SUNSFAN_RN

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1. How common is Valley Fever?

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to Misty1's topic in Arizona

   Hi, my wife and I have lived in Az since 1984. My wife had valley fever 2 times before she was dx with valley fever by a pulm. doc. She has had it a total of 6 times and had her right upper lobe removed in 2001 as that was the only way to rid her lu...

2. Close Call

   SUNSFAN_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   A little background first, I'm a 56 year old male RN. On Wed. night I had some mid sternal chest pain and just didn't feel good. On Thursday morning I went to work as usual but still had some chest pain and felt crappy. After 45 min. at work I left a...

3. Az State Board of Nursing

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to SUNSFAN_RN's topic in Arizona

   Thanks for the reply. I know it's to prove your right to work status in the USA, but again why can't the board use E-verify which our wonderful state makes every employer use to verify their employees work status.

4. Az State Board of Nursing

   SUNSFAN_RN posted a topic in Arizona

   Has anyone renewed their nursing license since Jan. 2008? I went to renew online and I see I now have to submit either a copy of a birth cirtificate or pass port. What happened to the copy I submitted 20+ years ago when I became licensed in Az ? Did...

5. California Endorsement/Reciprocity

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to SymphonyRnBSN's topic in California

   I live in Arizona and applied for a Cal. RN license by endorsement and it took 5 weeks. I needed a California license for my job as a nurse you must be licensed in California to do a telephone assessment on a Cal. resident. I used NURSYS.com for the...

6. Banner Hospitals to go to Uniforms

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to WoosahRN's topic in General Nursing

   I worked for Valley Luthern hosp in the 90's before their merger with the samaritan system and I feel it was better prior to the merger. Benefits were (health insurance) better and cost less. As far a policy that each catagory of employees wear a ce...

7. Calling in sick??

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to LUVtxNursing's topic in General Nursing

   LuvTxNursing stated they were a per diem employee which means where I work the floor nurses who are per diem can self cancel with 2 hours notice prior to a scheduled shift with no penalties. Maybe your employer needs to look up the meaning of per die...

8. The meeting went awful, I'm job hunting

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Home Health

   Dutchgirl I feel your pain, I left HH 2 years ago because of pay per visit and went to an insurance company and worked as an RN case manager for almost 2 years and just this past Jan I took a job with a hosp as an RN case manager on a med/surg floor ...

9. RN CM and MSW background

   SUNSFAN_RN replied to loriann's topic in Case Management

   I have been a hospital based RN CM for many years as well as an insurance based CM and I can tell you from my experience that the most important part of discharge planning at the hospital where I work is that the pts discharge is a safe discharge. Th...

10. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it (then I remember the nursing home)

    SUNSFAN_RN replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Home Health

    Welcome to the world of home health. Sorry to hear that you're having a bad weekend. I did HH for about 10 years before I got out and went to work for an insurance co. as a complex case manager. The reason that he went home early is that the insuranc...

11. Is it even possible anymore to start a home nursing business?

    SUNSFAN_RN replied to Roland's topic in Home Health

    Hi Roland, I'm going to throw my 2 cents in here as I worked home health for many years before going to the dark side. I have been in management at several home health agencies in the past and with newer agencies that want to become medicare/medicaid...

12. How hard was Organic Chemistry?

    SUNSFAN_RN replied to DLS_PMHNP's topic in New Nurse

    I can't say for sure that it is harder but organic chemistry will based on the study of carbon, at least it was when I took it in 70's. Good luck with chem. and nursing school. Mark.

13. Gentiva

    SUNSFAN_RN replied to par08's topic in Home Health

    Hi all, I work as an RN for Gentiva and I've been with them since this past sept. I have been an RN for more than 25 years now and been doing HH for over 7 years and Gentiva here in AZ. is about the same as the rest I have worked for. I'm full time ...