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There may be a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on age by an employer, but it would not be discrimination for the BON and board of medical examiners to require the tests as healthcare professionals get older. If you can't pass because...

While you may feel that higher insurance rates for older people and having to take exams and renew their licenses frequently is wrong, just consider that while your parents may have had clean driving records and were perfectly safe, you also have peo...

So glad this had a happy ending for you and that you could afford to have the surgery! I spent over $1,000.00 on my cat last year when she was very close to death, and she's fully recovered now. People at work thought I was crazy because I would ev...

I realized that after I went back and read your comment again, but by that time, it was too late for me to edit my post. My apologies for the error.

Wow, okay, I spent six years of my life being molested by two men, so definitely not trying to shut women up about what they've suffered when I've experienced it as well. A comment was made that men are the ones causing problems, and I made a commen...

My point being that women can rape too. Exactly what I said in the post actually... I guess I can expand on that and say that I was disagreeing with Ruby Vee's comment that men are causing all the problems by raping.

Women can be rapists too...

We have a nice little ER where I live, that the charge is based on your income, and you just pay a small deposit before you leave. Back when I did not have insurance and was only making ~29k a year, I went for bronchitis, and my deposit was only $25...

I hope that they appeal the verdict and the sentencing. If they do, the appellate judges can give him a longer sentence if they feel the one already given is not sufficient.

You should come back to play. I need more people in my guild.

...where did you even get that photo from? I mean, was there a post or anything attached to it saying that he self-identifies as female or are you just posting random pics trying to prove a point? On an off-side, I wouldn't mind sharing a bathroom w...

If you are within driving distance, your best bet may be to go directly to the school and try to talk to someone. Colleges aren't the best at returning phone calls.

Whoops, Elladora basically said the same thing I did in her post so I'll just wait for OP's response to that instead.

Lawyer fees generally average depending on your location, but a lot of criminal attorneys will charge a flat fee for the beginning of the case. If it ends before trial (plea bargain, dismissed, etc.), that is the only fee. If it goes to trial, they...

The way I learned to do resumes is to use the general statements that can cover most of what you do, but keep it as concise as possible. You would use the job interview to elaborate more on your duties and how they would tie in to the position you a...

Sometimes I wish we could go to something like this. I would gladly pay the tax it would bring than the $400 a month insurance that I can't even afford to use because the deductible is $3,300 and the total out-of-pocket is $6,600. My employer claim...

If you're a new member, you should really take time to learn about the website before you post to it, especially when it's a self-righteous post about a profession that you have no clue about. There are many non-nurses on AN who understand that this ...

In my earlier comment, I meant to add that it's funny how in med mal cases, there's so much of the "if it wasn't charted, it wasn't done", but on the flip side, in our worker's compensation cases (where we represent the employers and insurance compan...

Sorry about that!

Yes, thank you. You are way better at writing that than I am. All of our clients are coached to never say they don't remember something or didn't do something. They're told to always say what they would normally do in the situation if they did not re...

Please see RiskManager's response to my comment right below yours. She explained it a LOT better than I can. I'm not that great with words. Basically, we do not use this defense often because our doctors are rarely deposed. But we do have instances w...

I work in a med mal defense firm, and my boss pushes the exact opposite: just because it wasn't documented, doesn't mean it wasn't done. It comes up in depositions a lot, especially where we have assessments from our ER docs that were essentially lef...

Have you considered becoming a nurse paralegal instead? I work at a medical malpractice defense firm, and we are required by our clients (the physician's insurer) to have a nurse paralegal on staff. The nurse paralegals we use do not have any lega...

This could have been a blanket advertisement posted in many different ad sections where they just easily substitute nursing for any other profession.

Out of all the schools I went to (three total), we never had a school nurse. If you were feeling sick, they sent you to the office to call your parents. My brother has Von Willebrand disease, and I am supposed to be tested soon for it as well, and b...