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Welcome to Nabeepchen.com, the best place on the web to find vital signs and real remedies for a full spectrum world. And who is the nabeepchen in charge of this website?
Well, that would be me. Here’s a quick rundown of my credentials. I am an escapee-at-large from the healthcare system. I have a strange affinity for natural disasters. Epidemics, hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes. I’ve lived through some of them, and am fascinated by the power of the natural world, despite the human attempt at reigning it in.
I’ve seen a little bit of the world, although much of the planet still remains unexplored. It is unfortunate that some of the more intriguing spots that I would like to visit are now caught up in what seems like continuous upheaval, and safety is a major consideration. But I made it to Shanghai before McDonald’s did, I’ve seen the sunrise over Mt. Everest (shivering with my teeth chattering), baked to a crisp on Luquillo Beach, watched the plaster on the walls of my hotel in Mexico City splinter as the ground rumbled beneath us in a massive earthquake, inhaled fragrant penguin guano down under (and I mean way down under, like Antarctic south), sipped Yerba Mate tea through a metal straw with my primos in Buenos Aires (and then caroused up Avenida Corrientes, packed with wall to wall people at 1am on a Wednesday night), and have been stared down by the meanest looking cow that I’ve ever bumped into, on an extremely narrow street in Varanasi, the holiest Hindu city in India. Cows are considered sacred in the Hindu religion, and here was this sacred bovine specimen, with horns that could have filleted me into ribbons, and we met eye to eye, nose to nose—and I graciously decided that he could have the right-of-way.
And for the final tidbit in my ever-evolving bio; I am a National Geographic groupie. My collection, of course, is pathetic by some standards. Pathetic from the point of view of the crème de la crème of NG collectors, who can boast 19th century issues and copies that don’t have Sale Table stamped on their front covers. The purists, who would laugh at my copies salvaged from the Corte Madera library at the princely sum of 5 for one dollar. Oh well. I have a complete set from 1926, and my oldest copy is from 1907. I’ve also got about 100 or so duplicate copies that are looking for a good home (hint, hint).
This page will be updated daily, sometimes more frequently. So stop by often, there’ll always be something new to discover and learn, here at nabeepchen.com.
At the moment my comments are turned off, due to overwhelming spam. I’m still getting spam even with them off, and it is time consuming to have to deal with them. However, you can contact me at roxie3@mindspring.com. But if you’re a spammer, don’t bother.
December 16th, 2004 at 8:44 pm
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May 9th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
Boy are you bitter about nursing! It’s this kind of tirade that’s gotten us in the sorry shape we’re in today. Sure, I believe we need better pay and more help but we have been whining and moaning so long now that who in their right mind would want to join us? Except that they do: about 130,000 QUALIFIED applicants to U.S. nursing schools were turned away this year because of faculty shortages and lack of clinical space. So those that we get? the ICU nurses in my facility believe they were born the expert nurses they are today and can’t be bothered to nurture the next group along…those that COULD be their trusted, competent, yes, even EXPERT colleagues. Do you (or they) know that when an ICU nurse leaves and must be replaced, the cost to the hospital is $65,000 (and that’s an industry average….it may be more where you are).
If we take the time (precious, I know!) to bring the next group on, including experienced nurses new to our faciltity, that kind of money could be put into those raises everyone keeps asking for.
Is there anything positive you can say about nursing? did you ever enjoy it? If not, I think we (and our patients) are better off now that you’ve escaped.
Get a grip!
May 10th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
You know, I’m not quite sure what your comment is even about. It just seems to be a collection of unrelated rambling and screaming (great use of CAPS). I think that you’re the one who needs to get a grip and learn to write a coherent sentence. What is your comment about? What exactly are you criticizing? The ICU nurses in your facility? The nurses who bitch and moan? The ones who leave? Or is this just a frustrated rant on your part, because you’re abused at work and you don’t know what to do about it?
Sorry, but my blog isn’t a sugar sweet homage to the martyr nurse. My purpose is to discuss issues in nursing, which it seems that you prefer to ignore. My “tirade” as you call it, isn’t the reason that nursing is in the state it’s in. It has gotten to this point because of nurses who refuse to speak up for themselves and organize to improve their pay and working conditions, and who criticize their co-workers who dare to rock the boat. Nursing is full of martyrs who work to keep the status quo, and just bitch, moan and complain amongst themselves, rather than do anything constructive to improve their workplace. You sound like one of those nurses, who’s got a thorn up her butt because I dare to criticize all that you hold near and dear.
Get a life lady, (or man). You sound like you’re about to have a stroke. If you’re that frustrated, don’t take it out on me. Do something constructive, like demand safe working conditions, or respect on the job, or organize your co-workers.
I reported two hospitals to the state labor board for violations on pay and overtime, and also forced a facility to admit that it was cheating nurses out of overtime. A group of us organized and refused to take a cut on on-call pay, and it gradually spread so that about 75% of the involved nurses said that they just would not take call at the reduced rate. I refused to be forcibly floated to work on units where I was not qualified and also refused assignments that were unsafe. That’s just for starters. What have you done to improve the nursing profession? Other than bitch and scream at me for what I post on my blog?
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Wow. I’m new to the Nursing “profession” & applaud you for refusing the illegal, innapropriate, & unsafe practices so often imposed on us (RNs). I am overwhelmed by all of the violations perpetrated on nurses and by how many nurses accept and thereby condone these practices. I’m gently speaking up/finding my voice in all of this, but have been met by absolutely no support from colleagues. Maybe some nurses allow abuse for such a long time that it becomes acceptable.