This is so true....

wait, you're NOT all sexy? well sorry, but saving lives and healing the sick is pretty sexy in my book.

This is sad. The nursing at the cardiac care unit at Anderson Mercy Hospital in Anderson township Ohio made me feel like I was the most important person on the planet.

You listed what insurance paid, skipping nurses. That's the biggest mistake insurance companies can make! I went into the hospital with C. diff and five days later had 3 "cardiac episodes", meaning cardiac arrest they told me last. I ended up in ICU for 11 days or so, and then in skilled nursing/ rehab the last 9. If it hadn't been for the nurses, especially in ICU, I'm not sure if I'd be healed now, and it's been over a year and a half ago!! So from me to you, and all other nurses out there, THANK YOU!!! You do more than anyone else!

Nursing profession is being ruined. There is a Global shortage of nurses because of issues in the profession. For example: I worked in a rough bar for years, I saw less violence, had less violence directed at me, felt safer, was more supported by my managers, had less sexual harassment/groping and had with tips almost the same pay. I always go my breaks too. Unless you can handle being assaulted, sexually harassed(by patients and visitors), gropped, blamed for everything by everyone even complaints that are not part of your job duties or responsibilities, not having your overtime paid nor being able to be paid for unpaid breaks not taken and worked through, impossible to actually follow your nursing standards and responsibilities, be able to put patients first & zero actual support if assaulted or seriously hurt at work.....if you can't handle that...don't become a nurse in Canada.

Why I left nursing.

I have been hospitalized 3 times in the last 10 years and have been fortunate enough to have been assigned some of the kindest, hardest working nurses who have taken great care of me despite being so overworked and exhausted! One nurse was at the end of an 18 hour shift and couldn't have been nicer. I don't know how they do it but I make sure to tell them how much I appreciate them all.

Yeah, nursing is tough. Even though she loved it, my girlfriend had to give it up, because the job was taking a toll on her health (especially mentally), so she switched careers. She now makes video games, which is a lot more restful, even with all the crunch times on a release...

I would just like to say.. if you think nurses are underpaid you should take a look at the average wage of a Paramedic... I have 8 years in EMS and I am making $41,500 with no overtime until I work over 56 hours and no overtime. That equates to $13.50/hr... It is more common than not that people who work in EMS have 2 or more jobs just to have food, a car (nothing fancy) and roof over their heads. Let's add into the fact there's things that public safety see that people who work in a hospital don't have to see. You show me a nurse with 8 years experience making $13.50/hr.

British nurses are treat a great deal better

Kaiser is different, I think.

Nursing expense is carried in those other line items for outpatient, and in the mysterious "room charge" for inpatient.

Yeah, I was hospitalized for surgery recently, and they kinda all were sexy... Except that one guy, he was more of a teddy-bear.

I am an EMT, i do not get paid if i do not work. I think that is how it mostly works....Like it has been said before, you do not go into EMS or nursing to make money, you do it to help others.

of course, the nurse's complaint had to be the longest. Blergh.

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Underpaid is such a relative term - basically meaningless.

Do people not go to libraries? Our community library plays a big role in the community.

Yup, thats what my friend keeps telling me: "We are just much better in using google than anyone else."

Sadly enough that does not only count for pictures...

Listen to scientists and don't vote for Trump

I certainly wouldn’t ask you for marriage advice if you were married 5 times though. Just as I wouldn’t go to a dentist who doesn’t have any teeth.

HOLY C**P YES!

As my families IT-technician (because I do work in IT) I can relate to this so much.

As a writer I got always a similar question: "Is your editor correcting typos and grammar?" Ehm, no, that is the job of the corrector. The editors job is.. see above

is she the branch manager?

This 100000x. Yes cut your carbs, get skinny fast, but as soon as you start back eating them...

Massagists have unfortunately a bad reputation from all the frauds in this area :(

I could say the same thing about Graphic Designers. People want amazing logos, corporate image, websites, campaigns and all.... but they don't want to pay for it, because.. "their niece could do better in powerpoint".

Wow, people are so thoughtless these days 🙄 🤦‍♀️

Yes yes yes!!! I was going to add this if it wasn't here!! I'm a medical social worker. I work in a hospital and some patients have a terrified look when I say I'm a social worker. I work for a hospital not child protective services. It blows my mind that the general public has no idea how many different kinds of social workers there actually are.

That is true (go, Jay, go!) - but is it eye-opening? I thought that was common knowledge.

No, but some people don't like the alcohol they do get to be so diluted.

haha, nice. I can't believe, this doubt is a real thing in the US

well not with that attitude you won't!

but you all wear curly wigs right? RIGHT?!

One things that annoys me so much is when people translate idioms from one language by just directly translating the words. That's not how it works. You need to find the closest meaning of the idiom itself, not the words it contains.

I am tutoring an intern right now and make sure SHE benefits from this work experience. Coworkers who tried to give her their work to do would soon learn that they have to go through me...so this was nipped in the bud.

Most know this by now but wish we didn’t.

Just ask the Republican Party and Trump.

Stidies

Sorry Debbie, you kind of do. I was in pharma sales and guess what? unless you are not in a drug store or a grocery store, you are mostly paid to double check what under paid pharmacy techs do for you. And guess what? You get paid 6 figures and the Pharmacy Tech gets barely minimum wage. Yet they do the yeoman's work. Sorry. I know I'll get down voted, but you aren't mixing in a compounding pharmacy or working in a hospital, you are a pill counter and a consultant at the checkout window. And telling people on which aisle the cough syrup is at.

I am sorry, but I love that. Did actually really someone ask you if you can read his mind? That's hilarious.

Working on the client side I found I was frequently presented with ideas I'd seen several times before.

The problem is the health care system for humans and non humans alike in the USA. I have lived in first world and third world countries. And only in the US are the costs the way they are. Countries with both free public (100% free) and non free private care, the latter is still 90% less than if you do have insurance in the US. For pet care, procedures and minimal routine care is not supposed to break the bank. And don't get me started on dental care. All you need to do is talk to others who have lived in countries that actually provide a standard of health care that is decent. Only in "America" there are horror stories of how unaffordable getting sick is.

Howard Goodall wrote the theme songs for Red Dwarf and every Blackadder series.

Tell me about it... All the majors I know are actually somewhat grumpy or overly serious people, and a lot of the minors around where I live seem quite jolly...

Neil, are you an expert animator? Obviously not, as Animation is Art, and to do it well takes time. BitCoin is make believe computer money, only supported by popular demand, which will disappear when the "next big thing" comes along. Quit being an a*s.

Some are discovered and reinvented through stepwise processes in the lab.

My moms a teacher/professor and an adjunct (I think that’s the word) and i can tell it’s really hard

Don't you tell me Dave still has that rickety ladder. I've told him 100 times to get rid of that thing.