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  1. UHS - Universal Health Services RN nursing working conditions

    RD_Congo posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I felt a moral need to say something about working as an RN for UHS. Specifically, I have been working in the intake department of a freestanding psychiatric hospital in the Southeast region. I have...

  2. UHS - Universal Health Services RN nursing working conditions

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in Psychiatric

    Couple of more points I never mentioned in my initial posting: I quit after starting this thread, by the way, and never went back to that most-stressful, most-dangerous of situations. (1) After I...

  3. UHS - Universal Health Services RN nursing working conditions

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in Psychiatric

    How do I edit the title on this thread? I just realized I wrote the wrong name for the company. The correct name is "Universal Health Services". Maybe a moderator could fix this for me?

  4. People continue to come up with stories that strain my ability to believe them

    RD_Congo replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    i know this post is two years old, but why did you have to tell "your side of the story"? why didn't you just shut the door and go about your

  5. Just took random drug test

    RD_Congo replied to learninglessons12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    And we all know that laws never change, right? That's why we still have alcohol prohibition and the gangsters that go along with that black market, right? The largest state in the U.S. is probably...

  6. Just took random drug test

    RD_Congo replied to learninglessons12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Let's just remember that alcohol is much more dangerous than cannabis. To take only one point, it is quite easy to drink too much and die. It is impossible to smoke too much and die. So I hope...

  7. NM - Albuquerque - Pay with One Year Experience

    RD_Congo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Could anyone give me a ball park figure - What would be the hourly pay for an RN with one year of psych and med-surg experience? THANK

  8. New Mexico Shortage???

    RD_Congo replied to Mzjez's topic in General Nursing

    There seems to be some disagreement about whether or not there is still a nursing shortage in NM. Another poster recently mentioned that recruiters are getting hundreds of applications a day....

  9. No nursing shortage in Central VA

    RD_Congo replied to CherryBlonde's topic in Virginia Nursing

    I'm not quite sure where some of the previous posters are getting their information. Lynchburg is an easy place for an RN to get a job. Centra Health has a long list of RN job openings. New Grads...

  10. Salary in Australia

    RD_Congo replied to akosijas22's topic in International Nursing

    I'm assuming that the dollars you are citing are Australia dollars, not US dollars? So $60,000 AUD is actually US 39,000

  11. Nurse Licensure Compact for COUNTRIES?

    RD_Congo posted a topic in International Nursing

    While applying for licensure in Virginia, I was surprised to see that Canadian nurses (outside of Quebec) automatically can become RNs in Virginia. Here's my question: where can U.S. nurses go and...

  12. Nurse Licensure Compact for COUNTRIES?

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for the info. The Virginia BON site is pretty weak and some of the links are broken. Does anyone know what a U.S. nurse has to do to work in New Zealand? I know they pay very little, but I'm...

  13. Negotiating for Higher Pay as a New Grad

    RD_Congo posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Looking for some advice... Yesterday I interviewed at a hospital in a smaller city in the southwest U.S. that is fairly desperate for nurses. Before I left, the nursing manager said that I got the...

  14. Patient with maggots in head

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    I just saw this other video of tiny worms supposedly coming out of a man's face. I don't have any good reason to think the video is a fake, except that I have no idea what condition would cause this....

  15. Patient with maggots in head

    RD_Congo posted a topic in General Nursing

    I saw this video of a patient with maggots in his head wound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJNxwvvS8Y What could have caused this? Have you ever seen such a thing? Could the human botfly do this?...

  16. Job Offered... Now What

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Had you already signed the employment contract at the second-choice place? If so, did the contract have some stipulations which made it hard to

  17. Job Offered... Now What

    RD_Congo posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    As a December 2008 New Grad RN, I am interviewing at three different hospitals. Of course, I have my first, second, and third choice. But what if my third choice says, "We liked your interview and...

  18. Job Offered... Now What

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would feel bad about telling a hospital that I would accept the job, only to back out a few weeks later. However, for the purposes of discussion, what would be the possible negative consequences for...

  19. Patient with maggots in head

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    You're talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRiMFvVL08&feature=related That's the human botfly. Its life cycle involves depositing maggots under human skin, or on the eye (goes down...

  20. Patient with maggots in head

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of tool did you use to scoop them

  21. Patient with maggots in head

    RD_Congo replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    So the ordinary housefly can lay eggs as soon as the skin is broken? After the fly deposits the eggs, I wonder how long until the maggots appear. Also, couldn't they have bandaged or covered the tumor...

  22. Take the Job?????

    RD_Congo replied to raffih66's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Did the nursing home tell you how long you have to decide on whether or not to take the job? Do you need to give an immediate answer, or what? Are you open to re-locating? There is a Web site called...

  23. Hair Testing For Drugs Among Nurses

    RD_Congo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Someone sent me a private message claiming that hair testing is now commonly used for drug testing. (Of course, hair testing is controversial due to the differences between white and black hair, which...

  24. Nursing Shortage????

    RD_Congo replied to neurorn6's topic in General Nursing

    Massachusetts is supposed to have the highest number of nurses per capita in the country, but we still have a shortage of trained nurses. New grads will not find a job that easily, especially...

  25. Pre-employment drug screen / drug test

    RD_Congo posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a final semester student nurse. I'm about to visit a hospital in another state for the face-to-face interview. If hired, I would return in January to start work. Will they test me now, at the...