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  1. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    Good for your husband and good for you too, continuing your education. Now let's hope that shipping doesn't get so cheap that people start shipping cars to India or China for major work. Sounds...

  2. It's 4am, do you know where your patient is?

    bigjim replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I was visiting my mother in the hospital one day and was walking in toward the ER entrance when a side door opened and a man came flying out and sprinted past me, buck naked and carrying a bloody...

  3. Burn Unit: Critical Care or Emergency care

    bigjim replied to Qualityoflife's topic in Burn

    it seems to me that it is about as critical as care can get, if you're talking a full burn center where the patients may stay weeks or months. I wondered this myself, since I'm considering CRNA and...

  4. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't exactly quit computers, they kind of quit me. I got laid off right before 9/11 when the tech bubble popped. I lucked into a good-paying job teaching computers in a technical school and kept...

  5. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    Horse puckey. Why do you think management does not want people to discuss their salary? It's because there is such a wide range of pay for people doing the same job. Hospitals do often have a pay...

  6. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    How much do things cost there? Like, how much would the average person spend on

  7. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    Which is one of many reasons I'm looking at being a CRNA. There's a posting on gaswork.com right now, rural Montana, 25 hour work week with 5 weeks paid vacation, signing bonus, $170-200k per

  8. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    RN's in Michigan seem to make somewhere in the Mid-20s to start, plus differentials, much like most other places. So probably 50-70k with weekends, overtime, etc. You could buy a palace in the...

  9. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    bigjim replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    The problem with a salary is that many nurses work overtime, and if they were classified as professionals the hospitals would try to use that to classify them as "exempt". So, you'd have a warm...

  10. Wow a bag of pretzels, your right admin, this is a good place to work

    bigjim replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work for a company that gave out ornaments for Christmas one year that said "Valued Employee" on them. This in a year where the company had record profits, and had just had an IPO of their...

  11. Why Do Crna Gets Paid So Much?

    bigjim replied to disboibdavid's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I think the prevailing factor in the pay scale is simply supply and demand. Surgery requires anesthesia, and there aren't enough people to provide it. Surgery (and anesthesia) are billable,...

  12. Do You Tell EVERYONE You Are a Nurse?

    bigjim replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I am very used to people expecting free advice/service from my previous career as a computer guy. It always comes accompanied by "I'm making dinner". Gee thanks. Never mind the $100 per hour this...

  13. Do You Tell EVERYONE You Are a Nurse?

    bigjim replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    An assailant would be in for a very long day after I "lay my healing hands upon him" :pumpiron: Of course, at 6'4" and 385 lb, it really doesn't come up

  14. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    bigjim replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    The other problem is that some companies find themselves in the position of having to fire a good percentage of their workforce, especially if they try to institute the policy at a later date. This...

  15. Do Nurses STILL want to marry Doctors?

    bigjim replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    I think my girlfriend would get angry if I married a doctor. :angryfire If I were single, I don't think I would limit my search for a mate or eliminate certain jobs out of hand. If I met a doctor...

  16. Do nurses, DR's, health care workers get randomly drug tested?

    bigjim replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    I used to sell cars. Not your most ethical industry, and a lot of wierd stuff goes on at dealerships, but this one was owned by a very large conglomerate so they were pretty "corporate". One of our...

  17. What have patients told you that they shouldn't?

    bigjim replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I was on a clinical shift recently when a large, screaming intoxicated woman was brought in to the ER in handcuffs with a menagerie of police, hospital security, techs, and EMTs trying to hold her...

  18. Diabulimia

    bigjim replied to NoWaNrN's topic in General Nursing

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    bigjim replied to NoWaNrN's topic in General Nursing

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  20. Diabulimia

    bigjim replied to NoWaNrN's topic in General Nursing

    Yikes. Always amazing the ingenuity people have when it comes to destroying their own bodies. High enough blood sugar can just EAT you from the inside out (figuratively speaking). There are going...

  21. How has nursing changed since you were pinned?

    bigjim replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    not a nurse yet, but my favorite from the last time we had this thread was taping a patient's buttcheeks to the bed rails to allow a heat lamp to dry their bed sores (i cannot imagine the smell that...

  22. Everest Institute (fka Olympia Institute) help!

    bigjim replied to studentsistah's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    .Hi there. I'm currently also at OCC (finishing up the EMT program) and most of the way through getting admitted to Everest for January, so I have had a lot of these same questions. I also taught...

  23. Do men use RN degree to get to bigger places?

    bigjim replied to npwannab's topic in Men in Nursing

    Nursing is very much a bridge for me. I am finishing an EMT program and will start nursing school in January, and I plan to spend a fairly short time as a bedside nurse. I will do a lot of shadowing...

  24. Help....How do you Protect yourself?

    bigjim replied to TonyFl's topic in General Nursing

    What I did was to arrange to be born freakishly large. That seems to keep me out of most physical danger. However, you are posting here, so I assume you have already been born, so this may not work...

  25. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    bigjim replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You must not have been on the planet that long, or else you would have met some people who could have told you about the 1918 flu pandemic, where up to 40 million people died. And there are more than...