oramar

oramar

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  1. Has anyone received their license after submitting declaratory for bipolar?

    oramar replied to kmdjkennedy's topic in General Nursing

    Indeed, I am aware of the question because I have had to answer them. Every time I answer them I get this uncomfortable feeling that it isn't

  2. Has anyone received their license after submitting declaratory for bipolar?

    oramar replied to kmdjkennedy's topic in General Nursing

    The truth is that they have no business asking questions like that. I bet a few good law suits would put an end to it. My gosh, is someone really painting bipolar illness and pedophilia with same...

  3. Universal Healthcare vs Socialized Medicine, one definition

    oramar replied to BackfromRetirement's topic in General Nursing

    I really wish everyone would read this. If they understood the terms they could stop parroting the stuff the insurance industry and the Republican party feed to

  4. Hepatitis B Vaccine Safe?

    oramar replied to gkvegan's topic in General Nursing

    You know people have been getting Hep vaccines since mid 1980s. I do not know that anyone had any serious effects or long term effects from it. I can't imagine what kind of negative things you are...

  5. Things you wish you knew when you were young?

    oramar replied to Destiny12's topic in General Nursing

    That being a grandma is the greatest thing in the world and that I would love being in my sixties and being retired. When I was growing up in the 60s during the youth culture I was told that being old...

  6. Dead end job

    oramar replied to silentRN's topic in General Nursing

    I personal do not know if there are jobs in Atlanta. But if I had nine years experience and had specific ideas about where I wanted to work and what position I wanted, I would apply anyway. My guess...

  7. Nursing 3-11 and marriage

    oramar replied to NamasteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I found that it was hard on marriage when I worked evenings full time but it was perfectly OK when I only worked 20 hours a week. I found working weekends and holidays to be more difficult than...

  8. I hate my phone

    oramar replied to coolpeach's topic in General Nursing

    You are being abused and it is one of the worse cases I have seen so far but I have seen others. Either management doesn't know or doesn't care what a deleterious effect that sort of thing has on...

  9. Do nurses get unemployment benefits?

    oramar replied to shuubie's topic in General Nursing

    Unemployment laws vary from state to state. Some states have loop holes that allow employers to duck out of paying the benefit in certain cases. Health care employers have a reputation for using...

  10. iPad winner at the AN exhibit booth at NTI

    oramar replied to Brian's topic in News, Announcements

    When I typed in "nurses" on my very first computer in 1997 or maybe it was 1998 this was the first link that came up. Have been here most days every since. In those 12 or 13 years I went from being...

  11. A really bad day in the ER for a new nurse resident

    oramar replied to godbless-yute's topic in Emergency

    You did an amazing job under the circumstances. There is a major system problem here if the preceptor got to he end of the day without knowing exactly who you were. I fault him(I think he was a lazy...

  12. Does anyone hate their job as a nurse?

    oramar replied to Pongoo's topic in General Nursing

    My advice to you would be just keep reading the threads here. The good and the bad and the ugly is all in

  13. Nurses Tooooo!

    oramar posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nurses on the floor where I worked hounded a doc about a patient who looked a little too thin and had a distended tummy. He was in for rehab after fractured pubic ramus. They got a stool quiac on...

  14. The Skeleton Key

    oramar replied to EbonyBorn2Succeed's topic in General Nursing

    Some body was watching the Sci Fi channel last evening I see. I actually saw the first two minutes but decided I wasn't up for scary

  15. Light of hope for old new grads

    oramar replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Could this be a sign that the log jam is starting to

  16. Public Health and birth control

    oramar replied to Beebop25's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't find it rude, just blunt. Blunt is OK by

  17. One entree per person,please

    oramar replied to jmtndl's topic in General Nursing

    I would throw a party out of my own pocket before I would do something like

  18. Hospital/HR calls but leaves no message

    oramar replied to Guest321574's topic in General Nursing

    Is there any privacy issues with them leaving messages on an answering

  19. Flu Virus Transported by Dust Storms

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Interesting.

  20. A non-nurse who gets what nurses are about.

    oramar replied to 3rdcareerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I like this

  21. Hi, I'm a reccuring "frequent flyer" of Pneumonia...

    oramar replied to Wheels's topic in Patient Education

    I am reading your responses to the OP here and you guys are great. You bring tears to my eyes. Best wish to

  22. Staying in the same department for long periods of time...

    oramar replied to MTLnurse1790's topic in General Nursing

    I know a couple of people that worked the same unit from the day they graduated to the day they retired. Nothing wrong with that, if you are happy doing a thing keep on doing it. My niece has been a...

  23. Pension, I can't believe it.

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Retired Nurses

    I will have to google "defined benefit pension" and "defined contribution plan" I am not clear on what the difference happens to

  24. Scoliosis question

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Hoping everything goes well with

  25. Scoliosis question

    oramar posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is their some sort of scoliosis support group? I have an aquaintence who was given several options by her child's surgeon for surgical treatment of scoliosis. I certainly can't advise her because I...