Brita01

Brita01

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About Brita01

I work as a private duty LPN on weekends and as an actor during the week. Although I started officially acting in 2012, I caught the bug in 2008 when I was featured in a Lifetime movie with Harry Connick Jr.

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  1. I'm a nurse and I don't like people.

    Bringing this thread into 2020 as it applies to me. I am very introverted and the nursing job that suits me the most is Pediatric Private Duty. One patient, one shift, and if I'm lucky, we have our own room away from the rest of the family where it's...
  2. pediatric HH, please help

    It's ok to freak out before experiencing something new, that's what we do when we care about doing a good job. I freaked out before my first homecare peds case because I had been away from the bedside for 6 years. My first peds case was 4 years ago a...
  3. I used to work night shift, which was the only shift I could deal with due to fewer people being around. Once I decided to leave the hospital, I found my 2 dream jobs. Q/A for a home health agency where I spent my days with my nose buried in charts; ...
  4. Is it possible to get the holidays off?

    I work Pediatric home care and we make our own schedules. We work as much as or as little as we want and on the days that we want. Sometimes I like to work holidays for the extra money.
  5. Brian Short News

    Dear God. I just read what happened in the news. I am horribly shocked and saddened by what has happened.
  6. I'm probably nuts for asking, but....

    Non-smoking Democrat.
  7. Nursing, the field of medicine or customer service?

    Are you sure she was a nurse? She sounds kind of not quite right in the head. Why would she have to warn the docs she works with to stay away from another hospital? If they were able to choose an ER, you'd think they would gravitate to the one in ...
  8. Name your poison

    Unfortunately for me, I had to pass a Baskin Robbins with a drive thru window when I drove home from clinicals. I just had to have a regular size vanilla shake. Can you guess how quickly I gained 15 lbs? Needless to say, I had to give up my favo...
  9. least stressful area

    The least stressful job for me was private duty. Only one patient to take care of for 8 or 12 hours. Heaven!
  10. It's hard to believe that this thread was started way back in 2002 and people are still finding it. Not much has changed in six years, it seems.
  11. Private duty nursing??

    I enjoyed reading this and hearing that three years later you have found your niche. I myself absolutely LOVED private duty. I took care of a lovely girl for 3 years and would have stayed with her until my retirement age if I could have, but she pa...
  12. new grad RN BSN - is home health for me?

    Home health is definitely not for a brand new grad. Even several nurses that we have hired with years of hospital experience were not able to cope well with home health. Like some of the other posters have stated, home health patients have changed ...
  13. For $100,000 I'd be able to quit my current job so that I could focus on getting my RN degree without having to work at the same time. For $500,000 I'd quit nursing all together and either go back to accounting, become a vet tech, or do medical tran...
  14. Indiana State University BSN students

    I've searched through all the threads related to ISU and I haven't been able to find the information that I'm looking for. Is there anyone who has actually done their clinicals at their local hospital for ISU? Does ANYONE know all of the states tha...
  15. I'm an LPN working in the office of a Home Health Agency. I'm the scheduler, HomMed manager, supply manager, and assist the office case managers. Some weekends I work from home taking call, and the on-call bucks are not shabby. I love this job and...