zaggar

zaggar has 8 years experience.

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1. I need your advice on dealing with people who try to treat me like I'm stupid

   zaggar replied to zaggar's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I have. They say no. They keep at it. They're clever. Also, I'm wanting to stop using the old standby of directly confronting the issue, cause life is full of issues and if I spent all my time...

2. I need your advice on dealing with people who try to treat me like I'm stupid

   zaggar posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Hello everyone. I love nursing. I love helping people get better. I love learning new things. I want to keep doing this. But I've hit a serious mental roadblock that I can't get over. I've been...

3. Who HATES the term MURSE?

   zaggar replied to LuxCalidaNP's topic in Men in Nursing

   The only place I've ever heard the term is here on this message

4. will universal healthcare ( in the usa) cut RN pay?

   zaggar replied to Trauma_Team_1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   If anything passes, it will be more health insurance reform than healthcare reform. Health insurance companies might be told they can't just drop clients anymore when they get sick. And everyone will...

5. What did you NOT expect when you became a nurse.

   zaggar replied to Mr.RN-CDE's topic in Men in Nursing

   I didn't expect everyone to be so thankful and appreciative and kind to me. For reasons that are totally unfair, I think being a male is a large part of

6. any advice to male late 30's on entering nursing field?

   zaggar replied to watertower's topic in Men in Nursing

   I did various computer, network and sys admin jobs for 21 years, then went into nursing school. I graduate in May. -Quite a change in careers, it's scary!! I was scared during my first semester, when...

7. Question!!! (Men in Emergency Nursing)

   zaggar replied to ronbrooker's topic in Men in Nursing

   Others will tell you how great the ER is. They are right, since it's a personal opinion kind of thing. So I'll give you the opposite view as a person who has worked both. ER nursing can't compare to...

8. Best Men's Nursing Shoes???

   zaggar replied to juniataemt06's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

   New Balance with a high number stamped on

9. Give Me The Cold Hard Truth About Nursing

   zaggar replied to JD810's topic in Men in Nursing

   How hard is it to get into a field you want to...(I would like to work in ICU or ER or Surgery...although I know this might change after nursing school and being exposed to different areas)? In my...

10. Clumpsy

    zaggar replied to gottaBRN's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I had problems with my feet. Our rooms are small, with patients hooked up to IV's, foleys, telemetry and chest tubes, blakes and JP's, and sometimes epidurals, PCA's rectal tubes, SCD's, wound vacs,...

11. How're your backs doing guys?

    zaggar replied to baldee's topic in Male Nursing Students

    So far, so good. Can't last forever

12. Turned off by fellow nursing students...

    zaggar replied to whiteoleander5's topic in General Students

    Quietly observe. You will notice periods of time where all the pinheads wander off together. Staying behind will be a few students keeping to themselves. They are the real

13. Staying Positive....how to?

    zaggar replied to cornflakegirl3301's topic in General Nursing

    What I do that helps: 1. Count your blessings. 2. Help someone. 3. Let all snide comments and rudeness slide, except those that will keep you up at night. Then speak your mind quickly and move

14. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    zaggar replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes. Simple truth - you don't have enough money to afford old age. God willing, you will grow old. Then, sure enough, you will have some chronic illness. Maybe only diabetes, maybe cancer, maybe a...

15. I know they're not all like this, but whats up with Nursing Homes?!?

    zaggar replied to Sue Damones's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    God bless you all, who work to take care of our elderly. We will be in the same boat some day. It's the way our western world is structured. The problem, as stated above, is the lack of meaningful...