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  1. Somebody Please Help Me

    weirdRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I don't get it. Why is it so hard to understand? I am talking about safe patient ratio staffing. If you have a safe patient ratio, you have better care. Better care equals better patient and...

  2. Need Some Advice

    weirdRN replied to kayleo22's topic in General Nursing

    You Can Do It. Go For it. You have nothing to loose and everything to

  3. What nursing shortage????

    weirdRN replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

    True and not true. It depends on where you want to work and the hours and benes that you want for your time... All goes back to that whole reservation wage thingy that was discussed on another...

  4. What nursing shortage????

    weirdRN replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

    I think b/c I have started my carreer in a LTC environment I was sterotyped. Even though I went on to get my RN. Many may nay say that. However, I met with a Nurse Adminstrator who flat out told me...

  5. What nursing shortage????

    weirdRN replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, thanks for the advice.... Sorry I don't have any for the OP! Good

  6. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    weirdRN replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The true measure of a Nation's Greatness is the number of people who try to immigrate to it. The United States is a Great Nation. For all that it is villified as being medllesome and antagonistic to...

  7. Desmopressin for epistaxis

    weirdRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi All, I need a little help. I am a little confused. I have an order for desmopressin 4 mcg IV, for a resident who has frequent nose bleeds. I checked with our pharmacist. She said the resident...

  8. Desmopressin for epistaxis

    weirdRN replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not offended, but if you can't get an IV started and six people have tried at two sticks a person, what would you have done differently? As for the order IV vs SC... That was this way before I ever...

  9. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    weirdRN replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As long as we don't enforce the border and provide ample incentive to come, people WILL COME.

  10. So you think you can negotiate for yourself....

    weirdRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I would rather be paid all that I am worth by my employer and allowed to choose what I want as far as benefits. According to a statement I received the toher day I am actually making aobut 32.00 an...

  11. Help!! Nursing Debate

    weirdRN replied to ads24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How about universal healthcare vs private

  12. smoke free

    weirdRN replied to mel1977's topic in General Nursing

    I remember when smokers were allowed to smoke on the front porch of the facility where I work. Then a man had a stroke and dropped his cigarette and was burned very badly. He died a few days later....

  13. Desmopressin for epistaxis

    weirdRN replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    No

  14. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    weirdRN replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think that by not allowing those who have broken FEDERAL laws to get away with it we are asserting ourselves as a nation. If assertiveness is good for the individual, why should it not be just as...

  15. You're working HOW MANY shifts?!

    weirdRN replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

    I can NOT even begin to imagine working for weeks or months on end with out a day off. Right now the longest I work is nine days.

  16. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    weirdRN replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree with Fuzzy. Excuse me, I understand the legal by play here. I understand all the points made. However, many of the cases cited did not ever envision the massive INVASION that is occuring...

  17. Racism in the workplace

    weirdRN replied to staygold's topic in General Nursing

    When I look at your frame of reference, I understand what you are saying. Nigeria is now where The US was back in the 1800's as far as race relations go. Consider that. How much do you know about...

  18. question

    weirdRN replied to sunfire1725's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on where you are facility wise and why you are measuirng post void residual. Typically at my facility, we encourage the patient to urinate in the BR first then straight cath immediately...

  19. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    weirdRN replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think that until we as a nation decide what is good for us and make it impossible for special intrest groups to influence the decisions made by politicians, there is not going to be a fair or...

  20. Strange question, but I need to ask

    weirdRN replied to Lisky90's topic in General Nursing

    I have learned that my nose is a valuable tool. I have on several occasions, smelled a smell in a resident's room and been on the money when they were admitted to the Hospital for antibiotics or died...

  21. How do veteran nurses react to...

    weirdRN replied to Asklepios's topic in General Nursing

    As an older student, 2nd carreer myself, I often wondered how I was looked at by the eighteen and nineteen year olds in my class. Even though I was only ten or twelve years older than most of them,...

  22. Get Your Own?

    weirdRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering what you (Nurses) think about employer provided health insurance vs insurance obtained by you (Nurses) through a private health care insurance agency. I wanted to know if it was worth...

  23. Get Your Own?

    weirdRN replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    There is a lot that I need to learn about health insurance! I knew I was getting a group rate through the nursing home where I am now employed full-time. I did not realize that the rates could and...

  24. Rules for the ER (long)

    weirdRN replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    Hey, here we go with the tired sterotypes again. If we want to be seen as something other than angels of mercy, we need to not chastize our collegues for not fitting those roles all the time....

  25. Rules for the ER (long)

    weirdRN replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    I have been biting my tongue. I really enjoyed the "venting" of the ER Nurses. It was both humorous and enlighting. Come On People, this thread is a VENT. It is a VENT for a reason. IMHO, it is...