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 University

   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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

6. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California Nursing

   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...

7. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California Nursing

   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...

8. Northern/Bay Area Cali travel

   merner1012 replied to merner1012's topic in Travel

   Nice... Good to know and thank

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....

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...

11. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

    merner1012 replied to zornzo's topic in California Nursing

    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...

12. Potential Travel Nurse

    merner1012 replied to limitlesslisa89's topic in Travel

    Thanks so much, I really appreciate

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...

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...

15. UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing '09'

    merner1012 replied to kellyjo1414's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    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