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I am very hopeful now that democrats have a super majority in congress that something concrete will be done soon. I hope obama remembers that his mother was on her dying bed arguing with the greedy insurance companies.

It seems like you work in a real messed up place.You might want to look outside medsurg, such as home health the way you are doing.alot of people go into medsurg, but you have to get proper training, and that usually takes place in teaching hospitals or large hospitals. what part of the country are you located? You can try a travel assignment with an agency or you can try a different specialty. good luck to you, but remember not all hospitals are the same. some treat their staff with alot more dignity.

Get an internship program, or take a refresher course at a community college that is affiliated with a nursing school. some places like http://www.giantcareers.com/gsn_gn_home.htm#june2008 will train you and have excellent opportunities. which state are you in?

thanks alot. we shall be seeing human resources and talking to some lawyers today.

I HAVE A QUESTION. mY WIFE IS A REGistered nurse in Dallas Texas, and just got fired recently because her doctor had said she should not be lifting more than 25 pounds.Her manager said that part of the job requirement is the ability to carry patients and push heavy weights. I am greatly troubled because we now dont have health insurance which her job provided. What can we do/ Do we have any legal recourse? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

what a nightmare.

OK I HAVE ATTACHED A FORM I JUST MADE BY LOOKING AT YOUR REPLIES ABOVE NURSING REPORT SHEET.doc

a male nurse is called a good samaritan.

CHECK THE FOLLOWING LINKS http://www.texasonline.state.tx.us/app/orig/index.jsp?AGENCY_NAME=bne&CONFIG_ID=BNE_END&LICENSE_ID=01&page=guidelines AND A LINK TO THE LIST OF COMPACT STATES http://www.ncsbn.org/nlc/rnlpvncompact_mutual_recognition_state.asp MEANING YOU DONT HAVE TO GET A TEXAS LICENCE PER SE, but you can get a licence in one of the compact states and texas will have no problems endorsing you.

lay one on me

the value of your life is way more than a SIMPLE TEST.Just relax and give yourself another chance in life. you are worth it. even God forgives us and gives us a second chance in life, and you are entitled to being given as many chances as it will take, for you to eventually succeed.the biggest mistake you can make in life is to give up on your dreams and to give up on yourself.It is written that for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not die, but have everlasting life.IF God loved you that mush, then you are worth something.

or rn's - ocean $15,000 sign on bonus1740815http://www.hospitaljobsonline.com/jpmoreinfo.aspx?jobid=1740815 md - baltimore registered nurse - tbi $15,000 sign-on bonus http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobseeker/jobs/jobdetails.aspx?ipath=qhgt&jobcount=778&job_did=j8d6bq6w0zmcn16tjgm&sfascc=&dv=dv&jrdid=&lpage=32&sname=&cibookmark=1&strcrit=qid%3da3849779221808%3bst%3da%3buse%3dall%3bcty%3d20228%3bsid%3dall%3bcid%3dus%3benr%3dno%3bdtp%3ddr3%3bydi%3dyes%3bind%3dall%3bpdq%3dall%3bjn%3djn050%3bpayl%3d0%3bpayh%3dgt120%3bpoy%3dno%3betd%3dall%3bre%3dall%3bmgt%3ddc%3bsup%3ddc%3bfre%3d30%3bchl%3dal%3bqs%3dsid_unknown%3bss%3dno%3btitl%3d0%3bjqt%3drad these are just some of them

WHY CANT THIS DUDE GO TO NURSING SCHOOL?

http://www.giantcareers.com/benefits.htm 84k as per 2005

it is reputable. even harvard takes their transfer classes.

please dont be so harsh and negative about the nursing diagnoses,because they are part of the plan of care, with emphasis being placed on the patient. from my understanding, nursing is an independent profession from medicine, ie nurses are not doctors, and so they have developed their plan of adressing issues and concerns regarding patients independent from the physicians, and so here come the nursing diagnoses. if you are extremely dissatisfied with them , then perhaps you could write a book and in that book, make recommendations on how and why we should change the current format, perhaps you can do that as part of your PhD study, just a suggestion.What am actually saying is dont just lash out at nurses and nursing ideas and practices without offering tangible alternatives, and fixes for what are 'problems' to you.yeah they are redundant, but sometimes necessity is the mother of invention, so i urge you to invent something.

OK , let me ask this, if you were in any other profession other than nursing, for example you were an actor and some director was acting this way, what would you do? Sorry but in nursing there are alot of nurses with dirt-low self esteem.I am not sure if its a female problem, but when confronted with such, you can take that as a sign that there are greener pastures out there, and yes there are. For new grads, there are hospitals out there giving sign on bonuses up to $17000 just to get hired, and there are even reimbursements for your education and promises to pay for your further education. one such hospital is the st.lukes hospital system in houston texas. www.sleh.com is their website, and you can even apply online. call and ask for a recruiter, and by the way, write a long note to the upper management detailing the nonesense this nurse has made you endure and tell them that is exactly why you have decided to go elsewhere where they will treat you in a more professional mannr. i cant believe this is still happening.

i think as the world changes and technology becomes every more perversive and integrated with the world, the more the internet is necessary, for example i am always logged on to http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q= ( google news) during breaks to see what is out there. am sure on 9/11 there were people who had that site on in the twin towers and managed to escape because of the warning on tv or internet.

Just wondering if anyone here has intenet at work and if so, what are the rules regarding its use? Over here the icu has internet, but all the other floors dont, and so at night the icu nurses are plugged to the internet browsing, while the other nurses are 'working'. just asking for opinions here and what are the legal ramifications.

just a small reminder to those of you who might be discouraged by nursing. 1. the good samaritan acted as a nurse ( in the bible) 2.nurses have had the highest ranking in terms of public opinion in the united states. Nurses again topped Gallup’s annual survey on the honesty and ethics of various professions. Nurses beat doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, and dentists.dont just take my word for it, click the link. http://nsweb.nursingspectrum.com/NurseNewsEzine/item.cfm?ID=1330

I am contemplating joining the crna program sometime next year.I am already making 100k plus, and i am looking to advance my education. can anyone here who is involved tell me if its worth the sacrifice?

In the beginning the relationship between doctors and nurses was clear and simple. Doctors were superior. They had the hard knowledge that made ill people better. The nurses, usually women, were good but not necessarily very knowledgeable. They were in charge of folding pillow cases and mopping brows. Nurses didn't cure patients; on the whole they still don't. They were just nice to them while they waited to get better. In 1967 Dr Leonard Stein first outlined the doctor-nurse game. He said that the interactions between the two were carefully managed so as not to disturb the fixed hierarchy. Nurses were bold, had initiative, and were responsible for important recommendations. While being bold, however, they had to appear passive. In short, nurses were able to make recommendations as long as they made it look as if they were initiated by doctors. So the nurse was responsible for the wellbeing of her patients and the nourishment of the doctors' sense of professional self. A missed opportunity for nursing and a bit of a bore for doctors In 1990 Stein revisited the game and found that the nurses weren't playing any more. It seems they had unilaterally decided to change the way that they related to other health professionals. Nurses were tired of the handmaiden image and sought to invest their existence with a professionalism and value that they had previously been denied. Being a nurse was more than being a good woman; it was about being a well educated practitioner with independent duties, skills, and responsibilities. After the 1970s nursing reconstructed itself as an independent profession which sometimes stood up to doctors. They did this in various ways, an example being the investment in university education and the social affirmation that went with it. Nursing was reinvented, increasingly as an associate science to medicine. But, why didn't these quasimedical nurses simply train as doctors? Is it because they believed in the distinguishing nature of nursing? Or because they didn't have enough A levels? Was the pursuit of equality motivated by a belief in the value of nursing or an inferiority complex? For all the jostling for position over the past 20 years little has changed. This is primarily because the power in the relationship is mediated by the patient. If in doubt ask the patient who is in control. The public may love its angels but it holds its medics in awe. In the struggle with doctors, nursing has made a fundamental error. It has mistaken equality for uniformity. The frailty of nursing in the modern world is born of its intangibility. Nursing is more than treating ill people. It's about nourishment, problem solving, and easing a patient's experience of suffering, medical invasion, or death. It's always been hard to pin down, so it's not surprising that nurses have turned to the material world of postgraduate recognition, evidence based practice, expanded roles, and mimicking the medical career structure--nurse consultants, nurse practitioners, etc--in order to redesign their sense of self. The doctors, however, are still having their needs met by nurses. Surely doctors are more than happy to see nurses do tasks that usually take up time and quite frankly bore them. Nurses are taking over tasks from junior doctors--administering intravenous drugs, doing endoscopies, preoperative assessment, and some prescribing. Doctors are a simpler breed than nurses. Everyone knows what the doctor's job is. Doctors are the conduits of medical knowledge. They don't have to constantly redefine themselves. Doctors are little more than what science allows them to be. They are a totem. They don't rethink themselves, they don't need to. This gives them plenty of time and opportunity to redefine nursing. Medicine remains in the ascendancy. The capacity to cure has greater market value than dealing with distress. And frankly so it should. But in the face of that might not nursing have done better than "if you can't beat them join them"? In a short time nursing has built up an infrastructure of credibility from the wards to the universities, stopping off on trust boards and policy groups along the way. Nursing has garnered more governmental respect than ever. Unfortunately, this has been achieved by moving nursing towards convention, and the opportunity to move convention and credibility towards the core strengths of nursing has been missed. Nurses now have more power but arguably this has done little for nursing. What feminism has done for nursing is to make young women choose to be doctors. As for the game, it doesn't matter. It is an irrelevant unsophisticated squabble. The key to the success or failure of the doctor-nurse relationship is the patient experience. Unfortunately, in the past the relationship has often been motivated by jealousy, self doubt, insecurity, and arrogance. You cannot help believing that this has been a missed opportunity for nursing and a bit of a bore for doctors.

they are tightening the loopholes because of the ramnpant medicare fraud that the fbi is investigating

am in texas and over here i have never heard of anyone unionizing. i dont even think its in the law. i believe it was a compromise between industry and state regulators or something to that effect. now that you are talking, i recently heard that some 150,000 nurses will be coming over from phillipines next year. i wonder what that will do to our salaries or the prospects of getting higher benefits.

thanks for that positive outlook.I guess I was still angry because of what happened to me last week, and I have not figured out how to deal with it.I just read somewhere here in this forum a comment by texasccrn that attitude is the difference between adventure and ordeal. I will laugh and move on this way.