KLKRN RN

Highway Hypodermics

I've done both contract and per diem with them for 2 years. For per diem they're good. There are other companies like RNNetwork and others that offer better benefits. What will really make or break your experience in travel nursing is your recruiter,...

Alaska sounds beautiful. I have been traveling again recently and dreamed last night that I went to Alaska. I think that will definitely be on my list. My specialty is Med/Surg.

Yes, that's definitely a plus, being able to get into a venue where you feel in control again. I have noticed that just what little I've been able to accomplish in prep for CLNC work has given me even more confidence at the hospital. In fact, just y...

Wooh! I haven't read the rest yet, but I want to tell you I had EXACTLY the same experience! Actually talked to the attorney and tripped all over myself! And he said the same thing, he'd keep my info on file. I feel your pain! But don't wait 'till ne...

My only comment is that once an attorney sees (and is used to paying) you as a paralegal, it seems to me that it might be difficult to change that mindset over to the lnc role. It is unlikely that you would NOT use your nursing experience in a paral...

Now, Wooh, that is about the cutest emoticon message I've ever seen! Too cool.

This is why it's so great when someone asks these questions on this forum - so we can all gain the benefit of the answers!

SirI, I could use some tips too, to see if I'm on the right track. I've been doing a lot of procrastinating too, lately. Or I've just had too much on my mind, like the rest of the country.

If they are part of public records, you might start with asking someone in the local or county court system, where the facility is located. You could also ask risk control or your facility's legal representative or insurance carrier, if you can find ...

Where are the moderators? No one should be calling anyone an @ss on this forum. It shows not only a lack of professionalism, and respect for self and others, but anger management problems. To go to the original question, which I believe should be the...

But it is something we can succeed in if we put in the effort. We do have good evidence of that!:smiletea2::flwrhrts:

I think it is important to understand that you should have an alternate source of income to stay afloat while you are gearing up your business. You don't walk out of the hospital one day as a nurse with a job and walk into your home office the next a...

I don't know that I can add much to what RN1989 and SirI have said, but do consider that as RN1989 said, this is not just something you dabble in to make money. You have to put yourself into it 100% if you want to be successful. Starting any business...

Yee Haw!!! Congratulations! As to whether or not it's worth it, I think that's up to each person to decide. I think if you put in the effort and pay attention to the ones who succeeded ahead of you, you can succeed and you will believe it was worth ...

I have decided that I will take on a case, and if I find it's over my head (like cardiology or OB - reading strips, for instance) I'll get a subcontractor to do that part for me. But I agree with SirI. I'm an RN. I can apply my experience and knowle...

I agree wholeheartedly with lecavalier4. The expertise of a paralegal is in the legal arena. The expertise of a legal nurse consultant is nursing. The paralegal can assist the attorney with the legal process - that's what they are trained to do. But ...

SirI, can you tell me what, as a general rule, independent LNC's would be wise to set aside for taxes. I have heard 30%. Does that sound reasonable for your experience?

I'm sorry this has happened to you. I know how it must have made you feel. But what's done is done and all you can do now is learn from it and move forward. Don't beat yourself up or let anyone else beat you up emotionally over it. Just recognize th...

Nope. Some of us were just using silence to make our statement

I often work in a border town and there are always nurses and case managers sitting at the nurse's station talking incessantly, and loudly, in Spanish. More than once, I have had to ask them to tone it down just so I could hear a doctor on the phone!...

I would get the local news media involved in this story as well as an attorney. That management was entirely out of line. As for the message it sends to nurses: we don't care about you, you have no rights, not even the right to protection. The messa...

Microsoft also has a number of online tutorials on its products. I've found them very helpful. And they're free!

The nurse who enjoys this work will be the nurse who wants to know more about their patients than when their meds are due, more about their job than how soon they can punch out. As the others said, if you love putting the story together and getting ...

An LNC who is a testifying expert can only testify within her area of expertise. So, testifying to the facts as to nursing practice standards and deviations would be appropriate. So when you say an LNC who is a testifying expert only testifies agains...