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  1. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Pardon me, but your rude vulgarity is only surpassed by your ignorance. 1. My system IS the USA system. 2. Please provide your citation for the tax burden of the "average American working stiff" and...

  2. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for sharing Gromit, but the next time you want to spam your emotional tantrums in a website, you really should cite the crackpot rightwing website you took the material from, rather than just...

  3. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Gromit; Regarding your tripe in italic: think nurses and truckers pay more in taxes than billionairs, then you really should>> I didn't say they paid more dollars in taxes than a billionaire- I...

  4. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    this is the kind of emotional rhetoric that has gotten us in the quagmires we are in, in my opinion. 1. Once again, the guvment does not "run" Canada's healthcare and the markets are in fact perfectly...

  5. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Anyway, as I was saying earlier, and then I'm done here, but that book Imentioned, that's out now Sutton's "The No A**hole factor" talks about the loss productivity and talent that workplace bullies...

  6. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    The problem with that is, the people who are most likely to be bullied and abused ARE the newbie nurses on the unit (and/or in the profession) that DON'T have the resources to fight back successfully...

  7. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't possibly agree more. In the cockpit of an airline the crew MUST get along and there is no room for b.s. because of what's at stake. The same is just as true on a nursing unit but some...

  8. what steps did you take to become an oncology RN

    GeekyRN replied to cnj101's topic in Oncology

    ps - apologies, just remembered you are still in high school. Obviously make sure you are good at math and science and evaluate if this is the right career for you honestly. Then in early in your...

  9. what steps did you take to become an oncology RN

    GeekyRN replied to cnj101's topic in Oncology

    a few suggestions: get your med/surg experience if you don't already have it. be proficient there first. then do some prn hours on the oncology and make sure it's your bag. get your oncology drug...

  10. Ever Been Fired?

    GeekyRN replied to lpnurse2004's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I actually wouldn't recommend sending to HR. Don't give them any heads up.HR's job is to protect the company from lawsuits, not you. I would in fact see a labor attorney about a wrongful termination...

  11. New Grad RN.... In need of serious help!!

    GeekyRN replied to Dominicana1's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Unfortuantely I think the "nursing shortage" is largely manufactured. My opinion, but nursing is a second career for me, and they did the same thing with computer science all through the 90's , said...

  12. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Don't blame

  13. Help! Did I screw myself?

    GeekyRN replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Oh, and one last thing I've learned in 44 years... As JFK noted, life is NOT fair. (precisely why those who have it good should shut up and stop sniveling, but that's another story for another

  14. Help! Did I screw myself?

    GeekyRN replied to DaisyRN, ACNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I agree what's done is done. The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears erase a word of it. (Omar...

  15. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Lolita; Made me jealous too this January when I got a crash course in patient perspective for the first time in my life ( stomach ache to ER to admit, to 15000 dollar bill for a 5 day journey). If a...

  16. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My wages didn't go down when I worked in Canada, and my US dollars went further (back then, not true today). And how do you figure that Canadians don't have choice in their healthcare? As I said...

  17. religion in the workplace

    GeekyRN replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    I think people are entitled to whatever beliefs work best for them. If you believe in fallen angels, tooth fairies, God, or not, that's your beeswax. If your patient is asking you to pray or engage...

  18. TOO Old??? 41 1/2 years old

    GeekyRN replied to chubbi's topic in Nursing Career

    PS - one thing I will tell you is to go the LPN route or at least the ASN route at a community college. (if you then want o go on and get your BSN let someone help you with the tuition in the form of...

  19. TOO Old??? 41 1/2 years old

    GeekyRN replied to chubbi's topic in Nursing Career

    I was > 40 when I go my RN. It wasn't easy because I hadn't been used to social positions where I touched people. But it depends on what you did before how easy you'll adjust. But it's definitely...

  20. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I don't disagree and will definitely take you up on your offer but truthfully that quoted piece rubs me a little wrong too. People who ETY or in otherwords are unaccountable for the hostility and...

  21. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    GeekyRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I won't say ETY to go along with the consensus that it should be abandoned (remember lots of people LOVE to label us as a bunch of catty women no matter what we do, so let's not help them). However, I...

  22. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    GeekyRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  23. How does your drs. in your workplace treat the foreign nurses?

    GeekyRN replied to pacifica falayfay's topic in General Nursing

    re: rude thing to say. How so? I can't imagine anyone who has lived where there is a significant Asian or Latino population not agreeing that those communities band together and help take care of...

  24. How does your drs. in your workplace treat the foreign nurses?

    GeekyRN replied to pacifica falayfay's topic in General Nursing

    I actually found in both nursing and my former career that managers/doctors were frequently NICER to foreigners. I think it has to do with natural tendancy to be more polite to someone from somewhere...

  25. If your calling is CCU...

    GeekyRN replied to NurseCherlove's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    good luck with interview. if it's your calling you will find it. if not, you'll be a better nurse for knowing it whatever you