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I understand, to a lesser degree, what you went through. I'm not a nurse but will be going to school for lvn. My sister and I cared for our Mother at home for eight years. She was in a 'coma' from '97 to '05 (brain aneurysm) From the beginning the do...

. The assumption that children are a burden on society is just wrong. The Children are the basis of our future as a country. Denying education or health care to our own citizens is bad public policy. I frankly don't give a rats behind about the orig...

sorry I didn't respond sooner, just saw your post. Since none of us were there and we get our info from the 'media', my opinion was developed by a doctor they interviewed at the time of the accident. He stated that it was policy (I don't know whoms) ...

Don't forget that you can also apply for federal and state grants (meaning they don't have to be repaid) I know there is the Pell Grant in CA and another one. My experience with all those science courses they make people take, to include doctors is ...

You're right, there is no nursing shortage. Just as there is no shortage of doctors or engineers. This is an excuse to import (mostly from third world countries) those whom would work cheaper then Americans. The problem for 'them' is that eventually,...

This is just my humble opinion, which is allowed under Ms Ruby's diversity quote. I would like you to ask the next ten non hospital affiliated people you meet if they think nurses have direct patient care. I think the majority if not all will say yes...

Well put :yelclap:

Actually Ms. Ruby, the reason for the break up of nursing duties was a monetary one. Back in the day, the nurse didn't do alot of things because there was a more limited technology. By breaking up nursing into CNA, LVN, RN (2 year) and BSN---it justi...

You can not be rational and do irrational things--just by definition alone. Unless it's the insanity defense. The patient was irrational at the moment of the outburst. There are many different types of patients just as there are many different types ...

Yeah and then without ever getting out of bed, they phone the charge nurse, asking the nurse's assesment which means that the nurse is actually diagnosing. I witnessed this in the ICU (as a visitor). If you mean "'those people are everywhere" in the ...

You know I can see your point on staff and management but the patients are ill and have more reason to be 'mean'. I don't get some of you guys. Nursing is about sick, injured, and old people. It's not modeling or acting. I think the main problem toda...

I don't agree with the term "sexist". It has a legal conatation which points toward discrimination. I've worked almost exclusively with men in male dominated jobs my whole life and there is a difference (on average) between men and women and the way ...

Maybe they're just bad at trauma:rolleyes: I think it's the wine keepin' them alive:wink2:

Sorry about your Mother, SpaceNurse. I don't know how much I would trust European healthcare since the botched job they did on Princess Di back in '97

Rich et al: let me clarify what I said. I said 'society', not me, put those labels on men as well as women. As for empathy, I think that is gained more from experience than genetics. But women have a head start, in that society fosters these beliefs....

Mexico has never really been an autonomous country. Even their presidents today are educated in America (Yale or Harvard) and then sent back as little puppets. That is why Mexico could never enforce their own laws or fight to keep their lands. That i...

Thanks for the info! It sounds like you should have multiply personalities to work it:wink2:

Let's not generalize. Lets's be quite specific. I feel that as long as there is an American that is qualified and wants a job at the 'normal' rate----that the job should go to an American (I'm talking about in America of course). I know of no other c...

Sorry to be so ignorant (I'm pre LPN), but what exactly is med/surg? It sounds like an Intensive Care Unit.

This is a good example of how these corporate hospitals are reaching out to foreign nurses and undercutting the pay. If only they could oursource the patients, there'd be no nursing jobs in the US at all.

I can't even believe this thread! What happened to the nursing 'shortage'? Maybe it's just another excuse to bring in foreign nurses and underpay them.

You don't need to qualify that you're not racist. This isn't about race. I don't want illegal Chinese, Dutch, East Indian etc... What does look racist is the new ruling that anyone here illegally EXCEPT Mexicans will no longer be ticketed but deporte...

Maybe they didn't assimilate during the 1800's (and it would have been the Mexicans and Americans not the Spainish and English) but the early Mexicans did. Today's immigrants have no desire to assimilate since very few have any desire to become citiz...