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  1. How would RN's "make out" if we switched to a Canadian style single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    without sending income taxes even higher. Right now a husband and wife nursing team in the US with two kids earning a combined $80,000 gross, will pay about thirty three percent or so in federal...

  2. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    , consider that once upon a time in America simply having a HIGHSCHOOL diploma was a ticket to a good job. The reason that it means little today is not so much that our educational system is not what...

  3. How would RN's "make out" if we switched to a Canadian style single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    to twenty hours per week? I know of several nurses who increase their incomes from around 40K (at their regular jobs) to over $70,000 by working an extra twenty four hours a week at agencies. They...

  4. How would RN's "make out" if we switched to a Canadian style single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    CRNA's, adult NP, nurse mid-wives, and advanced pediatric nurses make out in Canada? Since the system has been in place for thirty years it's difficult to know how much of the pay/benefit situation...

  5. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    apologies for wanting my chosen profession to be better compensated. It means a better education, better housing, some possibility for saving for retirement (it's not like most nurses can look...

  6. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    to support that thesis (requiring a BSN will diminish RN supply and increase compensation). I personally, believe that education and degrees are entirely seperate things. Most of what I have learned...

  7. 22 yr old male, wants circumcision, i have questions

    Roland replied to jusWannaKno's topic in General Nursing

    is for a man verses a woman, let alone for a circumsized man relative to a woman. It is conceivable that an uncircumsized man coulc have a higher risk of acquiring an STD than one who is circumsized,...

  8. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    seem to keep bringing up the BSN verses ASN debate as to what degree is better? Can't you see that's not my point? My only concern here is maximizing RN salaries. Point out why that is a horrible...

  9. 22 yr old male, wants circumcision, i have questions

    Roland replied to jusWannaKno's topic in General Nursing

    The first amendment protects the right to offer opinions on virtually ANY topic including medical (and indeed legal). The courts have repeatedly upheld the right of the individual to express...

  10. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Senior Member Registered: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 220 Several points require a reply: Post #1 1. The objection about the potential loss of overtime is a huge concern, but I don't know if...

  11. 22 yr old male, wants circumcision, i have questions

    Roland replied to jusWannaKno's topic in General Nursing

    that several studies have shown a higher risk of acquiring certain STD's (including HIV) in uncircumsized men, that in ones who are circumsized. There is also the social stigma of "looking...

  12. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    allowing the "non core" classes to be taken by distance education could go a long way in easing the transition of many ADN programs into BSN. This would reduce one of the primary objections that...

  13. What barriers have the AMA or other Physicians groups raised that make it so tough...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    for foreign trained physicians to become licensed in the United States as M.D.'s . There is a thread below about foreign trained physicians wanting to become nurses, because they can not obtain...

  14. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    1. In no way do I mean to imply that someone with a BSN is a superior nurse to someone with an ADN or diploma. I wouldn't even assert that their education is superior. Rather, it is my assertion...

  15. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    First standards ARE changing all the time albeit usually in a non legislative manner. Consider, that most (if not all) BSN nursing programs in this area will no longer be accepting credit for...

  16. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    of regulations will have the net effect of increasing the wages of nurses. If this is ever going to happen then it will take a consensus, at least within nursing organizations to pursue this sort of...

  17. what is sciencing?

    Roland replied to drooping eyes's topic in General Nursing

    of a context for your use of the term. Most of the time it is not used as a verb. Consider: It is hoped that President Bush will provide more funding for the the Art's and Sciences. Science is a...

  18. Education Question from LPN

    Roland replied to NurseRatchet26's topic in General Nursing

    that if you won't be working you may qualify for significant financial aid. Personally, I receive more than 15,000 per year in grants (consisting of Federal, State, and private assistence). I could...

  19. We tell the student nurses to run for their lives."

    Roland replied to hbscott's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who is a VP at the second largest Public Relations company in Indianapolis and my wife will earn as much in her first year out of nursing school as he does after seven years experience...

  20. What weird or supernatural experiences have you had as a nurse. ...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've read some great stories here in the past, and I'm going through one of my "is there anything else" periods (these usually occur when I am forced to study reams of science). I find sincere...

  21. Has any Nursng organization considered doing away with Nursing Diagnoses in favor...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nursing Interventions? The idea here would to only use Medical Diagnoses, but to still focus on those interventions that a nurse could integrate into a care plan. This would in my opinion reduce...

  22. Has any Nursng organization considered doing away with Nursing Diagnoses in favor...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    be better achieved by scrapping the NANDA nursing diagnosis, but also focusing on effective Nursing interventions. It is the intervention which will accrue benefit to the patient (and in so doing...

  23. Whatever Happened To

    Roland replied to WntrMute2's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    year and half traveling all over the country to various clinical trials in a futile attempt to treat my mother's NSLC (she passed away late last year). I will be going back to nursing school in the...

  24. Should I be mad at Hospice? My mother...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    that this hospice is essentially practicing "chemical restraint" in order to minimize the work load on their nurses. My opinion is based not only upon my observations while my mother was a patient,...

  25. Horrible experience

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

    should consider posting their information here. Power is a two way street and rude people (and institutions) should suffer consequences for such behavior. Too many powerful people (and institutions)...