SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    An astrophysicists forum might sound like an "echo chamber" if someone started a thread about "young earth creationist scientists." Sure, there is room for discussion when we debate public health...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And everyone stopped listening to you right there. You are part of the problem, implying that association, which was never proven and has been repeatedly disproven. Former-doctor Andrew Wakefield...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is all good until the antivaxxers sue the government when the mandated "anti-vaxxer" school suffers 1% mortality from a rubella outbreak. "It wouldn't have happened if my child could have been...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Driving 25 in the school zone is totally like a vaccine. Here is how. If you drive 25 in the school zone, there a tiny increase in the chance that you will experience some bad kid egging your car...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "I Don't Vaccinate My Child Because It's My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back" I Don't Vaccinate My Child Because It's My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Who should stay home? The kid who cannot be vaccinated or the kids whose parents decided not to vaccinate? When someone chooses not to vaccinate their child, they are making a decision to create a...
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    Would you take a patient's blood sugar without an "order"?

    SummitRN replied to Nola009's topic in General Nursing

    Getting an order for FS glucose ... I forgot what it is like outside Critical Care. All protocol RN discretion. If you have to request an order I would in that
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    Where to work in Denver? Friendliest hospitals? Best bennies?

    SummitRN replied to zodnmic's topic in Colorado Nursing

    VA has the highest pay and benefits even vs UCH or DH. University on the cities edge is in a far better location than DH or VA (city center) if you need land for horses. Although the VA is building a...
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    Most drips at once

    SummitRN replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU

    12 on a post code didnt make
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    Health Insurance Alternative

    SummitRN replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    125k limit is a good way to have to file for bankruptcy. That's idiocy. A big surgery, bad car wreck, long icu stay, or cancer treatment will exceed that and wipe you out
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    Perhaps if OP begs for mercy from the site staff, this will all be deleted before actionable damages result from libel (or career suicide is completed). They have the IP
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    Good point. If the OP treats the Houston VAMC staff like OP treats people here, they probably don't want the OP as a colleague. Imagine the misfortune of the OP's colleagues who may have unwittingly...
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    OP your inability to get hired might have something to do with your inability to communicate professionally and control your
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    Well that's the problem with the Internet. You definitely don't know me or my background. I don't careto shareeither. and I don't know you. Anyway, I am all about merit. Veteran status should be a...
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    Other VAMCs love veteran employees and they even get special badge hangers that say Veteran. So, if the problem is as you describe, they are discriminating against veteran status in the hiring process...
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    Discrimination against hiring Veterans

    SummitRN replied to Be'Be''s topic in Government, Military

    OP: did you or your colleagues ever get an interview or were your applications rejected
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    Glucostabilizer Carbohydrate Coverage

    SummitRN replied to JessicaCCRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

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    Well here's something I didn't think about: secondhand pot smoke?

    SummitRN replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    "I tested positive becauseof secondhand smoke"is nothing but a BS excuse. FTR: I have no problem with pot smoking responsibly. I do NOT do
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    Days or Nights with kids?

    SummitRN replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

    For kids find a 3a-3p
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    SummitRN replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What you are suggesting is not just medical malpractice, but criminal
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    TNCC 7th Edition is a Soup Sandwich!

    SummitRN replied to bodhisattvya's topic in Emergency

    Interesting... anyone else have more thoughts on this? Considering courses at the
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    Free Professional Organizations for Nurses

    SummitRN replied to OnaTrek's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    AN is a social group, not a professional nursing organization. You do not have to be a nurse to be here and most of the discussion is only vaguely related to professional
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    Nurses selling at work?

    SummitRN replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Doing one job while at another is unethical. It is cause for termination and rightfully so. You are being paid to do one job. Putting your time into another job results in direct losses to...
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    EMT class while in nursing school

    SummitRN replied to max150's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    In an EMT class you would learn some simple psychomotor skills that aren't taught in most nursing schools (eg, backboarding, vehicle extrication, field splints, ambulance ops). However, most of the...