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  1. I was recently knocked back for an informatics position that favored the candidiate with the formal informatics education. I have a Bachelors of Nursing and Master of Science in Bioengineering and...
  2. 5 years later I can answer my own question: To get through the door, become a superuser. Lots of RN informatics jobs are coming up due to the Medicare/Medicaid EHR Incentive Program which provides...
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    What Do You Expect of A Preceptor?

    I am precepting a senior student at the moment (for the first time) and it has been helpful to read your comments. I have been wondering if it is possible to teach "multitasking" or does this just...
  4. It seems a bit soon to leave you in triage all by yourself -in the facility where I work, you have to be an ER nurse for a year before you are even precepted to triage. Let your preceptor know that...
  5. Amen to that, speaking as a CNA member and a parent of a child with a deadly disease -the last thing you need/want to do when your child is sick, is fight with your insurance company. I would violate...
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    Where do most of the uninsured live?

    Not a personal attack, an observation ( I admit the comment was a little satirical) Originally Posted by lamazeteacher "Well, "whodat1986", you have a typical American educated person's understanding...
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    Be careful of what you ask for....

    re UK nursing salaries -I believe they have more to do with what I remember to be pathetic nursing union representation than the "demon" universal
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    Where do most of the uninsured live?

    you are too kind Lamaze
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    Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease

    I wonder if any of the folks in Haiti are wondering where they can get help for their FSD, RLS, ED or balding
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    What is a "foreign-trained nurse"?

    "Foreign-trained (although I prefer the word educated) nurse" here. I came over in the early 90's when there was a nursing shortage, but had to pass the NCLEX first. I was underpaid, compared to...
  11. I am against futile care and believe that hospice care is very much underutilized in the USA. Yes I have seen patients in the states that you describe above, and I don't like it either. I have had...
  12. Where is your compassion? I find your flippancy offensive. I hope that none of the nurses currently caring for my daughter with leukemia have that kind of attitude. Oh and don't worry. We have...
  13. I do not like your hostile tone. Why I came to the United States is none of your concern and irrelevant to the
  14. Nursing job mobility is the solution to nursing burnout. I have worked in many different specialties over the years and have found that skills/experience gained in one job/specialty leads to...
  15. with profits of $315 billion in 2007, I believe that is quite
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    What made you decide to do ER Nursing?

    I took an inventory of work activities I enjoyed - they all seemed to point to ER nursing. I had already been an RN for 18 years when I switched and had always thought that it would be too stressful,...
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    The future of Obamacare

    I'd rather pay a little more in taxes than the exorbitant premiums, copays and prescription costs that I currently pay with the risk of getting cut off if I cost the insurance company too much money...
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    Socialism Is the Best Medicine

    one American's experience with the UK NHS "Why I love Britain's socialized healthcare system" By Stephen Amidon...
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    The future of Obamacare

    I think you just made a good point for single payer health
  20. So tell me -has he been on the Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity shows
  21. It may well be, that it is why I try to fact check as much as possible on websites like
  22. Do you mean Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the rest of the FOX "news" presenters? The significant injustice is that their audience believes the lies/scaremongering they peddle as "news" when it is...
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    The future of Obamacare

    I'm confused -what has a fork and a stick got to do with healthcare
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    Socialism Is the Best Medicine

    Funny- I
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    The future of Obamacare

    or is it? Public Option Rides Again -- $100,000 In 24 Hours