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    Getting your Florida License via Endorsement: A Detailed How-To Guide

    NurseNightOwl posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    If you, like me, are looking forward to a new life in the Sunshine State, you will also probably have on your to-do list to obtain your Florida nursing license via endorsement. You could visit this...
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    Anyone using a ChromeBook?

    NurseNightOwl posted a topic in Western Governors University

    Just wondering, has anyone been using the new ChromeBook to do any of their work for WGU? I'm thinking about getting one and just wondering if it would work... Thanks
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    Distraught over hospitalized friend

    NurseNightOwl posted a topic in Neurological

    One of my very best friends is in the ICU after being hit by a drunk driver (fleeing a sobriety checkpoint and running over pedestrians). According to the family, she is on life support and, although...
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    Happy LTC Nurse

    NurseNightOwl posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Just wanted to give a quick anonymous shout-out to the facility where I currently work... I've been there a month now, and I continue to be astounded by how genuine and caring the administration is...
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    May 1st Start Date WGU

    NurseNightOwl replied to CNRN_Cali's topic in Western Governors University

    Congrats everyone!!! I'm starting my 2nd term May 1st and I've been nothing but pleased so
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    Doctors taking too long to call back...

    NurseNightOwl posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hey everyone, just wondering how you handle doctors that take awhile to get back to you? Of course it's usually no big deal, but for example, if you had a critical lab value. I'm thinking of a...
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    Doctors taking too long to call back...

    NurseNightOwl replied to NurseNightOwl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    OK thank you
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    How to write a good nurses note?

    NurseNightOwl replied to Elaine Mickens's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    YES!!!
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    Getting your Florida License via Endorsement: A Detailed How-To Guide

    NurseNightOwl replied to NurseNightOwl's topic in Florida Nursing

    I'm really not sure how all this works for license by exam, I'm sorry If you call the board, they are happy to help, you might just have to wait on hold for a really long
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    Getting your Florida License via Endorsement: A Detailed How-To Guide

    NurseNightOwl replied to NurseNightOwl's topic in Florida Nursing

    Yes. No hard copies are allowed at all. I believe there is the fieldprint service (scanning) in every UPS store
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    Getting your Florida License via Endorsement: A Detailed How-To Guide

    NurseNightOwl replied to NurseNightOwl's topic in Florida Nursing

    Yes!! I just don't know all the steps for that process
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    It's all in the presentation

    NurseNightOwl replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Great tip for a new LTC nurse :) Thank
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    "State's Here!": Demystifying the Long-Term Care Survey

    NurseNightOwl replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Lol, just when the OP was making me feel better...
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    Interviewed Today

    NurseNightOwl replied to MissEm's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wow!!!!!!! I wish I had had
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    NurseNightOwl replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    What. The. Actual.
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    Interviewed Today

    NurseNightOwl replied to MissEm's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    8 days of orientation!!!!!! I think you've found a great company, if they live up to that!! :) My advice is to watch all the nurses you shadow like a hawk and absorb all of the (good) practices and...
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    Geriatric Nurse show "Getting On"....have you watched?

    NurseNightOwl replied to nervousnurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I LOVE it!!!!! I find a lot of elements of it to be incredibly realistic (although obviously not all of
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    Starting pay rates: Then & now

    NurseNightOwl replied to Nola009's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In PDN I was making $18/hr and I had wondered if they would up the wages if minimum wage was bumped up... Probably not,
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    Starting pay rates: Then & now

    NurseNightOwl replied to Nola009's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Even in the deep south I would say that is too low for LTC. In Alabama (which has a lower cost of of living and thus lower wages than many other states), I started out at $25/hr as a new grad. Now in...
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    The *EXPERT* Beginner

    NurseNightOwl replied to Kelly_the_Great's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My very first unit manager was a person promoting this idea. She hated for me to ask any questions and would often say, "You have the same RN behind your name as I do." Yes but I don't have all your...
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    "compassionate" Atheists...

    NurseNightOwl replied to Anona-mouse's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    YES!!!!!!!!
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    NurseNightOwl replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Even in the deep, deep South (lowest cost of living and per hour pay for most jobs), new grads make at least
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    Nursing shoes

    NurseNightOwl replied to ElizabethRawlins's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    ALEGRIA!
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    Posting Licensed Number in social media

    NurseNightOwl replied to nomad29's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I think it's usually screen shots of your name and number by new grads when they find out they pass
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    NurseNightOwl replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    TMI but right at this moment I am not pooping even though I would like to, because the toilet here is too unreliable. (( 8 hours to