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Avail (home health) agency, paying $16/hr for new lpn's, also pays $17/hr :uhoh21: for lpn's with 20+ yrs. experience

No insurance-plan is offered, nor do I want one from work. - As happy&healthy me, (only 'catastrophic'-help's appropriate), so I got 2 policies (less than $70monthly) from AFLAC - I recommend this company highly. Good day! :)

Good for you!, re: "Exercise should be what you *enjoy* :wink2: doing" Today, my Figure-skating coach commented in my lesson: "Annie, where is your usual broad smile? (as I was over-analyzing a skill that I want (with the *same* level of competenc...

hi tweety ~ had i known about this (what you wrote today): "i'm going to ask a mod to close this thread (part-2) and then delete it in a few days." - i would have spent my time choosing a different-thread to post my contributions in, re: *how to de-s...

the concept of "work" should be abolished, lol no really, how about just *enjoy :melody: living, having fun with all involved, and get paid for it too* (the gravel-road there was not exactly a 'free-way', lol - took 30-some years of more/less dow...

Hi again Tweety ~ I thought "What is this person asking me about?" - only to realize I had made a minor "typo" in my post; sowwy! :imbar (That 'plus'-sign was supposed to have been a "%"-sign instead, reading like this: I'm a'wonderin - Are other nu...

Hi Tweety ~ oh sowwy, I thought I was sharing with fellow-nurses, not the "General-public". ~ And yes, I learned in Nursing-school in the 70's that I "must sell my soul" to work in this profession; so I understand what you mean. I shared with the be...

Hi Wonka ~ As I said above, we don't pay attention to: Calories, this or that, and our family is healthy, active & slim. The way we achieve/maintain this is: First, we gratefully eat foods simply as God created them for us: organic-veggies (in ...

this is my 1st. post (here at all.nurses) in over a year, and i am still wondering *if*, or how, i'll ever fit in. for example, at 55: i am continuing my youthful-health, and can maintain my weight of 110 lbs. just fine, partly because as a passiona...

I am glad you found it helpful, Sis :), and like I offered above, I have more like truthful stories, especially how (in our "patient" clients) we can *each* inspire helpful HOPE... In the early 80's, there was a little boy born with respiratory chall...

Hi Jaime, THANK YOU for being open-minded, enough to "accept and appreciate ALL opinions as valid and respected". And obviously evidently, individuals in "coma-state" are tragically mis-understood. Might you agree - 1. the *coma-person, her/him-self*...

Hello, (registered only yesterday and spent hours reading here hoping to avoid bothering you with a question already answered before). Can someone, please, advise if WA state has rules about *specific* "online or distance"-programs. I have known ab...

Basically, 'therapeutic communication' is generally taught to give the recipient of your communication a sense of you being caring, mentally present/bonding and actively hearing/listening. Initially you can use it to de-escalate, or dissipate, negat...

Thank you for wanting to be helpful. And specifically which "large" words, in the referencing post, are not being understood ? Inquiring minds are eager to continue learning...One might want to do that before adding a 7th. language, agreed. :)

Hi Stacy, "Med/Surg" for a year at least, will serve your developing skills well. I chose that too, and found it valuable - in the dozen different Specialties following, and gaining service experience in also.

Hi Christi - You are *free to be Creative* ? - how fortunate you are!, really. And adding to your ideas, how about 1. you explore interviewing actual "elderly"-individuals, living for instance in AFH's. (in one I managed, we scheduled visitors dai...

Hi Cat again, re " Perhaps talking about her childhood abuse with a trained counselor may be helpful." What you shared of your mom's suffering, there are a couple of particularly successful methods available. Find a counselor skilled in "Time-line ...

Dixielee : except for how far we live apart, our families might make good neighbors Goats are interestin' critters, to boot - LOL

Please *speedily* act on these 2 constructive suggestions: 1. Pray to God, that people with a healthy conscience, will get their Congress-members to vote "Yes" for Disability Groups Support H.R. 1151 and S. 539 - "Disabled Persons' Lifesaving Habea...

Hello Kyriaka - http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10052 you can Decline vaccinations, especially you having suffered 2 "severe adverse Notices" already. also, have you studied Psych, as in that special...

Hi again - Evidently, your mother's anxiety serves as a "cry for help": Rather than enjoying living in the Present, while planning the future, as serves us best --- instead, she's "stuck" in negative emotions (as a contributing factor in her aging)...

Originally Posted by Cheerfulsong: How's this for a sane idea: What if we were to simplify life, and just choose to rely on far less drugs to begin with, like "some immunizations, some antibiotics, some other Emergency meds, and some analgesics". Mi...

hey Futurenurse, you are spot-on, with "lots of companionship" - and another factor that I found, really making Good sense when you choose to remember that,' is *choose :balloons: to continue enjoying learning Fun new skills*. To hell with "grow...

Pardon me for asking, but I fail to understand how you can be "counting, and taking out Controlled, narcotic, drugs" - without being licensed to do so. Unless you are a government employee, like in the Military ? - How's this for a sane idea: Wha...

Hi Cat, You mentioned: "my mom has 'long term' anxiety problems, and the alprazolam doesn't seem to help much anymore." - Is this another way of saying: "for a while such means managed numbing her current emotional state, but her anxiety continues b...