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  1. career change to nursing the right choice?

    rigmedic replied to Dino's topic in Male Nursing Students

    When I got out of aviation (I was in corporate), it amazed me the number of people that are just dumbfounded that anyone would give up "such a good job". LOL They have no idea! As for the bodily...

  2. Nursing jobs with oil companies

    rigmedic replied to night2rid1er4's topic in International Nursing

    What would you like to know? I work internationally offshore, and have for several years

  3. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    rigmedic replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the offer, but this is MY gravy train. LOL Oh, I forgot to mention that if I have to do schools or meetings on my offtime they pay it at Double Pay. Yep, just like the...

  4. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    rigmedic replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to know why I keep working offshore in Industrial Medicine, this is why. For our bonus this year, we all got $300 Seiko watches, engraved. For our weekly safety meeting prizes, they give...

  5. Anyone use the Littman 3000 electronic stethoscope?

    rigmedic replied to RN808's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have one of them, and it works very well in noisy environments. I rarely use it, though, because it will not hang easily around your neck. The tubing that goes from the bell up toward the...

  6. Rudeness from EMTs and Paramedics

    rigmedic replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    the one thing i know that would upset me (and i admit i am impatient) is when i wanted information and the primary nurse was no where to be found to give it to me. -Allison2008 Ding, ding, ding, we...

  7. Whats the best job in healthcare?

    rigmedic replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    Well, what is "serious" in the ER of a Level 1 Trauma Center in the States and what is "serious" 45 miles off the coast of a third world country are two different things. LOL We have everything from...

  8. Whats the best job in healthcare?

    rigmedic replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    That is correct. I run my own 2 bed clinic for 115 people and get to bank TONS of frequent flyer miles. It is a great

  9. Whats the best job in healthcare?

    rigmedic replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    Being a rig medic is, without a doubt, ONE of the best jobs in healthcare. You get to travel the world, have complete autonomy running your own clinic far at sea, and the money is at least as good as...

  10. Paramedic to ER Nurse

    rigmedic posted a topic in Emergency

    Okay guys, give it to me straight. What are going to be my biggest challenges transitioning from being a medic to working as an ER nurse? I know that I feel comfortable with ACLS, PALS, 12-leads,...

  11. Paramedic to RN via Excelsior?

    rigmedic replied to sunnyjohn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    "just being "street medics"????????????

  12. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For all the warts of "Big Government", and there are many, at least the citizens get a vote in how it runs. Corporate America answers ONLY to the Board of Directors of that particular corporation....

  13. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It all ultimately comes down to, "Who do you trust more; Big Government or Corporate America?". After decades of watching Corporate America downsize, rightsize, outsource, create "preexisting...

  14. Incompetent nurses

    rigmedic replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    I am certainly not a troll, and will not flame nurses. I will agree with Keith that certain aspects of my paramedic education were far superior to that of nursing school. The reverse is also true in...

  15. Outsourcing nurses, NOOOOOO!!!!!

    rigmedic replied to cajjj's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That is good, and it should be even tougher! When we have American citizens beating down the doors to nursing schools, trying to get degrees, there is no reason to let foreigners have the few good...

  16. Outsourcing nurses, NOOOOOO!!!!!

    rigmedic replied to cajjj's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    With all due respect, you are completely kidding yourself if you think that importing foreign nurses won't diminish your own standard of living. Globalization is simply a race to the bottom in terms...

  17. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    don't ya just love it when they put profits ahead of people????? by charles duhigg published: september 23, 2007 habana health care center, a 150-bed nursing home in tampa, fla., was struggling when a...

  18. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There are certainly some entrenched special interests with DEEP pockets that will do their best to torpedo this thing. I will be very surprised if she can get it done in the first term, assuming she...

  19. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I did not mean to confuse anyone. I do not have brain cancer, but was using that as an illustration. The bottom line is that we need to remove for-profit corporations from the healthcare system....

  20. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The good news in all of this is that our present healthcare system WILL NOT survive in its present form. That is good, because it is a fundamentally immoral system. When a corporation has a vested...

  21. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Jolie, Two points to your last post. First, if the rich people had to pay Social Security taxes on ALL of their earnings (wages, as well as investment income) there would be zero problem with SS...

  22. PC 0r MAC Laptop

    rigmedic replied to fgoff's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Owning a Windows-based computer is sort of like owning a British sportscar. You'd better have a good set of tools and like tinkering with it to get it to work. Personally, after a long time of...

  23. Clinton unveils new health care plan

    rigmedic replied to bethin's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Two thoughts on this subject, if I may. First, I think we will ultimately end up with some form of universal single payer healthcare, just like the rest of the developed world. This will be, however,...

  24. Travel Nursing

    rigmedic replied to Luv2shop's topic in Travel

    Try http://www.highwayhypodermics.com There is a section that rates different travel companies. Good

  25. Has anyone taken the excelsiors A&P test recently??

    rigmedic replied to kenzy's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I took it several months ago, and it was a tough exam. It is about 60 percent physiology and only about 40 percent anatomy. Not very much on identifying bones and structures, but LOTS of emphasis on...