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DoGoodThenGo

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  1. FIRED I didn't even see it coming , Please advise

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Ms.MayaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sadly in New York State IIRC the first three months are considered probation status and thus one can be terminated for any or no reason. The important thing is you weren't let go for cause and while...

  2. Nursing: Then and Now

    DoGoodThenGo replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    "Nurses had to calculate the drip rate using the second hand on their watch and a roller clamp to regulate the flow" Knowing how to manually (or mentally) calcuate drip rates and regulate flow is...

  3. Nursing: Then and Now

    DoGoodThenGo replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Smoking like drinking (which obviously one didn't do on duty) was everywhere post WWII as you can see from films of the period. Some blame is assigned to the military who issued tons of free or low...

  4. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Have been watching a great BBC/PBS program "Call the Midwive" about young nurse/midwife in 1950's UK. The programme also brings light on the benefits given to all residents of that country by the...

  5. NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital Nurses Mull Strike Action

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Emergency RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Just also wanted to say that according to published news/financial reports while NS-LIJ is doing well (it is one of the few NY state healthcare systems in decent if not flush with cash, afterall they...

  6. Med Passers at Nursing Homes 8HR course and giving out NARCS ...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to SpeakUp4ever's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Quite correct. Excellent post/response. The entire idea behind "assisted living" is that they are just that, and are not usually contractually or otherwise obligated to provided any sort of skilled...

  7. New name for nurses who are men

    DoGoodThenGo replied to midlife101's topic in Men in Nursing

    Have it your own way, but next time going to and from duty in uniform/scrubs and someone cracks "mursey, mursey, I need an angel of mercy" don't come boo-hooing to

  8. NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital Nurses Mull Strike Action

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Emergency RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Heard from a friend who works there several weeks ago that things may go that way. Apparently the joy of being saved from bankruptcy and closure by the marriage of Lenox Hill to NS-LIJ has left the...

  9. New name for nurses who are men

    DoGoodThenGo replied to midlife101's topic in Men in Nursing

    Use of "sister" for UK and Commonwealth nurses dates back to when women in religous orders (both Catholic and Anglican) provided a bulk of nursing care. Also for this reason many nursing caps worn by...

  10. New name for nurses who are men

    DoGoodThenGo replied to midlife101's topic in Men in Nursing

    Not wishing to cause offence, but "Murse" sounds like someone who should be skipping down the wards wearing a pinny and cap. Male nurse went out with orderlies and for that matter "lady doctor"....

  11. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As a practical note seeing as a majority of nurses are women and speaking of healthcare as a "right" there is another crisis looming and that is to few Americans, especially females have any sort of...

  12. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You hit it more or less on the head. EOL costs drop as the treatment mode moves from interventions to prolong life/cure disease to palliative and or hospice care. Medicine has found great ways to...

  13. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Amoung several problems with the United States healthcare system is that by and large providers are paid for doing *something*, not necessarily for treating an illness. Each intervention, treatment,...

  14. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    End of life healthcare costs: The Cost of Dying: End-of-Life Care - CBS News Medicare Beneficiaries' Costs Of Care In The Last Year Of Life (slightly older data)...

  15. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fair enough "zing", and yes one should have made clear the series is set in the EastEnd and did not obviously represent a majority of the UK population. This probably explains much of the *shocked*...

  16. Future Shortage in Bedside Nurses

    DoGoodThenGo replied to westieluv's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Personally one thinks in a decade or so nursing care in the United States will resemble much of the UK and Europe; more "district nurses", home care, area clinics, etc. Hospitals and by extension...

  17. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Furthermore to that: Have been watching the BBC series "Call The Midwife" on local PBS which is based upon factual accounts of a *real* UK midwife in 1950's UK, and it becomes clear why just having...

  18. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well if one examines how other nations go about universal healthcare it is part and parcel of a scheme that works from the notion there is a basic social level that no person should fall below. This...

  19. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No one is repealing anything, regardless of what Romney, other republicans and or the pundits say. There might be some tweaking here and there and of course years from now the thing may not look as it...

  20. Why do students voluntarily drop out of nursing school?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to pink0605's topic in General Students

    Far better to withdraw with grace and in good standing from a nursing program than wait for the "axe to fall", that is failing one or more classes, being put on warning and or dismissed. If one...

  21. How to fail clinical

    DoGoodThenGo replied to cnmbfa's topic in General Students

    Could add a few more: 1. Student nurses should follow their instructors not "other" nurses. If your CI wants something done *that* way, then that is how it's done regardless of how nurses on the floor...

  22. How to fail clinical

    DoGoodThenGo replied to cnmbfa's topic in General Students

    It's called a *CAP*, I tell ya I nurse's *CAP* Hats are worn out of doors. Whew! Gotta stop drinking that coffee after dinner, it keeps me up late then I pop in here!

  23. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As one who has been to France many times and has a "love affiar" with the language and culture can honestly say everyone thinks the grass is greener on the otherside of the fence. France's healthcare...

  24. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Forget the name of the Website, but the one used to raise nearly one million dollars for the NYS school bus matron that was bullied by her young students seems to do

  25. 1st semester at BCC, I suck at advanced math -- Stick to RN or change majors?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to snrnurse84's topic in New York Nursing

    Ahh the blessed calculator and or computers! *LOL* Not sure today's nursing and quite frankly students in general realise it wasn't that long ago that calculators were unwelcomed in math classes....