myoglobin

myoglobin ASN, BSN, MSN

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  1. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    myoglobin replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    The pay disparity is especially vexing when insurance pays 85% of what MD’s get, but salaries are more like 50 percent in many markets. Why would I choose to get 15 to 20 minutes with patients and...

  2. Quitting HCA after 5 months

    myoglobin replied to Mlrkc21's topic in General Nursing

    If we ever descend in to the sort of socialist quagmire like Venezuela then it will be in good part due to companies like HCA who put such a premium on profit as to smear free market capitalism in the...

  3. Quitting HCA after 5 months

    myoglobin replied to Mlrkc21's topic in General Nursing

    Better yet it would be wonderful to find a law firm willing to take on the HCA with a class action law suit for abusive practices against young nurses with these "contracts" that obligate them to work...

  4. Quitting HCA after 5 months

    myoglobin replied to Mlrkc21's topic in General Nursing

    You do indeed have HCA’s in California and they still manage to make a profit despite the ratio, OT and paid lunch laws. They are the largest hospital company in America. They are owned largely by...

  5. Sainthood for going to NYC

    myoglobin replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The offers that I got for covid jobs in New York mentioned "great" pay (5K per week plus housing), but they also mentioned working seven 12 hour shifts. I don't care if you are giving me my own...

  6. Why are so many nurses against unions?

    myoglobin replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    In the scheme of things many more good nurses are treated poorly in non union facilities than bad nurses are sheltered in unionized hospitals. Also, I believe standardized pay scales reduce income...

  7. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    myoglobin replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    I believe that it is often optimal for schools to find clinical placement, but not always. In my case my school was in Evansville Indiana, and I live in Orlando. Had "they' found my clinical site it...

  8. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    myoglobin replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    I would argue that the "consensus model" provides a significant degree of doing just that. All NP programs must for example have an advanced pharmacology and and advanced pathophysiology, and advanced...

  9. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    myoglobin replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    Who knows what the market will look like when this is over, but even as a new grad psych NP’s I was on my way towards 200k in Seattle. Also, I wasn’t saying that NP in IP states would earn as much...

  10. Do Not Compare COVID-19 (Coronavirus) To Seasonal Influenza

    myoglobin replied to 42pines's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Of course not, but it is important to try and understand real risk levels so that we can make the most informed decisions about trade offs and risk to benefit analysis as we move forward. Thus as a...

  11. Do Not Compare COVID-19 (Coronavirus) To Seasonal Influenza

    myoglobin replied to 42pines's topic in Disaster Preparation

    One of the best lines of evidence for a CFR of one percent or less is from the Diamond Princess Cruise ship as examined in this article...

  12. Could Covid 19 actually save lives by reducing all cause mortality?

    myoglobin posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Here's the thing in 2018-2019 the CDC said that "regular" influenza killed about 34,000 people in the United States and caused 490,000 hospitalizations Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits,...

  13. If a disease sickens but no one can prove it is Covid-19 is there really an epidemic?

    myoglobin posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    That seems to be the philosophy of the current administration. At first I considered it "possible" that the wealthiest nation on Earth couldn't garner more than a few thousand Covid-19 test kits. Then...

  14. If a disease sickens but no one can prove it is Covid-19 is there really an epidemic?

    myoglobin replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is one issue that will definitely sway even a percentage of the current administrations "solid base" against him ( of which he cannot afford to lose even a single percent). When it comes to...

  15. Do Not Compare COVID-19 (Coronavirus) To Seasonal Influenza

    myoglobin replied to 42pines's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I believe that the fatality rate is likely much lower than the 3% given by the WHO based on the fact that so few people can even be tested given a lack of covid 19 testing. Stated differently there...

  16. CRNA School Dismissal for B-

    myoglobin replied to CriticalRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Yes, schools make such a big deal out of their "board pass rates". When I see nursing (or any other program) with 100% board pass rates I think "great you start with exceptionally gifted students and...

  17. This might be the story that pushed me over the edge into joining PETA

    myoglobin posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/texas-baboon-troop-enlisted-in-humankind-s-war-on-coronavirus. So we are going to deliberately sicken animals when there is literally no chance that any sort of...

  18. This might be the story that pushed me over the edge into joining PETA

    myoglobin replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    True, but we can use drugs “off label” for conditions such as Covid 19. In any case any emergent treatment from animals would also have to go through a clinical trial process. I frankly thought...

  19. This might be the story that pushed me over the edge into joining PETA

    myoglobin replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes but we have lots of sick humans that we can try various treatments upon rather than making healthy animals

  20. Could Covid 19 actually save lives by reducing all cause mortality?

    myoglobin replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was thinking more along the lines of “complex emergent factors” such as what the authors of Freaksnomics found when they looked at things like declining birth rates and abortion contributing to...

  21. Do Not Compare COVID-19 (Coronavirus) To Seasonal Influenza

    myoglobin replied to 42pines's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not to make the case for socialized medicine but the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Sweden have around double the cases (confirmed) as in the United States, but haven't recorded a single death...

  22. CRNA School Dismissal for B-

    myoglobin replied to CriticalRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I feel that CRNA schools are possibly trying to "overcompensate" for the MD's attitudes with whom they work so closely that "nurses shouldn't really be doing this anyway". Thus, they create such high...

  23. Any Psych Nurse Practitioner's out there?

    myoglobin replied to HealingThoughts's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    That is a reasonable question. Certainly many of the clients that I worked with in clinical (in Florida) were as you describe and had little other than Medicaid (if that). Still many of the clients...

  24. CRNA School Dismissal for B-

    myoglobin replied to CriticalRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I don't see why you couldn't apply to a different program and just neglect to mention on the application your experience at this institution. True, you would lose all of the other credit from the...

  25. Do Not Compare COVID-19 (Coronavirus) To Seasonal Influenza

    myoglobin replied to 42pines's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Then again the same site that I reference above lists six deaths for the United States (all in the greater Seattle area where I am) and seven recovered. Thus, if that were the actual number infected...