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  1. Where's the best pay for RN's WHEN you also consider cost of living?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Your point about housing prices jumping is excellent especially if you are renting. IF, you owned then the value of your own house would help you keep pace with the increasing costs (since your house...

  2. need advice - delicate situation (long)

    Roland replied to mkf0605's topic in General Nursing

    In reply to your situation I have a few strong thoughts: 1. If you hadn't documented what you did not only could you have lost your license, you might have been party to a criminal act. 2. Are you...

  3. What should they teach in nursing school but don't. What do they teach but shouldn't?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Zach, what you are saying is simple and yet

  4. Where's the best pay for RN's WHEN you also consider cost of living?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Zenman, you've got me all wrong! Just read my post in he Hawaii forum. I'm the guy who would literally camp out in a tent to live on Oahu (If I could find any private campgrounds that would let me...

  5. Anyone starting clinicals this fall, and where?

    Roland replied to studentnurse74's topic in Indiana Nursing

    they use. They weigh the NET exam to the point that someone scoring 80th percentile on the NET, but who is a "B" student will probably be ranked higher than a 60th percentile "A' student. In...

  6. Any advice on helping my wife's hurting feet? She is a nursing school student...

    Roland posted a topic in Holistic

    and like me needs to lose weight. However, her feet are really hurting her. Here's some thoughts I've had and would be thankful for additonal input: 1. Having SEVERAL pairs of shoes with inserts...

  7. Would you still take the CCRN exam...?

    Roland replied to MaleAPRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Isn't it possible that someone might want to keep or acquire the CCRN designation if they intended to work "part time" after the first semester of school (granted most people advise against working in...

  8. Difference in roles between a clinical nurse specialist and an NP

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    What exactly is the difference between a CNS and NP role? I know someone who is excited because they were able to get their hospital to create a CNS role. My first thought was that the hospital...

  9. Were you turned down?

    Roland replied to OrigamiAirplane's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I think that you might be witnessing the wonder of what statisticians call "self selection bias" on this board. Go to South Beach in Miami and you might conclude that most Americans are fit and...

  10. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    That is some weird wild stuff which would probably require great introspection to grasp (or perhaps some LSD and a Stanley Kubrick

  11. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Actually, national poles by Gallop and Roper show about an even split on abortion among women across age ranges, it depends upon how the question is qualified. In addition, national poles about so...

  12. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hmm, IF we live there I won't listen to the A/C contractor this time. He told me that a bigger air compressor wouldn't cool any better at our current home. If we live in Texas, then I'm going to want...

  13. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    You know I've always thought Alaska was beautiful do nurses really make good money there? Of course in Alaska, there are just to few women for the men. I'd be worried about my wife. Seriously, my...

  14. Can nurses in the US really work a straight 24 hour shift??

    Roland replied to care bear's topic in General Nursing

    IF, you were given the option of working TWO 18 hour shifts per week, would you consider doing it this way? I might, just because it would mean more time with my family, and less daycare time for my...

  15. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Roland replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    What's troubling to me Steve L. is that so few people will even discuss this issue anymore. Even worse people are starting to get that way on MANY controversial issues. If we get to the point in...

  16. Missing a week of Classes

    Roland replied to bwt02's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Yes, but how do you explain that to your average woman? This is especially the case if she is your average, young, attractive, urban woman who KNOWS you are lucky to have her around. One of my...

  17. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Here's another theory on why nursing pay in general may be higher in Texas. I have noticed that most nurses tend to be "left of center." For instance, my wife's nursing instructor did an ad hoc pole...

  18. Does this post indicate that someone is taking my Anesthesia Games idea seriously?

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The thread concerned the accuracy of school rankings and the concensus seemed to be that the rankings were very subjective. This just goes to show the value that competition can have for providing...

  19. Missing a week of Classes

    Roland replied to bwt02's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    You may be correct. However, the basic premise stands, not everyone benefits from lecture as much as other methods such as reading textbooks, and working problems. Now if the lecturer is going to...

  20. Missing a week of Classes

    Roland replied to bwt02's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Your probably correct. However, at least in my experience being in class doesn't always correlate with better grades. When I was "pre-pharmacy" I had to take two semesters of general chem, two...

  21. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Roland replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    JanHetherington, why do you think these women feel this way? Obviously, this calls for speculation since you haven't literally "read their minds". Could it be that they fear someone they don't want...

  22. Along A Jetty....one nurses thoughtsand feelings about her terminally ill dad.....

    Roland replied to mother/babyRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is how I comforted myself when my father, and then mother were dying. My logic went something like this: 1. IF, there is eternal life (at least in SOME) real form then the death of our...

  23. Missing a week of Classes

    Roland replied to bwt02's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    If I were the professor teaching your classes I would give you copies of the notes and tape the lectures for you so that you could have a nice honeymoon and still learn the material (this wouldn't be...

  24. Why the high pay in Texas?

    Roland replied to Salus's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Here's a similar question. Why the LOW pay in the North East? It seems like many jobs in New York barely break 100K for CRNA's. This is the area of the country with perhaps the highest cost of...

  25. Survey of Nurses Rights In Abortion

    Roland replied to kmchugh's topic in General Nursing

    Look Fergus, abortion is "not against my religion", I haven't attended church since I was a kid. However, federal courts in the United States have consistently held that employers cannot COMPEL...