Who can tell me sth about the American Dream

[Trilby]

it was thoughtful. I'm no rookie to these things, you know.

Originally Posted by Brianna

it was thoughtful. I'm no rookie to these things, you know.

Right. I am in a very bad mood today, and tag you're it. You've proven you can dish it out, now let's see if you can take it.

To begin with you claim that you were an RN for 25 years and yet you don't even know basic science as shown by your confusion of CO with CO2. You tried to write that off as a typo. So just how skilled a nurse were you anyhow? Did you make similiar "typo's" when administering medications to your patients?

You claim a person can become an RN with a 2 year degree. True enough 25 years ago, but today the nursing profession is steadily moving forward to require stiffer academic requirements for the RN certification, and the baccalaureate degree is becoming the norm. No doubt while you were still in your profession you were subjected to a certain amount of pressure to upgrade your academic credentials, and you couldn't make the grade because you don't even know the basic fundamentals of freshman biology and chemistry. In addition to that, your treatment of your patients was lacking in compassion and empathy just as your posts are on this board.

In other words, you were burned out - "Have you seen the RN's this country has been churning out? All you need is a heartbeat."

Great pride you took in your profession, there. No doubt you woke up one morning with a pulled back muscle (back problems are an occupational hazard in the nursing profession) and trotted right down to your human services offices with your disability claim. You had private health insurance and private disability insurance and you knew the right people (and they were probably happy to see you go) and viola'! A nice fat disability check for life. How nice for you.

Somewhere along the way you picked up a superiority complex - no doubt from those "God-like" doctors you had to work with everyday - which you use to cover up your deep seated feelings of low worth - "if you have an IQ of 80 you can do the nursing program! hell, you don't even have to speak English."

To compensate for this you have become a self appointed expert on any topic which may arise including the SSDI system. You and I both know that your private disability insurance company held your hand and walked you through the SSDI process and makes up the gap between what SSDI really gives you and the amount you recieve on your disability check.

"Starting out, recent measly 2 year grad, I made 50K." "I've worked in the ss system for 25 years." I see. You worked in the social security system for 25 years. That means you would have started your career in the late seventies. No one paid nurses 50k back then. They barely make that much now. Or did you start out as a government worker and change careers? Your statements don't match up. You are obviously twisting your story to make it look as though there's some validity behind your words.

You smugly state that "FEDERAL SSDI takes 2-4 months in Ohio. The award is 1271 single, 2570 for a woman with two kids." Anybody who knows ANYTHING about the SSDI system couldn't help but laugh at such a ludicrous statement. I don't have the faintest idea where you got those figures. Maybe that's what your private insurance pays. It sure ain't how the Feds do it.

You have consistently given false information in your posts and used extremely misleading wording. Your credibility is non-existant. For someone who is "no rookie at these things", the ignorance you display is appalling . Thank God for your helpless patients that you no longer work as a nurse.