Sam J.

Sam J.

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  1. LVN pay in Dallas Fort Worth area

    Lots of nursing homes have closed or are at risk of closing in Dallas and elsewhere in Texas due to budget cuts. On top of that, 10's of 1000's of just Californians are flocking to Texas every year to...
  2. Or that they are preparing you for pay cuts as well? Your reply is old enough that if that were the case, maybe you can update the
  3. Cancer Centers of America- any insight?

    Interesting. I'm convinced it's about as practical or 'healing' as those drug rehab places for the rich and famous, like Malibu- the fact that their rich and famous clients (meaning, people that can...
  4. Lifestyle Discrimination

    Let's not stop here- what about babies born premature, or diabetic- a lifestyle choice of the baby? What if the lifestyle choice of the mother may have caused the diabetes? People with mental illness-...
  5. Lifestyle Discrimination

    (Just so you know I must have been typing my own reply at the same time you were typing your own- I didn't copy your
  6. Lifestyle Discrimination

    Not pointing fingers, merely making an observation: Your bariatric surgery was likely paid for by the premiums of several hundred fellow Americans, unless you paid for that privately. For you to then...
  7. Cancer Centers of America- any insight?

    I figured as much, more so, again, the pancreatic cancer. From my understanding that is usually not detected until it has passed a certain point of hopeful cure, but they seem to have a great success...
  8. If a nurse is embarassed about being scoped, just imagine how patients feel being probed and prodded all day- might get more people thinking about privacy issues. I had one, and there was a polyp that...
  9. Documentation-- Who trains new nurses?

    I would think it would be part of the orientation process, since revenue heavily relies on documentation. If it isn't, maybe the PPS/MDS person ought to give routine inservices, despite the lack of...
  10. Wow. This in a state with a projected nursing shortage of 1.2 million by 2020, per the ... More like WOW, REALLY? There are only 3 million RNs in all of the United States, yet somebody says a single...
  11. How have GMOs been around since the 'beginning of time'? Even thousands of years before the word 'science' was even introduced? And another poster stated GMOs have been around since the 'beginning of...
  12. There are about a million dog bites in America per year, and many of the victims are maimed or killed, and many of them are children. Whether your locale ranks a loose dog as a crime or a violation,...
  13. How much does my insurance cover?

    If I may be so bold- it's 'everyones' job in healthcare to be aware of costs. Knowing who pays for what might, now, be a different story. The fact is, the age of 'if you have to ask the price you...
  14. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    Also, nurses are required to go to school, and pass tests, and maintain licenses- not so for many MAs. So, why would a person in the know spend the money to go to school to be an MA, when a physician...
  15. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    Now we are getting somewhere- is it possible the real complaint of OP is that a ST that failed nursing school is performing tasks identified with nurses? And the fact is many people would be aghast at...
  16. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    What would the complaint charge- that a ST calls herself 'nurse' here or there, without making such a claim official, as by signing her name as a nurse? What if the ST and the receptionist, and even...
  17. Aurora; Wisconsin employment drug screen

    Or stop doing what it is you're doing that makes you nervous about the type of drug testing you might
  18. Qualifying hospital stay

    Does your AC act independently, or are other chiefs (DNS, BOM, rehab, MDS) consulted about potential admits? Sometimes discussing potential admits can prevent these situations, that ultimately are a...
  19. Will I ever hack it?

    Seven weeks is barely time enough to get over the 'culture shock' of the workload in LTC. Added to that you are being floated, and have had to orient another new nurse? And if you are disorganized,...
  20. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    Nurse for 35 years, and going. The question remains whether OP is either concerned about the 'nurse' word, or more apparently feels the ST is unsafe, jeopardizng patients, by performing tasks the...
  21. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    It appears so in OP's state, but that also means the receptionist is guilty of referring to the ST as a nurse. Since OP claims ST claims to be an ST, not an RN, and doesn't sign her name as a nurse,...
  22. Practicing "nursing" w/o a license...?

    The ST is trained as a ST, which arguably is better than being trained as a MA- but like others have said, many states don't require 'training' to become a MA, anyway. If you feel the ST may be...
  23. Full moon

    Geneva is a kind of an 'own planet', weirdly nice sort of a place in Ohio. Greetings from Lake Tahoe- the full moon over the snowy slopes and reflecting off of the lake, is really a sight to behold....
  24. NO Home Births by Midwives in AZ

    My bad. But in my opinon- that's even worse,
  25. At least Groupon normally has a limit on their 'specials'. And even worse than spas that charge $90, or even $200 for a massage (yet pay those therapists maybe 20% of that), are places like Massage...