SummitRN BSN, RN

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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    1. While 33% seems high, 4.3% is impossibly low for doubling the MW and I have no idea where your numbers are coming from. 2. A phased increase only mediates inflation if the time period covers...
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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    As I stated earlier, that is true, but it is a nice thing to think about when considering economic theory. It is crappy to experience because it is NOT an immediate process. First will be inflation...
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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    They do not pay the hospitals equally. In fact, even in the same hospital system in the same state, insurance companies and the government will give different hospitals different payouts for the same...
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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    You can't hand wave away basic economics. THAT is a myth. Everyone who has ignored reality has been bitten in the behind when it catches up. To think that doubling the minimum wages is an effective...
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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Regional differences are why we have a low national MW. States and cities can do set their MW higher if local cost of living demands it. To double the national minimum wage in a stroke is economic...
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    $15 Min Wage - Effect on RNs

    SummitRN replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Large Minimum Wage (MW) increases tends to: 1. Offer some short term gains for MW workers offset by higher unemployment 2. Have little to no effect on the upper 1% 3. Screw everyone else in the long...
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    Truth about Breckinridge school of nursing

    SummitRN replied to bluedragonfly13's topic in General Students

    What does that
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    SummitRN replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Presumably those RNs were not prisoners of war or civilians under foreign military occupation. Let's not be
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    ACLS Certification

    SummitRN replied to Java Mama's topic in General Nursing

    I see the professor's pedantry has rubbed off. Go spend your energy on something fruitful like correcting those who pronounce centimeters as
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    Where do you work?

    SummitRN replied to _zoubisoubisou_'s topic in Colorado Nursing

    there are quite a few threads on this topic in this forum. give them a
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    Burn Technician vs Nursing Assistant in Mother Baby Unit

    SummitRN replied to dreamerachiever's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Burn if you have it in you. Unless you know you want to be
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    HM to Any Nursing Program

    SummitRN replied to Meiba2k16's topic in Government, Military

    You could also look at an Intermediate Care Technician position at a VAMC and then apply for a VANEEP scholarship for your BSN after a year and a half. That is the sweetest of
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    Hours between shifts

    SummitRN replied to purplerose05's topic in PACU

    In the US, there aren't any laws I know of that would protect RNs. If you look at other countries, UK/CA/AU/NZ, 8-11 hours is the minimum with some possible exceptions if both the employer and...
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    2 month vaccination question

    SummitRN replied to nurselove757's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is this emotion backed by evidence? How many antigens are they exposed to day to day? If you look back to your immunology, you'll recall that if you don't administer a recommended...
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    How's the job market '16?

    SummitRN replied to GreeleyRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    If you are talking about CO, you must be referring to a clinic or Grand Junction. http://www.va.gov/OHRM/Pay/2016/LPS/CO.xls New grads start Grade 1 Step
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    How's the job market '16?

    SummitRN replied to GreeleyRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    VA pays 35/hr for new grads but BSN
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    Denver Health vs. Centura Health vs. HealthONE

    SummitRN replied to gulfcoastRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    All I know from friends who work each is the UCH SICU is not as sick as SAH NTICU Oh... I think that UCH rotates days nights... SAH you are nights or days... but I could be
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    Denver Health vs. Centura Health vs. HealthONE

    SummitRN replied to gulfcoastRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    The following Denver healthcare systems use Epic: Exempla Centura UCH TCH Denver Health ... basically everyone except HealthOne/HCA and
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    $600 an hr to fill a shift?

    SummitRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see a problem... the hospital wouldn't have agreed to pay if it wasn't good for them
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    Brigham nurses threaten to strike. Paid $106,000 on average, demand more.

    SummitRN replied to RockMay's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    ... evaluated by a
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    Brigham nurses threaten to strike. Paid $106,000 on average, demand more.

    SummitRN replied to RockMay's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Boston as a whole is 60% above the national average cost of living. Boston as a whole is 50% above the national median income. (proportionally more of that goes to taxes) The neighborhood around...
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    2015 allnurses Salary Survey Results

    SummitRN replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Wonder why Utah has such a low compensation
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    EMS to Nursing

    SummitRN replied to darobow's topic in General Nursing

    Did you even look at the website? It is a load of marketing crap for test prep companies with ZERO useful information! Long story short, there are very few P->RN bridge programs. The few...
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    EMS to Nursing

    SummitRN replied to darobow's topic in General Nursing

    OP do not bother with LPN as you will not be doing significantly better compensation wise vs Paramedic and you will find your career options likely to be limited in a way you won't enjoy given what...
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    Stanford Rape

    SummitRN replied to brandy1017's topic in General Nursing

    That is probably the worst example you can bring up... or did you not get the memo that Crystal Mangum falsely accused 3 innocent people and victimized not just them, but indirectly victimized...