mkinn57

I never received anything but nasty call attitude from one lady next call came on a Saturday to confirm my email address. I tested + for THC. Just moved to TN from CA where I used a RX medical MJ for my symptoms of nephropathy and insomnia. I had no insurance working PT and prn. I had used MJ 2 x since returning to my home state, was glad to get it as I I have no medication. So week 2 back at work and HOME, someone left narcotics unattended near family member at work, count off, so everyone went to give a sample. I didnt even think of it as I had only, used it the weekend before. WELL my boss though understanding asked me to resign. You see I worked for him 11 years before COLORECTAL Cancer and moving with my son to CA. So they know my medical HX. anyway I cannot afford all this TNPAP crap. called me at 4:15pm had no clue who it was but stated Affinity with TNPAP and I should go pee within 45 min at a cost of $70. I was driving to pick up grandchildren. I have no money , no job, no insurance and I am a 60 year old Diploma RN with limited experience outside of OR. I was called two more times about peeing in less than 12 hours. Im sorry but I refuse to go through 3-5 years of this for THC and be treated like a criminal on probation. How is this helpful ! So at 60 years old and without a degree, no office experience I just quit nursing. Gave TN 20 years nursing and tried in CA 3+ years with "NO BSN" thanks MAGNET STATUS. I Quit. never a problem, never a write up, never a patient issue. Any way I feel betrayed, I could see a suspicion and retest, but 3-5 years. They already removed me from TN Board before they even asked me to go test and It had been 1 week since I approached my boss and confessed to THC, and I Reported myself to TNPAP. this program has lots of communication issues already.

I would like to know more about SSI I am just under 3 years DX colorectal CA. I suffer with bone pain that I try to self dx but then could be from 6 weeks daily radiation. I am Diploma RN almost 60 no computer skills and unable to physical work more than a few hours without rest. my last position was ambulatory surgery 3 days was killing me took 2-3 days to feel better then back. I have had no health care insurance in 2 years due to no full time work. Where do I start to get disability other than have Ca return then It would be a given. Dont know what to do when I apply for nursing jobs I shake, cry and just feel so much anxiety even reading job descriptions. How do I get help??

i am Diploma Rn 5 years Home Health and Management followed by 14 years surgery no computer experience in EMR signed up for CCM training soon laid off for 4 months I want to work form home Help how do I get that chance . so burnt out and 3 yrs s/p Colorectal CA just want out of patient care and flexability from home too young to retire yet . Any one help

how can you get away with an incomplete work history when applying for government jobs. I also changed jobs quickly in a short time period in fact 3 jobs in a little over a year. How can I explain that? one mad me physically and emotionally ill had to seek medical help went 3 days with zero sleep and headaches daily form the yelling and abuse the other I was laid off after 2 weeks said budget cuts and the last was prn in surgery. help I moved to new state of Ca from Tenn Diploma RN 22 years cant compete in Sunny San Diego

After 22 years of Nursing this Diploma Nurse is suffering form PTSD and is laid off with no prospects. Seems the Magnet status is my enemy. I refuse to return to school for BSN at age 59 years. Too stressed to think about another job that sucks the life out of you and yet to young to retire. Health issues of my own that make it impossible to continue my recent field of OR nurse, now what? I received the best hands on nursing education from a private hospital based school in Tennessee. from week 2 I was not only in the classroom but in the hospital putting that classroom instruction to good use. Started with feeding, bed making with bed bound patients. Each week a new skill was taught and practiced and then taken to the hospital to put to practical use. A 27 month 40 hour a week job being at school and hours at home studying and writing care plans. I had all the confidence and nursing skills I needed by graduation. I also worked as a Nursing assistant during the last year and was a single mother. I immediately went to work in Home health and had a great mentor who taught me time management and the ropes. i worked long hours carried home paper work and had my children beg me not to answer the beeper when I was on call. Which felt like 24/7. I became a nurse supervisor and had a great team of nurses however after 3 years found my self out of work due to a CEO committing fraud. He went to prison and we all went job hunting. Afraid of Home Health with children and a home to maintain I then wen to a swing bed floor at the hospital. Horrible for me and the patient. No time to be anything to the patient but a pill pusher. I hated the floor. After 6 months I was offered training in a large hospital for the OR. Well I loved it stayed there 3 years and then lucked up on Ambulatory Surgery . Stayed with same company 11 years and after a 7 month stent of radiation, surgery and chemo for colon rectal cancer I transferred with the company to live with my son in San Diego. After 9 months was asked to find another job due to" some of the Docs don't like me" mind you never been written up or any problems in the company where I worked in Tenn. My resume has turned for the worse I have not been able to find my place in California, my son is 10 months from finishing his degree at UCSD and his GI bill is running out, I was suppose to help him have a roof and food until he finished school he took 2 semesters off to care for me. Now we are in a fix he is depressed and worried I have no job and I regret that I moved here. I just need to get us thru 1 more year here and because I dont have that bedside experience, no BSN and am burnt out with the OR. I tried PRN in the OR but 3 days was all I could physically handle anymore and frankly I have never seen such rude employers or team mates in my career. I was used to team work and an atmosphere of management wanting to train and see the team succeed. I have had 4 jobs in San Diego, told I would get training on computer which I had never had to use in 22 years of nursing, Did 1 travel nurse job. Too old to be thrown to the wolves. Thinking of taking medical coding class or something that will get me a new set of skills. But expecting to spend time and money only to be without a job because of my age or because I lack experience and unemployment is 1/4 what I was making. I have had no health insurance for nearly 2 years and I get too much unemployment to get food stamps. I am about to loose my car and if I loose the apt my son will loose everything he work so hard for and went into the Marine Corp to be able to put himself thru college. What the heck am I suppose to do. My confidence has been shaken and the younger MSN management are horrible to work for. I see no real compassion for the patient no leadership. My 22 years means nothing to them. SO I just needed to say all this and I could go on and on but again I am awake at 4 am been in and out of bed since 10 pm worrying and wondering what to do. I am open please give me feed back. I need to stick by my son to finish this schooling and I cannot let him down we are all alone here and we have no other support systems. When this is over I plan to take my country self back to the south and get a very affordable house and regular job to eat until ss or death comes.

help I want out!! 20 years as a Diploma RN, unemployed in anew state and seems I am not going to get work here. So many young MSN and BSN positions. My resume on every head hunter sight. Work as a staffing Agency nurse for 6 months. Never again it about killed me I was treated rudely by lazy unethical young nurses the age of my children. You see I was a divorcee with two children who went to school and graduated on my 38th birthday. I am 2 years post dx of colon rectal cancer and after 6 months off work when I returned I realized I am tired and get no respect for my experience and hard work and seems I cant compete for jobs I have done because of no degree. My savings are exhausted from medical bills and the thought of school is appealing but the debt is not at 58 yrs old. I need a good wage any suggestions for this old gal??? please speak up