Bellaisla

Comes a time....when the federal bloat has to be reigned in. The time has come, the time is now. Party's over, we broke, folks. Can't just keep printing money.

Why the Trump Era Could Spell Regulatory Rollbacks for Home Health | Home Health Care News To answer your question, this might be helpful. Despite all the bad press, I think it's going to be great!

I love this post! It brings up so many important issues. I have been a nurse for 37 years now and am still actively practicing, having practiced in a broad range of areas, which is one thing I do love about nursing. I recently attended an annual professional nursing conference on the East Coast and was shocked to see about 300 of my nursing colleagues, the majority of whom were morbidly obese and obviously unhealthy and unhappy. These were home health field and office nurses. I spoke with a number of them, and began to probe their work experiences. I discovered that they were very unhappy in their work environments, they were underpaid, understaffed, overworked and spent the majority of their time taking care of paperwork, not patients. They were highly dissatisfied with their managers and owners and felt powerless and undervalued in their roles in the organization. As a result, they would stuff their feelings with (food)/coping skills that caused them to suffer in unhealthy ways. I encouraged the ones with whom I spoke to work together as a team and explore collective bargaining and unionizing as a vehicle to empower themselves. I shared with them my own experiences both with and without collective bargaining and they shared with me their frustrations with their jobs. My takeaway was that I am very happy having a collective bargaining unit to keep management at bay and to promote a better salary and benefit package where I work (like Costco has), I strongly encourage nurses around the country to start working through their nursing organizations to promote collective bargaining units for themselves and other nurses in their states, and the biggest take away for me is my suspicion that the elites at the top of the nursing rungs of power (administrators, nursing associations,etc) will do whatever they can to keep themselves firmly ensconced in their positions of pay and power to prevent being toppled over by a bunch of upstarts. In other words, folks, it ain't the physicians. I suspect at times we nurses are our own worst enemies. Power up brothers and sisters! Nurses Lives Matter!

Be the adult in the room. When they roll their eyes or act stupid, be the consummate professional. I agree, don't put up with the crap. Assert yourself girl. They are testing you and in a weird sense, helping you deal for your future.

Get a job in a good psych hospital. It will help you learn how to deal with these people, and as an added bonus, life in general. Everyone should work psych for a minimum 2 years, IMHO.

I know they advertise on the CBORN website that hard copy takes up to 2 months for validation. The livescan is supposed to be available in 2 weeks. I flew to Cali to have my livescan done for 79 dollars (by the site) in mid March. I wasn't notified by CBORN until July 1 that the fingerprints were "of poor quality" and had to be resubmitted. I resubmitted with hard copy because it was my best shot. The police department fingerprint lady told me she wasn't sure my new prints would go through because I had "poor ridge definition". I don't know what to do after that, if these get rejected...maybe more of the same? The problem with the entire system (BreEZe) is that your file reveals nothing to you except "pending". You don't know what materials have been accepted and verified and what has not. There is no way to be proactive. There is no checklist of items required for finalization of your license that indicates the app is complete or something is missing. You are kept in the dark, like a mushroom...and fed nothing but "pending". Heck, even a mushroom gets fed. If they were serious about their program, they would correct the computerized system they have now and include periodic updates when materials are received so people will KNOW what is missing. So. I just wait for the next snail mail letter to arrive to piss me off.

As a nurse who has worked in a variety of fields since the Dawn of Man, I would say psych nursing, particularly with adolescents, was one of my favorite areas to work. It takes a special kind of compassion and understanding, as well as willingness to look at yourself, to perform that kind of work. The lessons I have learned have been invaluable to me as a person, and I think everyone should work in the field for at least 2 years. It has helped me personally in my relationships with others as well as professionally in dealing with difficult patients. Anybody can pass pills, not anyone can deal with a patient who is wild and out of control, physically aggressive or harming oneself. The insights that come from those behaviors and dealing with psychotic or neurotic behaviors are rewarding and instructive for all. Psychiatric patients have a disease no different (in my mind) than other diseases such as diabetes. Do they not deserve equal attention and treatment? People who make these pronouncements do so from a framework of their own fears. When I hear these comments, I will say, "Yes, we are all crazy to want to help people who need help. I guess that would include you too".

I just got notice from the Board of Nursing Cali that my fingerprints have to be redone due to poor quality. I flew to Cali to have them done via Livescam because that was supposed to be the faster route (2 weeks to process vs. 2 months via hard copy). That was three months ago. Now I discover three months later, that the prints are no good. If the Livescam is supposed to be processed in 2 weeks, why does it take the board 3 months to notify me of this? I could have had them redone and resubmitted via hard copy in that time frame. Now, 4 months after my application was submitted, I have to go back to the hard copy route. I don't trust Livescam. What a joke. If you are looking for licensure by endorsement in California, be prepared for major delays in processing. Unacceptable in my view.