is all about personal choice of the individual. If you make ...

11. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    car48 replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Students

    To start with, nursing is not my first degree; history is. While that may not be an economics degree I think it qualifies me more than you to speak about things like this esp. when you bring up the history of China. So your contention is that a con...

12. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    car48 replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Students

    You are talking about crony capitalism, and I am against that. Telsa, GE, GM should have all been left to die. As should solar and wind power because they are heavily subsidized. I own 2 electric cars because politicians were stupid enough to give...

13. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    car48 replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Students

    lol, ok. I stand corrected. Reverse the roles of the insects than.

14. Is Shortage in Nursing really a hoax?

    car48 replied to mikefilmstudent's topic in Male Students

    It's not bias, it is math. The government caps the amount it steals from wealthy people so that they can cap how much they pay out to them (at this point it is continued stealing because they continue to take the money knowing full well they will nev...

15. Inverted T wave

    car48 replied to car48's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, I was just looking to see if an inverted T wave could be benign. I am going to have it checked out either way, but because I do not present with the usual things that come with a T wave inversion I was curious if this may all be much ado abo...