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is his name mike?

excuse me for not setting up my profile yet it was set to the default settings. i didnt realize id be crucified if i didnt do that right away

all im saying is this may explain the contrast he's experiencing between him past experiences and las vegas. Here in arizona there are no unions and i have never seen a nurse act in such a way torward a PA. i think some nurses (and certainly not all) that work union may feel they have the leway to step out of bounds like that and from the op's stament he said the nurses threatened to take action with thier union if the doctors amde a fuss about it. I'm not making a generalization ther are horrible nurses everywhere and likewise their are acceptional nurses everywhere but again ive traveled and done strike relief assignments to union hospitals and have heard many similar stories from tecs and lpns that i have never heard in a non union hospital.

were most of the hospitals you worked at union? if so i think therin lies your answer

chandler is great. good community and its still relatively new so there much much more to come.

hmmm

i think we used the levaquin to control my pnemonia and i had to ride the vf out. i was in the hospital for a week and a hlaf so it was a slow process. and about the scoprions interestingly i experienced a lot of numbness which lasted days. my lips and nose were numb to the point of making it hard to drink out of a glass for the first 6 or so hours and my arm around the sting was numb for the ramainder of the week. i was stung sunday morning in BED. the thing was under my pillow and got me when i slid my arm underneath. it was nice to know i wasnt allergic and it made them seem less threatening i think. the most interesting part was when a freind of mine who works for a pest control company came over that night and we black lighted my apt how many more we actually found. They light up under black light and stand out like a sore thumb. Even better when we took the black light outside and looked around through the planters and such. EVERYWHERE

mesa genreal anyone?

Valley fever is rough but its definantly situational in terms of severity. I have lived here in arizona for most of my life and i didnt accually get vf until my sophmore year in high school. it was particularly bad for me because im allergic to most antibiotics. i was finnaly able to take levaquin but it caused an allergic reaction and i had severe hives. about a quarter of my left lung had filled with fluid and i guess my doctors saw the hives as an acceptable risk. either way i had benedryl shots in my rear every 4 hours to counter the levaquin for nearly a week and a half. also note that it always stays with you and can act up from time to time. on the opposite end of the spectrum my siter caught it and she had flu and pnemonia symptoms for about a week and it passed without much resistance thanks to average antibiotics. bottom line is if your going to stress about VF at all than you might as well start stressing about scorpions as well since arizona is home to the deadliest scorpion in the US, the bark scorpion. Doesnt say much for the killing power for the rest of americas scorpions since the the last recorded death from a bark scorpion was in 1940. but just like VF these suckers are EVERYWHERE and yes either one packs a hell of a punch.....trust me i've experienced them both, chances are you wont feel good for a little wile but you will live.

lol

wow just wow

yep

when you forgot what a sunrise looks like

the money is definatly a pro

the money

also another question related to my last i was told that pmi doesnt require prereqs like english 101 ect. ect. and the courses are taylored specificaly to your skills as a nurse, kinda like a technical school is that why the credits dont transfer?

i see, thanks for the info

i heard pmi's credits dont transfer to a univeristy so you cant continue at say mcc to get you bsn so you are basically stuck at associates. is that right?