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This is purely a guess but could it be that fingerprint checks take a bit longer because the native country is not the US?

Wasn't a thread identical to this locked yesterday? I'm confused. I just want to say though that never in 8 years of teaching inpatient phlebotomy to everyone from newly graduated high school students, to college phlebotomy students, to medical stude...

Basically what it is, is a slipknot.

You're welcome. A few messy sheets and you will be expert....seriously. :) Never hesitate to ask if you need something clarified and/or demonstrated. Asking will show good nursing judgement on your part.

And by the way, all you need to give is your 2 week notice. Don't feel guilty about it. It's your well-being. Unless of course you're under a contract that involved a monetary sign-on bonus. You would have to pay back the sign-on. I can't believe the...

Oh gosh, I feel for you. Your personal insurance worries are part of what's so wrong with healthcare in this country. I worked for a county facility in CA many moons ago and I remember there being something about being able to transfer my senority, p...

Personally, I say big whoop to the amount of money that was designated to this purpose. It's a drop in the bucket. The state, under the direction of Arnold and the Hospital Association probably spent 10 times that much trying to undo nurse/patient r...

Hmmm. Upon looking into this further I found a more updated RNPA/County of Santa Clara contract. The differential for pm's is $4 and nocs is $7.25. Effective November 11, 2006: Clinical Nurse I's earn $82,729.92 - $98,074.08 annually Clinical Nurse ...

I'm dismayed that you would even consider going into work! See a doctor that can help you identify your rash.

moongirl why not do a search of this website. There are tons and tons and tons already written on this topic and these threads always end up closed.

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Look at this example of a 3-way stopcock. You'll notice that there are three prongs (I'm not sure that's what they're actually called). Which ever direction these prongs are facing means that is the direction of flow or it is open. Notice the arrows ...

Is it a 3-way stopcock?

You know you could shut the alarms off for the sbp and dbp and set the alarm for the map. Maps reflect a more accurate interpretation of bp. Unless the line is profoundly (flat) damped the maps are still amazingly constant because the measurement do...

PCA/PCEA locked, IV gtts not locked. Straight epidural narc gtts are not locked either UNLESS it is patient controlled (the PCEA). Waste is according to the remaining vtbi when the gtt is d/c'd.

Lots of good stuff here. One thing I want to mention is that nursing is smart. You will know so much about so many things. There is really no limit to what you can learn and then do and then teach. You will be a decision maker, frequently makin...

I believe that you didn't mean to say it, but you just said it. What some don't seem to understand is that most adn's have two FULL years of prerequisites BEFORE they enter the 2 year nursing program = 4 years altogether. I see no reason why bsn shou...

Hi balutboi. I just wanted to share with you that I work with an RN who also loves music. She pretty much plans her nursing life around her seat in the San Francisco Symphony. For her, it really works. She also guests with symphonies around the nati...

It's really great isn't it? I'm not really surprised by it though. It's so easy to earn $100k/yr in a short period of time. I have a friend who has been an RN for 5 years this July. He makes well over $120k/yr. Because he had so much senority with th...

I'm not sure what the per diem rate is at the county hospital I cite (they call per diem "extra-help), but I do know at another hospital they add $4/hr to the base wage if one chooses no benefits (per diem/relief). I'm sure the county is similar. Ove...

I can absilutely see a nurse judging a patient and coming to the conclusion that an IVDA doesn't deserve pain meds. Absolutely wrong, but I can see it happening. I might, maaaaaybe try sticking the patient once that's it - and I wouldn't even try ...

Digging under the surface here, it sounds like you are a bit surprised that nurses actually have so much decision making power in the running of hospitals? Unlike the television shows ER and Grey's Anatomy where it is portrayed over and over that th...

The above statement about unions is a statement that uses just as broad a stroke with that paintbrush as the OP has been accused of using in his statements about nurses.

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Gotcha. I re-read the op and I stand corrected. But it is still not "all." I don't believe the op to be a troll, but someone who has voiced a personal observation that many do not like because it hits so close to home - nursing. I agree with the sta...