merner1012

merner1012 has 7 years experience and specializes in Tele, Stepdown, Recovery.

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1. Starting WGU 04/2018

   merner1012 replied to ChristineS2004's topic in Western Governors

   My bf and I are both hopefully starting 4/18 as well. Nervous about starting, it's been about 8 years since school for us but we need to get it done. RN to BSN for now. Waiting for the last transcripts to get reviewed and we're good I think. Nice ...

2. Napa CA Queen of the Valley

   merner1012 replied to monday2016's topic in Travel

   The area is great, but the hospital is not doing well. They've lost 75-80+ staff RNs over the last year or so mostly to Kaiser down the road in Vallejo, who pays them about at least double what their staff makes. The staff morale is not good. Trav...

3. California licensure endorsement verification

   merner1012 replied to Kirstinalyce's topic in Travel

   Both my boyfriend and I are originally PA RN's as well. California cashed our checks on the same day, 3/23/15. My boyfriend used PA's new electronic verification to send to California. I used my current Oregon license on Nursys instead of the PA t...

4. Any companies pay for rental cars?

   merner1012 replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

   I haven't heard of any reimbursement for cars, but like the other responder said- you can negotiate for money for that but it will come out of your pay somewhere else. The highest I've heard from other travelers traveling from east coast to west coa...

5. Any Help Appreciated!!

   merner1012 replied to JRiestra82's topic in Travel

   I've been traveling with Cross Country now since December 2014 with my boyfriend and so far it's been a pretty positive experience. It definitely helps to have a good recruiter that communicates well with you and is able to break things down to you ...

6. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California

   No letter that I know of, but I'm waiting on my mail to be looked through. They send everything to my home address in Pennsylvania and I'm working in Oregon. I'm hoping there's not an issue since I have only a diploma RN, but my boyfriend (who trav...

7. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California

   So my temporary license was issued on 5/7/15, but my status on Breeze still shows "Pending" and "Open". I've emailed and called multiple times without any luck, although I wasn't expecting much to begin with. My temporary license expires in Novembe...

8. Northern/Bay Area Cali travel

   merner1012 replied to merner1012's topic in Travel

   Nice... Good to know and thank you!

9. Northern/Bay Area Cali travel

   merner1012 replied to merner1012's topic in Travel

   Kateyes7- Pay was (obviously) a good bit higher than here in Oregon, I want to say around $35/hr base pay(for CPMC), and the housing we were quoted at about $2650/month for each of us individually. I'm not sure about Napa though, I think we may end ...

10. Northern/Bay Area Cali travel

    merner1012 posted a topic in Travel

    Just looking for some info on traveling to the Bay area or northern cali for our next assignment. My boyfriend and I travel together (ICU and tele/MS). Our recruiter has told us about CPMC-Pacific in san fran, and also some hospitals in Concord and...

11. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

    merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California

    California got my information in the Breeze system on 3/23/15, and just as of today 5/7/15, I was issued a temporary license! My original license state was PA, but I'm also working in Oregon now so I just used the OR license on Nursys for verificati...

12. Potential Travel Nurse

    merner1012 replied to limitlesslisa89's topic in Travel

    Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!

13. Potential Travel Nurse

    merner1012 replied to limitlesslisa89's topic in Travel

    Yeah we're not impressed with the recruiter so we may be either getting a new one with CC, or signing with a different company all together. It's not been a bad experience, but our recruiter can't even keep our information straight, simple stuff too...

14. Potential Travel Nurse

    merner1012 replied to limitlesslisa89's topic in Travel

    icuRNmaggie- Just curious about the travel stipend you got with Cross Country because I travel with them now with my boyfriend and we both only got $300 each way for the travel, and we went 2,500 miles... Is the $500 normally what you've been gettin...

15. UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing '09'

    merner1012 replied to kellyjo1414's topic in Pennsylvania

    Just curious, is Shadyside still doing care plans? They did when I went there, but these PBL things sound a whole lot like a care plan and then using the sim lab to act it out?