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I was just reading an article about the importance of not only having health insurance while in school, but having decent health insurance. Apparently some colleges have pretty good insurance programs, while others are bare bones. The article told a ...

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I PM'd you w/ info Wuiteroz. I totally agree w/ your beliefs ShandyLynnRN. Sometimes I feel like I should just wear my nosering and provide the same care I always do and perhaps break a stereotype or two. Unfortunately, I think I'd be up against so...

No problem. I can let you know where to get some good retainer stuff online if you don't know anywhere already.

Wuiteroz, Wow, i don't know where to start, but i'll try. #1: piercings nor tottoos in any way indicate a person's 1)education 2)intelligence 3)ability 4)profession. I know people on an intimiate level that are holding "important" and "respectable...

Here's another vote for the Kaplan book w/ CDRom. It has a full length "pretest" that you can take w/o any preparation and then directs you as to what you really need to focus on. My score improved dramatically between the pretest and my real GRE and...

As a new hire, the infection control RN told a bunch of us during orientation of an outbreak of MRSA in our facility that was "traced" to a staff member's bottle of hand lotion. I prefer my own lotion to the hospital's, but after that I left the bi...

I have a full time job in an ICU, but have started to work a few extra agency shifts here and there for some extra money. I prefer to work ICU on my extra shifts, but occasionally it's not available on the one day that week i can pick up a shift, so ...

Thanks for replying everyone. You are all echoing the thoughts i was having. I work very hard and I rarely complain, but I did feel like I was getting a little bit of a raw deal there. No one was mean, actually later in the night they were pretty he...

Hey, I'm wondering what the level of job satisfaction is of those of you reading this. If you feel like it, answer two really quick questions: 1. What is your current level of job satisfaction on a scale of 1-10. I'd say a one means you are chompin...

thanks jamie

nurse0977, it looks like no one is going to answer this one. i kind of expected that as soon as i read your question a few hours ago. people get a bit testy when it seems we're being asked to do their research or homework. foley care is pretty stand...

researchrabbit, that reminds me of "gertrude" the mean old lady that rolled up and down the halls of the LTC where i worked as a cna, cursing like a sailor and swinging like one too. her family swore she never said a four letter word in her life, an...

Our combined average is just above a 7 so far- I didn't expect it to be that high.

In my icu, we pretty much shield staff from any hateful behaviors by patients. "oh, you don't like sharon because her butt is too big? ok, we'll change the assignment so you don't have her." ok, i'm exaggerating, but too often when a patient or famil...

I was just talking the other day to a few coworkers regarding the need that some nurses have to belittle others, especially new people w/ less experience. it's like hazing sometimes! i genuinely believe that anyone acting that way has a serious confi...

Birkenstocks all the way. They feel much better on my feet than any athletic type shoes ever did. The super birkis can be washed in very hot water and have footbeds that are replaceable. They slide on and off, but have a tiny ledge on the back and I'...

TracyB, you are gutsy, good for you. Once i paged an intern w/ a question regarding an unclear order for a med to be given STAT, she didn't call back, so i paged the fellow (knew he wasn't far, had seen him 5 minutes earlier), asked the question to ...

There are many coworkers/ doctors/ bosses, etc. that will walk all over you if you let them. I find that a very serious, nonagressive, looking them in the face "I don't appreciate being spoken to that way." ususally embarrasses people enough that the...

OBNURSEHEATHER- excellent work sleeping through it. i should have tried that. less depressing to not have to see it, even if my flowers are still dead.

when i worked on surgery stepdown/ telemetry, it was 1:4-5, sometimes 6 on a bad day/night, at times with no CNA; that was a hellish job some days. Now i work icu, so i'm used to 1:2 ratios. i work some extra agency shifts now and then, and recently ...

It was so nice in Richmond on Saturday that my boyfriend and I bought and planted some flowers. Then it snowed all day yesterday. Crap! Guess we'll have to buy some new flowers now that are still alive!

Ugh, what a pain. I work in an ICU, but on the stepdown that our patients go to when they leave us, they just got similar phones for the nurses to carry; they aren't for family phone calls, but rather for the monitor tech to call them! The monitors (...

Hello Kevin! I'll be at VCU this fall too. Kristin

the u. of pittsburgh only offers part time for one year. you can get alot of classes out of the way on a part time basis, but then you have to go full time for the full 7 semesters after that first year to complete the program. of course, your course...