Atheos

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  1. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    didn't mean to imply you were hateful. sorry sometimes i speak in a way that i am familiar with. i really only meant extreme dislike, not that you are filled with hatred. where i am from and people...

  2. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am quite sure you are giving and caring. I am quite sure many are. However, when many people get overly hateful towards people in lower economic classes and the rest of you cheer them on we see the...

  3. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Atheos replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yea, there are different groups that fight over the rules. :chuckle I just happen to prefer the traditional

  4. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Atheos replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well they are still fighting over it. :) I am a traditionalist and like to keep things the way they were... Different schools of thought will argue different things. The main argument is if the...

  5. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My main point on Universal healthcare is this. Everyone has a right to healthcare. Everyone. Of course there are different people in this country. Some make billions, some are highly successful, some...

  6. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Atheos replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds have never dictated 'an' or 'a' usage. I put the rule in a post above. An is only appropriate in front of vowels and silent h's. Switching the articles in a phonetic (spoken) instance is...

  7. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Atheos replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not quite sure what you mean but I do notice that people say 'an' before words that rhyme with it. An LPN An RN Those are incorrect. It would always be -> A RN, A LPN or A CNA. Would you say 'An...

  8. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Atheos replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    "A" goes before all words that begin with consonants. A cat A RN with one exception: Use an before unsounded h. An hour --------------- "An" goes before all words that begin with vowels: An owl An egg...

  9. what about these sign on bonuses???

    Atheos replied to rnnursesandy's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! Those of us that grew up there run screaming as soon as we can. I can't believe people move there!!!

  10. CNA as a NURSING SUPERVISOR?

    Atheos replied to militarymom06's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I prefer these jobs because they let me go to school and clinicals and work a full time job without killing myself physically. Going to school after 8 hours on the floor is bleh...

  11. Is this reasonable or am I being a newbie?

    Atheos replied to dander625's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    All states do. It is federal law. According to the NJ site they do require NAs to be certified in Nursing

  12. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So are school supplies apparantely. **ROLL EYES** Seriously, my eyes are starting to

  13. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I Big Brother a kid. He is in a foster home with 8 other kids. I have to feed him before school, I had to buy all of his supplies and I take him to school because in SE DC you get shot for waking up....

  14. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I can pretty much guarantee you that the time and money I have spent in just the 3 years I have been here I could have spent on better things. I however put my money where my mouth is... Come to DC...

  15. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    First off they haven't gotten it yet. Do better Google research. Secondly most of it goes to bureaucracy and not spent directly on students. Thirldy in the first district wide report required by the...

  16. Are Home Health Aide Certified Thru the State?

    Atheos replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    In Virginia you don't have to be certified. You don't even have to be certified to be an HHA working in an ALF. Other states I don't know. I think Indiana required a certification as far as I can...

  17. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That's a good speech. So what if the parents can't feed their children? Just let them starve? When grandma can't afford her meds? To bad?? People can't afford or qualify for medical insurance? TOO BAD...

  18. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    He was speaking of standing together to fight the villainy of other countries... Not personal

  19. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are humgry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

  20. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Look at my tag line... I'm prior military, I am well educated (even if it is non traditionally). I come from a family that has spent generations sending bodies to fight this country's wars and protect...

  21. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    FYI - It's my country too :) And my liberal ideas are more in line with the intent of this country and the founding fathers than any elitist aristocratic views commonly espoused by the right. We are...

  22. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course though, thankfully this is America and everyone has a equal chance to succeed. No one grows up in neighborhoods that are so impoverished that the schools can't even afford to provide...

  23. Nurse fired for calling police

    Atheos replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

    Hey I didn't vote in the last election. I doesn't mean I can't vote if I choose to in the next. You talk of two sides but you are pretty harsh. The police are there TO be called. Whether or not it is...

  24. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    Atheos replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    People that make more should be more responsible for tax rates. At the current time rich people pay less in taxes than middle class people. Um are you seriously ok with that. I doubt it. Everyone that...

  25. Nurse fired for calling police

    Atheos replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

    Cops are not required to do anything. In your case it was a hangup and he probably thought everything was ok. If they heard a gasp or a thud they would have looked in the windows at least. They won't...