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As an independent contractor, is that mean you were hired by an agency, get insurance and benefits through the agency, and it is a temp to hire kind of situation? If that is the case I would run unless I was desperate, at least at a hospital I shou...

report back how it goes and your thoughts on this position and type of nursing. good luck!

oops meant to say it is a core measure to prescribe a statin at discharge for a STEMI, sorry if that was confusing typed that one up in a hurry before bed

I stumbled on this thread and have to put my .02 in. colloidal silver spray will turn you into a smurf, I literally had a stemi patient that was blue. Family member was a quack and a nurse. She tried to say he had mercury poisoning many years ago, w...

So he should try and publicly draw attention to this in attempt to smooth things over with people who just back stabbed him to management over an offense that evidently wasn't even serious enough to warrant a disciplinary write up? Clearly some peop...

Anyone else get almost confused with all the nursing options? I mean, you can only know how well you will like something by reading or considering it. I think a lot of times you gotta jump in and try something to see how you like it and how good yo...

thanks for the post, I accepted a float pool position at my hospital and extremely excited, they will be paying for me to get a few certifications, all kinds of cool learning experiences, I couldn't be happier. I am also going to get my BSN and mayb...

Of all my friends the one I turn to most for advice is a friend of mine who over the past 6 years has been promoted three times and is pretty much set for a high level executive position in a fortune 500 company and this is what he tells me the #1 su...

Ripping someone off for $5 is childs play, there is some trickery and taking advantage of someones stupidity here when these trade/vocational schools like Concord charge someone 35k for a respiratory therapy degree. Its laughable to rip someone off ...

Ivy, I'm a nursing student and almost done with school and I've been a CNA for 2 years at a large inner city hospital so I feel like I know very well what I'm getting into. You seem intelligent and like you've researched this and I hope you go forw...

I just try and keep my mouth shut and get my work done. This negates the 'mean instructor' thing, at least in my experience. One student in my clinicals is so clumsy and slow I don't know whether to laugh or to just feel sorry for her. She strugg...

I had an infamous physiology teacher at a community college, where the nursing program had so many applicants they really tried to weed out as many people as they could and only leave the best behind. My class had almost half drop, the half that sta...

good thread

What about oxygen? Wouldn't oxygen be the only possible exception?

Dude do you realize a classic sign of ADD is job hopping due to boredom? This is like telling a drunk to drink and figure out his problems. Cerda, you can't rely on stimulants like adderrall forever. You eventually have to take more for the same af...

Nothing in particular but everything in general

sorry to bump an old thread but I have a question here: " what action will you take first when a see a pt with right pneumothorax 1- assist the pt to cough and deep breath 2- administer sedative 3- prepare to insert chest drainage system 4- prepare t...

NCLEX pass rates is public info, here are pass rates: http://www.appliedtech-stl.com/component/content/article/96-front-page-articles/180-latest-nclex-pn-pass-rates-released NAU's pass rates don't look to bad to me (91% in 2009), but it is ridiculous...

sorry I haven't had time to read the whole thread yet but I'd like to address a couple things. I have spent some time researching this subject as it appears to be a popular one on the web. The MMR vaccine link to autism article has been refuted num...

excellent post, may I also add in the word "pain". I know you said stress, which is good, but I've always been taught that pain can also get the sympathetic nervous system and blood sugars going just like stress.

Nina Hartley (porn star that has been on Oprah a couple of times defending the profession) Phillipe Nover (former UFC fighter, was on the TV show "the next ultimate fighter", currently works in a NY ER) John Hackleman (UFC fighter Chuck Liddells long...

I agree, and to me tattoos should never be an issue, but with patients they might be. Even 25 years ago I would be shocked to find a police department that allowed employees to have sleeves. Patients may not understand that these days its perceived...

In the 80's to me people with full sleeves or several tattoos were either a biker, prisoner, or a crazy SOB. Everyday people didn't have tons of tattoos. These days tattoos are so commonplace, half the musicians in my church band have sleeves or a...

anyone besides me find it funny this thread was started by a dude named bigrigcowboy? not trying to be mean here but either this is a professional troll job or lol

I'd take on the extra money and stress and try to challenge yourself. Financially between car maintenance and gas money and income this makes all the sense in the world. Even not looking at it financially, this makes all the sense in the world sinc...