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  1. Job market for new nurses in New York City

    DoGoodThenGo replied to dnsonthego's topic in New York Nursing

    Your idea may work for small or community places but just try getting into HR or seeing a nurse recruiter at NYP, Mount Sinai (which now includes Continuum Partners), NS-LIJ, NYU. etc.... When these...

  2. Obamacare? what are your thoughts

    DoGoodThenGo replied to nija315's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Democrats for decades going back to the great "Liberal Lion" Ted Kennedy have been fighting for a universal healthcare scheme in the USA. The Clintons came close but got beaten back by various vested...

  3. Job market for new nurses in New York City

    DoGoodThenGo replied to dnsonthego's topic in New York Nursing

    Have said it before, and shall do so again; NYC has lost about fifteen hospitals in the past twenty or less years but the number of nursing programs has remained steady or even grown when you count...

  4. Job market for new nurses in New York City

    DoGoodThenGo replied to dnsonthego's topic in New York Nursing

    Hospitals all over NYS and NYC area are closing but haven't heard of any huge demise of places out in LI. Long Island College Hospital is having problems but they are in

  5. Too Young for Nursing school? (NCC fall 2014)

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Christina2tw's topic in New York Nursing

    Girl don't even give it a sustained thought. *LOL* There are plenty of undergraduate nursing students fresh out of high school in pre and nursing programs all over NYC. You just don't hear about them...

  6. New York Nurses Take Back Their Union

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Mindful's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I've got four words for you all, "Long Island College Hospital". Keep your eyes on how this ongoing saga plays out which both NYSNA and 1199 are very actively involved. If the place remains open in...

  7. How do we educate the public on ways to afford medications?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Mrs Helleck's topic in Patient Medications

    Our local pharmacy (Walgreens) will inform you via your pharmacist when picking up meds about their prescription drug program if they see you are uninsured and or have things that aren't covered by...

  8. Current and former sacred cows in nursing

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't go to Saint Vincent's but worked at the Manhattan and other Catholic hospitals in NYC. At least in NYC there were three Saint Vincent's schools of nursing, Manhattan, Staten Island/Richmond,...

  9. Current and former sacred cows in nursing

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    YW, yes Saint Vincent's had one of the most distinctive caps in NYC! *LOL* Many grads and student's weren't all that thrilled with the thing as it was hard to keep on the front of your head. If it...

  10. Current and former sacred cows in nursing

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    As a nursing assistant working on floors back in the day yes, was told off by more than one nurse who spied one hand on gloves when cleaning up a patient. "You are giving the patient the impression...

  11. Obamacare? what are your thoughts

    DoGoodThenGo replied to nija315's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Cannot speak for everywhere but at least here in in NYS/NYC full service hospitals are increasingly seen as loss leaders and aren't attracting the same sort of interest including financing as before....

  12. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Was watching the latest series of Call the Midwife the other night and "Sister" Jenny Lee was examining a really antsy mom to be what wanted to get up and out ASAP. Jenny told her she could go soon...

  13. Obamacare? what are your thoughts

    DoGoodThenGo replied to nija315's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Many hospitals are locked in an "arms race" if you will for patients (especially those with deep pockets and or excellent insurance) in part in reaction to how healthcare is changing in this country....

  14. Hunter College New Generic Pathway 2013-2014

    DoGoodThenGo replied to msingh5893's topic in New York Nursing

    What happens if you base admissions solely upon GPA and there are >300 applicants for 100 slots with nearly 200 with required GPAs >3.5 and 100 or more at or just shy of 4.0? Before instituting...

  15. Hunter College New Generic Pathway 2013-2014

    DoGoodThenGo replied to msingh5893's topic in New York Nursing

    Got the "fifty" in my head from a post via another student last year:

  16. Hunter College New Generic Pathway 2013-2014

    DoGoodThenGo replied to msingh5893's topic in New York Nursing

    IIRC it maybe on HB's website somewhere and is mentioned here in the group as well. One hundred slots split fifty-fifty between undergraduate/generic and

  17. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Don't think it was exactly a secret or anything, I mean there were a few other husband and wife couples on television back then. Mr. and Mrs. William Asher (Elizabeth Montgomery) were the power couple...

  18. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Did you know that the show Emergency greatly contributed to the development of the modern paramedic profession? Back then what we know now today as paramedics didn't exist. What you had were firemen...

  19. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Emergency ran from 1972 until 1979. By early 1970's some hospitals had begun to allow pantsuits both out of demands from staff and in response to the changing legal landscape. The latter meaning...

  20. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! Have been racking my brains to remember what Col Potter orders several cc's of for the nurse having severe DTs in the mess tent. This was the OR nurse friend of Major Houlihan that had...

  21. are mandatory scrub color-coding in hospitals the wave of the future?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to kelligracie's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Well there is only one sure fire way to solve *that* problem

  22. an oldie but goodie

    DoGoodThenGo replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Few persons knew then or today that Julie London (Nurse Dixie McCall) had a career that spanned stage, screen, and bands before landing that role on Emergency. Her most famous hit was "Cry Me A...

  23. NCLEX Pass rates in NYC

    DoGoodThenGo replied to nija315's topic in New York Nursing

    In Spring of 2013 the passing standard for the NCLEX was increased. This obviously means the exam would be a bit more difficult for some graduate nurses. Those taking the exam after the changes would...

  24. NCLEX Pass rates in NYC

    DoGoodThenGo replied to nija315's topic in New York Nursing

    OMG! CSI - 70.0% (98/140) Saint Paul's Queens - 58.6% ( 85/145) Saint Paul's Staten Island - 44.7% ( 92/206) Swedish Institute - 46.2% ( 6/13) NYU - 83.1% (360/433) Hunter-Bellevue - 84.7% (117/139)...

  25. Katrina Five Years Later

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Anyone affected by the storm and or on duty that day with war