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Great information, thank you for your reply. With your c-corp status, are you doing what I have outlined, yourself? Working as a sole proprietor? Is anybody else included in this? How do the taxes work? With other llcs I am familiar with, they use pass-through taxation. Would this be the case here? Are you technically a generally contractor in the eyes of the IRS or a w-2 employee? I already have personal liability insurance through nso, for roughly $100/yr as an RN. I assume this would NOT suffice in this case? Lastly, if another registry RN or two wanted to join me in this route, would joining forces save money to split the costs of business start up, or just complicate things incredibly? Thanks for all your help.

I am hoping for some advice on starting a registry, with one employee, myself, to start. I have been working full time registry for 2 years and work almost exclusively at 2 hospitals. I feel like it would be beneficial to cut out the middle man, my currently registry employer, and bill the entire wage for myself. I am familiar with opening a small business and starting an LLC due to the experience of family members, but am looking for general guidance on where to start regarding the legalities of starting this type of company. The state I work is California, can anybody give me advice? I realize it may take a hospital 30 days or more to pay my invoice, which I am prepared for. Any by help would be appreciated.

To start this post, I would like to say that I am not asking legal advice, just wondering if anybody has encountered somebody in a similar situation, and could tell me what the outcome was. I will be blunt; 2 years ago I was caught with steroids and marijuana. I was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance (steroids), and misdemeanor possession (weed). This was in michigan, and the charges were expunged from my public record because I did a deferral type program (i was under 21 at the time) and once I successfully made it through probation/did community service/took drug classes etc, and proved my rehabilitation, the charges were "hidden" so to speak. Now that that terrible chapter of my life is over, I have moved on completely and I figured that it would never come back to haunt me, but as I was starting to do the paperwork to apply for licensure today (I graduate in a few months from an ABSN program) I found out that even though it is off the public record, I still have to check "yes" that it happened/give details of the event etc to the MI state board and they could deny my application for my license. This is extremely scary and nerve racking for me, as I figured that part of my life was well behind me. Now considering the nature of the crimes (a controlled substance felony in particular), and the recency of it (only 2 years ago, even though it seem like such a distance part of my past), I am afraid this will hinder me from getting a job in nursing and all my hard work will be for nothing Has anybody dealt with having to expose previously hidden expunged charges to the state BON? Or dealt with felony drug possession charges and the BON? Again my only obstacle is the license application with the BON, as no hospital or potential hire will ever see that it occurred. Unfortunately this obstacle now seems monumental.

I will graduate in may from state A, and I am unsure where I want to move afterwards. Can I apply for jobs in states B,C,D and then take the boards in one of those other states if I find a job opening there? Or do I have to take my boards in the state that I was educated in first and then apply for a transfer or whatever. thanks for the help, I've looked on a few different state's boards and for some reason can't find this information

I was wondering the very same thing after reading about the senate passing the health care reform early this morning. Does anybody know how this will affect our pay?

This seems like an extremely dumb question, but if I live in a certain city (we'll say houston,tx), and there is an agency trying to place a travel nurse there, couldn't I just take the job and live at home? Is that how it works? I graduate soon and plan on becoming a travel nurse and I am just trying to learn to in's and out's.

If it is at all possible I would love to work in an ICU as a new grad, and I have been reading on here from numerous people saying it is possible, but is that still the case these days, because some of those posts seemed to be before the downshift in the economy, and hospitals started hiring freezes. I will be graduation in may and hope to get a job in an ICU in the Washington DC area, but with the downshift of the economy I am unsure whether that is possible or not, I feel that lately some new grads are hard pressed to find positions at all, let alone ICU. Does anybody know of any hospitals in the DC area that hire new grads into this position?