It's all part of the plan, serfs! bankrupt the hospitals, bankrupt the insurance companies, then have big brother step in and take over. You don't like it? Well, we've got plenty of indentured...
cheesey_mcflavius replied to born2circulateRN's topic in Texas Nursing
Being a new grad, I make 6 bajillion/hr, with night shift diff of 20 centillion dollars, plus weekend shift diff of 90 quintillion holiday shift-diff of 10 trillion centillion
cheesey_mcflavius replied to theatredork's topic in Burn
If you like doing 3-4 hr full body dressing changes, leaving the room drenched in sweat, that's great. Double kudos if you enjoy spending all that time with people who burned themselves smoking
cheesey_mcflavius replied to Annachu512's topic in General Students
Haha, get used to wild kingdom. We started out with 110, ended up with about 25 after 4 yrs, and that includes a few that had to retake from previous classes. I'd start getting to be buddy-buddy with...
I see this as typical family/visitor behavvior. If you go elsewhere--restaurant, hotel, third world country slave plantation--people don't complain as much as visitors/family complain about nurses. It...
You know you're a neuro nurse when...temp = 103, wbc = 21, pt is having course crackles, and coughing up yellowish phlegm, and doctors diagnose it as neurogenic fever while waiting 3 days to show...