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Hello! This new forum is for anyone interested in massage, nursing and the combination. I am an RN working mostly ICU, Neo ICU and ER (all prn), a former

travel nurse and wife and Mom. I am currently taking classes for Medical Massage Therapy. Anyone who is a massage therapist, nurse interested in it, or wanting information to benefit you patients is invited to post.

There are different types of massage therapy. There is the mostly widely known Swedish massage with oils. The kind I do is with clothes on, no oils and is medially based. It is a combination of trigger point therapy, neuromuscular reeducation, myofascial release, soft tissue mobilization, manual lymph drainage, acupressure, to name a few aspects of it. Add in nutritional support, and a nurse's knowledge and common sense and I can help most people in some way or another. The whole idea is to balance the systems and regions of the body, especially effective with neuromuscularskeletal dysfunctions. I use the GUT Method, which was developed by Elena Goetzel after years of "putting it all together". Very interesting!!! and effective!!

So.... let's talk!!! smile.gif

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Hi, I am also a massage therapist as well as a "real nurse." Looks like this forum has been pretty quiet. I know there are large numbers of us that are re-focusing from just nursing to massage therapy and nursing. It would be nice to hook up with others and talk. I am in a small midwestern town, and use mostly swedish type massage. I am taking my massage chair once a week into the hospital and working on employees. They love me and it is helping decrease stress levels! What are others doing?

Hi,

I would love to talk! Check out my web site and e-mail me throught it.

www.nurses-touch.com

all the best,

Ethlyne

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Hi,

I would love to talk! Check out my web site and e-mail me throught it.

www.nurses-touch.com

all the best,

Ethlyne

Wthlyne........Now, that is what I call a website! I am impressed. It is not only pleasing to the eyes and the inner soul, but so many links and information. I never got through it all. You look like you are one busy massage RN.

I had my small holistic nurse practice in calif. , mostly out-call for seniors and had an office at a DC's. But since moving to hawaii 2 years ago, I had to go back to conventional nursing for financial reasons. I miss my practice.

I am now in North carolina and have to take almost most of my massage education again before i can set up practice. It is frustrating that it is not covered at all under my RN licence here. I noticed that the rates for the 500-600 hour programs have gone up considerably. One priviate school here is asking 15K for 600 hours. What a rip off. I could get my masters or Ph.D. in nursing for that kind of money.

I am a perpetual student like you, but I was greatly amazed at the amount of alternative classes you have taken. Keep up the good work...........

Can you tell me approx. waht it costs to have a website like yours to be set up? Did you like what they did and did you assist them or did they do all the research?

For those of you that are still thinking of starting your own nurse massage practice, I can tell you again that there is nothing like it in the world. It is the roots of nursing and a complete nursing!

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Hi there,

I feel your frustration. There are many times that I look back and say if I had spent the money I spent on my massage related trainings on a degree, I would be much better off. The problem would have been that I might not have experienced the personal growth I did in the process. As for your questions re web site and NC credentialing, e-mail me through my web site or better yet, call me at my office and we can talk. We may play phone tag, but let me know the best time to reach you and I will do my best.

Best wishes,

Ethlyne

Wthlyne........Now, that is what I call a website! I am impressed. It is not only pleasing to the eyes and the inner soul, but so many links and information. I never got through it all. You look like you are one busy massage RN.

I had my small holistic nurse practice in calif. , mostly out-call for seniors and had an office at a DC's. But since moving to hawaii 2 years ago, I had to go back to conventional nursing for financial reasons. I miss my practice.

I am now in North carolina and have to take almost most of my massage education again before i can set up practice. It is frustrating that it is not covered at all under my RN licence here. I noticed that the rates for the 500-600 hour programs have gone up considerably. One priviate school here is asking 15K for 600 hours. What a rip off. I could get my masters or Ph.D. in nursing for that kind of money.

I am a perpetual student like you, but I was greatly amazed at the amount of alternative classes you have taken. Keep up the good work...........

Can you tell me approx. waht it costs to have a website like yours to be set up? Did you like what they did and did you assist them or did they do all the research?

For those of you that are still thinking of starting your own nurse massage practice, I can tell you again that there is nothing like it in the world. It is the roots of nursing and a complete nursing!

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Hi I just took a course in lymphedema. I was supposed to work for a doctor indepedently when i got done but he feels he doesnt have the office space. I know i can bill some insurances but i really want to work with cancer pt which are mostly medicare. Should I look for a physical therapist partner or should i look for anothers doctors office. Where d i look or get help with billing Hey nurseperson could you help maybe email or phone me or vice a versa. I need some guidance. You know we should write a boodk or manual for nurses to go into their own practise and billing issues. yvonne I need help need to get started!!!!

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Hi I just took a course in lymphedema. I was supposed to work for a doctor indepedently when i got done but he feels he doesnt have the office space. I know i can bill some insurances but i really want to work with cancer pt which are mostly medicare. Should I look for a physical therapist partner or should i look for anothers doctors office. Where d i look or get help with billing Hey nurseperson could you help maybe email or phone me or vice a versa. I need some guidance. You know we should write a boodk or manual for nurses to go into their own practise and billing issues. yvonne I need help need to get started!!!!

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I am in Tampa Bay Florida and just discovered a school that is offering medical professionals the opportunity to transfer existing A & P hours into a Massage Therapy Program. Apparently, you then only need 300 more hours to prepare to sit for the National Exam. Is anyone familiar with something like this

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Well, I hope I have done this right. I'm brand new on this forum and have been spending hours trying to post! I am one of the board members of NANMT too and am very excited to hear from all of us who realize that real nursing includes massage therapy. My specialty is geriatric massage and I teach it throughout the country. I am always looking for ways to improve helping the seniors improve their quality of life so if anyone has ideas, let's hear from you! (i.e. lymph, energy work) Hey to Ethlyne and Spencer!

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have massage therapy as one of the subjects taught in nursing schools? That has been my hope for at least 10 years.

I have been a nurse for many years, mostly home care and hospice. Recently, I thought I would relax and work in a nursing home :chuckle. But I realized how touch deprived they are and how short handed the facilities are.

We live down here in North Carolina, have 3 sons, 4 grandsons and 1 grandaughter. I'm presently taking canine massage. There's just soo much to learn!

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Well, I hope I have done this right. I'm brand new on this forum and have been spending hours trying to post! I am one of the board members of NANMT too and am very excited to hear from all of us who realize that real nursing includes massage therapy. My specialty is geriatric massage and I teach it throughout the country. I am always looking for ways to improve helping the seniors improve their quality of life so if anyone has ideas, let's hear from you! (i.e. lymph, energy work) Hey to Ethlyne and Spencer!

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have massage therapy as one of the subjects taught in nursing schools? That has been my hope for at least 10 years.

I have been a nurse for many years, mostly home care and hospice. Recently, I thought I would relax and work in a nursing home :chuckle. But I realized how touch deprived they are and how short handed the facilities are.

We live down here in North Carolina, have 3 sons, 4 grandsons and 1 grandaughter. I'm presently taking canine massage. There's just soo much to learn!

It was great to hear from you. I am very excited to see what nurses have to say about this.

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hi i just took a course in lymphedema. i was supposed to work for a doctor indepedently when i got done but he feels he doesnt have the office space. i know i can bill some insurances but i really want to work with cancer pt which are mostly medicare. should i look for a physical therapist partner or should i look for anothers doctors office. where d i look or get help with billing hey nurseperson could you help maybe email or phone me or vice a versa. i need some guidance. you know we should write a boodk or manual for nurses to go into their own practise and billing issues. yvonne i need help need to get started!!!!

hey there! i haven't checked the site for a while, sorry! i would try mostly working with a physical therpist if you can. you would get more consults thru more places rather than just the one doctor. and they would be more used to the codes you would use for billing. you also have to make sure you do the complete decongestive therapy for lymphedema, not just manual lymph drainage. the patients have to be diligent about using compression devices, sleeves, etc. to keep the edema out of the extremities.

make sure that the pt is a provider for medicare for billing. insurance may not pay for a lot of the supplies for decongestive therapy, but does pay for the mld. and pts may like having you there. many that i know would rather do rehab, joint mobilization work, and not the tedious mld. you also have to take care not to step on their toes. define what you will do - massage, soft tissue mobilization - and you should be fine.

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Well, to me you sound like a very educated person and massage therapy looks like it was a good career move for you. My dilemma is I am an 22y/o LPN I also to would like to get into massage therapy. I would like to go back to school but I was n't exactly sure what to do. I know I did not what to be working for someone forever, I liked the idea of massage therapy because it expanded on my medical background and I felt it also appealed to my entreprenuerial side. But on the other hand people are like just get your RN I recieved a lot of negativity about going into this career due to it's uncertainty and salary. I would hate to spend so much money on the school and it not work out. I am just trying to weigh my options out but I do have to make up my mind soon. I basically looked at it I live in New york city , I must be able to find work in gyms, salons, spas, doctors offices, etc. Since it is a new field I should get into it know before every body hops on the bandwaggon and it becomes more regulated. They say their is a shortage of nurses you can't even get into a RN nursing program where I live you have to jump through so many whoops sometimes I think it is to deter people from going because that have such a great demand for the programs. But I don't really want to get my RN I think this would be a better career path for me and it is also more appealing I can see myself enjoying it as for my RN I can't. I got a little taste of the nursing world and I can't see me doing it for the rest of my life.

Hi I live in New York too and wondered if you ever became a message therapist and work in New York.....if you did can you tell me where you studied and whether you found a job doing message therapy etc .........looking forward to hearing from you Angela

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Hi. I'm a LMT and I am starting my pre-req. classes for nursing. It's so nice to see that there are so many in the nursing community who are looking to take an extra step to help others. I'm looking forward to becoming one of you! :flowersfo

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I'm a CT LMT starting my pre-req classes as well!! I'm very excited to be taking this path into health care. So many threads to follow, I thought I'd at least say hello.

I currently work for a chiropractic office. We use therapeutic massage, craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, lymph massage and energy work on the patients who come to our office. It is excellent work! I'm glad it's getting noticed in the medical profession.

Somewhere in some post someone asked what CMP stands for... it's certified massage practitioner in case it never got answered.

Thanks for being here, I'm glad to have found you!!

Hi. I'm a LMT and I am starting my pre-req. classes for nursing. It's so nice to see that there are so many in the nursing community who are looking to take an extra step to help others. I'm looking forward to becoming one of you! :flowersfo
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