TavellerCA

do you know any other lifestyle though, , but just how far have you travelled, , that you have a better lifestyle how! more taxes, less wages, no national healthcare, look at most of your patients, your economy, do you have a swimming pool and a private plane? you don't know what a good life style is, not everyone comes from a third world country and europe is bigger, wealthier and more powerful than the us, and us women are so docile and obedient, get a life

70% of Europeans go back to Europe, I know some of you know some that stay, well I don't lots that go, too, but the official, not the subjective figure is 70% return. If you came and you stayed, good for you. Personally I miss my family and my country. I spent 4 years at UCLA and loved it, I am a damn good nurse and damn good at my job, voted one of UCLA best, but some of the US RNs are not truthful, staffing, pay and vacation is awful, look at Florida or New York, low pay and high patients. Scot was factual in most part, I had 9 weeks paid vacation before I left the UK, so why should I comment on him telling the truth, look it up for yourself. Comments like cry baby and go home then, are childish, it indicates you just heard the truth, and you can't deny it, I feel sorry for US nurses for the conditions they face, but only you can change it, just face the truth

Cry baby? For not sucking all the crap of nursing in the US and keeping my mouth shut, in lots of States, most nurses don't even nurse, they leave and would rather do something else. I am trying to warn off other UK nurses from wasting their time here, you calling me a cry baby is childish, can't bear to hear anyone tell you working conditions here are awful. Do you disagree with 3 ICU patients, compulsory overtime, being forced to work 24 hour shifts, being threatened with being fired if you even say anthing. Currently in Dalls, the PACU I work in leaves me with 2 patients alone! I can't run a code myself can I, but shhusssh,shuussssh, don't tell people, keep it secret. We don't want people to know the truth now do we? You might work in the US and be docile and keep your mouth shut, but I have a brain and wil not keep from telling the truth so other nurses don't come here either.

'are untrue' Only one state has staffing laws, California, UCLA, USC, Good Samaritan, Sant Monica, Baylor, Tenent, Comumbia, Tulane, I spend 8 years trying to find somewhere tolerable, from Missiissipp all the way to Califonia, dreadful places, hospitals i wouldn't take my dog too. We stopped sternotomies 10 years ago in the UK, the US is still doing them and ridicules the mid or mini cabg. I have to get my debit card out to see the doctor, to get an xray, to get labs drawn, then for everything I get at the pharmacy. Exactly what is it that is 'untrue' exactly what do you disagree with and why is it not true? I have been perfectly honest, do you disagree with the staffing? Or high US taxes? Or absence of sick pay? Or just 2 weeks a year for vacation? Thiis is common knowledge to nurses working here, 2 patient minimum in a US ICU, I have been doing chest compressions and defilbrilating in one room, while the night nurse yelled report at door for my other patient, I didn't get out of the extended code room for 5 hours, and no one helped the other patient. I repeat Hell on Earth, splintered, broken healthcare system with poor care even for the 'privildged ones' with double health insurance. I have worked in San Diego, Los Angeles, Dallas, Garland, Gulfport MS, New Orleans, Sherman Oaks, think these are the main ones. Again, let me know what you disagree with, and let me know where you work, it must be somewhere unlike any place else in the US.

UK nurses need to realise something, the US is NOTHING like the UK. The pay is not great, US nurses think everyone comes from the Philipines, the pay is similar to the US, ONLY the taxes ARE MUCH HIGHER! Try 35% Federal and 12% State tax in some states, e.g. California, that is 47% compared to 25% in the UK. Health care here is very expensive and not free, you get a bill for everything. And the staffing here is HORRIBLE, 1 ICU patient in the UK, 3 or even 4 ICU patients in the US, you will be run ragged. Everyone gets 2 weeks vacation, and if you are sick, they is no sick pay, you have to use your vacation or not get paid. The managers talk to you like you are crap, the doctors talk to you like crap and the patients and families just sue you. This is like going back in time 20 years, the surgeries, the procedures, being a doctor's hand maiden is archaic. Doctors write orders in the patients chart like Nurse will ambulate pt 3 times a day (the pt was 850 lbs), or pt may not have bathroom priviliges, you are held accountable, and sueable, for everything. The secretary writes the wrong thing, your fault, pharmacy sends wrong drug, your fault, lab draws wrong blood, your fault, your fault, your fault. I wish someone would have told me this before I came here, after 8 years of 5 States, I give up, glad to come home. They had slavery for 300 years in the US, officially, unofficially, it still exists, few unions, few rights and limited protection. The UK isn't so bad, not hot as hell and humid, no earthquakes, forest fires, tornadoes, landslides AND NO GUNS, I have never seen poverty like the US, you will die for the sake of cheap meds, or you will get shot in car for your radio. The US is a vicious and violent, more people get shot here peacetime than in the rest of the world put together. See you back in UK SOON!