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    Pay Differences Across California

    Music in My Heart replied to linRdsNay's topic in California Nursing

    I'd also be curious as to the rate of unionization in SoCal vs. NorCal. Y'also gotta consider bennies in the
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    Should I make the decision to switch career?

    Music in My Heart replied to arkmann's topic in California Nursing

    Snarky reply deleted (I'm tryin' Siri, really I
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    Late career choice @ 35

    Music in My Heart replied to blessed_2Bhere's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Careful with your gender stereotypes... more than a few of us Y chromosome types
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    Late career choice @ 35

    Music in My Heart replied to blessed_2Bhere's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My nursing career began at the age of 45... and I wasn't the oldest in my
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    Took Care of a Patient with MRSA Today

    Music in My Heart replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Nursing

    True, it is all around. However, the CA stuff is (usually) genetically distinct from nosocomial stuff, with the latter being generally more virulent with broader resistance (MRSA by Weigelt, ISBN...
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    Took Care of a Patient with MRSA Today

    Music in My Heart replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Nursing

    Chill out... if you're not immunocompromised, you're not at particularly high risk of a serious MRSA infection... that's not to say it can't happen but if you're healthy, you've not too much to worry...
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    I need a job!

    Music in My Heart replied to goodstudentnowRN's topic in Florida Nursing

    I can't offer much beyond empathy. The job market sucks for new grads. It's not your fault and it says nothing about you... thousands of others are in similar
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    Clinical post conference "goals"

    Music in My Heart replied to ZionsWrath's topic in General Students

    IMO, that's a waste of time. Start recycling things from earlier in the program. You have much more important topics on which to spend your time and
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How my investments relate to the discussion at hand is really quite beyond me. I've grown bored with this diatribe. I'm
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If that's what I were "saying," I'd just say it. I'm "saying" just what I said.I'm not typing Mandarin here, am
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, that's only one of their tools. They also look for loopholes to deny coverage and dump millions into lobbying to maintain the status quo... or to craft legislation which works to their benefit -...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As I said before, I am an individual worker, not a corporation... and even if I were a not-for-profit corporation, I would still pay myself, just as the workers in the not-for-profit corporation are...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Actually, it's quite a humorous little joke... with a bit of ironic truth mixed
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course they're public companies. And of course, as a for-profit company, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits. Their primary responsibility is to their...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    An individual is not the same as a corporation... working for a wage is not the same as seeking to maximize shareholder profits by actively seeking to exclude potentially costly people from the...
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    Can you get an "accelerated" BSN from any school w/ a nursing program?

    Music in My Heart replied to mell260's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Probably not but it's really up to each
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To me, the question is simply whether something as essential as healthcare should be operated under a for-profit model or whether the public would be better served by a not-for-profit, public service...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How very clever. You're right... it's the end of civilized healthcare as we know it. OMG, I've been so blind. I'd better plan an immediate move to an industrialized country without healthcare for...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think your CNO is either biased or misinformed... in 1986 there were 127 neurology residency programs in the US (Link), presumably with a number of physicians in each step along the training...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The government is adding some additional controls to the business practices of insurance companies, just as it already does in all sorts of arenas.Very different than "running
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I, too, am a vet... it worked fine for me. It saved my niece who was very sick as an infant. It took fine care of some close friends who were preemie triplets. And it's fine enough that my friends,...
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    Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

    Music in My Heart replied to morningland's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    you forgot to mention the death
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    What does "contingent" mean?

    Music in My Heart replied to MsPebbles's topic in General Nursing

    I totally understand your reasoning -- and shared it myself... until I became a bit more desperate and came to realize that what I needed in the near term, even more than a regular paycheck, was...
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    Need help deciding if CRNA is right for me?

    Music in My Heart replied to Highschoolfuturenurs's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If you're sufficiently motivated, you can take the prerequisites at a community college while still in high school. You might consider those in lieu of the AP
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    SO am I the only one who loves LTC?

    Music in My Heart replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Because I don't have the personality to cope well with many of the issues that have accompanied the SNFers.That's precisely why I so admire those of you who not only choose that work but for whom it's...