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Any single mom nurses out there work 12 hr shifts?? What do you do? I am struggling to find care for my 18 mon old. My mom has been picking him up from daycare but her health is poor. What do you do? Thanks.

I just got my acceptance email!! Anyone else starting this fall? Adult NP program. So excited!

I am an RN on a busy med-surg floor in a mid-sized hospital in the "bad" part of a southern city. I've been on the floor for a year, but also used to work on this floor as a new grad back in 2009 (I moved away from the area for a couple of years then...

Hello! I applied to the NP program for this fall. The deadline was last week and they said it would take weeks/months before they let people know if they got in or not. Has anyone applied? Anyone heard anything yet? Just thought we could start a thre...

I applied and they called me back - anyone work for them or heard of them or know someone that has? Thank you!

Hello! I am so excited to have landed an interview with Humana for next week. I was hoping to get some advice from you guys regarding the position which is a concurrent review/discharge planner position. I have no CM experience, just 5 yrs bedside. H...

I got a job with Humana working from home. The problem - I rent an apartment and my apartment complex won't allow an additional cable line to be run to my apartment (Humana requires my landlord to sign a form saying that they can run an additional ca...

I am hoping so - I am waiting to hear from Humana about this.

I start March 2nd as a telephonic at home RN - I am going to their HQ in Kentucky for a week of training. Anyone going up there for training?

I start March 2nd as a telephonic at home RN - I am going to their HQ in Kentucky for a week of training. Anyone going up there for training?

I'm having a hard time grasping what exactly home health RN Case Managers do - do they do patient care?

So I'm supposed to have an in-person interview tomorrow at a local clinic for a job. They called me on Tuesday to ask for an interview. Just now, I received an email thanking me for applying to the position, but they had hired someone else (!?!?) It...

I went and they offered me the job, but they only needed someone PRN and I need full time. She couldn't guarantee hours. I KNOW the ad said full-time. Oh well. . life goes on. . .I have another interview next week with Humana. I consider today a pra...

I suffer from this, too - right now it is really bad. For about a year, I had "cured" myself by getting bi-monthly gel manicures - those manicures really do last for at least 2 weeks and look awesome and I wouldn't pick/bite while my nails looked pur...

Seaworld is hiring seasonal RN's. . .for $14.75/hr. Seems a tad. . .insulting. http://careers.worldsofdiscovery.com/Scripts/Home/JobDetail.aspx?title=affpmf&requisition=ac&locationID=1001&prev=~%2fScripts%2fHome%2fJobSearchList.aspx%3f&am...

60+ yr old female patient admitted for hyperkalemia/ARF/UTI 6 days ago is stable on my floor. Multiple co-morbidities including DM, hypothyroid, past ARF, CHF, CVA x 2, COPD, RA and a new 2 cm mass in her lungs found this admission. Pt is 60 but look...

I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO burnt out at my med-surg hospital job. I just finished my first semester of adult NP school. I still want to be a primary care adult NP (FAR FAR FAR AWAY FROM THE HOSPITAL) but cannot stomach the thought of working as a beds...

If I see her MD will ask about her and see if they found out what was going on.

I guess I'm so used to sepsis presenting with tachycardia, low BP, elevated WBCs, elevated temp. . .she had none of those. But I know that a low temp CAN be sepsis, too. Maybe with all of her other issues it presented with the low temperature. She ma...

Every single job I look at for any CM jobs wants at least a year of CM experience. But how do I get that year without experience!? Sigh. The great catch-22 of switching career paths.

I don't work psych (I am reading the psych posts purely for interest :) but I can safely say that my neuro med/surg job affects me GREATLY outside of work - I am so anxious and tired and burnt out after I work. We have a lot of pysch patients (my cur...

I hope my post didn't come across wrong - I was trying to make the point that while psych nurses may "lose" some basic hands-on skills, they gain so many other amazing skills and in-depth knowledge. I enjoyed the few times I got to float there as a m...

Wow - they don't keep a crash cart on a psych inpatient unit? I thought every place in a hospital had a crash cart. I mean, anyone can have a heart attack or anaphylactic (did I spell that right?) reaction. Also, just wanted to comment that I once f...

I have been looking for a clinic job or something a bit. . .lighter. . .but they are hard to find. I need to work (for $$) so I am at a loss of what to do.

Ugh, just a vent. My med-surg floor just started accepting PCU level patients and most of us med-surg nurses who have NEVER WORKED PCU are now expected to be PCU nurses after taking 8 on-line classes that weren't even classes, just a PP presentation ...