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During the best of times recruiters are difficult to interact with. Your experience has been standard operating procedure for me. There are a ton of agencies out there and my advice is to not put all your eggs in one basket. They play a lot of games and are ultimately trying to maximize profits for their company and make as much money off of you putting your health, safety, and possibly life on the line. Without you, they aren't making a dime. Keep that in mind. Good Luck.

Very interesting thoughts and opinions. You want humanity to be wiped out because of past events? Your fatalistic fantasy is rather morbid and hopeless. Nurses have one of the highest rates of depression and are experiencing extreme stress and PTSD due to COVID-19, maybe you should go talk to someone.

When was the last pandemic? I couldn't disagree with you more. It's like asking a police officer to work in a high crime area without their gun, radio, ballistics vest, ASP, OC spray, or backup.

It's not going to end in May. But, if they don't "need" you in NYC, come May, they will cancel your contract. You'll have plenty of opportunities all over the country and it'll pick back up in the fall. I've been traveling since last June and I am on the fence about starting an assignment in New Jersey. I can ride it out for another few months. But, I don't think I would have left a permanent position just for the money. Unless, you believe that you were being exposed to COVID-19 at the same rate you'll be exposed to it in NYC. I don't think it's worth the money, but to each their own. Good luck.

Everyone has said it better than I could. But, I served in the military and they 100% took better care of you and provided a much higher level of protection and ensured everyone had proper equipment and tools to do the job. They invested a lot of money in training you and valued you much more than any facility or hospital I've ever worked at. I resent the administrators, nurse managers, and a lot of my co-workers who have allowed and enabled this to happen. I have tried multiple times to bring nurses together to address issues and make positive changes on the floor, and each time, one-by-one, they would do a 180 and make me out to be the bad guy. I feel nothing but resentment and regret for choosing this "profession" and feel zero obligation to jeopardize my life, or my loved one's, for the system that allowed this to happen in the first place.

We are all equals, but on paper, in most states, if not all, RNs are not permitted to take clinical direction from LPNs. It's not about being better or having someone subordinate to you. These rules are in place for a reason and you are not only jeopardizing your license, but, possibly your patient's or resident's safety if you're taking clinical direction from an LPN.

They do and can receive their information from the social security administration, not the IRS. If you apply for certain government jobs they will do a social security check. I have personally worked for one private company and one government agency that required a social security check. You may not have been exposed to this in your high level financial institution position.

If you paid taxes on your income from being a camgirl then it is possible for an employer or anyone willing to pay the fee to find out about your past work history. Normally credit agencies will have access to this information and an employer can require you to sign a waiver that allows them to access your social security records. Meaning if you paid income taxes under your social security number, they will have access to your former employers.

I am aware of what is legal, illegal, and what falls within the scope of practice for RNs in the state that I reside and practice in. I did not say that I agree, advocate, or engage in this behavior. When an individual initiates a topic or subject, controversial or not, it does not mean that they engage in this behavior. I never witnessed it and only had the discussion with a co-worker. There are a lot of commentators on AN who believe they hold onto some secret knowledge, "that's illegal", that only they have access to and "share" it repeatedly. Perhaps this isn't the best place to have open and honest dialogue. I'm aware how easily an account can be traced, and that's part of the reason that "open" and "honest" dialogue can not take place in this type of forum. My attempt was to have a discussion and not be chastised and accused of something I have never stated or implied that I took part in. I've been in nursing for almost four years now and it's come up several times. I'll be sure to not bring it up again. Thanks.

The BON, a government entity, is made of imperfect people who should not always have the final say on nursing practice and don't always have patients' best interest in mind. After all, it was another government entity, in Germany, that created an industry to exterminate a group of people. When you rely on the government for everything they have the capacity to take away everything, including your right to advocate for patients. There's nothing subjective about a human repeatedly stabbing another human to death. A second chance is that this person is not spending the rest of life in prison. She wasn't a nurse when she stabbed this person to death, what second chance as a nurse would she be missing out on? It's amazing that this person is permitted to be around vulnerable and defenseless people who may unknowingly call this nurse the wrong name. This is allegedly why they stabbed someone to death in the first place.

This subject may be the equivalent of asking a police officer if they carry a throw-down. It's definitely not something I'm advocating for or believe is the right thing by the patient. It was brought up to me by a very competent nurse, who has over 18 years in an extremely busy ED, and was the nurse of the year 6 times in her career. She has a MSN, multiple certifications, and was an EMT in the inner-city for over 5 years. Not that any of that justifies what I was told by her, but those were her "credentials". The topic came up when the MD assigned to the patient was dealing with multiple traumas. This facility had a standing order for Morphine 1mg IV when a patient was having a MI. You were not able to go to an alternative MD to get an order for an increase in the dose. Up to this point, every time an increase was needed the MDs trusted the nurse's judgement and would okay it without assessing the patient. I am aware of what is considered to be outside of the scope of practice for nurses. Again, I'm not advocating for it, and just curious if this practice was common or just an isolated incident.

On orientation, at a previous facility, I was told about nursing doses. Normally it involves giving extra narcotic to a person in severe pain. This occurred in a emergent setting where patients would have been ordered Morphine 1mg IV and the dose comes in 2mg vials. The extra 1mg was to be wasted and witnessed. However, if a nurse determined that may not be enough due to the severity of pain, weight, past history, etc., they may decide to give 1.5mg and waste the .5, etc.. I have not heard about it outside the emergent setting, but I'm guessing it occurs in other areas. Have you ever heard the term "nursing dose"? How do you feel about it? Have you ever given a "nursing dose"?

I don't think most nurses have that difficult of time with the idea or concept of death. For me, personally, it's the idea of murder that invokes rage, etc. Death is natural and being murdered by someone should not be confused as being the same. I would request that I or a family member be assigned to a different nurse and would question the overall judgement of the facility that would hire someone who was convicted of murder and who is now trusted to provide life saving care. We may all have a trigger that would cause us to murder, possibly, but this person has proven that they not only have the capacity, but they carried it out. This person has the right after serving their time to earn a living, and to be a licensed professional is a privilege, not a right. I question why this individual chose nursing as a profession in the first place. Why would they choose to be around such a vulnerable population?

Just think about this, don't comment, so it's okay to be a bigot when it comes to Christians and their beliefs and then be open-minded and non-judgmental when it comes to a convicted murderer that is trusted with the well-being and possibly the lives of the general public. When someone murders another human being in cold blood they lose the PRIVILEGE of being able to take care of other human beings. Not sure why society has the lost the ability to separate teenage indiscretions from murder. The pursuit of being open-minded and non-judgmental should not be at the expense of logic and honesty.

If it was justified self-defense then the individual would not have been convicted. I don't know how an individual is still permitted to be a nurse after a murder conviction, but they should not be. Regardless of age, or what-if scenario, when you are convicted of murder you should not be permitted to practice as a nurse. Call me old-fashioned, but I would not want a convicted murderer working along side me in the hospital or taking care of me or my family.