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• Recession changing U.S. jobs picture

  Mon Mar 23, 2009
  • I'm sorry...you might want to rethink your decision. The pay is not good (start at 15-18/hour) and as a new employee you will be working the bad shifts...nights, weekends, holidays. They ARE laying off nurses. In one week, 5 in my department of 40. Don't listen to wehat the "experts" have to say.

• Recession changing U.S. jobs picture

  Mon Mar 23, 2009
  • This makes NO SENSE at all...I have been a full-time RN for 32 years! (same hospital) I was laid-off one week ago...I'm sorry, but this is a line of BS...the changes coming down thru the health-care initiatives are causing medical facilities to cut back.

• Hospitals fight to stop new nurses from quitting

  Sun Feb 15, 2009
  • I have to agree with many others here. Nurses DO NOT start at $35-45 per hour. You are obviously one of the millions of administrators who perpetuate this nonsense. I have been a full-time practicing RN for 32 years.

• California Medical Board probes octuplet birth

  Fri Feb 6, 2009
  • I have worked within the Obstetric community. She could not have gone from clinic to clinic to obtain these eggs. As far as we have been made aware, any woman seeking this process must go thru psychiatric counseling to determine their mental stability to endure such a thing.

• States slash Medicaid amid economic woes

  Fri Dec 26, 2008
  • You all realize what the biggest strain is on the system don't you?  We are covering more and more illegal aliens on our system and that is not ours to do!!  We give up more and more as citizens so that we can "maintain" our usefullness to these immigrant peoples.  They enjoy the same …

• Obama review: No inappropriate discussions

  Mon Dec 15, 2008
  • THANK YOU.  Very simple and succinctly put.  No need for argument about Obama's character, but his staffers!!!  What one does projects onto the president. Are you saying that what Cheney and Rumsfeld did did not affect Bush???

• Obama review: No inappropriate discussions

  Mon Dec 15, 2008
  • His people are investigating?  Well, that will get to the truth....

• It's not always a dog's life at the White House

  Fri Dec 12, 2008
  • I'm sorry, but this is newsworthy?  I love dogs, but it's their business, not ours.  Leave them be...

• When it's time for Grandma to stop driving

  Thu Oct 9, 2008
  • 5 years ago my mother was in a life altering "at home" accident.  After 5 months of hospitalization and rehab all she could think of was getting her car back (we loaned it to her much younger friend) One day she asked her Dr.

• Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama

  Sat Oct 4, 2008
  • As a retired RN who used to work labor and delivery, when a birth certificate was filled out it was the race of the mother that was noted as the childs birth race, not his/her color.  The only proof we had at delivery was that this child came from this mother.  We could not prove …