Salesman217

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  1. Today in a meeting, my nurse manager said that d/t medicare compensation changes, the private hospitals in our area (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals) are laying off LPNs from the bedside, that...
  2. I am a new LVN. I have a question about a word

    Dialysis??? Who knows... Why don't you call your education department. Or better yet, go back to that manager and say "excuse me, I didn't understand wth you were talking about when you asked me about...
  3. I jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire with a move from the ICU to Home Care. The ICU was cool. I worked with really, really good people and the money was OK except management gets on the...
  4. I did not get a marketing position job. I spoke with a few nurses who knew something about it who emphasized the pressure that is put upon you for keeping the census up. I ended up working in psych...
  5. Ohio online license renewal

    So I went to renew online at the Ohio BON site. I click the link get a window asking me for a username and password. ??? Where do I get that from? There's no option to register. Was it in the renewal...
  6. ...ICU ...good idea??

    Like everyone says, it depends. I went into an ICU right out of school. But I was old (40) so not much scared me, and my personality is really laid back. Also, the hospital I worked at was really low...
  7. I've got an ADN and I'm working in an ICU. I want to become a CRNA. The question I have is, does it matter where I get my BSN? You've got online programs that take a year or even less. I know one...
  8. hey calmcool1, How does one go about becoming an independent provider? I'm in OH and would like to look into it.
  9. Sex Discrimination or not?

    Why do people think males are sexual predators? Did you ever watch "To Catch a Predator"? Not a lot of females getting caught now are there? Am I saying that males can't do L&D effectively? No....
  10. Any Cleveland Clinic Nurses out there

    Sure deal. PM me at your leisure. I work in an elephant graveyard ICU at a regional CCF hospital. MICU I suppose but we see post-op stuff as well. Nothing fancy. We see post endoarterectomies,...
  11. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    You need to understand that what works for you motivationally is not what works for everyone. Nursing is a job I can do and enjoy because I like being around people. There are some negatives to be...
  12. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    BINGO!!! Thank You!!! Hallelujah!!!
  13. Any Cleveland Clinic Nurses out there

    I was just joking of course. But the "fulfill you contract" comment seemed a bit... I don't know... paternalistic? Anyway, what do you care if I fulfill my contract or walk away and pay them off? (I...
  14. This Should Make You Feel Good About How Much $$$ You Make

    There's a doctor shortage, too (hence the use of Doc "extenders" like NPs according to a MICU nurse manager at CCF). Is it because of salary? Sure. And salaries will go up as the shortage grows. Or...
  15. This Should Make You Feel Good About How Much $$$ You Make

    This from the Cleveland Plain Dealer (LINK) Q. How much do auto workers make, and do strikers lose their pay? A. The average UAW member makes $1,155 per week. Yes, strikers lose their paychecks, but...
  16. Any Cleveland Clinic Nurses out there

    MANAGEMENT!!! (everybody look
  17. The same question everybody keeps asking...

    I went straight into ICU after 16 months of nursing school. I had some previous college and so I only had to do 4 semesters to graduate. My school doesn't do summer break. Anyway, our orientation was...
  18. Nursing School Wait Lists

    That was my experience. I was stuck behind the waiting list thingy. Then, in April 2006, I went to Bryant and Stratton. In May 2006 I started classes and in August 2007 I graduated with a Associate's...
  19. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    In your response you touch on many subjects. You say that I will be disappointed to find that nursing jobs are hard to come by for new grads. I was made several offers to work in ICUs in my area...
  20. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    Please list those jobs. At forty years old with a mediocre (at best) track record in sales and trying to work around homeschooling my three boys, I found out that I could GUARANTEE myself $22.50/hr...
  21. How to give report.

    I just graduated as an ADN and am working as a "nurse tech" until I take the NCLEX. Throughout school and since I've been working in this position, I've seen nurses give report many times. In this...
  22. How to give report.

    Do you work in ICU? I did my internship in ICU and the details you cover in report reminded me of the type of info that ICU nurses were always discussing versus what the med/surg nurses find...
  23. The shortest path to being RN?

    I, too, was a college dropout. I had completed about 45 credit hours at North Carolina State University back in the mid to late 80s. At the age of 40, some 20+ years after my first college experience,...
  24. Whites or Colored scrubs?

    Your capitalization skills are
  25. Any Cleveland Clinic Nurses out there

    Cleveland Clinic System pays $22.50 for new grads system wide. ($45,000 on a 40 hour week, 50 week year). I had this in print in a Cleveland Clinic brochure I got about a year ago. Plus, the...