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California begging for nurses? No way. Certainly not for new grads! Also flooded with experienced nurses from low paying southern states who chasing the $. Also re: moving where jobs are - hiring managers are becoming reluctant to take on new grads from high wage states because they know there is a higher probability of those RNs returning to their state of origin once they have that golden 6-12 mos. experience. They want people who will stay once trained. Can't blame they for that.

Hi Everyone, any norcal applicants accepted that we know of?

Has everyone who has thus far gotten the call been local LA area residents? Just curious/hoping that has something to do with pace of calls

I am a V last name so I guess I'll be at the tail end if the "theory of CSMC notification" holds true!

Anyone get a critical care unit offer this week? I interviewed earlier this week. Just wondering if anyone got it!

FlyingScot: Very well said. Seems very irresponsible to prank on a sincere student poster.

@canoehead: LOL!! too funny. thanks for giving us a good chuckle.

oh, now I feel stupid. Pookafert, you must be a troll, no one could be that obtuse. Sorry I didn't realize this sooner in the discussion.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rcnbw6BOMpQC&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=speed+of+gravity+infusion&source=bl&ots=FhWX1bZlOR&sig=oubxac3tDyvOWqKgr0n5vMWNErI&hl=en&ei=K92TTZjBHpCssAOJi6nIBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=speed%20of%20gravity%20infusion&f=false why don't you check out what a textbook has to say - no mention of the pt's gravitational pull as a function of pt's size being a variable that determines rate of flow in a pure gravity feed iv. Perhaps you could produce a scholarly reference to back up your assertions. FYI regardless of the length of tubing, it is in fact possible to hang the bag at a variety of differing heights relative to the IV catheter insertion site on the pt. If I am in the minority here I will be very scared for the profession.

Wow your knowledge of physics is quite impressive! pookafert, you contend the size of the pt & therefore that pt's gravitational pull determines speed of infusion w/a gravity drip? What does your physics textbook have to say about the height of the fluid relative to the pt? Maybe you should educate yourself b/f you cook up your next reply.

smaller with less gravitational pull? really?

RE: Any thoughts... I am being discriminated against because I'm a dude. Right, sorry I just don't buy it. Or wait, it must be so hard to a man in a "woman's profession." Of course everything should be handed to you! You're a man in a field dominated by women. That must be so SCARY!

Hi BYU - just from experience, you'll never get through to a prof. in the online classes at SBCC they might have an address w/in pipeline but they won't answer. The one I had for Patho BARELY answered her internal "moodle" class e-mail. Like pulling teeth. Let me warn you to steer clear of Univ of Iowa's class - awful notes, terrible book and instructors that are the antithesis of helpful, I had to drop it and was told by the dist. educ. admin. that "there were problems with the class". Don't know about other out of state distance classes but if you can get something through a CC you're probably going to have a better experience and spend less to do it. You might try calling the HIT office at SBCC and seeing if you can get some kind of answer that way. I think the policy at SBCC is you're in or you're not - meaning no waitlist or exceptions but it never hurts to check it out and try. Good luck!

Can we all agree that perhaps we've got the cart before the horse here with regard to reforming health care? I don't think it will be possible to reform anything until we TRULY reform our elections process. Our system of governing works when it is by the people and for the people as the founding fathers intended. What we have now is government that is by the corporations (and insanely wealthy individual donors) and for those same entities. When we return our government to one that truly serves the people and precludes hijacking by big-money interests, then we can honestly analyze a complicated situation and derive a legislative solution that best addresses the issue for the good all all Americans. No solution will leave all parties better off. It's obvious that reform means some entities in a corrupted, dysfunctional system is going to "lose". We must have honest elected representatives who are willing to figure out and able to determine who should lose the most. They won't do that until they are elected in a fashion that hews to the original democratic principles that our great country was founded on. I fear in the absence of REAL campaign finance reform, any solution we get will be largely driven by the very interests that need to be regulated and won't be. The FACT that Max Baucus said everything was on the table except single payer means they were starting from a flawed analysis - they didn't even analyze all the options. Why? In the words of an esteemed Georgetown University physician who worked on the issue directly with Conners and others and supports a single payer model, "politically not feasible". Why is "single payer not feasible" to even consider as part of the analysis? Because the folks writing the laws are beholden to big money groups who would lose under single payer. Fixing campaign finance will help, but we also have to "fix" the devisive, propaganda spewing media that spreads misinformation and fear for the same big money interests. The only way to do that is for "we the people" to say enough and stop listening. If we don't listen they'll shut up and go away because they won't make any money if they can't pull an audience.

NO,NO no way! In my area 40K is poverty level.