WhiteKnight

Do you know if they offer a higher pay rate when you choose not to have the health benifits?

Thank you for the input.:) It seems that getting a position in Raleigh is going to be even more difficult when I am doing it from Florida. I was planning to do my first year here, but circumstances have changed and I really want to move after graduation. I am not sure what more I can do, when I am not close enough to see the nurse managers in person.

I need some help understanding the Nurse Fellowship program at Wake Med. I applied online for several of the positions. The positions were just posted on August 15 and I applied to them on the 21st. I have already received the thank you, but no thank you rejection email from two of them. The puzzling part of this is that they do not have my transcripts yet, so they do not know what sort of student I have been and they have not received my recommendation forms either. On what could they be basing their decision and how could they make one so soon?

Any numbers for Rex?

Thanks for the info. :) What is Noc?

Can anyone tell me the current differential pay at WakeMed and at Rex please?

I am looking for information about Cleveland Clinic for a new grad RN. Pay for new grads? Benefits? Schedules? Working conditions/environment? Any day care facilities provided?

at the end of the film moore takes a group of "gringos," all of whom have been terribly mistreated by the u.s. health care system, to be treated in communist cuba. the hospital moore and his companions are taken to in cuba appears cleaner and more orderly than many u.s. hospitals, with semi-private rooms, crisp, clean sheets, state-of-the-art equipment and upright, english-speaking doctors. the not so subtle message: even communist health care is better than what we've got. now i've been to hospitals in cuba, and they don't look at all like the one in moore's film. i can only guess that the facilities we are shown in "sicko" are reserved for the communist hierarchy and foreign vips. the contrast between what we see in the film and cuban reality is dramatic. in the two cuban hospitals i visited, the lack of the most basic materials in cuba was readily apparent. hospital personnel were literally begging me for anything i had that could be used to help the sick. one hospital i visited asked me for dental floss because they'd run out of suture material. but in "sicko," a $150 inhaler is easily found in a local pharmacy and several are given to one of moore's sick u.s. companions for about 5 cents each. i have never seen or heard of readily available medicines like this for anyone in cuba, and it seemed strangely coincidental that this particular brand just happened to be within easy reach of the first cuban pharmacist that moore and his crew walked in on. this scene was either set up by one of moore's cuban "minders," or moore was a party to a fabricated scene. the only other possibility is that there has been a monumental effort in cuba to clean up its hospitals that has gone largely unreported. it probably won't take much to refute the "potemkin village" view that the cubans created for moore's film. it was so over-the-top that any cuban or nicaraguan familiar with the bitter reality of cuban health care will be able to easily refute these images. as it happened, i happened to be sitting next to one such individual during the screening: my wife, who came here from socialist nicaragua in 1988. during one round of applause from the audience (comprised mostly of rich celebrities), she leaned over to me and whispered: "why doesn't someone ask: 'if it is so bad here, why are people still dying to get in?'" my wife went on to make a point that went to the heart of the nation's move to the left that, no matter how awkwardly, michael moore is trying to exploit. many americans have forgotten how well off they are. they complain at the slightest pain, because they're told that virtually all their problems can and should be taken care of by a nanny state. most immigrants, on the other hand, know that the nanny state is a lie. they know that the more powerful a state becomes, the more liberties and choices they all lose. and that's why they flock to the u.s. and that's why immigrants may be the last bulwark against the growth of big government. not the kind of immigrants who come here illegally looking for a handout. but legal, driven, brave immigrants, who are willing to work hard and eventually eschew the kind of patronizing hand holding that seems to be coming back in vogue among politicians and pundits. as my wife says: "legal immigrants have backbone and don't feel sorry for themselves because they have to work hard. that's because we know the difference between working hard and having no job at all. we are not suckers when it comes to the false promises of politicians and hucksters like michael moore, and we appreciate freedom." michael may be reaching for the heart of america. but i prefer to believe that my immigrant wife has a better idea of where it is. e-mail your comments to [email protected] david asman is the host of "forbes on fox" which airs on the fox news channel, saturdays at 11 a.m. et. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286006,00.html