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Does it seem like somehow we are to be germ phobic by design? Believe it or not, there were people who actually lived before the invention of antibiotics, Hand Sanitizer, Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare. Perhaps being fearful makes people more li...

Better work on your upper body, particularly your arm strength. It makes flying soooo much easier!

Maybe the nurse she ran into is a troublemeker or has an axe to grind with the agency. On the other hand, it sounds like the company is putting a lot of pressure on the full time RNs. Not unusual. When agencies hire full time RNs, they often assig...

Hospice Nursing may seem emotionally demanding at first, but in my experience, you will soon develop self satisfaction that comes from providing compassionate & professional care. On the downside, Hospice has become big buisness, with Hospice pr...

I do not spout Bible verses or push my beliefs on others and would pray with a patient if they asked me to. I am not good at praying out loud off the cuff and have found that a general plea to the Almighty for support and help for the patient and th...

I meant the Election. That was a qupote from some politician, not sure I ever knew who said it.

Whoops, forgot to "vote" in this pole. ROMNEY-RYAN, because I don't want my kids and grandgids saddled with any more debt, nor do I want our country and lives placed at risk because of extreme cuts in our military readiness.

The polling and comments on Allnurses.com are dominated by loyal Union people, maybe not even nurses at all, so there is no way to know if those of us responding to this very unscientific pole are representative of nurses in general, or of the Union ...

I was a little disturbed by the tone of the President's response as well, but I don't think he really meant the Corpsman (or Corpse-Man as the President might have pronounced it) couldn't even get a job as a Mere Nurse. The President probably doesn'...

It is 66% more expensive to live in Los Angeles than Columbus, OH. Was your salary 66% more in California? Homes cost 290% more in LA county than anyplace in Ohio. How much is your rent/house payment now? You paid money to the union each paycheck...

Do the math. $5-10 more per hour won't be much for trading off benefits, paying your own taxes and double the amt. of Social Security witholding, plus a LOT more for medical insurance, but if you have insurance through a spousal plan, then maybe 40%...

The trend has already started but will accelerate, by design, after 2012, when the Affordable Care Act will bring about a dramatic contraction in demand for nurses to match the multibillion dollar, government mandated cuts in healthcare spending. It...

And besides all of the above: It would not be YOU violating HIPPA, but instead the building management.

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I used to be an E.R. nurse and gets a little competitive down there. If you find yourself in a toxic workplace, get out as soon as possible and don't look back. Lif is just too short to put up with personal attacks, petty jealousy, etc. BTW, upon...

You could get an attorney and sue her for slander, but any damages would be dependent on your showing a court that her remarks hurt your reputation. You will also need to have witnesses lined up. Since this is a small case for an attorney, they wil...

To the mind of this RN, who has been out of Nursing School 32 years, healthcare was better before Big Government and the corporations rung the CARE out of healthcare, as evidenced by your description of hospital care in the 70s. That's the way that ...

I got my Nursing Education in the early to late 1970s as well. One hospital I worked in had a Nurses' Lounge where the walls started out off white at the bottom and turned more brown the further up the walls that you looked. The ceiling, which had ...

Thanks for your aunt's story--and for the Thos. Jefferson quote!

You are SO right and I was so totally misinformed. I USED to watch Fox, but now I am hooked on MSNBC. Democrats, Socialists, Environmentalists, illegal immigrants, atheists, gay people, Islamofascists, CPUSA affiliated Union Officers; all 100% GOOD...

OK, I give up on reality and will adopt the lefty points of view on this topic: Management is trying to screw the workers. Unions good. Corporations bad. Socialists, Communists, Obama and Democrats good. Republicans and conservatives bad. Hosp...

However, when unions ally themselves with a political force which at it's heart lies hatred of America and the American way of life, the long term interests of their own membership, their members' descendents, the puiblic and their own nation, then w...

a famous man (andy capp) once said, "do a job once and it is a favor. do it twice and it becomes your job." katern1 is right. i don't mind doing personal care if needed and do not consider it beneath me at all, since i started out as a nursing assi...

I have worked for numerous Home Health Agencies and a couple have asked me to do HHA visits in an emergency, but at my regular hourly rate. I did it to help out an employer that I liked. I would not consent to do the visits at a HHA rate unless I was...

They ARE real people, Communists and Socialists, not bogeymen or bogeywomen. Their membership and participation in the CPUSA or a related Communist group, the Committees on Correspondence, is documented. Communism is a political philosophy based on c...