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  1. Use of pulse oximetry in hospice

    HoosierMale posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    As a novice to hospice care I have a question related to using the pulse ox with vitals. I could not recertify a patient owing to his 02 sat being too high for too long and have been getting the third...

  2. Use of pulse oximetry in hospice

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well that is good info which I appreciate. Sorry to leave you confused but I can understand. There is a specified lower limit for o2 sat in a dx of copd. I do not mean to doubt any info I am given but...

  3. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

    HoosierMale replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Well I have been on floor as a new grad for a little over two months and was told among many other barbs that I should be running, not figuratively mind you, but literally. I would not be permitted...

  4. Patient Satisfaction: Where Does it Start?

    HoosierMale replied to dRkazN's topic in General Nursing

    I just had a patient who complained about every other caregiver they had and then began to make very personal attacks on me but not before refusing to take all of their meds and screaming and crying....

  5. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

    HoosierMale replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Hello, I am also a new RN on a med surg floor. I went through 4 weeks of classroom orientation and then was sent to the floor. I was told that The first week was to acclimate and turned out to be one...

  6. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am over 50 years old and STILL can't get a job in nursing here. After studying for 7 years and spending in excess of 40K needless to say I am very disappointed in myself. I may be wrong but it sure...

  7. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Fantastic! I appreciate that. Things are looking up

  8. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    I am delighted by your statement and wonder what state and country you work and in what type of

  9. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Here that is not the case. As previously stated, all of my younger peers got jobs quickly and easily. This is a right to work state and there is no union. From other correspondence I have had, it...

  10. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    I think that is partially correct. Some nurses who were in their 30's especially divorced, seemed to resent any threat to their superiority in areas other than nursing. For example everything from...

  11. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    I guess you misunderstood me, I am far from giving up, it is not in my vocabulary. Praying is not desperation but a healthy part of my hope and life. As to pounding the street I have done that before...

  12. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    There is no doubt in my mind that I am a better nurse! Thank you all so much for your advice! As I stated, if you are a young nurse here in my area according to peers I have spoken with, they were all...

  13. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I always send a thank you to the interviewer and the recruiter. There is no shortage of nursing jobs for new BSN grads here, just new nursing grads over 50. Any advice is always appreciated and...

  14. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    I heard today that hiring was being done "on the sly" with jobs posted internally only and specifically not on that website to get only referals and students converting. Pretty widely known within the...

  15. Need Honest Opinion -- Would You Recommend Nursing?

    HoosierMale replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

    And then me, I spent over 40K and seven years of my life and can't get a job anywhere because of my age! RN

  16. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing in Indianapolis area at all. I have elderly relatives, working wife with seniority and enrolled school age children in sports so work geographically locate central indiana a must. The students...

  17. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    VA is on freeze. They hired everyone in my class except me that applied there. I was 20 years old than the oldest they hired and I am also a twice honorably discharged 5 point viet vet. I have one...

  18. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    I thought the same thing! Am I being overly sensitive or was I just being put down? Rhetorical question and I decided not to let it depress me further but hey, I and my family have spent the last 7...

  19. New RN BSN over 50 and Can't Get a Job

    HoosierMale replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I was in the top of my class, have kick orifice letters of recommendation and get nothing. I dress in suit and tie and am present well with respectful and positive attitude and the worst part is...

  20. Just finished NCLEX......

    HoosierMale replied to Nurse 2009's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Just relax, the test is set up so that you should miss 50% of the questions. It is the level of difficulty so it is hard to know. I was sure I had flunked and then I saw my license number on the state...

  21. Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, HR 5924

    HoosierMale replied to alan headbloom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well

  22. Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, HR 5924

    HoosierMale replied to alan headbloom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Aye, I usually do not get so incensed over one small person but when it involves insulting my fellow nurses who are underpaid and oft not appreciated my ire as an American nurse rises. I too have...

  23. Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, HR 5924

    HoosierMale replied to alan headbloom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think the guy you are talking to is a brash and rude person who despises the US. He is in an ASN to FNP program and knows everything. He thinks patriotisn is racism and I thought he was done with...

  24. Discussion- Urge Congress to Support HR 5924: Legislation to Address Nursing Shortage

    HoosierMale replied to lawrence01's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I did not realize that there was an online program to go from ASN to FNP. Maybe you would care to elaborate on that for the benefit of others. Patriotism is neither ethnocentric, incidentally. Since...

  25. Discussion- Urge Congress to Support HR 5924: Legislation to Address Nursing Shortage

    HoosierMale replied to lawrence01's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    are you kidding me? i do not believe that phrase was used anywhere but even if it were, it is not racism. i am just curious where you went to school and if they taught sociology there or if it was...