You guys will have to learn to get along with out me, because I'm leaving!  :woot:

Well, not really, but I will be here much less.

I'm renewing my nursing license this week in preparation of a back to work program at the end of August. But I'm racing against the clock. I don't currently have enough nursing hours to renew my license for 2009, and I have to  get 368 more nursing hours in before the end of December or I forfeit my nursing license and have to take a year long refresher course.

My contact at the long term disability insurance company just called me. She pulled some strings to get me into some kind of work trial where I'll be doing sit down work recording stats and patient information from clinical trials. It will be in the medical records and I won't have any patient contact, which is fine by me at this point,  LOL, but the important thing is the hours I do work there, while being volunteer hours (my insurance will continue to pay me), the hours will count towards my qualifying hours.

So I'm going to have to find a way to juggle this work trial full time, while doing a back to work program and continuing to get to the gym at least 3 times per week, and if that isn't enough I may have to sign on with a temp agency and pick up some physically lighter shifts on a psych ward, which isn't so bad. If I work the locked unit which is for violent offenders who are deemed insane and not able to stand trial, I get to sit behind a plexiglass window my whole shift and hand out medications!  :blink:

So while I've lived "here" for the last 4 years and have become a fixture, I'll still be around, just not as much.

But I finally see the finish line. It's been a long haul to get to this point with a whole lot of lows and even more lows, and finally hitting rock bottom where I felt I would never get my life back to what it was.  But I'm not a quitter and with the help of a lot of supportive people, and a very understanding and helpful insurance company, things are starting to finally fall into place for me.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Awwwww you'll be missed. This is a great thing. Good luck!

Via con Dios, young lady, via con Dios.

Please keep in touch.

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...so long, and thanks for all the fish!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

(pssst, Doc. Really you might say 'VE CON DIOS' )

(maybe my english is bad, but at least my spanish is... a shit) :woot:

:lol:

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Good News! I hope this works out for you.

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NURSING?  I thought you were leaving to work for a global secret intelligence agency like the CIA or something. With your supernatural googling skills and ability to find stuff, I figured you must be a great detective or super sleuth.

All the time I thought you were a Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century, you've been working on becoming the Florence Nightengale for the 21st century! :lol:

We'll miss seeing you a lot around here, but real-life takes priority over fun! Dozens of regulars have faded over the past six to eight months and it seems you'll join those ranks for similiar reasons.  Good luck!

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Be well, Acadia.

So..........perhaps you'll be in a psych ward, sitting behind plexiglas, and handing out medications, eh?  Well in that case, you'll need to be sure to list your 4 years of experience in here on your resume when you apply for the job.  That'll be sure to stand you in good stead when you go in for your job interview.  Personnel types are always greatly impressed by people who can demonstrate that they've already had extensive experience working in the same type of job environment.

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You're going to be missed, Acadia, but I can feel yor excitment too.  I'm so glad things are coming together for you!  I hope you have a lot of luck to go with your hard work :)

John

Cool, good to see you getting a life put together    :woot:   hope it all works out for you .

But...but....but.... who's gonna answer all the "where can I find a ---" posts? See? You should have trained an apprentice keeper-of-links-and-bookmarks for just such an eventuality. Now we're all up that creek and Acadia's jumping ship with our paddle  ;-)

You go girl! You'll get that license renewed and start making money hand over fist! We'll survive.

Well all right!!!
Congrats!

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You mean there's only one of you? With the amount of work you churn out, I thought you were a team.

Good luck!

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Congratulations :) Wee will all miss your helpful hand here

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Acadia, you have helped to smooth the path for so many people here, we know how much you care for others... and it's great that you should give higher priority to yourself for a while. An extra 60 hours a month for the next six months sounds like very hard work - but you can do it. We all wish you well, and look for your coming... to tell us when you have your licence for 2009!
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Good luck!!!!! Who will find alll those neat links for us now, boo-hoo!!

One of the most helpful people I knew. sniff

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Bummer for us - great news for you!!!  Glad to hear things are moving forward.

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Acadia, congratulations! I never knew you were a nurse. I got very close to the nurses here when my mother was in the hospital for years, I have never met such generous people. I should of guessed your profession just by watching how tirelessly and selflessly you help all the people here. Best of luck to you, and all of my good wishes :-)

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Good luck Acadia.
Keep in touch...

good luck!  sounds like a lot of work, but i'm sure you'll be up to the task. i hope you enjoy being busier, or being busy in a different way.  and definitely take care of yourself.  exhaustion and stress can take a subtle but high toll.

Good luck Acadia :)

Congratulations and best wishes. It's good to know that good things do still happen for good people!

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Thanks everyone!  hugs

I'm a bundle of nerves right now; excited and terrified all at the same time.

Taking 4 years off of nursing is not the same as taking 4 years off an office job. I deal with peoples' lives and they depend on me to know my technical skills  but more importantly to be able to observe them for any change in their health. So needless to say I'm feeling quite rusty.

I was assured today that once I'm finished the back to work program that I will not be thrown to the wolves. I will get as much orientation as I feel I need and I'll have some sessions with a clinical resource nurse to go over some of the technical stuff, like IV insertion and the pumps.  So that made me feel loads better.

I swear I'm going to have Renderosity withdrawals!  But it's not like I won't be here, just not "living" here as I have been. 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Oh wow, I didn't know that the secret service has a back to work-program... :laugh: This is good news!! We will surely miss you (secretly I call you "the brain" ) but on the other hand I wish you a good start and most of all satisfaction from your work!!

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Good luck ... we all know that you will do just fine.

Please stay in touch.

cheers,
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Acadia, good luck. It is great to hear things are turning around for you. You will be missed here of course, but now so many more people will benifit form your caring personality. And who knows, you may end up taking care of a 'rosity resident some time.

ps, does that psych ward treat poser addictions?

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Take care and remember that no one watches your license like you do. Been an R.N. for a long time and retired but I know what you're saying about the money...lol
You will be great. Once you hit the floor again it will all come back, patient's don't change just the way we take care of them. You go! And don't forget to take time out every once in a while for yourself.

Quote - patient's don't change just the way we take care of them.

I've been through a great deal over the last 4 years. I think my experiences and my ability to relate to a large number of things based on personal experience will only make me better at the job.

And the money!!! OMG! I can't wait to actually get a real pay cheque again!  I'm tired of living on 60% of what  I was making 4 years ago, minus almost 20%  of that in income tax.  My disability pension is not indexed with inflation so while everything around me has gone up in price (my rent by $250.00 per month in the last 3 years), It's gotten harder and harder to make ends meet.  I think I'm going to feel like I won the lottery when I get my first pay cheque!!  LOL

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Ah damn!

Acadia, now what will I do without your heads up to the free items? While I am certain you don't know this, you have been a real big help to me on more than one occasion, I cannot tell you how much I shall miss you Acadia. Although I do envy you, being able to return to work.

I'm still about a year year and half away from doing so.

Yours,

Daidalos

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That's fantastic news Acadia! I wish you the best of luck and hope that it all comes together for you. :biggrin:

UA

 

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NURSING?  I thought you were leaving to work for a global secret intelligence agency like the CIA or something. With your supernatural googling skills and ability to find stuff, I figured you must be a great detective or super sleuth.

"Nursing" is what she is forced to tell us, but actually she'll wear a black suit with dark sunglasses and will become a Woman in Black to help aliens to find links on a galactic scale!

I wish you the best, Acadia! Keep us informed on your job (we promise to tell nothing!) and good luck! I am so happy for you!

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maybe you can answer the silly question; why do most drugs seem to end in HCl?...;)
take care...

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anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Acadia, Good luck to you! Just remember that when your nervous just close your eyes, take a deep breath and think of something you've heard or seen that made you laugh really , really hard.

Good luck Acadia, and thanks for all your valuable posts. Well deserved good news!

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That's great news! Good luck, and we'll still be here when you pop in from time to time :-)

...Maybe now you will stop competing with me for post count :lol:

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hydrochloride if I remember correctly

Quote - That's great news! Good luck, and we'll still be here when you pop in from time to time :-)

...Maybe now you will stop competing with me for post count :lol:

You poor thing...You don't have any kind of life outside of here, do you?

:lol: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Sorry to hear that Acadia, you've always been so nice and helpful and patient with dumb questions (I know from personal experience :) ).  Good luck with your career moves!

acadia, best wishes for the resumption of your career.

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into the bloodstream, e.g. psycho-active drugs that must pass the blood-brain
barrier.

11 years working at a drug company, and I hadn't figured out a way to ask...;) thanks...

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I had my information session today. By the sounds of things it will still be a couple weeks before I actually start working in this "work trial" because the person they need to meet with at the hospital where I'll be working is on holidays until next week.

I'm eager to start working on my hours, so if they hear of something else I can do in the meantime they will get me into it, otherwise not for a couple of weeks.

The nice thing is that this will give me experience in an area where I haven't been able to get hired in before because of the "catch 22" of needing experience but can't get hired into the position to gain experience.  So it will open up my prospects some more.  Right now I have been working in acute medicine and surgery, which is really physically demanding and it's been taking it's toll on my back, so I'd like to stay in nursing but do something more on the intellectual side rather than at the patient's beside and clinical research has always interested me.  So we'll see where it leads.  So I guess you're stuck with me for a couple more weeks!

Bagginsbill has given me access to his website so that I can set up a bookmarks section that I can easily update it as needed instead of having to maintain an ongoing forum thread.  So I'm going to try and get those done, but it will be slow going.  I injured my neck and shoulder at the gym and have been going to the chiropractor and haven't been able to sit at the computer for very long. Bending my arm to type causes it to go completely numb.  But I'll do my best to get them done. Most of it will be just copy/pasting.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Good Luck hun xox

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You have been a BIG help in the Poser Community with your advice, tips and not to mention Tutorial leads (both here in Threads and other sites), and I have learned a lot from both you Bagginsbill and the rest of the community.

I wish you luck on your journey to a rewarding, and prosperous work return and also wish you success and happiness in the future, as you have so much deserve it.  :thumbupboth:

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Congrats Acadia and best of luck.
All of us have such gratitude for the community spirit you bring and and your "sniffer kitty" instincts with finding things for us.
   The new people you work with will be lucky to have you aboard.
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I'm not gone yet!  hehe   And when I am,  I won't really be gone-gone, just here less, at least until I can get back and settled into my job. I can't be cured of my poser and Renderosity addiction that easily!  LOL  Besides, I love you guys!!! 

When I was working I still found lots of time to get on the computer. It's just that this work trial and the back to work program are going to be a major shock to my body and it will take me time to adjust to having to get up early 5 days a week and be out and active in the community for a full work day.

And I'll still be into Poser. It's a nice way to relax and unwind.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

A kitty lover getting up early is just not right! We are kitty lovers therefore by kitty law should lie in!!!

Good luck hun x

"I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away"

Well good luck to you girl, I hope you achieve what you are setting out to do. And while I have known you only briefly your help was truely amazing. I was hoping to learn much more from you and I will miss that opportunity but for you girl all the best!!

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Quote - All the best with your Real Life vocation.  Pop in whenever you can.  This place is for your relaxation and enjoyment.

Thanks :)  I'm still waiting to hear when I start that work trial.  This is a first of it's kind so there is apparently kinks to iron out.  They were hoping it would start this week, but when I went to the information session last week I was told that they were aiming for the middle of next week.

I'm just itching to get going on this. Not that I don't love you guys, but I really would rather be out there working, and preferably working and earning money! But the earning money won't be for a few more months after I do my actual back to work program!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Great news for you! But very sad for us!
I hope you all you deserve: the better!! :)
You've been like a nurse for us all, i guess it's time to share you more with others ^^

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Good luck, you'll be missed! :)

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Just got off my shift at the recovery room tonight and read your post. Gotta hand it to ya: you're the real deal. You're absolutely right: nursing is not like any other work. And, as we get older, whilst experience works for us, acuity skills diminish and you sometimes can't help but wonder "why the heck do I still do this??" What if I miss something, something crucial?

I know what you're feeling. I've been a nurse since 1980... mostly cath lab, but also some theatre nursing and now post-op recovery. Walking in from taking a patient back to the ward, I found the nurse unit manager for operating theatres writing down observations on a patient just out from having a discectomy whilst a junior, not-yet-fully trained anaesthetics nurse was performing jaw support on this obtunded patient. I observed the patient's chest wall motion seemed a bit exaggerated, and instinctively listened for breathing sounds: there were none discernible. I immediately went to the head of the bed, and without interfering with the nurse's efforts grasped the jaw and thrust it forward just enough to restore a patent airway. The patient gave an loud gasp and began to noisily breathe.

Okay, that was instinct. How long will that work for me? Makes me a bit nervous.

What I'm saying with all this rot is: I understand how you feel... it's a bit scary... even whilst you're in it! And for you non-nurses out there: we do love you - that's why we do it.

Well, that's why I do it, anyway....

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Quote - And for you non-nurses out there: we do love you - that's why we do it.

Well, that's why I do it, anyway....

I do it for 3 reasons:

1. The money;
2. I get to tell doctors what to do;
3. I get to stick people with really, really big needles  :woot:

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote -

3. I get to stick people with really, really big needles  :woot:

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Quote - > Quote -

3. I get to stick people with really, really big needles  :woot:

Remind me not to get on your bad side.''

LOL

I remember back when I was a student nurse I was looking after a room with 2 men in it. Their resemblance to each other was uncanny.  They were both connected to IVs and a pump that was administering a blood thinning medication.

They were constantly razzing me and playing practical jokes on me, :sneaky:

When it came time to refill the pump for one of them, I mixed up the syringe, which was  large, and left the large needle on the end.

I walked into the room and and with a poker face said "Ok! Bend over!" :ohmy:  His eyes got really big and his jaw dropped, as did those of his visitors. Then I burst out laughing.:laugh:

Not really a good idea to play a practical joke on someone admitted for chest pain, but I had a bottle of nitro pills in my pocket, so I wasn't worried! 

I always tell my patients that no matter how bad off we think we are, there are people who are far worse than we are, and that life is too short to be glum and gloomy and we have to make the most out of everyday that we have been given.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote - > Quote - And for you non-nurses out there: we do love you - that's why we do it.

Well, that's why I do it, anyway....

I do it for 3 reasons:

1. The money;
2. I get to tell doctors what to do;
3. I get to stick people with really, really big needles  :woot:

Re 1.: I'm in Australia - the money sucks. It was really good in California though.
Re 2.: I work in the private sector - ya kinda have to tiptoe around them. Moving to the public sector is going to help tremendously...
Re 3.: well, girl, ya gotta have some fun, right?

Good on ya for returning... if you were around here (Brisbane area) they'd be paying you $6000 to return to the work force...

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Quote - Good on ya for returning... if you were around here (Brisbane area) they'd be paying you $6000 to return to the work force...

Since I was off sick, I don't get a "bonus" to return.  But I don't mind. I think we make pretty good money here.  Full time RNs in Manitoba, as of October 1, 2008 will be making $70,182.988  per year. I won't be getting that when I return though. I'll be starting at the salary that I had when I went off sick and getting increases in pay every 6 months until I reach top salary again.  But I also don't routinely work full time either. I like working 0.8 instead of full time. I figure we make good money so I don't feel a need to work full time anymore.

We have a dire shortage of nurses, you should consider coming here to work :)

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote - We have a dire shortage of nurses, you should consider coming here to work :)

The shortage is no different here, but the pay is lousy anyway. The trend for hospitals is to go with EEN (endorsed enrolled nurse) - trying to phase RNs out, it seems to me.

The spousal unit is opposed to living anywhere but Queensland... odd, that. Oh well. Nearing the end of my career, so I guess it doesn't much matter. I do like Canada, though... lovely country, nice people... well, hey, look at you! Colour me tempted.... :biggrin:

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Metaphor of Chooks

Oh no! What if I need to find something?

At least you won't be gone forever.

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Grrr! I'm still waiting to start this work trial program! :(

The girl from my long term disability insurance company, who is co-ordinating all of this, called me yesterday to tell me that she is meeting with the hospital next week, and hopefully the following week we can get in and get our security ID cards, a locker and orientation.  She's said they are aiming to have the actual program now start on September 2nd.

I'm so darned frustrated with all this anticipation and then having to wait and wait... :(

Well, guess you're stuck with me a bit longer.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote - Grrr! I'm still waiting to start this work trial program! :(

The girl from my long term disability insurance company, who is co-ordinating all of this, called me yesterday to tell me that she is meeting with the hospital next week, and hopefully the following week we can get in and get our security ID cards, a locker and orientation.  She's said they are aiming to have the actual program now start on September 2nd.

I'm so darned frustrated with all this anticipation and then having to wait and wait... :(

Well, guess you're stuck with me a bit longer.

Sheesh, sounds like the public system here in Oz... shocking, isn't it? All you want to do it go to work... why the dramas?

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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
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Metaphor of Chooks

I got a call from the insurance company yesterday. They are aiming to have the training for the work trial on the 28th, and gearing for the actual work part of it to start on September 2nd!

I'm excited, but also nervous!

It's going to take me a while to get used to being out full days, a number of days in a row. Currently the maximum time I'm out is on days I go to the gym and that is about 5 hours, and I'm so tired when I get home that I have to nap for 2 or 3 hours in the afternoon. And that's only 3 or 4 days per week with a day off in between.

I predict many early nights to bed in my future and probably some skipped dinners in lieu of bed because I'll be too tired to eat!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Know exactly what you mean - nursing is the most tiring of professions... it's Friday and I just wanna crawl into a womb tank! Busy week in recovery...

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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
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I found out more about how my work trial and back to work program are going to work.

It seems I was given some wrong information by the girl who is co-ordinating the work trial where I'll be working in medical records.

When I was working my EFT was 0.8, so they are treating the work trial as part of my back to work program and they will not let me exceed 0.8 EFT. So until my actual back to work program starts I will be working 0.8 at the work trial and as my back to work hours increase, my work trial hours will decrease accordingly to keep me at a 0.8 EFT.

My initial hours the first week will be 6 hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, the following week they will increase it to full days Monday, Tuesday, Thursday with 1/2 day on Friday.

They claim I'll get the number of hours I still need before the end of the year, but I'm still nervous about that. 

Anyway, I'm a whole lot less stressed about having to juggle so many things as I was lead to believe that I would have to do. I really didn't know how I was going to manage it all without running my health back into the ground. 

So it looks like my evenings and weekends will still be my own, at least until I get back to my job where I'll be doing days / evening shift work again.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Yahhhhhhhhoooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Acadia can still come and post the woderful freebies she finds for us!

Thats good news indeed.

So the party will be at your house right?

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Quote - Yahhhhhhhhoooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Acadia can still come and post the woderful freebies she finds for us!

Thats good news indeed.

So the party will be at your house right?

Goof! :laugh:

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

i'm glad to hear that you won't be stressing your body, your energy and probably your mind as much with such a full schedule.  i think health care in general is a remarkably draining profession,  kudos to you and your fellow professionals who do their best to restore the health of others.

I just got a call about my hours!

Thursday I go for a 4 hour training session in the afternoon.

Starting next week I'll be working 9am to 3pm  on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday just to get my feet wet.  Then I'll be doing full days from 8am to 4:15pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and 8am to noon on Fridays.

I can't believe that this is really happening!!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Good luck in going back to work and being able to keep your license.

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OMG! I can't believe how nervous I am! LOL I go for my 1/2 day orientation and training session today. Next week I actually start the position. 

I also found out yesterday that a meeting with the hospital that I work for has been set up for September 8th to discuss my back to work program. So if there is a position that I can readily jump into, I have a feeling that will be starting the same week or the week after!

waves I'll let you know how this afternoon goes.  

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

What wonderful news, Acadia-and you even get to spend some of your spare time with us.  Jan

Good luck Acadia I hope everything works out well for you. I dunno what nurses get for working for insurance companies but if you are looking for a physicaly light job you might want to see what they pay it would probably be a lot of paperwork(is any nursing job not). Also my sister is an accountant and her firm has an RN on staff  because they audit pharmacies so basically she just looks at the perscriptions. So something like that might be good too.

Well, I survived! I now have 4 hours towards my nursing license for next year!!

They didn't even get through all of the training.  We were told we would be done by 4:30pm, so I booked my ride to pick me up then, and the other 2 girls also had arrangements for 4:30pm.  So they have to carry some of the training over to Tuesday.

It was a bit disorganized.  The lap top computer that I was given to use had a bad network card and wouldn't work, so I had to take notes and share a computer with someone else so I didn't get much hands on with the program. And they were honing the program while they were training us and as we got to a page that they were going to show us how to enter the data, they ended up in discussions between themselves as to what needed to be in the drop down menues or greyed out etc. etc. etc.  It's not very organized.

On Tuesday I go for a hospital orientation where I'm given an ID card, have to sign some confidentiality agreements, given a locker etc. And they are reimbursing us for our transportation costs be it parking or transit fare. After that we will finish up the training and then get down to the transcribing of the research data.

 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Did someoe mention "meds"? :blink:
Yes, yes I believe someone mentioned "meds"... :blink: :blink:
I'm sooo behind in taking my meds, I think I need a refill :woot:

Eddy

 

I hate it when the work computers don't work out right...been in too many job situations where that happened. When I used to work for a printing and publishing company I used to haul my own pc case to work and back on a daily basis because I knew my computer would always work.

God I miss those days, and the money....  :sad:, But ever since my last job as an Earthlink Tech Support screwed me up mentally, I just haven't been able to handle the stress. :cursing:

Eddy

 

Well, tomorrow is the day!  I start my actual first day of the work trial. I work 3 days of 6 hours each this week, and then next week graduate to full days.  I feel like a whole new chapter of my life is starting. 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

good luck!

Good luck!
I know you will do well. ^^

Best wishes to you in your upcoming excitement.  We will be here and missing you.  It will make it that much more important when we see you pop in again.  Sharen

Whee! I'm employed again!  Well, technically I always was, but  today I went for a meeting about my back to work program and I left it with a day / evening rotation on gyne / antepartum It's not my favourite area to work, but when I was floating I went there lots so I know what the ward is like.

The meeting went very well. My only real restriction is the amount that I can lift, but the functional capacity test that I did a few weeks ago had me lifting from the floor up to shelves of varying heights, repeatedly. I don't do that kind of stuff in my job.

They are going to talk to the manager of the ward, but in the meantime the position is being held for me and no one anticipates any issues with my restrictions, so the position is 99.9% mine!

There will be another meeting once I've been formally awarded the position, probably within the next 2 or 3 weeks. That will be to discuss the actual work program itself and the hours.

I had more than an hour to kill so I went around the hospital visiting wards to see colleagues. I can't believe how many changes have taken place. People have either quit, retired or moved to different wards or hospitals.

And!!! The insurance company thinks they owe me money. It seems that they had based my monthly income on 27 hours per week, when in fact I was working a 0.8 position which works out to 31 hours per week. Four hours at 60% of my income over all of the time I have been off work, works out to double digit thousands!   If my calculations are right, that means they owe me lots and lots of money!

I can't believe that after struggling to stay afloat that things are suddenly just falling into place. I'm afraid to stop and think about it for fear of jinxing it.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

wheeee!  congratulations!

So when is the Barbeque?

Eddy

 

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I don't have a balcony or a BBQ, but I'm good for a rack of ribs in the oven! 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Congratulations!
I'm living with a nurse for 27 years now, and I know how hard the work can be from time to time, I have the greatest admiration for you to pick up your work again.
Good luck in your new job,

Bopper.

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I don't have a balcony or a BBQ, but I'm good for a rack of ribs in the oven! 

No problem, I'm sure with your new salary and all that back pay we'll be able to fix you up with a nice balcony, with a built in BBQ :thumbupboth:

Eddy

 

Oh, and I'll even throw in some of my veins...:tongue1:

Eddy

 

Congratulations, we knew you could do it.  Sharen

I did 3 1/2 days of work this week!! Not exactly paid work mind you, but the hours count towards my nursing license! 326 hours more to go!

I was asked today if I would be interested in teaching. They want to train some more people and would like me to take on that task. I said I would like that.

I also asked again about being able to exceed my EFT of 0.8 but was told that I couldn't. However, there is nothing stopping me from pursuing something on my own time

I spoke with the Neurologist (who looks like she's 10 years old!!!). She's really impressed with the speed in which I have been able to pick up the program and get through charts. I told her that I will be transitioning into my job at another hospital and told her that the insurance company won't allow me to exceed my EFT. However, there was nothing stopping me from pursing something privately on my own, on a part time basis on the weekend or evenings. But the hours I work would have to be able to be counted towards my nursing license.

She's very interested in having me continue with the MS Study, and told me to talk to her assistant on Monday and have him look into what needs to be done in order to keep me on part time over and above the hours I am doing with the insurance company, and that she will sign off on anything that needs to be done.

I told her that I am really only interested in the hours, but if they pay me for the extra hours I do, I sure wouldn't say no! So we'll see how that goes. I may actually have a paid part time job. But at the very least I'll be able to get more hours towards my license, which at this point is all that I really care about.

I did the math, and if I work 4 shifts of 7.75 hours every single week without missing a single day between now and the end of December I will have something like 80 some odd hours above what I need to renew my license next year. However, I want a safety net, and if I can pick up every Saturday and maybe 4 hours during the week in the evening, I will get between 32 and 48 hours more per month. And if those hours are paid, all the better, that's $1,400 extra in my pocket each month.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

All the very best to  you, Acadia.  This sounds like the long overdue turn of good fortune you deserve.  :thumbupboth:

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I had a meeting today with the hospital again.

That position is 100% mine Because I'm in a back-to-work program and not actually working the rotation for that position currently, they are reposting it as a term position until the middle or end of December, when I'll take it over

Next week I do three full shifts doing the MS Research Project. And I do two 4 hour shifts at my actual place of work! I'll be doing the 4 hour shifts in the morning starting at 7:30am to 11:30am.

The following week is when it starts to get a bit confusing!! The Monday I do 4 hours at my job then go and do 3.75 hours at the Research job. That week I also work 2 full days at the Research job and two 4 hour shifts at my nursing job. The next week is the same.

It gets even worse after that with my having to divide my time between 2 separate hospitals several days each week in order to get a full day of work in.

By November 10th I'll be up to 6 hours at my job and only 1 full day per week at the research job.

I asked about the ability to increase my 4 hours to 6 hours in the event that I find 4 hours okay. They said that would not be a problem. I'm really hoping that I can get back on the payroll by the end of November at the latest. I'm so tired of being broke, plus this schedule and having to juggle 2 separate hospitals into an 8 hour day by 4pm (the time I have to have the computer back in the Neurology office before they leave for the day) is just too stupid for words, but I need to get those hours in.

I found out that the extra hours at the research job didn't pan out. I made a point to tell them that I was pursuing the extra hours on my own and that it was separate and apart from the hours I'm doing with the insurance company, and not part of that program at all and didn't involve the insurance company at all because it would be on my own time on the weekends and evenings. They were agreeable with that.

Of course they talked to the insurance company who vetoed it saying that it might interfere with my ability to complete the back-to-work program.

The insurance company doesn't seem to care that I sit at home on the computer or watching TV or reading for as long as I sit at the Research place and have been able to do full days there followed by being at home on the computer, not to mention being at home on the computer on weekends, without any problem whatsoever. Personally I don't think what I do on my own time is any of their freaking business

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

I hardly know you but good luck just the same.  I don't think you should be saying goodbye, just saying see you next time.

I'm glad everything is working out for you,  but please don't go...stay.

I really don't think that Acadia will be leaving us since she is valued here and has so many friends (all of us).  However a little begging from us to stay can't hurt!  Jan 

I'm still around some. But I admit to not looking at 95% of the threads like I used to. I pick a few from the list to read and that's it. I'm just too tired at the end of the day. 

I'm not leaving completely, just vastly decreasing the amount of time I spend here.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Just an update on my back-to-work program.

I had my progress meeting for my back-to-work program  last Monday.

My hours are divided up between 2 hospitals. One where I'm going to actually be working, and another where I'm working in a research position in the medical records entering chart data into a computer.

There was initially some problem with my insurance company only allowing me to work a 0.8 (8 out of 10 days) combined between the 2 places, even though I wanted to do 2 more days at the research job. The research job is sedentary and nothing more than I do when I get home and sit at my own computer. So I was frustrated that they wouldn't let me pick up 2 more days because I so desperately need the hours by the end of December so that I can renew my nursing license for next year.

My union rep was there and she said that the union has no problem with my working additional hours at the other hospital. Their concern is that my hours at the hospital I will be working at do no exceed 0.8. They said that I should be able to work as many hours at the other place as I want to because it has nothing to do with my actual job! So now I'm 100% assured to get my required nursing hours in by the end of the year.

The manager of the ward I'm working on was in attendance. She said that the feed back from the nurses I've been buddied with and the charge nurses has been extremely positive about my attitude and work performance.

I'm already up to 1/2 a patient load for an assignment. You get between 5 and 7 patients and I've been caring for 3 each shift for the last 1.5 weeks and today I took care of 4 patients.  The hardest part for me is finding my organization again. Today I managed pretty well.  There is room for improvement though, but that could be because I feel so rushed only being there 4 hours and having to cram a full day of tasks into 1/2 a day.

At the meeting we talked about increasing my hours because I feel that I can do more than 4 hours 3 times per week. So my back-to-work schedule has been changed.

Now based on the new schedule I will be finishing my back-to-work program on December 2nd and returning to the payroll on December 3rd!  A full 2 to 4 weeks earlier than they had planned for.    I'll get my first actual pay cheque on December 12th for a whole 3 days of work, and a full pay cheque on December 26th!

I'm so chomping at the bit to get back to my job and out from under the thumb of the insurance company! It's the last step to actually getting my life back!

PS:  I've started 4 IV's and I got every single one!    That was one skill that I was afraid that I had lost my touch with. And the one that I was most anxious to have to do again.  But I'm so happy that I haven't lost my touch with IV insertion!

Oh, the manager was quite happy to learn that I am  a "Chemo Nurse" so I am also going to be sent for a 3 day refresher for chemotherapy. You have to be certified to give chemo and I used to be, but it's been several years since I last gave it.  The original course is 2 weeks in Cancer Care, so instead of taking someone off the ward for 2 weeks (we are very short staffed)  to train them, they are going to send me for a 3 day refresher after Christmas.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

That is exciting news to hear.  I hope everything goes well from here on down and best of luck.  It really sound like things are actually taking off for you.  Again, good luck!

Thanks! For the last 4 years it has been one set back after another. I really felt like I had been cursed! I just couldn't catch a break with anything. Now everything seems to be falling into place.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Congrats Acadia.  Sometimes all you need is patients and time to get things done and a little hope and faith to keep you going in the meantime.

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Good luck Acadia! It sounds like you're heading into an interesting and busy time - I hope you have a blast doing all that!

Acadia,  I know how it is with nursing... (my mum's a retired nurse). You just go out and do your thing but also remember to care about you first. Don't let the job define you. You define the job.

Happy to see a nurse return to the job so loved.

TS

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Just updating!

16 more days until I'm back on the work payroll!!  

I'm going to talk to my claims specialist and see if we can bump that up by 2 days since I actually finish work on a Sunday and have 2 days off before I start my actual first shift on the payroll. However, with those 2 days I could pick up some shifts at work and have 5 days on my first pay cheque instead of only 3 days. I'd rather do that than have the insurance company pay me because I would get more from working than from the insurance payment.

It's been a tough few weeks. Things were going so well. I was virtually pain free and only going to the chiropractor once every 2 weeks for "maintenance."  Then the unthinkable happened. I was in a car accident. 

I was a passenger in the back seat. The driver stopped suddenly to avoid one accident that he was causing, only to be hit from behind. This caused me to fly forward and backward twice and gave me a pretty bad case of whiplash, not to mention totally messing up my back.  The injury may not have been as bad had the car had a seatbelt that I could use, but it was too short and there was no extension available, and then the driver was completely negligent after the accident. He didn't get the insurance information of the car that hit us from behind because there was no damage to either car, and he failed to report the accident to the company. Plus he was a maniac behind the wheel constantly stomping on the gas and slamming on the brakes and taking turns at full speed, causing me to be thrown around the backseat only adding to my injury.  By the time he dropped me off, it was nearly an hour later and I had a horrid headache, nausea, complete back pain and stabbing pain down my leg, plus both of my arms were numb from my neck to my finger tips. 

I got home and immediately took Ibuprofen and applied ice packs to my back and neck to help combat swelling and wrote a long letter to the car company and the company who contracts them.

Needless to say the car company is "pooping bricks" because the first they heard about the accident was from me, and I told them that if the accident in anyway causes me to not be able to complete my back to work program and return to my job in a timely manner so that I get the required number of nursing hours needed to renew my license for next year, and I have to take the refresher course and rewrite the exam, that I would be seeking compensation for not only the course, but also my living expenses while I'm attending the course, the exam fee, my licensing fee and any other expenses I have to incur to re-obtain my nursing license.  In addition to that, they stand a chance of having their contract with the City cancelled.

Our car insurance here is all "no fault", so there is no such thing as personal injury claims. However, according to my former boss who did a number of personal injury cases before the policy was changed,  said that because the company was negligent with the seatbelt, and the driver had complete and total disregard for the fact that I was injured and his driving after the fact was wreckless, not to mention failing to get the other cars insurance information, that the scope falls outside of autopac and woud fall under civil litigation. He also said that as a former Queen's Court Judge, that the company wouldn't stand a chance of winning if I were to take them to court just because of all of the variables involved.

Now I don't really want to have to go back to school for 2 years and I have no interest in suing anyone! So I've been working through the pain and loading up on over the counter pain medication (Robaxacet is a God-send) and going to the chiropractor. I've only missed 3-half days and that was hours at the research part of my back-to-work program, because sitting for extended periods really hurts my back.  But I've been managing pretty well on the ward.

As of November 30th, I'll have 375 hours towards my license, which is 7 hours more than I need in order to renew my license, so the hours I work in December when I'm back on the payroll are gravy so far as hours go.

The chiropractor visits have been helping immensely, and I'm still icing my back. With the Robaxacet I am still having some pain, but it's been manageable, but it will be weeks or even months before my back is back to the way it was before the accident.

My chiropractor told me that I have drive and determination. I told him that it's more like tunnel vision.   Getting back to my job is the only thing I see in front of me and nothing and no one is going to get in my way of getting back to my job.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

What a turn of events!  Hope everything goes well and the best of luck.  At this point, you need all you can get.  Hang in there!

You should sue that driver and the company that hired him. He should have driven carefully (not like a little old lady but...) I agree with your former boss. SUE the pants off that blasted company for hiring that dangerous driver, then go after the driver for trying to impede your back-to-work program. There is no excuse for dangerous driving.

I'm just glad you're able to sit and type. Hang on in there like hborre said and keep on keeping on.

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In the USA there would be lawyers lined up at your door to get that sort of case.  In an accident , if asked by the ambulance people if you are hurt, you say "I dont know , ask my lawyer"  and point to the back of the ambulance.  dial 1-800-we-can-get-you-money hehehehe .

Seriously , you should get a lawyer dealing in injury cases and threaten to sue.

good luck , hope things work out for you .
      

A couple minutes after the accident I had a  headache and felt like throwing up. Classic whiplash symptoms.

Twenty minutes after the accident I was feeling worse and my headache was massive. I asked the driver if he could contact the dispatcher and tell him about the accident and that I wasn't feeling well, and see if they could have someone else pick up his next passenger. He got all sarcastic telling me that he'll drop me off after he's picked up the other person. He then got on the radio and told the dispatcher that he was going to be late to pick up the other person, not once mentioning the accident.

I really have no interest in suing anyone. I just want to get back to my job.

I will talk to my old boss again though and ask what the time line is to file. I may have only a certain window to file a notice of intention, just in case the need does arise once I'm back to work and off disability and find that I can't manage my rotation due to back pain. 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi