MellowOne

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1. Best Pocket Reference?

   MellowOne posted a topic in Flight

   Hey all, Just wanted to get your opinions on the best pocket reference for a flight nurse to carry. I've looked at the ER checkmate, and Kathy White's Fast Facts. The Checkmate is smaller, and has plastic pages, but alot less info. Kathy's FF has ...

2. Icu Or Ed Nurses Make Better Flight Nurses?

   MellowOne replied to SOCALRACERX911_RN's topic in Flight

   As a pretty new flight nurse, here's my view: Every nurse that enters flight nursing comes with strengths and weaknesses. I have significant ICU experience, but not much trauma and almost no peds. I fly with nurses and paramedics who have alot of E...

3. Tnatc

   MellowOne replied to StangBoss302's topic in Flight

   This class has only 16 slots, and I think it's close to full. Better sign up quickly if you want to get in. Be well... The Mellow One

4. Is there/should there be a gay/lesbian nurses association?

   MellowOne replied to inquiringnurse's topic in General Nursing

   No The Mellow One

5. Males in Nursing: Improvement or Hindrance?

   MellowOne replied to Firedawg03's topic in General Nursing

   I've actually found that males aren't just welcomed, but openly courted. I've been told a number of times by nurses that they need more male nurses on the unit. Strangely enough, a male nurse on the unit seems to decrease the feline factor that man...

6. What can I do with my BSN that Assoc. RN's can't?

   MellowOne replied to doodlebug914's topic in General Nursing

   Well, allow a poor little ADN to throw in his 2 cents worth. In my short 9 years as a nurse, I've worked the units, and been clinical manager on a cardio-thoracic ICU. I'm currently house administrator for a large urban hospital, and have just start...

7. Strike Vote

   MellowOne replied to husker-nurse's topic in Activism

   Well, I personally would like to know more about the situation before I would support a strike. While it is sometimes necessary when a hospital administration is filled with clueless idiots, other times it is not. I went to nursing school at a union...

8. Who are the Uninsured?

   MellowOne replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism

   Simplistic, to say the least. Like all nations, the U.S. history is a combinatin of greatness and shame. A very small percentage of Americans owned slaves, and a far smaller percentage abused them as seen in the movies. Hundreds of thousands of Am...

9. Where is the nursing proffesion going?

   MellowOne replied to finchertwins's topic in Activism

   The Government should fix the nursing shortage? How? When I hear that the government is going to fix my problem, my first reaction is to cringe. We don't need another bureaucracy sucking down tax dollars to fix our profession. In France? Uh, n...

10. Why a Philadelphia hospital gave in to a racist demand?

    MellowOne replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    Here's an editorial that I wrote for the newspaper last year. It was on unit refrigerators all over the state. Give nurses a break Demanding job getting harder at understaffed hospitals By Robert -------- CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST The good news is that...

11. Nursing Editorial

    MellowOne posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last year I was a contributing columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. This was my first editorial. It was on nursing units all over the state the next day. (most of my other editorials have been politically conservative views.) Nurses and doct...

12. Army Nurses Face Biggest Battle Of Their Lives In Baghdad

    MellowOne replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    I asked that political discussions about the war take place in a different thread. Threads here have a tendency to get way off of the original topic. This thread started as a salute to our fellow nurses who are dealing with the war in the first per...

13. Army Nurses Face Biggest Battle Of Their Lives In Baghdad

    MellowOne replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    Karen, thanks for posting these links. Several people from my unit are deployed in Iraq right now. I've just learned that my unit is on a short list for deployment. We don't want to leave our families for a combat zone, but it's our job. We knew...

14. Army Nurses Face Biggest Battle Of Their Lives In Baghdad

    MellowOne replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

15. flight nursing over rated

    MellowOne replied to FlyingED's topic in Flight

    I just started a job as a flight nurse. The training is incredible, and you can't beat the schedule. (24 hour shifts, 7-8 days per 4 week schedule). Pay's pretty average, but the training, the comradarie, the adrenaline. Our flight service is heli...