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I DO have a job as an RN thank you very much.

Thank you!!!!

SoilderNurse22, you remind me of a typical person who finds pleasure in degrading other people and arguing about stuff that isn't even on topic. If you want to proofread and correct grammar for a living, then nursing wasn't a very smart career choice for you!

Are you on here to debate issues or defend other members?

SoilderNurse22, who do you think you are? Of course no one is perfect, especially once I prove it to you by showing you proof. If you can't say anything nice, it's best to just keep your comments to yourself!

Here is a direct copy and paste of one of BuckyBadgerRN's posts: by BuckyBadgerRN May 1 I was chatting with a friend who is an RN in Canada (I'm NOT playing the RN card as opposed to just saying nurse---I don't think Canada has LPN's--I could be wrong--and don't want to offend anyone!) and she was saying that the yearly cost of her license is going up by $100 to $566---per year! It made me curious as to what the "going rate" is around the US for license renewal? In WI it's $88 (I think!) for a 2 year licensure--how about where you practice? So, it's grammatically correct to use 3 dashes to separate statements? Not to mention that (I think!)

I can't find anywhere in the grammatical rules that you should be using dashes every other word either, but you do it. So, until you become the perfect grammatical genius, you can just get off my back buddy! If its difficult for you to read, then just don't read it…plain and simple. Nobody is forcing you to read anything. And since when did reading other people's posts become stalker-ish and creepy? I guess everyone on this site qualifies in that case. HAHA!

By the way, I happened to read some of your threads and it seems like you have a thing for this when you write ------- What's up with all the -dashes- in your posts? :)

I am not here to be counseled on grammar or English skills. If you aren't going to discuss the issues that pertain to the subject matter of the posts, then don't comment at all. Anything else is just counterproductive and tells me you have nothing better to do than pick people's English skills apart. We can leave that to the English teachers, okay? Usually, when people resort to commenting on people's writing skills then it means they can't find anything else meaningful to say.

I suppose that makes it okay because it's been around forever huh?

Used to be, if a business was prospering and making a decent profit, they shared that with their employees by increases in wages, ect. Now, it's become a game of 'how much can we make, then how much can we take from our employees'. That means RIDICULOUSLY HIGH profits and its just never enough. The companies always want more and are willing to put the screws to anybody to get it.

And don't even get me going on pensions...haha. My dad worked for a major candy company for 26 years and was promised a pension. Then 2 years ago they came along and told him he was getting cut because he was too old. No pension either. Imagine that. But by god the company continues to see increasing profits every year and they turn around and screw their employees out of benefits because of pure GREED!

Once again, that's all great and good to grow and prosper but when it starts affecting patient safety, it becomes a problem. Why don't you explain why the CEO of these hospital corporations are taking home ridiculously large salaries. I know our CEO continues to make more and more each year, so the hospitals are NOT suffering financially. Maybe they are suffering in their eyes because they dropped a few million in profit this year, but they are still doing DAMN good and making HUGE profits.

I couldn't agree more with this! Unfortunately, the only time most hospitals view under staffing as a problem is if there is a patient harm event, which they do their "root cause analysis" crap which isn't really needed because most all the staff can tell you its because we are expected to do an amount of work that is really unreasonable for one person to do. But, like you said, money is the main issue with these places, not patient safety. In an ideal world, it would be great if you could continue to increase productivity and not lose anything in the process, but unfortunately, it catches up to them at some point. That would be like me saying I am going to open a restaurant, and after a couple years of building a good customer base and making huge profits, now I am going to start cutting corners and serving the lousiest food I can get away with serving until I start losing business, then I will consider that the 'standard'. You know these hospital corporations are making BIG BIG MONEY! We are talking billions per year. But due to greediness, 10 billion isn't enough this year, so in order to get it to 15 billion next year, we are going to cut wherever we can, if that means getting rid of employees (that we supposedly value) then so be it. Until, of course a patient gets hurt from understaffing, then they will be wondering why they have to pay out millions in lawsuit settlements.

I know I looked at a Recovery Room position and they actually wanted someone with a year of critical care experience. Once again, its that line of crap that we are fed in school that you should "get all the experience you can because it will make you more valuable in the future". HAHA!