Galvatron1

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1. A pt. really pissed me off today...

   Galvatron1 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

   Ha ha ha!! ur funny! Thnx 4 brightening my day...approx. 50% of my pts speak Chinese, & 50% speak Spanish. While I learned enuf spanish to speak it well enuf, its not my 1st language & takes a lot of effort to understand & speak it, &am...

2. A pt. really pissed me off today...

   Galvatron1 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

3. A pt. really pissed me off today...

   Galvatron1 posted a topic in General Nursing

   It's bad enuf we only hav 1 x-ray room in the whole hospital, but 90% of the pts are non-english speaking, try explaining when body language doesnt workk, frustrating indeed! I had been x-raying a pt for a half an hour(pt had 3 page exam & couldn...

4. Best states for nursing - salary vs. housing costs

   Galvatron1 replied to centralflorida's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! The pay rate vs housing sounds excellent in WI!! I live in NYC, my hourly rate is 24.53 as an x-ray tech, but avg house in Brooklyn is 600,000 or more. To live in Manhattan, I'd have to work 3 jobs and not eat or buy anything ever...How much do...

5. Anyone here drink a can of soda a day?

   Galvatron1 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

   It is. Am I the only one who sees drinking 2 or more liters of soda a day as an addiction? I believe soda to be one of the main culprits of diabetes & cancer in our society. I never could understand health care professionals choosing unhealthy l...

6. Anyone here drink a can of soda a day?

   Galvatron1 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

   I used to drink nothing but soda as a kid growing up w/o drinking any water. Then I found out I had the kidney disorder IgA Nephropathy after a renal biopsy, b/c I got elbowed in the back and was pissing blood after a basketball game. My aunt told me...

7. An 1199SEIU petition I got in an email today...

   Galvatron1 posted a topic in General Nursing

   will this mean higher taxes? will we have to pay for it somehow? pls discuss, i want your thoughts on the following 1199 petition: in late june, more than 2,000 healthcare workers met in baltimore to launch seiu healthcare, our new national union wit...

8. Anyone here drink a can of soda a day?

   Galvatron1 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hear about the study about the ill-effects reported in the news, even if it's diet?

9. Would you call in because you didn't get any sleep?

   Galvatron1 replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

   not while I was on probation, but now that I'm not...maybe![EVIL][/EVIL]

10. Nursing or X-ray Tech?

    Galvatron1 replied to Cee Love's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Sorry for not getting back to you sooner:), I don't know why my yahoo email account is not alerting me to new responses on allnurses.com, even though I subscribed to this thread. I've been sick with strepp throat & bronchitis, so I haven't even b...

11. Nursing or X-ray Tech?

    Galvatron1 replied to Cee Love's topic in Pre-Nursing

    The job market is excellent , all my classmates :mortarboard: got jobs that were looking for work. There is opportunity to go on to MRI or CT, after a year of experience and sitting for an exam. I think it bumps salary up to in the 60s K:smiley_aa. T...

12. Xray tech~ more $$$ than RN???

    Galvatron1 replied to SoulShine75's topic in Career Support

    Yes, you definitely earn your paychecks, you are angels in scrubs!! I have nothing but respect for nurses!!

13. Nursing or X-ray Tech?

    Galvatron1 replied to Cee Love's topic in Pre-Nursing

    In NYC the pay rate is about $24-$27 an hour for X-Ray Techs. The program is not as hard as nursing, we have less responsibility than nurses, don't have to worry about whether our decisions will kill a patient or not, but we have our work cut out for...

14. Medical Workers wearing scrubs to and from work, outside the Hospital, etc..

    Galvatron1 replied to Galvatron1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad this topic has gotten a lot of you stirred up, that's awesome that we got such a wide spectrum of viewpoints on this topic! I never new that some of you guys and gals don't have locker rooms to change, like we do here in NYC, that poses an i...

15. Medical Workers wearing scrubs to and from work, outside the Hospital, etc..

    Galvatron1 posted a topic in General Nursing

    New York Daily News Tuesday Oct. 17th 2006 -Barbara M. Simpson writes: "MEDICAL WORKERS NEED TO CHANGE I have bben wondering if there is now a rule that persons who work in the medical field, hospitals, nursing homes, etc. can wear their uniforms in ...