nicunicu2002

Happy Nurses Week Everyone!!!

Turler.. I would be more than happy to give you some advice on legal nurse consulting. Contact me at my email addy, nicunicu2002@yahoo.com and I will fill you in. kim

welcome aboard marissa and congrats on your journey thru nursing school. i do think its smart to go for the ADN and let your hospital pay for the BSN and further if you want. good job!!

Gwen.. cudos to you for going to anesthesia school and trying to lose weight at the same time. Keep it up and good luck on your journey...keep in touch! kim

Laura, welcome to the site, I enjoyed reading your post! kim

hi Gigi...want to wish you luck in your journey. you work a difficult area in a difficult part of town im sure. ive worked some labor and delivery and never really liked it..always scared me for some reason... kim

purple... i know what you mean about working those night shifts. when i started here in boston, EVERY hospital I interviewed with required you to do swing shifts, ie 1/2 days and 1/2 nights...that really sucked because i just never got the rest that i needed and was always grumpy. your right about the eating on night shift. i read a study and found that most people that work the night shift tend to gain more weight because they found that people would eat just to try and keep awake, and everyone ended up bringing goodies into the night shift. i think too that the night shift has occasionally more down time than the day shift...anyway, absolutely know where you are coming from. by some miracle of God, I was moved to days the beginning of this year. now instead of sleepy, im just tired!! good luck at chop, the #1 childrens hospital in the world!!

congrats on your new journey....please keep us posted on how you are doing. i hope to get my surgery sometime this summer....keep in touch and good luck tomorrow!

i second that...woo hoo nurses! i think we all should get flowers for nurses week coming up.....!

this is amazing, im so glad that i started this thread. its wonderful to read where everyone is from and the different areas. hopefully more will appear as the days go on..... kimberly

Ive noticed quite a few nurses on this site so I thought I would start a thread for those of us that would like to have ONE more thing in common, besides the LB. I will start out... My name is Kimberly and Ive been an RN for 25 years. I currently live in the Boston MA area. I work in a neonatal intensive care unit. I also have a background as a sexual assult nurse examiner and DMAT (disaster medical assistance team) altho currently am not participating. I have many years of upper level management experience however decided to get out of that grind and do bedside nursing once again which I am enjoying. Once I leave the hospital, Im done. The other avenue of nursing that I am enjoying is Legal Nurse consulting. The money is great, the work is rewarding and you can do it from home. Im always looking for people to assist me in areas that I have no expertise in so this will be a great way to make contacts as well and ask for advice. I have not had the surgery yet, but will meet with the doc next thursday. I as well as most of you im sure have researched this to death. I look forward to reading everyones response.

Hi Everyone!! Some info about me: I live in Sharon and moved here 1.5 years ago from Oklahoma (yep, it was for a guy). I work at a hospital in Boston and plan to have surgery hopefully this summer at Brigham and Women's with Dr. Lautz. I see him on the 8th of May and am praying things go smoothly. I have BCBS of MA and from what people are saying they are pretty on the ball to get you approved. I have been reading everything I can get my hands on regarding the in's and out's of this surgery including investigating the surgeon that will perform the procedure. I just want to say hello, introduce myself and would love to eventually attend the MA support groups that everyone is involved in....hope to see you around. kimberly

hey sueol... i am having my surgery at BW hopefully this summer. I am a registered nurse and trust me, ive check out every facility and chose this location to have my surgery. I really think you made a great decision. I chose Dr. Lautz because of his credentials which I thoroughly checked out with the state board of medical licensure. He has an excellent reputation, is board certified and is the director of the bariatric center at BW. I think things will go well for you. kim

I cannot wait to be able to wear high HIGH heels...I think they are sooooooooo sexy. Because Ive been so overweight all of my adult life, instead of spending money on clothes that I hated to shop for, I bought shoes....and shoes..and more shoes. I have more heels than I could ever even begin to wear. What does someone do with 22 pairs of black heels??? (that doesnt count the OTHER colors I have). My significant other loves the "f**k me heels as he calls them just been to fat to be able to walk around in them...Im gonna get there someday and wear all these freaking shoes!!! (yeah, I know, its jacked-up but what am I gonna do?????)

It is a great idea if you take a few minutes to look up your physician thru the State Board of Medical Licensure in the state you are having your surgery in. All you have to do once you access the site is type in their name etc, and it will pull up their records. It will list any malpractice or complaints that have been filed against their medical license. This is a great tool to use for ANY physician you are seeing.