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  1. I just started with this new home health company, been in business for 2 years, and my first paycheck bounced after I already deposited it, wrote out my own personal checks and it left me in the big time hole. When I called the administrator, I thoug...
  2. Thanks, and I never thought about ACHA, I wonder if they would come check it out? But yes, next paycheck is this week, so I deff will let you guys know. I am holding my breath until then. And yes, Senior Home Care is big here and wonderful rep. I am ...
  3. Yeah, of course I am looking, but worried now, about my next paycheck that is due. I am just appauled (sp?) that this is not a federal crime and they are not being held responsible for this. A business should NOT BE allowed to do this to employees! W...
  4. Thank you for your response, but just curious how did you know I was from Fla? Just wondering why you said that. Thanks
  5. New School Nurse in Fla

    Hello, I am going through and reading alot of posts on here and getting good information. I just landed a school nurse job at our Elem. School!! After I got over the initial salary SHOCK:eek: and how low I was going to be paid, I started getting real...
  6. Need studying advice! Please

    Hey, I have decided to study for all my pre-reqs and CLEP them all on my own without signing up for ANY college or Publishing Company! So that being said, I am looking for students who can give me GREAT study advice on BOOKS, STUDY GUIDES, Computer C...
  7. Need studying advice! Please

    No I did not apply, I just asked alot of questions. I knew I can't clep A and P but I did not realize I can not Clep Microbiology. I just started off with the ones I knew and keep my goal short and small or else I know I want get started. When I do s...
  8. Need studying advice! Please

    thanks but to save money I am not enrolling in any college, or any publishing companies UNTIL my pre-reqs are done. So I am clep'ing all my pre-reqs on my own and asking for what study guides are out that people are using.:)
  9. Need studying advice! Please

    Thank you, I will go look at instantcert now. Never heard of it. I ordered the REA book and it is on it's way! Anyone else have suggestions?
  10. New School Nurse in Fla

    Thank you! I start this week!
  11. Can this be done?

    I am wondering since all you are basicaly doing is CLEPing the classes through Excelsior for your pre req's why can't you SAVE MONEY and just CLEP them yourself then enroll for your nursing classes with them? If I was to do that do I just do it all o...
  12. Can this be done?

    Thanks, but what I meant was NOT ENROLLING in Excelsior, just taking CLEPS on my own then once I did it for all my pre reqs ENROLL in Excelsior. Can that be done?
  13. Opening our own ALF's

    Hello fellow nurses! I was wondering if anyone can share details, or information on something I am wanting to do with a partner.. We live in Florida and I have already requested the what licensing information I need for the state of FLa but I was wan...
  14. Ok, if this has been asked before Please forgive me. But I met with the College network ppl and I have a list of all the prereq's I have to take....So I was wondering. Can I buy the study guides off Ebay, call up a testing facility and CLEP it withou...
  15. I don't know where to even post this, but I have an interview for a Nurse Liaison postion for a LTC. I was wondering if there were any other nurses out there doing the same or similar job and how you like it? I feel confident about doing it and am k...
  16. :angryfire I need to know if there is something wrong with me and if ALL HOME HEALTH private shift cases are usually like this.......because if so then I might not be cut out for this. I work a case that has 2 patients, they are twins and they have s...
  17. AMEN!! thank you!!! Everything you said was so true! And yes, I did leave and found a new job. It was sad that the nurses that were NOT PROFESSIONAL , ran me off, and I was a GREAT nurse and professional.
  18. Im outa here!

    After almost two yrs of doing the same case and no raises, and a bunch of other things I got a new job! Thank the Lord! I prayed to God he would help me find another job and he did!!! I am going to be a hospital nurse liaison! And I couldn't be happi...
  19. How do I ask for same rate my friend was quoted?

    Well if its Maxim I can tell you that this is how they are. They see what they can do and get away with all the time.
  20. First thank you for all of you who are giving me genuine feed back, and I know I can't fully explain everything on here that I would like to to help you understand the full picture, but I have been putting in applications ALL over the place to try a...
  21. Believe it or not Child services have been to the home SEVERAL times, and nothing is ever done! one thing, the nurses who are on the case are afraid to say anyting in front of the family, and number two, if you loose that case, because they find out ...
  22. Should we be told of a surveillance camera in pts room?

    I completely understand about the feelings you have about being betrayed and the bad feelings you would get being told this afterwards, but if you did stop for a min and just be THE PARENT in that situation and think of your own child you may do the ...
  23. I have been putting in applications all over lately for home health and I am currently with a home health agency but was looking for a back up or part time work at another agency. I have put down full time, part time and per diem on all my applicatio...
  24. Having trouble finding an agency?

    Well,If and when I get a management postion I will remember this very moment in my life. Even if the person was a lousy worker I will remember this is a person who has a family maybe and needs to move on just like everyone else! But I know that I am ...
  25. Having trouble finding an agency?

    You know I was just talking to someone tonight and we were thinking the same thing, that my employer right now may be bad mouthing me when they call because they want to keep me! I am doing a case that they have a VERY hard time staffing and I am the...