JinJerEvans

Thanks a bunch

Have you done one of these programs? Thanks for the info!!

Thanks so much!!!!

I was diagnosed after working full time as an RN 2 years after graduating, so I understand your concern. At the time, I had been working night shift which I had done since before school...worked full time the whole time and continued after getting my ADN. So I decided that my best option was to go back to school and get my Bachelor's. Even though I loved patient care, I thought that I needed to be nicer to my body. After obtaining my BSN, I was offered and accepted a Case Management position, well that lasted for 6 months. I hated it! Like I said I loved patient care, but did not want to be a slacker with my team, ya know... I would end up hurting myself just to ensure I was pulling my weight. Well, God knows your heart and where you need to be... About 3 weeks before I had worked in the Case Management position for 6 months, I received a call from one of my previous preceptors where I did clinicals to obtain my Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner certification and my BSN clinicals...at a local health department. As God would have it, It was just before I was to take a previously scheduled vacation to go see my Dad in Maine for two weeks...so I interviewed, they offered me the position, allowed me to decide over the two week vacation. So with a lot of prayer, and discussion with my family, I decided to take the position, and yes I did take a small pay cut... So I can tell you that I love my job, I was even able to go back to school to get my MSN and am now a CNS in Adult Health, treating patients that desperately need help due to either no insurance or underinsurance...and my employer helped pay for my education, even paid me when I was away at clinicals..I did not have to use up my accrued time off! Yes I have bad days, even still, with not much lifting involved!! But I have found that working not only helps keep my mind off of it, it brightens my spirit because my problem seems so much smaller than the people I am helping. Point is there are other jobs that don't require lots of lifting, and I really do think that working day time hours helps too! Don't give up, there will be a position that is great for you in patient care, you just need to find the right fit! Pray about it!!

Okay so I recently graduated and have passed the Adult Health CNS Exam... working in my role at a local Health Department... where I had been working as a nurse before completing my MSN... We treat a growing underinsured, no insurance population in Kentucky, with all of the recent layoffs and changes in Medicaid reimbursement, it will continue to grow.. So here is my dilemma, I am seeing patients just as an Adult Nurse Practitioner would, using my education as well for some research projects.. yet there are so many children that I could see if I was just certified to see them...so I am thinking about obtaining a post-master's FNP to do this. Has anyone else stumbled upon this? Oh and the reason I went with the CNS role, it was offered at a school in KY, and I was able to complete the program part time and my job was gracious enough to work with me... I know, I know...should have really thought about this... but I really also wanted to see the CNS role get more recognition... Any suggestions would be appreciated!