DoGoodThenGo

DoGoodThenGo

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  1. Are these true or false rumors about LPN

    DoGoodThenGo replied to mcclot1993's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    LPN wages by state: Demand for LPN 2013 | Salary By

  2. Question dealing with HR at a union hospital...

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

    Basically persons do not like being lied to, which is what you did regardless of your intentions. Claiming to hold a professional license when you indeed do not is a very serious thing, it is also...

  3. CALLING ALL NEW LPNs! EAST COAST

    DoGoodThenGo replied to bs98241's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Few that do place them in physician offices that are part of their network or similar work. Do not think a NYC hospital has used LPNs on acute care floors in

  4. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Previous thread on same subject:

  5. Do you think physicians could pass the NCLEX-RN?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Lev's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Awhile ago a group of NP students at a NYC program (Columbia?) took either the MCAT or USMLE and apparently the pass rate was near nil, that is they mostly failed. This came up during a debate one...

  6. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Obesity is not just an American phenomenon, but something affecting populations and healthcare providers all over the Western world, and increasingly parts of the East as well. A quick "Google"...

  7. If you like your health insurance, you can keep it your insurance. Period

    DoGoodThenGo replied to tulip5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Only glanced at posts from the above link but it seems persons have a beef with what NHS considers diseases worthy of free meds versus the normal

  8. When an employer asks 'what's the lowest wage you are willing to accept'...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Career

    Well anyone who thinks $19/hr. is low for OH should know that at least one large NYC hospital system has a new grad program offering just that as a starting wage. See thread:...

  9. If you like your health insurance, you can keep it your insurance. Period

    DoGoodThenGo replied to tulip5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here is how one sees the whole mess. Obama and the Democrats set up something that the United States government rarely does well; a large nationwide program that tweaks, uses carrots and sticks, and...

  10. If you like your health insurance, you can keep it your insurance. Period

    DoGoodThenGo replied to tulip5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Believe you mean Medicaid which is a joint federal and state program for the indigent and a few other groups without health insurance. Medicare is an entitlement scheme coupled with Social Security...

  11. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Don't know when exactly it changed but at least through the 1980's and maybe in some places still clinical time was just what you described. It was where one learned "nursing arts" and practiced...

  12. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  13. When an employer asks 'what's the lowest wage you are willing to accept'...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Career

    Standard wisdom in any employment hunting situation is not to sell oneself too cheaply. You should have (or quickly find out) what the going wage is for whatever position you are interviewing for...

  14. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Will withdraw then "always" since until rather recently (1950's or so) many places did not hire married women and or discharged nurses who did; but aside from that it cannot be ignored that the...

  15. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Problem is that just as with the Tea Party in Congress "power players" in nursing often are beholden to how things are playing out on the ground locally. Unlike say physicians and the AMA,...

  16. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hiring managers do not operate in a vacuum. Most often they take their marching orders if not cues from the DON or "Senior Vice President of Nursing Services" or whatever such persons are called in an...

  17. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As I recall there are already several loan forgiveness programs for RNs who work in "under served"

  18. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No offence meant, but it is very difficult to judge either posts from new grads seeking employment and or the motives behind nurse recruiters and or others doing the hiring. We just do not have enough...

  19. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry to break this to you but that is what nursing for most of it's professional history has been about. Until rather recently educated women had three main choices for a career; the convent,...

  20. Charge nurse

    DoGoodThenGo replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't a charge nurse today basically what head nurses were in

  21. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For what it is worth: Registered Nurse Starting Salary, BSN Salary & Average 2013 Salaries for Nurses |

  22. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Long as the message about a "nursing shortage" is still being shouted from the housetops, ADN programs are not going anywhere. End of story. Those who run and or have vested interests in associate...

  23. affect of nursing shortage on nursing leadership and management, help!

    DoGoodThenGo replied to purpletouch's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Only "shortage" in nursing (if you could call it that) would be in the numbers of nurse educators, but that has more moving parts than just this supposed overall "nursing shortage". ATM bedside...

  24. affect of nursing shortage on nursing leadership and management, help!

    DoGoodThenGo replied to purpletouch's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Outside of some critical periods such as WWI and WWII, along with specific areas such as rural, there has never truly been a shortage of nurses. What happened is there was a shortage of nurses willing...

  25. If we make BSN the entry level degree, we should be paid more

    DoGoodThenGo replied to runningcrazy's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    At least here in NYS there is only one diploma program and it is located way upstate somewhere. The rest either went under or converted to offering ADN. Hospital based diploma programs began to fade...