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Nurses intuition.

by Rachael Keilin under Nursing

This post is more of a question to you, the readers, than it is a definitive statement.  My question is this: what is a nurse to do when there’s a conflict between her clinical suspicion and a doctor’s orders?
I vividly remember an incident that occurred on a surgical floor when I first started in practice.  [...]

Why we all need a financial planner.

by Rachael Keilin under Finances

I am the first person to admit that while I can cut into your chest and crossclamp your aorta within about 2 minutes, I cannot balance a checkbook.  I make a mean souffle, but my eyes cross whenever I try to enter even a month’s worth of expenditures into Quicken.  Since I [...]

Are more nursing degrees too much?

by Rachael Keilin under Nursing

In October, at the Blogworld Expo I had the privilege of hearing “Nurse Ratched” who blogs at her site Nurse Ratched’s Place speak on a panel. The most fascinating thing she discussed (at least to me) was a phenomenon she noted of nurses always undercutting other nurses. She had written a blog post [...]

Thankful for modern medicine

by Rachael Keilin under Health, Life

Before diving into yet another dry, overcooked holiday fowl this week, I am going to give thanks for getting to attend an old fashioned, rockstar-worthy, hotel-room-destroying party last Sunday night.
We arrived kind of late and the two other party goers with me kept staring out the car window pouting because they thought we’d arrive too [...]

  • November 25th, 2009
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Debt consolidation and collection agencies

by Rachael Keilin under Finances

Nurses CAN talk turkey to collection agencies!
In the last post I told you to avoid debt consolidation agencies, but I really want you to understand why and not think I’m just prejudiced against these financial behemoths.
It seems like it would be such a wonderful relief to be able to hand over all those nasty and [...]

Debt consolidation and debt settlement – avoid the scammers

by Rachael Keilin under Finances

There are hundreds of telemarketers/e-mail spammers/billboards promoting debt consolidation sites. Sounds great right? Like the debt fairy might come and wipe away all your monthly payments into a consolidation as dense as a black hole. And we all know that black holes are really, really tiny. But the reality [...]

Debt consolidation – First steps

by Rachael Keilin under Finances

It’s been said that the best trauma surgeons have a slower pulse when shit hits the fan rather than the ultra-tachycardia that us mortals achieve when chaos begins. I’ve thought about that a lot lately when I watch the news and see job loss rates in the tens of thousands, month after month. [...]