NephroBSN

NephroBSN BSN, RN

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  1. travel nursing

    You can take your children with you. Many travel nurses do. Some home school them . Sometimes the spouse or SO is the teacher. Sometimes you do end up in the bad part of town. Many hospitals in many...
  2. The quickest and best way for anything. Knowledge deficeit. Without KNOWLEDGE you can't understand anything. Require a BSN for every nurse, yes grandfather those in ACUTE CARE with 10 plus years of...
  3. EXACTLY
  4. I wasn't asking for hospital census I was asking for the overall increase in the California census. Has the increase in RN's kept pace with that. I was looking for all the facts and figures here not...
  5. Can you also give us census figures for that time frame. Have the nurses working in hospitals in California kept pace with your census. And how many of those new nurses are working with Green
  6. Getting Along- The Union Debate

    Please I am a dyed in the wool Democrat, liberal and
  7. Getting Along- The Union Debate

    All that and a union
  8. Getting Along- The Union Debate

    And did she get a promotion and a monetary
  9. Normal saline rinses: yes or no

    Have you tried heparinizing the
  10. Normal saline rinses: yes or no

    Have your tried heparinizing your dialyzer????? OPPs wrong poster... I'll go away
  11. Need To Vent!

    I was an LPN for 17 years. I believe nursing should be an apprenticeship. One year CNA, one-two years LPN and then BSN.. OH I'll get flamed for that statement. I believe you should just go for the...
  12. How many hours per week do you study?

    IMHO from a Poly Sci teacher I used to study each day. I'd put into each subject the same amount of study time as class time. 1 hour class time 1 hour study time. I never crammed. And I never read the...
  13. US RN wanting to move to Canada

    Does everyone have to write the Canadian Nursing Exam or just those without a BSN? Thanks for your
  14. Anyone move and get their license in another state?

    Sorry but if you move from one Compact state to another you have to give up your first compact license and obtain a license from the new compact state. Ex. I hold a Compact license from the State of...
  15. That's interesting because other than NICU even travel nurses are warned not to work at Kaiser Oakland. Whatever happened to Kaiser and their pill cutting in half scheme to save money. Good for...
  16. Lap tops and Phones..This is too much

    You guys brought back a great memory for me of my M/S days.. We used to carry pagers. The hospital wanted a quiet hospital. No over head paging. I always wore my pager in my bra and left it on...
  17. Clinical One?

    Did you ask the recuiter at Clinical One. They will be the one paying you. I don't think you will do to bad in TN. Depends on the hospital. And your negotiating skills. Arizona pay has come up some...
  18. Preceptor for traveling?

  19. Yes it is a calling and as I said there are many who won't do it for any amount of money. So the union or whomever can throw all the money they want and it won't get people who don't want to be nurses...
  20. Please name that
  21. Have they produced nurses you don't have. I don't believe it's money that's needed. It's education. Many nurses right here are waiting YEARS to get into nursing school. Do you actually think by being...
  22. Are they keeping out foreign nurses, are they getting someone to work nights, I hate nights, are they getting someone to work Sundays. I never work Sundays. Are they making it so patients don't poop...
  23. One does not gain RESPECT from joining a union. One can't buy respect with dues to a union. One has to earn respect. Controlling others won't do
  24. Womens interest in male nurses

    Can you expound on the "downside"?? Not sure I'm understanding what you are
  25. Womens interest in male nurses

    personally, i'd rather work with the dreaded (sic) male nurse. they don't complain near as much, they get their work done, patients seem to like them. and after all, isn't it the patient we should be...