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as soon as i graduated from my lpn program, i went right to an lpn to rn program. While in school for my rn, i worked and was paid privately by a family who was told that they had to have 24hr care for their loved one to stay at home. I did the day shift. I took care of her and the family also used me as a consultant for advice. I did this for two years until the patient passed away after surgery, at the hospital. When i graduated, I went into a surgery internship straight out of rn nursing school. I worked in a major CT. Hospital for two years before experiencing a clinical career ending injury. I didn't get much money because you can't beat that hospital, it is more of a monopoly in that state with worker's comp in it's back pocket. As part of the settlement i had to sign that i would never work for them again, which was fine because i knew they were never going to hire me again. They wouldn't hire me for jobs that i could do even though, according to comp they were supposed to, so i saw the writing on the wall way ahead of time. I quickly jumped back into school to get my bachelor degree knowing business nursing was my only option to stay in nursing. In CT you have to be able to lift what they say regardless of the position and i have a permanent lifting restriction to 10 lbs on a regular basis. I worked HEDIS two summers in a row and did some more private duty being paid directly from the families for two children, but since 2015, I have not worked in an acute care facility. I am afraid that i am now stale. I have applied to multiple positions without any luck. I graduate in May with my BSN, but I am afraid it might not make a difference plus most jobs want more experience or just experience period so even if i get a cert, i won't have any work experience to back it up and the local colleges work with the hospital that I can't work for. Any advice would be appreciated. I have renewed my license this year, but wonder if i will or even can next year.

The hospital i worked for Yale is very influential and it is hard to find a lawyer that is not influenced or controlled by them. The plan was to get rid of me when i was injured and pay nothing or as little as possible and not honor my rights as an injured worker. It was obvious from the day i stepped into occupational health that i was in for a fight. without even so much as an exam, the nurse practitioner immediately told me part of the injury i was complaining of was not from the fall.

Hi, I just got hired to do hedis this year. I was wondering if there is a way to get the info i need to suceed at this specifically how to get familiar with the tech specs. I am a newer nurse, RN licensed in 2012, previously an LPN since 2010. I worked in a major hospital (Yale) and was injured with a clinical career ending injury. I actually have ehlers danlos but the injury really bought it out and the injuries didn't heal well so my medical restrictions don't allow me to practice hands on clinical nursing. I don't have enough experience to do most of the nonclinical nursing but I can chart and I did do some auditing while on light duty after the accident. Long story short, I was just wondering how I get more comfortable with the Hedis tech specs so I can do well at this because I really need this. I took the test for the job which wanted 1 year of experience. I passed the test with a great score but it let me know that I need to get familiar with the specs. asside from paying hundreds for the book, is there any other way to get familiar. I am taking coding now so i am familiar with coding already. But being familar with the specs would save me so much time. Stationary work is really all I can do now. I really really need this. This company hires for Hedis season but they also have fulltime permanent positions and hedis would give me a foot into the company for when I finish my coding education.

I lost my job after working my dream position in the OR for only 8months. I sustained permenant injuries with restrictions for life! I can no longer practice hands on nursing and don't have the required years of service for the nonclinical positions. I fell in the OR after becoming entangled in cords on the floor because there was no where else they could be. I was in an Old room with wall outlets. My preceptor didn't like blankets over the plugs because she said they were more dangerous than the cords. The hospital still hasn't paid me a dime and I was fired. Continual pain everyday. Get those wall outlets out and get the ceiling outlets in!

c 4-5, shoulder neck and back strain, numb fingers, radiating pain. Permanent restrictions, lost my job. Not from lifting i fell but many of my contemporaries from lifting. We used to have the hover mat, it was easy, then, for some dingbat reason, they changed to this crazy draw sheet kinda thing which meant basically back to lifting. I know it was because the sheet thingy was cheaper. I would say not as cheap as work injuries but I have seen how my hospital handled work injuries. Three people fired before me so I guess the sheet thingy really is cheaper.

Well its been a year, I've been out for almost 2 years. Job successfully fired me in May. I dropped the ball because I was so crushed and now am looking for a new lawyer. I am sure I need a new lawyer, think my current one was in on the plan all along. I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Hypermobility type as the reason I wasn't healing. I did eventually get rated for mmi but not the hospital is not paying. I exhausted my unemployment and am now taking a test to work the Hedis season while I am studying for billing and coding. It is a shame how how nurses give their heart and soul and then hospitals treat us like injure race horses and put us down when we get injured.

thanks so much for the encouragement. I was injured in Jan of 2014. Yes they are sending me to a doc for mmi at the end of this month even though my physiatrist says i am not at mmi and it is just taking longer for me to heal. I know that i can take this time to finish my degree and if i must i will take a refresher course and some other nonclinical skills courses too like you said, i don't plan on being dead so i might as well be as productive as possible. Thanks again.

Thank you. I will.

i have been following pixie rn since excelsior so i know she isn't a chamberlain plant on these pages, i am also an excelsior grad and am in the chamberlain rn- bsn program with 5 classes to go. It is not an easy program, nursing education is not easy, but it is doable and offers a good solid education that you will use and can be proud of and yes it does transfer. As another poster mentioned you do need to use your writing skills, but this is college.

i started a little over a year ago. i loved the position and the training. Make sure your preceptor lets you do not just watch him/her do. This is a position where hands on experiential learning is key. I took notes after a better preceptor told me what i should be taking notes about such as the surgeons equipment settings, preferred instruments. Surgeons can do the same thing but use totally different stuff. Also note their patient positioning preferences for each type of surgery and the positioning aids that they prefer and their quirks! one surgeon may like his patients taped and another may not want the tape touching their skin etc...and those little things can make a big difference in your good day! Listen to your tech, they will be your best friend. Be careful, I lost my OR career 2 months after i finished my 6 month training, i was orienting to my specialty and I had a massive fall that may have put me out of nursing period! We were in the dark doing a video assisted surgery, i was in a hurry to do my closing count so that I could do a sign out with my surgeon before he broke scrub and left the room, which he had done in a prior surgery so i missed my chance to do a sign out and my manager was mad about it because we are supposed to go over the specimens during sign out to make sure they are all correct. I guess the doc trusted that I got it right and didn't feel the need to do a sign out, he left while i was in the middle of the closing count. I didn't want it to happen again so i rushed over to the tech's table but instead got tangled up in cords because i was in an old room where the sockets are not on the ceiling. Most important thing, protect yourself so that you can enjoy this amazing specialty. I loved it and now i miss it. OR nursing is a beautiful thing.

Hello all, I have worked so hart to become a nurse. I finally landed my dream position in the Operating Room with a Major hospital right out of school. I went through their intern training program and graduated from it. 2 month after finishing the training program I took a horrible fall that has left me with muscle pain, weakness and spasms in my neck, back, arms shoulders, hands. I have a lifting restriction of 20lbs only occasionally not even a consistent 20lbs. i am working hard with therapy to get to 25lbs but we can't seem to get there. My hospital requires all nurses to be able to lift at least 40lbs and in the OR it is at least 75lbs. My specialist and therapist aren't sure I am going to make it to the 40lbs any time soon and don't recommend my ever going back to the OR.My OR position has officially been taken away and re-listed on the job site. Now I am an internal candidate with workers comp breathing down my neck trying to kick me off and if they are successful, then the hospital can officially fire me. I haven't been able to find another position because it is either outside of my restrictions or I don't have the necessary education or experience. I am a second semester senior in an rn to bsn program. I have 5 more classes until i graduate. I feel like me nursing career is coming to an end before it even got started. My hospital has treated me horribly and i had to hire a compensation lawyer and an employment lawyer. Without them the hospital would have gotten rid of me long time ago. They have lied to me, occupational health has been guilty of malpractice which exacerbated the level of my injury. I actually sustained a second injury while on light duty because I was following occupational health's recommendations. If fell over cords and avoided bumping into a piece of machinery that would have bumped the surgeon while he was actively cutting on a lung. That machine could have kept me from falling but would have caused injury to my patient. Now the hospital does not want to honor my sacrifice. I think I may have lost my nursing career before it started. Any advice at this point would be greatly appreciated.

you can file for accommodations which can include working the 8hour shift instead of the 12 hour shift. I fell in the OR and hurt lots of things and my lawyer filed for accommodations. When he showed me some of the options, one of them was reducing the work hours. this sounds like what you are looking for.

i got plenty of federal financial aid at chamberlain, i didn't pay for one class out of pocket.

Hi, everyone, i too am a new RN and just completed my first week in the periop residency program. I am so excited and nervous. If i could just learn my way around the OR floor so many wings and rooms. We are using periop 101 modules also. The detailed preference card was great, thanks. Our preference cards are typed up and put on a ring, but as i found some things, like the music are not on there but priceless to know! When to ask questions and when to shut up is another big one! We will be with the same scrub preceptor and the same circulating preceptor for the whole program, I love that. We will also practice in class which is nice. I feel so overwhelmed yet excited. One of the scrub techs just got her RN and is in our class, she knows soooooooooooo much. I have so much respect for that position, i hope i get to scrub often and would like to become a first assistant if i can. But for now i will focus on learning all of the many things there are to learn to be an OR nurse. Any advice on learning instruments, sponges etc.....?

the courses are 8 week sessions. you have to take 32 credits with them for residency. they give you 82 credits for having your RN and then they look at your courses to see what else they can transfer in. You may have to take some extra classes that you ordinarily wouldn't have had to take to make that 11 class, 32 credit residency requirement because you already have a bachelor degree. I only had to take 11 classes down to 9 now. you can take as many as you think you can handle in an 8 week semester. You can go ahead in the nursing classes because you get the whole syllabus and assignments at the beginning of class. I finished my transitions class in 4 weeks because i went ahead. The nursing classes don't have tests, just discussions and some have one paper at the end. My transitions class had no paper, but smaller assignments that were pretty easy. The gen ed classes have tests and or papers and the discussion forum postings which are mandatory. I transferred to chamberlain from notre dame and i like it so far. The staff is very involved to make sure you are doing well and have all your questions answered.