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It took me 2 years to get licensed and I encountered resentment against Americans in the workplace-only friendly people were Australians. Also,I would not have been able to afford to work there if I were not already receiving a retirement pension whi...

It seems to be a red flag to just say Universal Healthcare. Too bad,as healthcare in this country makes no sense at all. Only the people without the means to pay (without health insurance) are required to pay full price for doctor and hospital car...

TYPOAGAIN's FACTS are NOT facts! On anybody's list,we have a very poor infant death rate and are below standards in many other countries. Even Cuba,which is a very poor country does better with it's citizens due to availability of health care,even th...

I worked in the UK and learned the hard way that you should not tell the doc that you are only there temporarily. Thay made me pay for services,but the cost was probably about 25% of what it would have cost here. I was hired by a nursing agency,but w...

to Bortaz and Stanley, You are WAY off subject. Subject is Universal Health care and will it affect RN pay? There is no need or call for sexist,abusive remarks. By the way, I agree that MM is unattractive,boorish and assinine in many ways,BUT there w...

why do people think that UHC would mean the gov't interfering in their health care / OR THINK THAT GOV'T DOES NOT DO THAT ALREADY? Medicare says what it will pay for and what it will not pay for and that limits what care you can get. Some states dec...

does anyone out there know what happened to the nurse who worked in a hospital in New Orleans and stayed through Katrina until she was helicoptered out? We had a link to her blog about the disaster and it was very compelling. wish i had kept it and w...

you all need to watch Michael Moore's movie about health care insurance-"Sicko" I have worked in the UK and found their system to work really well. It is expensive,so they have high taxes,but they have one of the finest health care systems in the wor...

...You can honestly say "I've got a granddaughter older than you". And I have done that,but most of the nurses on my unit are older than my 29 yr old granddaughter. As they say,the work force is aging and who will be there to take care of us?

I have landed a travel job in Edinburgh. What can anyone tell me about what to expect there? Looking forward to seeing the country. Pay is a little less than I am making here,but it's only for a short term. Will be working Dialysis. Thanks for any in...

I have to agree that you need to look for another position. Not all nurses work in hospitals. You may need to look at other places topw ork. With your education,you might look at teaching. You could change things by teaching young nurses how to do it...

i am sorry to hear that you people from the UK have had accidents and bad health problems since you have come to the US,but you should know that you can apply for food stamps when you are unable to work adn children can get free meals at school. Ther...

Benefits are better in hospitals than other places to work. You are allassuming that your pension from work is the only pension. We,as US citizens will get social security retirement and this is based on work alaries,so usually upwards of $1200 a mo...

i would suggest contacting a US travel nursing agency,NursesRX is one that I worked for. Cross Country Nurses also is good. Go to Healthcare Traveler on the internet and you will see there are a wealth of agencies that can find you a temporary job. M...

i used continental travel nurses and they were encouraging with getting my registration there,but you should know that it took a good year to get it. And once I got it they were unable to find me a job. Looks like they mostly do nannies,from their w...

Yes,I graduated as an LPN in 1976 and made 1 1/2 times as much as I had been as a seamstress--a whopping $3.50 an hour,if I remember right. But,it was all relative-nothing cost as much then as it does now. I also remember using maalox on pressure sor...

Yes,I remember all that. I did dialysis on a pt who had a machine at home and was told I could wear gloves if I wanted to!! The gloves were there but I didn't feel the need and didn't think I could work with gloves on. Of course,now I use gloves al...

creatinine 6.6 amd BUN 66 not wierd,just renal failure. that is the normal ratio for creatinine and BUN. Say creatinine 2.0 BUN should be 20.

it has to do with hours in each subject-they do accept a 3 yr degree. it helps if you have taken extra courses to make up the extra year. I have a PIN no. and an associalte's degree,but i was first an LPN and that course was 6 quarters,then got my RN...

SotaRN,You seem to be most bothered by why? Don't forget that there are all sorts of people in the world and they don't change for the better when they are sick. That is the sort of person he is. The illness of his child has not changed him for the b...

I am a travel nurse wanting to get a short-term job in the UK (locum tenens). My specialties are hemodialysis and psychiatry. By the time I got registered,things had changed in the UK and it seems your nursing shortage is over or your money ran out. ...

Yes,you do need top go through the NMC-an agency will call the NMC every so often and check progress,but that's all they can do. I have over 20 yr experience and it took me a year to get my PIN,but have not been able to find a 13 week job. I am a tra...

A psych nurse needs all the skills that a med-surg nurse does because it's much harder to assess all the symptoms. Our pt often have stopped taking their meds and have all kinds of medical illnesses. High blood pressure and diabetes are big ones. you...

They do not seem to be short of nurses enough to make it easy to come over. According to my agency over there,if you do not have a PIN number already,you will need to stay over there for 6 weeks before getting paid-4 weeks to take the adaptation cour...

i took a travel jopb in Yuma,Az and went back for 3 winters. Loved it! The best way to go to Mexico is to go down to Yuma and cross the river and park in the Quechon Indians parking lot and walk across the bridge into Algodones. They cater to the whi...