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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

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

    *** Yes and it was wonderful. My children and I hold dual citizenship, US & New Zealand. My children & I have been patients in NZs socialized health care system. The care was exceptionaly high...
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    Should I become a nurse for the money??

    PMFB-RN replied to Wot chick's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** I encourage anyone who is really interested in nursing. However the very idea that anyone would enter a field that pays what nurses get paid for the money is silly. Where I live new grad RNs are...
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    Should I become a nurse for the money??

    PMFB-RN replied to Wot chick's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** If I had to do it over again I would choose military and then law enforcement, preferably at the federal level. The oppertunity to retire after only 20 years is outstanding. We nurses will be...
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

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

    *** How silly. Of course they do. How mant abortions would happen if there was no effective BC? I am not even sure how many abortions effective BC prevented in my own life but it's more than a few....
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    Should I become a nurse for the money??

    PMFB-RN replied to Wot chick's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My guess is that all those people telling you to become a nurse are victems of the false and self serving "nursing shortage" propaganda. There is no nursing shortage. There are almost no jobs for new...
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    Associates vs Bachelors

    PMFB-RN replied to Stacey03's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** Many hospitals do pay RN with a BSN more. It is usually $0.50-$1 and hour difference. Clinicaly there is no difference between the RN with and ADN or BSN or MSN. It would be one thing if the...
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    another chiropractor thinking of RN then to NP

    PMFB-RN replied to djh2003's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    *** Your post was full of good advice. In reguard to the above quote. For me and some of my fellow experienced RNs thinking of grad school, the misguided push for DNP has made up my mind in favor of...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

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    Your Starting Salary?

    PMFB-RN replied to x_factor's topic in First Year After Licensure

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    Your Starting Salary?

    PMFB-RN replied to x_factor's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not a new grad here but I can access my hospital's pay scale so know what new grads make. Base is $64,000/year. All new grads work every other weekend and get 25% diff for W/E. Also those who work...
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    PLEASE HELP i cant get into nursing school

    PMFB-RN replied to Palexander3512's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** The above is good advice and I agree. Another thing to consider is that in the Philly area there are no jobs for new grads. It is bad for all new grads but much worse for associates degree grads....
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    so it would be accurate to say that your husbands pa program was much better and more involved than your np program. *** nursing has further demonstrated it's own lack of self esteem and identity...
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    Sexual Harrashment towards Men in the nursing profession!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ev1987's topic in Men in Nursing

    *** Well it's not silly, its as serious as it gets. However we are talking about people's livelyhoods here. How they put food on the table for their children. It is a far bigger crime to leave a...
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    Sexual Harrashment towards Men in the nursing profession!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ev1987's topic in Men in Nursing

    what were you expecting, some Mediao sex scene? *** no, i was expecting examples of sexual harrasment. a lot of people would consider that kind of talk and conduct normal, and that's what's sad...
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    Sexual Harrashment towards Men in the nursing profession!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ev1987's topic in Men in Nursing

    LOL! You call those examples of sexual harrasment!? I have been in nursing for 17 years and have experienced being turned down for promotion for no other reason than I am a man. I have not been...
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    Are nurses professional?

    PMFB-RN replied to mmmk10's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** Interesting that you assume that the way it is where you went to to school is the way it is everywhere. Yes of course an associates degree RN program can be, and is by many, many people, completed...
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    Will a mandate requring RN's to obtain BSN's contribute to a shortage?

    PMFB-RN replied to mttzakr87's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** Yes I see your point. One small sliver lining is the rapidly diminishing repuation of Magnet certification and the hospitals that hold it. Already Magnet hospital have a reputation as not being...
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    CCRN looking towards JD

    PMFB-RN replied to Dontknowwhattodo's topic in Legal

    *** While in law school!? Wow, I am
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    Funny "Code" Last Night

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So last night I responded to a code called in the spinal cord injury center. We (code team) arrived in the room to find a bewildered little old man, obviously not in arrest, sitting on a comode asking...
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    No more fun scrubs

    PMFB-RN replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Certainly high standards are among the marks of a professional. What color shirt and tie did the attending order your brother to wear? I suspect that he didn't. I suspect that the attending made...
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    No more fun scrubs

    PMFB-RN replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** good point. does anyone not consider physicians professionals? do physicians need to be told by their boss what color they need to wear? lawyers are professionals. nobody tells them they have to...
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    Nurse to Patient Ratio

    PMFB-RN replied to nrsggirl76's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** The number of patients per nurses isn't really relevant. 8 or 9 may be perfectly appropriate depending on acuity. Staffing levels must be determined by patient acuity. There are many standardized...
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    No more fun scrubs

    PMFB-RN replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    What color do physicians wear and are they color coded by specialiety or all physicians wear the same
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    No more fun scrubs

    PMFB-RN replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Wow, you must work in a great hospital. I assume so since your managment must have solved all real problems long before they had time to wast on such sillyness. They are totaly wrong BTW. It will...
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    Funny "Code" Last Night

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Oh no, nobody else in the unit went running. The spinal cord injury center is attached to the rest of the hospital by a long hallway, they don't hear the overhead pages for codes. The first anyone...