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As far as malpractice insurance, get your own. If something were to happen, the institution would have your back. However, after that case the institution could turn around and Sue you. Institutions will tell you that you don’t need your own insurance because they don’t want to have anyone to fight against in the end game.

Also, there isn't a nursing shortage, but a shortage of working nurses. The staffing situation and inability to complete the tasks, much less do some nursing, has many nursing leaving the profession.

I have not been able to find exact answers, with internet searches, employer information, and nursing organization information. Please do not respond unless you have an exact, correct knowledge base. I have enough confusion. i have a valid RN license from WI, which participles in the NLC. I recently moved to FL, and declared residency just days before the election, in order to vote and get car & home owners insurance. Yes, I am a snowbird. I will be doing WI for 4 months during the summer, and doing FL for 8 months. I his hasn't been an issue in the past, as I have been spending 8-9 months in WI until now. I work from home. My cooperate office is in a completely different state. I was told that it won't matter where I maintain my license, and I believed them. My employer will pay for 2 licenses. I thought I would take advantage, and get a second state license, in case I want to change jobs with part time employment. I read that my current license is invalid because I carry my driver license with FL and only have a 30 day period of time to change. FL has 24 CEU requirements, prior to application. Am I seeing this correctly? Do I have to get a FL license? Am I overwhelmed....yes. I am an intelligent person, and find this process so complicated.....the entire process of voter registration, home owner insurance, driver license etc....each having prerequisites, and paperwork and forms and places to sent forms etc.

Brand new to this site. This is the first posting I am reading. WOW! I know what you are saying. I love nursing, but not nursing. Let me clarify. I love the part of nursing that is the caring for a patient, with education and case management. I cannot tolerate the staffing situations and disrespect that is so common today. Would you allow your child in a daycare facility, when picking them up and they told you no one helped open their milk or they had to pee their pants because no one would take them to the bathroom. We have just two hands, and documentation is overwhelming. I can't do patient care with all the other stuff that gets in the way, and it is frustrating and overwhelming. It isn't about pay. It is about being able to provide perfect experience. I read physician notes, with all of their required documentation. It is not surprising to see system assessment check boxes "WNL" and then to see narrative about a problem. I read home health OASIS, with pages and pages and pages of nothing. And talk about patient centered goals. These are preset within the system for such foolishness as patients wound will heal by 75% by end of cert, patient will have no falls, etc. Really? I didn't know wound healing prediction or fall prevention would be so easy. Yeah, I sound like a bitter nurse also, and I am, but I love nursing. Question, do you belong to ANA and your local state nursing association? How do it look professionally when nurses try to change things and only 2% of the population commits to the association. Physicians join multiple associations, even if they think it is all BS. Numbers mean something. Join and stand together for a change