Posted by: NurseKeith in money on
Jun 08, 2008
What do you do when you receive a verbal offer by telephone of an hourly wage for a new job, and when you arrive to sign papers they've decreased the amount by almost one dollar per hour?
This was the scenario today when I arrived for my pre-employment physical, and the person who made the original offer wasn't even there. So, in lieu of signing the offer letter as requested, I simply wrote that I was not accepting it due to a discrepancy in the agreed-upon amount, and requested a follow-up telephone call. (Mind you, the discrepancy was only 80 cents per hour, but with the price of gas over $4.00 per gallon, 80 cents per hour sure adds up!)
So, the newest job on the horizon just got returned to the proverbial back-burner pending further discussion.
All in a day's (not) work.
Posted by: NurseKeith in visiting nursing on
Jun 08, 2008
Today I slogged through the city doing patient visits from one end of town to another as the mercury rose to the mid-90's.
Feeling sorry for myself, I jumped in and out of my comfortable air-conditioned car only to realize my relative privilege as I visited patients who were sweating it out in third-floor walk-ups devoid of even a simple fan!
Deep in the city are thousands of people living in near-squalid conditions with no escape from the summer heat and little comfort during the snows of winter. As I complain my way through a series of home visits, I remind myself to be grateful for my air-conditioned car, my lovely home in the woods, my screened-in porch, and all of the comforts that inform the privilege that I so often take for granted.
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Posted by: Administrator in Nurse LinkUp on
Jun 06, 2008
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Posted by: NurseKeith in blogs, blog carnivals on
Jun 06, 2008
Today's featured blog is Kim McAllister's Emergiblog. Kim has done a great deal to advance the cause of nurse bloggers, and she has created and maintained this irreverent, fun, and informative blog for many years. Respected among her peers, Kim also created Change of Shift , a bi-weekly blog carnival that features some of the best nurse bloggers around.
Emergiblog has been nominated for several awards and is currently positioned at #20 on the list of the 100 top medical and healthcare blogs in the blogsosphere.
So, when you have a moment and would like to be entertained and informed, surf on over to Kim's place.
Posted by: nightshiftRN in Untagged on
Jun 04, 2008
I blog already at http://nighttimenursing.blogspot.com
Come and check it out if you'd like to.
