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  1. Any helpful hints on Fluid and Electrolytes ????

    PHM replied to ICUNurse11's topic in Florida Nursing

    Almost all the college bookstores have NCLEX review books that have sections on F & E. Also have specific books like, F & E Made Easy, etc. Our library has a few choices on their shelves....

  2. Question about Nursing books

    PHM replied to LaurenU19's topic in Florida Nursing

    Potter Perry here also (Gulf Coast CC in Panama City) If you haven't done it yet, I'd also recommend you get familiar with math for nursing (not particularly difficult but strange if you haven't used...

  3. New overtime bill

    PHM posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This has probably been hashed before but just curious . . . Any conversation of this in your hospitals, etc???? Would like to know your thoughts on it. Concised below but more info is available by...

  4. New overtime bill

    PHM replied to PHM's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This Bush proposal was attached to the huge spending bill from Congress. Bush threatened to veto the whole appropriations measure UNLESS this overtime measure was included. Senate passed it and it's...

  5. New overtime bill

    PHM replied to PHM's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Just read a reply on the other group (nursing issues, or something) where a nurse from Ohio was forced to work overtime without the time and a half. She pulled an extra shift or would face losing her...

  6. mandatory overtime

    PHM replied to Kim Mohun's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You better take a look at the new Overtime Bill that GW Bush just screwed us with. Specifically says employers NO LONGER have to pay anyone over making something like $24k/yr time and a half. While...

  7. New Bush overtime bill

    PHM replied to PHM's topic in Florida Nursing

    Here's a link to the story from Jan 30th. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/2379506 Wall Street Journal mentioned lobbyists were going nuts pedaling the halls of Congress for pro...

  8. Just found out NCLEX-RN has changed

    PHM replied to Thelto's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I also grad in May and we were told we'll be the first ones to take the new tests as it becomes effective April 1. 2004. The NCSBN (see below) has the following in their Public Announcement section...

  9. Salaries in Florida

    PHM replied to HannahRN24's topic in Florida Nursing

    Florida salaries, particularly in the panhandle have always been supressed. Tourism industry pays minimum wage while making huge profits. Businesses tout "no state income taxes" as one of "their"...

  10. Nursing Schools

    PHM replied to RN-BamaStudent's topic in General Students

    Gulf Coast Community College, PC, FL (ADN)

  11. Salaries in Florida

    PHM replied to HannahRN24's topic in Florida Nursing

    A contingent of various dept heads went to PR and hired some nurses to come back here and work. Our unit (Stepdown/Pulmonary) signed on two or three but only one actually came up. Her English is...

  12. Salaries in Florida

    PHM replied to HannahRN24's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi Poki Original post in this thread was for a beginning RN working in Florida. Wages I posted earlier for the panhandle were for just that . . . a newly grad'd RN as noted in the HR literature from...

  13. Salaries in Florida

    PHM replied to HannahRN24's topic in Florida Nursing

    The salary quotes I posted for the panhandle area are from an employment seminar (about 7 or 8 hospitals in the panhandle area of FL, AL, lower GA) we just had at our nursing school (I'll graduate in...

  14. Salaries in Florida

    PHM replied to HannahRN24's topic in Florida Nursing

    Tweetie . . .and you are where in FL? Starting here is $15, in Tallhassee is $16, but I heard in Tampa with 6 mos experience you can expect around $25. Thanks,