kalevra

kalevra BSN, RN

ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor

Member

  • Content

    530

  • Visitors

    20,810

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    6

All Content by kalevra

  1. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    I know I sound naive but it's just such a surprise to find out that the practice is 100%

  2. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Wait so these foreign RNs coming in that are "recruited" by these agencies are barely being paid minimum wage as take

  3. Where does the Unions stand on Importing Foreign Nurses?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yeah I thought a rep would be crawling around and stumble into this thread maybe I should put it out in the general

  4. Give me the numbers regarding "Nursing Shortage"

    kalevra posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Given that many people including our own lawmakers believe there is a nursing shortage, I would like anyone and I mean anyone to send me hard data or primary research articles on how many RN's we have...

  5. Give me the numbers regarding "Nursing Shortage"

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I fully understand that as the baby boomer age they will require more"nursing" care. Since there are so many of them it is understandable that we will need more "nurses". There will be areas of the...

  6. Give me the numbers regarding "Nursing Shortage"

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I went to the site and pasted your name into the search bar and got no results back. Do you have a copy of it somewhere or a

  7. Give me the numbers regarding "Nursing Shortage"

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The nursezone article states that we are currently in a nursing shortage and will grow even worse as the older baby boomer generation ages. The article also cites that there is an 8.1% vacancy rate in...

  8. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    You are right instead of looking out for foreign nurses coming in and taking American positions we should deal with the people writing these preposterous legislation. The people propagating the idea...

  9. Nurses Masquerading As Doctors (INSULTING)

    kalevra replied to djaychris's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I would love to meet the nurse who introduces themselves as a Doctor. Can you imagine the legal ramifications, talk about out of scope of practice. No one in their right mind would do this, this...

  10. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know exactly how people or news organizations for that matter come to the conclusion that there is a "nursing shortage"? Seriously I would love to read how they go the numbers on this like...

  11. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been crawling around through the forums for a while now even before I opened up my account and every now and then someone will mention something about a " nursing shortage". I would very much...

  12. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

  13. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    It seems most places with openings are in areas that are freezing cold. Makes sense though, the states with year round sunshine or closer to the coast of the U.S have more people wanting to live in...

  14. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Can you go in greater detail about retaining nurses and them clocking out on time. I dont understand the correlation. Im still in NS for RN. Thanks alot for the

  15. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Kinda hurts equating RNs to cooks, and gardeners but I do get your

  16. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Well as recent as May 13 2011 there as a bill that would open 20,000 visas to foreign nurses. Ill attach a link to the bottom so you can read it....

  17. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    keep it coming guys, so far the only location with opening is North

  18. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    In my opinion I have always believed that homegrown American nurses are way better than any foreign nurse, just out of sheer pride...4 years service in the ARMY. The majority of you guys are saying no...

  19. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the intel, really helped

  20. Where is the shortage??

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    So its not that there are not enough new grads to fill open positions, its that management does not want to pay nurses at the rates they want. Therefore positions remain unfilled making it look like...

  21. The easy way in

    kalevra posted a topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to know what everyones thoughts are on people who want to go overseas to take the guaranteed way into nursing. Let me be more specific, in Philippines getting into the RN program is not has...

  22. The easy way in

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    After reading through some of the articles on foreign nurses in the forum it appears that some employers may be able to pay their foreign nurses a few dollars less as compared to regular america...

  23. The easy way in

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Easy way out is simple. Go to your councilor and say " I wish to withdraw from the RN program".

  24. The easy way in

    kalevra replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I definitely don't like the whole importing nurses aspect because we have a nursing shortage. As for this whole nursing shortage its not that we have a shortage of nurses more like we have a...

  25. Nursing as a Business?

    kalevra replied to jazzy88rn's topic in General Nursing

    You can do travel nursing in which case your working for yourself and the staffing agency takes a