yourmomisanurse

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1. RN wants to join, but had a kidney removed. Is it impossible?

   yourmomisanurse replied to yourmomisanurse's topic in Government

   Thank you for your replies. I'm going to be persistent and hope for that waiver.

2. RN wants to join, but had a kidney removed. Is it impossible?

   yourmomisanurse posted a topic in Government

   Background: I just turned 35. Have been an RN for 3 years and finishing my BSN this year. Goal is CRNA. The Army recruiter I spoke with said an RN with BSN can go active duty as an officer up to age 46. No problem there. Today I spoke with a Navy rec...

3. Frustrated with contract offered and excuses by travel company

   yourmomisanurse replied to ruralccnurse's topic in Travel

   I'm having the same experience and I'm done as well. Looking for a full-time staff position for ICU instead.

4. union in Utah

   yourmomisanurse replied to angelstringz's topic in Utah

   agreed. unfortunately.

5. Rn wages in utah

   yourmomisanurse replied to emilynorth's topic in Utah

   yep, that's about right. makes me sick. one of my patients said to me the other day "nursing seems like such a great career. my daughter works as a nurse and makes such great money". I said "the money isn't THAT great, but the job...yes, it is a gr...

6. union in Utah

   yourmomisanurse replied to angelstringz's topic in Utah

   There is no nursing union in Utah, but there should be. Then these hospitals would be forced to pay nurses what they are actually worth which would be about double what it is now.

7. Utah RN pay, Salt Lake City area

   yourmomisanurse replied to PACNWNURSING's topic in Utah

   I've been working for IHC for 3 years now and still make less money than I did before I was a nurse with no education. Maybe I was just lucky before. The medical insurance is some of the worst insurance I have ever had (have been to my pcp a couple...

8. ? got some info about an assignment - does this sound good?

   yourmomisanurse replied to yourmomisanurse's topic in Travel

   Thanks for the heads-up. Never done a travel assignment before and that is one concern I have - ending up in a crap area at a crap hospital because I didn't know better.

9. ? got some info about an assignment - does this sound good?

   yourmomisanurse posted a topic in Travel

   I spoke with a "highly rated" travel company today and got some info about a "sample" travel assignment they have in Riverside, CA. I'm looking for opinions of whether or not this sounds like a good deal. Keeping in mind that everybody has differe...

10. Non-trauma ER travel positions?

    yourmomisanurse replied to yourmomisanurse's topic in Travel

    Thanks for the replies. Any particular travel companies you would recommend since the one I had decided on turned out to be not as helpful as I thought they'd be?

11. Non-trauma ER travel positions?

    yourmomisanurse replied to yourmomisanurse's topic in Travel

    Nice. Thanks for the clarification. I thought I had narrowed my search down and found the company I wanted to go with for my first assignment (Fastaff), but the recruiter I talked to made it sound like it would be too difficult. Glad to know there ...

12. Non-trauma ER travel positions?

    yourmomisanurse replied to yourmomisanurse's topic in Travel

    Thanks for the reply. Are you saying you take assignments in at trauma centers or that it isn't difficult for you to find assignments in non-trauma? I don't think I should take a trauma assignment and any hospital that would hire me for that is jus...

13. Non-trauma ER travel positions?

    yourmomisanurse posted a topic in Travel

    I work in an ER, but it is non-trauma. I want to try out a travel assignment, but I'm afraid my options for ER will be quite limited if I don't have trauma experience. anybody here taken an ER travel assignment in a non-trauma hospital? is it diff...