Clinical Nurse specialist???

Oh yes indeed - $0.585/mile!

I do rounding on dialysis pts in two separate units about 12 miles apart, then I occasionally go to a third unit 50 miles away and my hospital call is 55 miles away!

And...joy of joys...we got our first snowfall this weekend...makes driving interesting.

and so are the days of our lives!

Trauma, I am just guessing that you are in the Peoria area ... am I right? Our family is planning to relocate to the Hillsboro/Litchfield area ... too bad I couldn't have you for my preceptor in renal!

Ruthann

Yes, I live south of Peoria just a little bit. However, hubby lives in Alton, IL and I travel thru Litchfield just about every weekend. If you have questions, I'd be glad to try to help.

In Pennsylvania, CNS's do not have prescriptive authority and are just now getting role recognition for the title Clinical Nurse Specialist. I think that's pretty sad, considering the number of states that have CNS's with prescriptive authority. I would love to go back for my MSN in psych nursing as a CNS, but it seems like there aren't many places looking for a CNS since they dont have that prescriptive authority in PA.

Thanks for your advice. In fact it does NOT matter whether I lived in a particular state for a year or even ten years, as a foreign-student I will NOT be able to pay in-state tuition nor out-of-state tuition. I know that for a fact. Also, I know that I'm not eligible for US government financial aid etc. To my surprise I learned that in many master's degree programs (nursing) international student tuition is the same as for domestic students. There are so many "doors" that are open for domestic students is CLOSED when you are a foreign student in this country (I'm not talking about the tuition)... If I knew that before I probably wouldn't have come to the US, wouldn't have gone to Nursing school and become a RN in this country...