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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** That would be great! However I think mental health care advocates don't have the political power to make it so. BTW with one phone call I can have literaly tons (liquid or pellets) of...
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    12 hour shifts...dangerous?

    PMFB-RN replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** The problems you observed have everything to do with the managment and culture of that organization and nothing at all to do with the length of
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** Yes you did. What you gave was a description and not a recognized definition. Since we are making them up I choose to define an "assault weapon" as any weapon used to assault a person or group of...
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** Who's definition is that? Did you just make it up? How do you propose to get rid of elements? *** That would eliminate all the revolvers (six shooters) nearly all handguns, the majority of...
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** Machine gun? In no report I have seen was a machine gun mentioned or reported. Please give us a sourse for your
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** It would be helpful if there was some standardized definition so we could know what is being talked about. The term "assault weapon" was made up by the media and has no agreed definition. I don't...
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    I want to find a long ICU internship, but...

    PMFB-RN replied to SLH16's topic in Critical Care

    *** Wow, only 2.5 years and only $16K? How do they get ANYONE to finish the contract with such a low barrier to leaving? Other than having a low pay out and being a short contract seems pretty...
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    Do you like your long commute?

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    *** Actualy not wild at all. IN large part of the country nursing school admissions are pure wait lists. Anyone who meets the minimum requirments gets on the wait list and waits their turn. There is...
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** Not to mention that what the media calls "assault weapons" are not fundamentaly different in function than hundreds of firearms not labled "assault weapons". What ends up happening is that...
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    Transfusing blood in an emergency situation

    PMFB-RN replied to Enthused RN's topic in Emergency

    *** Was a Harly vs steel bridge. I got her out of the OR. We were sucking the blood out through an abdominal Whitman's pach about as fast as I was putting in with the rapid infuser. After 14 or so...
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    Do you think psychiatric care is inadequate in the US?

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Obviously.
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    Transfusing blood in an emergency situation

    PMFB-RN replied to Enthused RN's topic in Emergency

    Yep. The risks of not rapidly replacing the blood far outweight the risk of transfusion reaction in critical situations. Our rapid infuser will deliver a unit of warmed blood every 40 seconds when...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Yes you are right. The BSN only crowd does believe that. The evidence for that is the fact that ADN + bachelors degree does NOT equal BSN. About 1/3 of our local ADN sudents already have a...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Managment has already sucessfully eliminated the "I'll just leave option". For the las 20 years they have been putting out the false and self serving "nursing shortage" propaganda. Their goal is...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Um OK. I see your mind is made up and no amount of facts will change it. BTW If I were you I would stop putting words into others mouths and thought into their heads like you do in the above...
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    Is it better to do an entry MSN or BSN if you do not have an RN yet?

    PMFB-RN replied to cacurlytop's topic in General Students

    *** This is bad info. Direct entry MSN grads are not hired by all health systems. You really need to conside where you plan to work when making this
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    Is it better to do an entry MSN or BSN if you do not have an RN yet?

    PMFB-RN replied to cacurlytop's topic in General Students

    You need to know if direct entry MSN grads are hired in your area. They have a harder time finding jobs in my area than BSN grads with several health systems refusing to consider them for employment....
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Not wanting to be abused is a far, far different thing than wanting to be taken care
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

    PMFB-RN replied to monkeybug's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Obviously you are being abused as a result of incompetent managment. I encourage you to get with your fellow nurses and simply refuse to be dishonest. Clock no lunch if you don't get a luch. If all of...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** I think I have read most of them and I have never read any anti higher education messages. If you have then lets see them. *** Trying to figure out if you are deliberaly making up false...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Seriously? You really never heard of direct entry MSN programs? People with non nursing bachelors degrees go through a 2 year program and graduate as entry level nurses and an MSN? There are 3 or...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** B.S.! I have never heard any nurse say they are aginst higher education. I sure as heck am not, I have not read any anti higher education message here on AN. If you have please provide a quote....
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Seems perfecly normal and right to me. I don't give a darn for the degree. To me what matters is what you know, not how you came to know it. Before I got my BSN I used to regularly precept nurse...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

    PMFB-RN replied to monkeybug's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *** I used to work at a large Magnet hospital that had the same policy. One day some of us nurses were standing around in the ER talking about it and an ER physican heard us. He was incredulous and...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** That is absolutly not the case for the union hospital where I work. Maybe not all unions are the