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Are you kidding me??? Press charges against him immediately!!! Do not hesitate!!!! Believe me...If you would do something similar no questions would be asked,you would be escorted out of the building with security. Do not let this go!!!

Does anyone know if there are jobs available in Rome for RN's licensed in the USA? If so, could you pass on any information to help me realize a dream? Thank you!!!:bowingpur

For those of you who read my response to "Let's call Oprah," I did not originate the original message. I was responding to the writer of the message. I would not want Oprah! I agree with a previous writer about having someone such as Anderson Cooper. My suggestion as a starting point would be Suzanne Gordon. The only thing that I could possibly feel in Oprah's favor, is that she does have such a large audience composed of many women. I admire how far she has come in her life, but I also feel she is, at times, way to sanctimonious for me. I simply feel we as nurses do so much complaining amongst ourselves that we have become paralyzed into inaction. So many nurses have families, work part-time, or feel someone else will solve the problems we have as a profession, that we are similar to an abused person....keep an individual down long enough and they do nothing to stop the injustice of the treatment. I certainly do not have all the answers but I am willing to listen and maybe make a difference. :balloons:

Suzanne, Is there a book on the ins and outs of traveling nursing containing all the information scattered throughout the internet that I could purchase. I have been researching travel nursing for the past three months and have obtained valuable information. Some of the information is redundent,some of it is helpful, but it would be nice to have a reference at one site! Why don't you write such a reference,or have you and I am not aware of it? Thank you, Susan

I think it is appropriate to have nurses on a forum on national television in primetime. Not the nurses the administrators would choose, but a few well-spoken nurses, who are not afraid to speak openly and honestly about nursing! While I am all for teachers and value them, I am sick to death of hearing their praises, the money and pension they receive for their jobs and the value others place on them. I am not sorry to say my main concern is money. What other job do you know of that requires one to be exposed to abuse from patients and/or their families, exposure to deadly and infectious diseases, mandation of overtime, continuing education, etc, while maxing out on their salaries in five years, maybe having a 1-3% payraise based on subjectivity by one's supervisor? Toss in the fact if a patient and/or family has a complaint about a nurse or his/her performance, the nurse is always presumed to be guilty. He or she is also the last one to know. Secretive meetings are held without the nurses knowledge while superviors "gather the facts." I have not had this happen to me personally, but have witnessed it on a number of occasions in my >20 years of critical care nursing. I could go on and on! So if we want a forum to discuss our problems, does anyone have an opinion on how to start? While I do not agree with everything she writes, Suzanne Gordon would be a good jumping off point.

Who is this person? Is he or she living in the 1800's? The examples are many,but this one is only one of the reasons nursing is the way it is!! The whole thing about "customer" rather than patients, bugs me. People do not shop at hospitals, they come there because of an illness, test,etc..The last time I looked, the hospitals I've worked in do not resemble Saks Fifth Avenue!

I have been a nurse for >20 years in various teaching hospitals. My experience includes, but not limited to CVICU,SICU,MICU,TICU,PACU and Cardiac Catheterization Lab. I like to move from various interests to engage in new experiences, but mostly to increase my expertise. I recently purchased a book by Suzanne Gordon, "Nursing Against The Odds". It should be required reading for all future and present nurses. The author is not a nurse, but a journalist. The insight on nursing, the problems past and present are articulated with great empathy towards nursing. Some of the problems of which we create ourselves. In one of the chapters, she discusses what she refers to as "nurse-nurse games" and "doctor-nurse games". Throughout my career, I have never read a book,journal or article that so speaks to me about nursing. As one of the largest groups of employees in the country, I find it incredulous that as nurses, we are still arguing,discussing the same issues nurses have been for decades. It is no wonder I am disgusted with nursing!