Not_A_Hat_Person

Not_A_Hat_Person RN

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  1. NO Home Births by Midwives in AZ

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to catalina123's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Dr. Ward is a

  2. NO Home Births by Midwives in AZ

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to catalina123's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It looks like CNMs would still be allowed to deliver multiples, VBACs, and breech babies, but non-nurse midwives would

  3. Jobs that older nurses do. (?)

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to conroenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I work in home health. A lot of my colleagues are over

  4. I Just Need To Vent A Bit... Or A Lot.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to PCnurse88's topic in Nursing Career

    Does your state allow RNs to take the paramedic exam? Maybe you could become an RN-EMT. I can sympathize with your job hunt problems. I graduated in 2008, just before the nursing job market collapsed....

  5. For all the momma nurses out there...

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to trauma_lama's topic in Nursing Career

    I work in home health. It's not the OR, but it's very hands-on. I'm 28 weeks pregnant with twins, I've been on a 15 lb. lifting restriction for a few weeks (all of my clients have Hoyer lifts), and...

  6. this is why people still think there's a nursing shortage!

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing homes have very heavy workloads, and home health doesn't pay

  7. "Loosing" my license

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I recently learned that nurses in my state can lose their license if they don't work enough hours to meet the practice requirement (400 hours in 2 years, 960 hours in 5 years). A nurse who falls short...

  8. Shabbat issues

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to savotinaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Are there any Jewish health care providers in your area? They would probably be the most willing to accommodate a sabbath-observant RN. Could you work night shifts without working Fridays? An 11p-7a...

  9. Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Autism is so scary because no one seems to know what causes it. Years of testing have proven that vaccines don't cause autism, but that still leaves an unknown number of other factors. I don't...

  10. Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Monsanto has an awful track record. However, they didn't invent GMOs, which are as old as farming. Labelling GMOs means labeling every fruit, vegetable, and grain on the market, plus most of the meat...

  11. Is Netflix your BFF? What do you watch?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I try to keep my Netflix viewing family friendly at work. I watch a lot of documentaries, VeggieTales, and older

  12. Eating our young and more...

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to campbellrn68's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So can we have a moratorium on "New nurses are lazy, spoiled, and

  13. What age did you complete your BSN or ASN?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to mee9mee9's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I got a BA at 27 and an AS at

  14. PRN hours decreased because of the ACA

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to kdhunley's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Plenty of people who eat right and exercise end up with cancer, get pneumonia, or get hit by

  15. Eating our young and more...

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to campbellrn68's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Many, many older, experienced nurses have no problem perceiving all younger, less experienced nurses as spoiled, entitled, lazy, and unskilled. God forbid you leave a job sooner than they think you...

  16. this is why people still think there's a nursing shortage!

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    The ANA and the BLS predict that the nursing job market will rebound by 2020. That's 6 years from now, and doesn't do much for new grads who can't find first jobs, nurses with less than 5 years of...

  17. Eating our young and more...

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to campbellrn68's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The fact that you haven't personally experienced something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I first heard about NETY from instructors in school. I experienced it several times in clinicals. I...

  18. AOL pits 401Ks against healthcare benefits.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Sam J.'s topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm glad this has blown up in his face. I'm wondering if he decided to gamble by not buying re-insurance (stop-loss insurance) and lost big time. If the CEO of AOL wanted to cut 401(k) matching, he...

  19. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I'd rather have the parents mad at me than have to go before the BON for failure to

  20. The death of nursing

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to massrn116's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The ANA's numbers stop in 2008, when the economy collapsed. The January 2014 American Journal of Nursing paints a very different picture of the nursing job

  21. When patients request NOT to have you as their nurse...

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to julz68's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was "fired" by quite a few patients while I was in Nursing Home Hell. One was racial- I was the only non-white nurse on the wing, and a note appeared at the nurse's station and in the chart saying...

  22. House calls

    Not_A_Hat_Person posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm an RN, currently working home health. I like several aspects of Home Health. I've also seen a number of want ads in my area for NPs to do house calls for insurance companies. Do any of NPs here do...

  23. have you ever found a legit job on Craigslist?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to dixieyid305's topic in Nursing Career

    I found a few legit nursing jobs on

  24. Ranting on the New Grads

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to RNGriffin's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I graduated in May 2008. I started the job search in March. Most hospital ads said "no new grads", and even nursing homes wanted 1 year of experience. One-star nursing homes refused to interview me....

  25. Hospital Volunteering While in Nursing School

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to CCC_nursing's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was an ER volunteer during nursing school. Unfortunately, it didn't help me with the job hunt after