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So I am a home care RN. I felt it was within my scope of practice to tell a pt not to take their bp med lisinopril if their bp was Please update me.

Hello. I graduated in May and I am working full time now as a nurse. Got my license and everything is going great but........... Friday I was going through some boxes from when I went to college in Louisiana back in 2007, and found some mail, one of which was a speeding ticket I never paid (I know I feel like a LOSER!) I live in Texas btw. I called the court house in Louisiana, and they said, yes I do have a ticket, and I have a warrant issued from 2007 and I need to pay $600 to remove both. I sent the money THAT DAY and I feel like such a tool because when I filled out my application to take NCLEX, I didn't list anything about the warrant because I truly did not know. I totally forgot about it, not that it matters. So here I am working as a nurse, my dream and I am so afraid when I go to renew in February, something will come up. I passed the FBI criminal check as well as the State and was issued my license. Is this because it was in another state that it didn't come up as an issue in Texas, and will it come up as an issue when I renew? What should I do? Should I pay it and go on about my business, or contact the BON to let them know?

If you have a direct loan, or consolidate your loans into the direct loan program, if you work for a non-profit agency in health care or other public service roles, if you make 120 on time payments (so 10 years of working ugh) you can have the rest of the loan discharged.

I was just wondering because my student loans can be discharged if I work for a non profit organization and I was wanting to know if any HH companies qualify.

Thank you. I have been working for 2 years in the hospital and have what they think are good enough skills to work there. They do not take vents/trachs, and I am very skilled at IVs but regardless, I in passing have heard floor nurses talking about how they quit home health because of the paperwork and I was just wondering with current HH RNs if it is where you would like to stay, or if it is better pay wise to work at the hospital.

I had a couple of interviews this week and one was HH the other m/s at a hospital. I was wondering if you HH nurses could tell me in general how it pays compared to bedside? Also about insurance and if the gas reimbursement is worth it, or if working 3 12's is better in your experience. Thanks.

Boy I hope so! Come on old folks and retire already!

Applied for Fresenius about a week ago and they sent me an email yesterday with an hour long questionnaire with some pretty tough questions on it that made you really think... Is this a good sign? I would really love to be hired by them or at least interviewed. I am dying to get some interviewing done and this has been my only ray of hope so far... sad I know.

Experienced nurses tell me, if a new nurse with only clinical experience had the chance to choose between the 4 jobs, which should he/she choose? Which would give the nurse a chance to learn, build skills and succeed without setting the up for failure? Thanks for your advice.

I agree, but I really did not consider Allnurses a reliable source before I joined and now of course I do :) . I saw it here and there, but I figured it was a place to vent and of course there are usually more negative vents than positives in the world of venting and especially in the world of nursing it seems. In Texas and New Mexico close to where I live, when you do a search of nursing jobs at first glance it really seems there are jobs, and there are jobs, its just getting an actual interview. And thanks to the person who mentioned me getting my resume looked at. I think that is my next project tomorrow. Seems I have a full time job now looking for a full time job :/ I feel like handing out flyers to the students walking in to apply for nursing school warning them of the hiring process :)

Well I think that the word should get out. Everyone in the general public thinks that nursing is a hot job, that if you get your RN license you have a free ride to wealth! Of course I knew I would not be wealthy, but I did fall for the belief that there was a ton of positions available everywhere for nurses.

Thank you for the comments, and I know it takes time. I did search the job market before I got in school. I spoke with our college nursing director who assured me that it was a great market and "there will always be a need for nurses". Also, I get that some of you think that you should get into nursing because you love it and want to care for people. I do. I love feeling needed, but lets get real, if I didn't want money and didn't mind killing myself for slave wages, I would still be a CNA. I don't think it makes anyone less of a person to say that the main reason they got into nursing was for the money. Hopefully something will come my way but in the mean time, I will apply apply apply :) Thanks again!

I agree! I was just wondering if what they are calling a "case manager" is the field nurse? Either way, as much as I hate to, I am sure I am going to have to bow out. I want so bad to work in a hospital and get some experience with how things work. I wouldn't even know how to begin to delegate assignments. It would be just my luck to lose my license before I even get started. Thanks for your input.

I am a May 2013 graduate and although I am 31, I do not have job experience since I was a stay at home mom during my 20's. I decided to go to nursing school and I got my license in June. I am desperate for a job and have applied everywhere and the ONLY call I have gotten so far is an interview tomorrow as a case manager for a Home Health facility in my area (West texas). It would be great seeing as I live 100 miles from any large city, which I was thinking I would have to commute the 100 miles. The problem is that I have NO EXPERIENCE period with home health. I told the man on the phone I have never had a nursing job and do not have experience in anything, especially managing. He said that I probably had more experience than I give myself credit for and getting through nursing school and clinicals is a big part of experience. I am terrified. What goes into case managing and would a new nurse be able to "hack it"? I would never want to let anyone down, and God knows I need a job (I haven't even been offered it yet obviously) but can anyone tell me what goes into case managing and if it can be learned by a new nurse.

I have been scrolling here and there on this website and I am sure this has been discussed, but I will ask for myself. I am a May graduate with my ADN and I am currently enrolled in the BSN program. I really thought by now I would have a job. I have applied to over 40 positions and I have even applied in the DFW area and still have not landed even one interview. I am really scared. I got into nursing school when I was 29, and here I am 31 now with a young child to care for and I can't get a job. If I go in person, they tell me to apply online. I leave my resume and nothing. I was top of my class and have experience and a trained phlebotomist and our instructors told us of this "nursing shortage" which I am realizing is either not here, or just bologna. I am starting to feel depressed as my student loans will be due to start in October and I just want to work. Any advice? I have applied to every single hospital within a 150 mile radius, 20+ nursing homes and home health agencies. I am starting to feel like you will not become a nurse unless you personally know someone who can hook you up, which is ridiculous!