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Took 5 weeks for the BRN to catch up with cert.; Furnishing took 4 weeks with hours and Dr. sign off; the new program has taken less than a week for some folk. DEA takes three to four days. Your results my differ...

Midlines are the critter of choice at our facility because of the elimination for xray verification of placement. We don't always have a Doc available to read the xray. Dilemma is: do we delay the antibiotic until a doc shows or start a PIV which does a deservice to the patient. Obviously, we are going to get the antibiotic on board but it is still a delimma. FWIW, Dave

Yep, 5% from the git go:yeah:...not seein' any ADN vs. BSN hostility either. But then again, I am in Far Northern California . Dave

Okay, that's over...when do you start PN to RN?

No, he is not wrong...as he was expressing his thoughts. You are allowed to disagree with him though...however, that might entail some elaboration beyond your initial statement. Time constraints limit my ability to accept your invitation. Dave

Thought this was appropriate for this thread... Special Report Understanding American Politics By Peter Ferrara Published 8/6/2008 12:07:58 AM Grover Norquist, Leave Us Alone http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13647 selected excerpt: "THE BOOK and its analysis grow out of this background. Norquist starts by analyzing American politics as breaking out into two diametrically and irreconcilably opposed coalitions -- The Takings Coalition and the Leave Us Alone coalition. For the Takings Coalition: "These groups and individuals view the proper role of government as taking things from one group and giving them to someone else. Money, power, and control. Who are they in favor of taking it from? You and me, the taxpayers." This coalition includes everyone who wants a handout from the government, from straight welfare to corporate welfare. It includes trail lawyers and labor union leaders trying to loot corporations and the taxpayers. It includes government bureaucrats, contractors, grantees, and big city political machines, whose primary motivation is a gold-plated deal paid for by the taxpayers. It also includes the "coercive utopians." These folks want to change the world. They want to change you. And they are willing to wield the blunt instrument of the state to make you, your family, and your life fit their procrustean bed no matter how much it hurts you or how much it costs you. And they expect to be paid with tax dollars for supervising your moral regeneration. These are the radical environmentalists, gun control advocates, extreme feminists, safety and health "Nazis," animal rights extremists, anti-religious secularists, and some gay groups that wish to impose their sense of morality on others through the power of the state.Of course, this Takings Coalition is the heart and soul of the Democrat party. In sharp contrast, the Leave Us Alone Coalition, the political movement created out of the defeated Republican Party of midcentury and sculpted by Ronald Reagan's political leadership and lifetime, is a coalition of groups that have one thing in common. They do not want the government to give them something. Or take something from others. On the key issue that motivates their vote, they want one simple thing from government: They just want to be left alone. They are taxpayers who want lower taxes. Businessmen and -women, entrepreneurs, investors who wish to run their own affairs without being regulated and taxed out of existence. Property owners who do not wish to be taxed out of their homes and property. Gun owners protective of their second amendment rights. Homeschoolers who are willing to spend the time and energy to educate their own children, asking only that the government leave them alone. Conservative Catholics, evangelical Protestants, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and Mormons, all members of the various communities of faith who wish to be left alone to practice their faith and pass it on to their children.This Leave Us Alone Coalition is the heart and soul of the Republican Party, whether actual Republican leaders understand that or not. Norquist does not intend Leave Us Alone to be a banner or political rallying cry to attract voters, as some have mistakenly interpreted him. He intends the phrase to be descriptive and analytical, just as he does not expect the Left to campaign under the phrase "The Takings Coalition." The Leave Us Alone Coalition adds up to a center-right majority that is available to perceptive and effective Republican and conservative leaders marching that majority to victory." Cheers, Dave

Time to have a beer, relax, and wait it out. Did the same on January 10th, went about 110 questions, had to wait until the 23rd for results. Had the chainsaws out and cleared about 2 acres of manzanita and liveoak, great for defensible space since I started orientation on the 29th as an RN... Hang in there...

No, your assessment is wrong. It is more than money. It is a belief based on personal responsibility. A belief in the individual having the basic right to make their own decisions on how best to utilize the resources available to them rather then having mandates foisted upon them in the name of the greater good.

Given that "morale obligation" why delegate that responsibility to the government? Shouldn't each individual and community serve that function? Government programs are an impersonal solution to what should be a personal intervention. [sarcasm] Lets just throw some money at that problem, we can make everybody pay for it. That makes it fair.[/sarcasm]

Here is a good read showing the bureaucratic influence on healthcare: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/10258

What do you mean by "is"? Your right, I am wrong...The Constitution was a reach (and an error) but the Declaration of Independence is pretty clear..."God" and "Divine Providence" is what it says, so let's just ignore history and the religions of the various groups that founded the country. Please tell us which "God" this country was founded under/for/by...

The Declaration of Independence...the Constitution...

A simple observation, no criticism meant, but I wonder why so many Canada citizens are so adamant in their support for Universal Health Care in the US? Just trying to spread the joy?

who does not get help under the current system? emtala takes care of those who can't. isn't that what you asked for? what this country does need is wellness education and healthy life style changes.

Apples and oranges, I gave a range, you gave a number. National Governors Association puts that number at 22% (They are the one's that cut the check): http://www.nasbo.org/Publications/PDFs/Fiscal%20Survey%20of%20the%20States%20June%202007.pdf