czyja

czyja MSN, RN

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  1. Bye Bye Discovery Health

    czyja replied to amya215's topic in General Nursing

    Hah! Sounds like we will be seeing even more multiple pregnancy programs on the oprah health channel thank on DHC. The thought of Oprah having editorial control over a channel with even a modest...

  2. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    I most certainly did not mean to offend you and I am sorry that you took offense. If you carefully read my ever increasing number of posts on this controversial subject I think on balance. you will...

  3. Trying to figure out schooling is making my head spin!

    czyja replied to arynberg's topic in General Nursing

    If you graduate from and RN program, pass your boards, and are given a license by your state board of nursing you will be a RN. If you graduate from and LVN program, pass your boards, and are given a...

  4. Regina writes another column

    czyja replied to lpn1313's topic in General Nursing

    Way cool. The best line in her first column on nurses has got to be: "Anonymous blurs in scrubs, they left behind an imprint of

  5. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    Makes my head hurt too. Most (not all) of the anti-vaccine info out there does not strike me as mis-information, rather non-information. Like the "information" that high dose vitamins will stop you...

  6. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    Yes -thank you for the clarification. It is, in fact, an important distinction - one that carries both clinical and political significance. And thank you sharing the info about the study done in...

  7. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    It is curious, isn't it, that people dont ask "But how would you feel if Moocher got diphtheria?" It strikes me as rather odd that people people are petrified of a remotely possible link between...

  8. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your well thought out and well articulated

  9. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    right - nor does it confer life long immunity as immunity wanes 10-20 years post infection. a fairly recent study showed that the lingering chest colds in adults are often pertussis (sorry i dont have...

  10. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    And deadly. The mortality for measles in the US (with our advanced interventions) is about 1 for 1000 cases with a significant higher mortality for children under the age of one.Obviously it is much...

  11. What would RN's do?

    czyja replied to BiologyNerd's topic in General Nursing

    In science we say "correlation does not mean causation." One can correlate autism with vaccination (ie children get vaccines, children get autism). But this does not mean that vaccines cause

  12. Quitting the UC Davis Medical Center Volunteer Question

    czyja replied to TisTastyTea's topic in General Nursing

    Did you commit to a particular time period of volunteer service? If you did and have not met that commitment I would sit down with you supervisor and explain your situation. If you have to leave then...

  13. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I agree that it is "not right to be judgmental." And I commend you for recognizing your prejudice and acting appropriately. It seems to me that the problem with a nurse harboring prejudiced feelings...

  14. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I forgot - I see that you are in Canada - it is also noteworthy that LGBTGQ people enjoy much broader protection of their civil liberties in Canada as a result of the Canadian Supreme Courts expansive...

  15. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Thank you for your concern. I am not in the least bit offended. My point is that that the community uses "gay," "lesbian," "qu--r" (the word I prefer, but I think it is not permitted on these...

  16. California Small Business Association Condemns California Nurses Assoc Strike

    czyja replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    i don't think for a minute that folks in the bay area buy into this half-baked rhetoric. when this topic comes up for discussion around here (san francisco) people are very supportive of the nurses....

  17. Salary in the US vs salary in Sweden

    czyja replied to swedishnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ouch! Even with pretty low cost of living it must be pretty hard to have a family on that income. Why so low? Is there a glut of nurses in St Louis right

  18. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I think people should be called what they wish to be called. "Homosexual" is not a term chosen by the LGBTGQ community to describe itself. Rather it was chosen by a well meaning German sociologist to...

  19. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I don't think it is a matter of offering something different or "special" but rather offering the same thing (nursing care) in a culturally competent and sensitive way. Part of cultural competence...

  20. Prayer Warriors???

    czyja replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

    Prayer also tends to bind a community (even an online one) together. When we know each others' prayers we gain compassion for each other and stop seeing each other as names on a message board and we...

  21. No consideration for gay patients

    czyja replied to eric2123's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Nursing schools do not churn out anti-gay professionals. Rather, people leave nursing school with the assumptions and prejudices they had when they started unless these assumptions and prejudices are...

  22. Am I Too Old?

    czyja replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I feel exactly the same. A big ol' bank account would simply provide me the freedom to take the job that interested me the most without thinking about how much it pays. One of the NP's at a clinic...

  23. Am I Too Old?

    czyja replied to Gambln00's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As for me - I don't want to retire. I would much rather find something to do that I love and continue to do until the day before they put my body in a pinewood box. I new a psychiatrist who was 91 y/o...

  24. Seniority Counts For Nothing

    czyja replied to seeking33's topic in General Nursing

    Very possible. In any event it sound to me like mgmt is trying to manage the OP out the business. When I worked as a manager (different profession) this was quite common. If we wanted to terminate a...

  25. Seniority Counts For Nothing

    czyja replied to seeking33's topic in General Nursing

    Unless you are covered under a collective bargaining agreement or your employer has a policy giving preference to employees with seniority there ain't much you can do except look for a new position....