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I believe every nurse should be skilled/advanced in meditation. It has the ability to heal and eliminate stress. In all of my years of working in ICU...its the only thing I found that truly was game changer.

This is why there are always telephone triage nursing jobs available because it is essentially a call center job.

I want to continue working as Per-Diem ICU nurse on weekends (2 shifts month requirement) and add remote full-time or part-time Utilization Review RN. I have started to craft my resume to highlight the following "Perform discharge duties: medication education, education outlined by MD and work with liaison at sub-acute/long term care facilities." Are there any other short term steps I can take to give myself a fighting chance to get this type of job? Thanks in advance C

trust me when I tell you that after while you will be clawing at the walls to get that boring public health job back.

Tell your cousin she is stinkin lucky ? I am in process of trying to get Quality position from home. Did she have previous experience?

I have noticed uptick of articles on this topic and it looks like good growth area for nurses. Curious if anyone has transitioned into this area. I have been interested in this area for while now and recently completed a very detailed nutritional analysis on ways people with diseases should be tailoring their diets. The grey areas of this niche is what I have concerns about such as: 1) educational programs look non-regulated and 2) what kind of insurance would you need to get this business started? Thanks C

Hey Alexander, Maybe we can create facebook group so others can bounce around their business ideas and tips on how to get things going. Thanks, Carl

I wanted to offer more of broad approach to any business idea (healthcare or non-healthcare). How this started was a nurse at work (late 50's) hurt her back and leg when chair at work fell apart when she went to sit in it. The hospital only offered bare min. of physical therapy for her. I would see her dragging her bad leg around for 12 hour shift and that just didn't sit right with me. I told her, I ran online business for 5 years and gave her few ideas to start her own business. She decided to start making soap from home and I showed her which platform to use (Wordpress, Shopify, Big Commerce) and showed her how to do her marketing via email list and social media. She ended up doing well and loves it and only works 1 day week in hospital (per diem). So I was thinking maybe of creating online course from soup to nuts showing how to build ecommerce business for nurses. But it would be a ton of work on my part and I wanted to see if there was even any interest in this.

Having worked in hospital for past 10 years, I can't tell you how many times I have met nurses who want out. The problem is there are no real good alternatives for them. While I was working in hospital, I was also building my wife online business. Alot of hours went into it as it was our first time running business. So my question is: Is there need to teach nurses how to start their own business online as alternative to bedside care. Thoughts?

Can you tell us why they have 3 month turnover with nurses? That's not good sign. But I run company with wife from home and can't really work 12 hour shifts any longer at hospital.

Hello, I am considering move from ICU nurse to tele-ICU. Just spoke with recruiter about tele-ICU positions in New York city and Houston. My wife and I might be moving to Houston in next 6 months. She mentioned I could shadow nurse at NYC location to see if I would like it. My only hang up is they are 12 hour shifts - I am looking to move away from that ridiculous shift to something more normal like 8 hours. She also mentioned the night time is where the demand is - I am looking for shift 3p - 11p. My question is - for those doing tele-ICU is there any flexibility at your place? Also she mentioned the Operations Center are close to Hospital. Why? Most hospitals are situated in poor/dangerous areas especially in cities. Why not set up Operation Center in nicer location since your vicinity to hospital should have no bearing considering its tele. For example in speaking to people who live in Houston they tell you to live anywhere but south east of downtown Houston. Well guess where this Operation Center is in Houston...south east of downtown. Thanks C

Hello, Looking to transition out of 12 hour night shifts in ICU. I run business with my wife and business has grown (not to point of totally being out of nursing yet). Someone recommended looking into inpatient rehab for 8 hour shifts. So basically I am wondering if I could find per diem 8 hour shifts from 7p to 3a once week is possible? thanks in advance C

is this night time also like 7p to 3a?

Hello, I don't think I have ever posted in general discussion area...so hello to everyone. Looking for ideas on how to handle my current situation: I run business with my wife that is growing but not big enough that I can step away fully from nursing yet. I am looking for ideas to work 8 hour shifts at night maybe once a week. 12 hour shifts are just too long while running business also. Currently work in ICU and just looking for any areas I could get into that will work with me. Thanks C

to be honest, I would not do this type of work at that rate. There are better options out there inside and outside of nursing. Continue looking.

I have always thought if nursing school had shown us what it was really like to be RNs nobody would have finished school. What no school is explaining is how under-staffed everything is in health care system. This week is perfect example: the last week our hospital was actually staffed correctly (2 pts each for ICU RN, with 2 aids on floor and secretary). The reason for this is JCAHO is coming to town this week and hospital wants to present things in favorable light. This frustrates me to no end because it tells me the hospital is aware of shortages in staffing and makes conscientious decision to short-change the patients, rn and nursing aids with bare min. staffing once JCAHO leaves. It's not right.

Can anyone tell me if they are still doing paid nursing survey. Signed up with few of them about 2 weeks ago (Brand Institute, SurveyRx, Medsurvey, Curizon, Focusforward) and have not received a single survey yet. My specialty is critical care and maybe that is holding me back as demand isn't high for those surveys. thoughts?

can this be done on part time/per diem basis from home? I already run a company and do one night week in ICU as RN. I am always looking to add revenue streams for my family. Has anyone come across per-diem CM that can be done from home?

you might be better served by contacting respiratory therapist, Critical Care Intensivist or anesthesiologist.

its unfortunate and its systemic problem thru all of healthcare.

Let me share my experience. I attempted scrub business few years ago. This was my process and where it stopped: 1) Material - learning fabrics can be full time job in itself. I initially wanted bamboo scrubs because of anti-microbial properties and comfort. The biggest problem was that true bamboo can't be thrown into dryer. I know after 12 hour shift nurses are not going to hand dry their laundry. That lead me to cotton/twill. Twill is incredibly durable. The prototype I made 4 years ago I still wear and they look like the day they were made. Problem is cotton has become very expensive. 3) Female vs Male scrubs- the female market is completely saturated. I mean you can't believe how many companies are now producing female scrubs. The Male scrub side is less competitive and where I think real needs are. 4) Finding reliable sewers. The number of people doing this is dwindling. When you do find someone who is able to do this at affordable price, they will have to self learn how to sew scrubs because almost nobody has that experience. Most of your sewers are doing dresses or children cloths. I did find few local business that had experience with scrubs but cost where too high. 5) Large barriers to entry. Sourcing for fabric is big challenge. The prices of fabric in US will be too high to be competitive. When i traveled to Vietnam with my wife we set aside 1 week to meet with fabric suppliers in Vietnam. What a frustrating experience that was. They want you to make a $20,000 to $30,000 initial investment in purchasing fabric. You ultimately find out that nobody really wants to deal with startup unless that start up is sitting on 100k in cash. That is where this story ends.

First let me say that starting your own home health agency represents the best upside of any nursing niche I have studied. That being said, there is a TON of work to do. You will need to wear multiple hats: entrepreneur, manager, worker, negotiator. A friend is in process of doing this. Their biggest challenge is getting liability insurance and setting up your agency that medicare will accept. Here is a list of services that medicare will pay for: Medicare Interactive - Types of home health care that Medicare will pay for. This is good starting point to brainstorm the ethos of your business.

I have to throw my hat in here because its an issue that drives me crazy. Why does there have to be this demasculinization process of male nurses entering the nursing field? Clogs...seriously? Your mom or your sister wears clogs...not you! When I entered nursing field...I also bought into all the hype of what I should be wearing and paid $120 for danskos. I wore them for few years and then started travel nursing across the country and noticed most of guys just wearing sneaks. My advice is keep your money in your pocket and just get sneaks that do two things: 1) breath (some type of mesh or light weight material 2) gel/memory foam insole. Don't worry about spilling things on them because once you know what your doing you will rarely spill anything on them. If you do simply put them thru washing machine.

do they atleast reimburse you for usage of your own phone. I would imagine you would need unlimited minutes on your plan.

thanks for input. I can see how valuable that is for staff. I worked at UPENN few years ago and we also had camera in room but it was really only used when we had code in another room we could push button and have remote MD watch our patient. Now that nurses are using eICU to get orders, follow protocol or learn how to do something is amazing. Timing is perfect as alot of experienced RN are retiring or soon will retire and good percentage of RN in ICU will be inexperienced.