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Thanks so much, that's exactly what I was looking for!

You would make more money teaching English as a foreign language there. TEFL. You could teach in schools or even teach English to people in other countries on your computer. Honestly that would be much more fun then trying to legally be a nurse in Brazil.

Hi, So I'm a US RN considering applying for a nursing job in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. I've lived abroad before and am just curious about how living on the compound works. When I go abroad, I like to make friends with locals and learn the language well which leads me to main question. Can a nurse leave the compound anytime they want to go explore the city? How does that work? Is there an expectation that you stay in the compound? Thank you!

Just wondering, has anyone that got their BSN through WGU been accepted to UW's DNP program? Does anyone know how many are accepted each cohort out of how many applicants? Thanks.

wouldn't epi raise your BP? I guess peripherally it would lower it...but centrally raise it?

SF Bay is not representative of the US so it's hard to compare using that. Also WA is many wonderful places besides Seattle with a much lower housing cost. In fact, hospitals in Seattle will pay about the same as hospitals in another are of WA with a much lower cost-of-living!

I didn't mean to imply that home health or hospice aren't stressful in their own way. I am a good hospital nurse and owe my skills to my years as an acute care nurse. I still believe I would be good at hospice and am inquiring about home health to get more of an idea of that. Z

Hi all! Just wondering if you must be working as an RN while you are attending WGU's RN to BSN program. Also, if you have to be working, do you have to be working acute care or is something like home health ok? Thanks! Z

Hi all, Due to hospital nursing being really stressful for me I'm looking to cut back and change possibly either to home health or hospice. I have a feeling I'd really be good at hospice but don't know anything about home health in case I can't get into hospice. I have years of hospital experience and good assessment skills. Just looking for ideas on how to start and to find out what it all entails. Thank you!

SageTXRN, Thanks for the info. Do you still live/work in RGV? It is kind of disheartening that most hospitals in South Texas are all for profit organizations. I guess I'm spoiled up here in Washington State where not-for-profit is how we do things up here. I will check out South Texas Health System and Doctor's Hospital. Thanks again. Z

Hello! So I'm looking to relocate eventually to the South Florida area and wondering if there's any hospitals that nurses would say are better generally and have an acceptable/doable nurse patient ratio. It seems all the hospitals are for-profit grr. I know I would take a cut in pay and also have more patients but I would be able to afford a house there and where I am now I won't ever be able to. And just so you know, I am an tele/pcu/stepdown nurse with more than a decade of experience. I lived in Mexico for eight years and speak Spanish fluently. Z

C'mon I know there's someone with info!

Hello! So I'm looking to relocate eventually to the RGV area and wondering if there's any hospitals that nurses would say are better generally and have an acceptable/doable nurse:patient ratio. It seems all the hospitals are for-profit grr. I know I would take a cut in pay and also have more patients but I would be able to afford a house there and where I am now I won't ever be able to. And just so you know, I am an tele/pcu/stepdown nurse with more than a decade of experience. I lived in Mexico for eight years and speak Spanish fluently. Z

Thanks for your comment. I think you're right. I also believed it was a fibrin sheath that was preventing easy flow. the part that freaked me out was that there'd be a little blood flow in the picc tubing and then a break with nothing and then more blood. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around that as far as explaining it. Thanks! Z

Hey all I've never seen this happen but I went to help a new nurse who couldn't get blood very well from a PICC. It was a double lumen and she was drawing from the brown lumen and she got a little blood in the syringe but it wouldn't draw more. It was greating a vacuum in the syringe and then there would be breaks in the blood flow with air?? or something similar. I've never seen in my life and it made me nervous. I tried the other lumen and it drew fine. My question is: On the first lumen she tried, if it was collapsing when she drew blood WHY on earth would there be clear areas in between a little blood flow like it was air? That seems impossible. I was worried about catheter migration but the other lumen drew fine. Thanks Z