VBRNJD99

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  1. Resume

    VBRNJD99 replied to akujieme's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I have found it is much more beneficial to manage the resume process on my own than to pay someone to write one for me. The problem I've found with having someone create one for me is that it tends...

  2. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Jewels26, you make some excellent points I would just like to add though, in the state where I live if I had to be off of work for 6 months because I have a medical emergency, I would get no...

  3. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There is truly a lack of education in this country regarding universal healthcare. There is not going to be one federal system, just like there isn't one system now. Each state runs their own Medicaid...

  4. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Just one comment. If we aren't willing to pay for even basic public education for helpless children, how do we expect them to be able to get jobs that pay well enough for them to be self sustaining...

  5. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    One additional point about National Health Systems, several of my physician and nursing friends have been concerned about their "standard of living." In Canada, and several European countries, the...

  6. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In response to some posters, actually, one can die without medication much faster than without food. I believe medication falls under the umbrella of healthcare. There are many services that " my...

  7. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To conquerer+, if you were referring to my post regarding cable and 2 cars, I was being facetious. Many people are given the choice to suck it up and die. They make too much for Medicaid, or they...

  8. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    VBRNJD99 replied to jayp's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have been an RN for 13 years. I was wrongfully terminated from employment last December. I was unable to find full time employment with benefits for 6 months and was working per diem as well as...

  9. New RNAC workload?

    VBRNJD99 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    I have been an RNAC for a little over 3 months. I have 2 years experience in LTC and 13 years experience as an RN. The facility I work for is a 96 bed facility. We have a 26 bed sub-acute rehab...

  10. Is this Safe? Census: 45 / ID Bands: 0 / # of Nurses: 1

    VBRNJD99 replied to carriebarton59's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In the facility where I work, we use the sleeve kind with the paper in the middle. The new connectors are very tight and the bands usually have to be cut off when a resident leaves. Everyone wears...

  11. Rookie mistake, Help!!!

    VBRNJD99 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    I locked and submitted an MDS yesterday on a resident who was on therapy caseload. New CVA , 30 day assessment. RNAC director and rehab director played w ARD date a few times. Resident unable to...

  12. Rookie mistake, Help!!!

    VBRNJD99 replied to VBRNJD99's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    It was an RM when I submitted it. If we kept original ARD of the next day, would have had 5 tx days to get RV. we were still in grace period and had plenty of time to submit. But, I had to have all of...

  13. A Diabetic rant

    VBRNJD99 replied to veggie530's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I have been type 1 since 2001 and have been on a pump since 2003. What most docs and nurses know about diabetes is scary. I started on a continuous glucose monitoring system 9 months ago. I wear a...

  14. Hospital CEO Salaries: Are The Big Bucks Justified?

    VBRNJD99 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is about salaries in Canada. Different

  15. Womens interest in male nurses

    VBRNJD99 replied to johny1's topic in Men in Nursing

    I haven't read the entire post, but OP where I live there are male nurse groupies. Not just other healthcare workers either. Many women assume rightly or wrongly that being a nurse will make you a...

  16. It's sort of a bummer with some of these aids

    VBRNJD99 replied to ldiva0808's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Falsifying vitals doesn't shock me, but after 15 years in healthcare nothing really does. Most CNA's/techs do a phenomenal job with the minimal training and education they have received. I was a CNA...

  17. CCRN looking towards JD

    VBRNJD99 replied to Dontknowwhattodo's topic in Legal

    I realize this thread is several months old but I wanted to share my experience. I began law school after being an RN for seven years. I graduated in the top half of a Tier One law school with a...