Just noted on your profile that you are a Nurse Practitioner!! Excellent.
In which area of medicine?
I'm a Physician Assistant (still hold my RN license too) who works ER in Texas.

Rick

Hey Rick!

That is too cool! I am in Family Practice, liscened for 14 years. We don't have a lot of PA's around here, Florida restricts them pretty heavily. How long have you been practicing? Do you like it?

Only been practising about a year and a half. Was a nurse for close to ten years before this. Texas is fairly liberal with the use of PA's. Had a PA friend move to Florida about 6-7 yrs ago...Lake City? seems to ring a bell. Have lost touch with him.
Anyway, I enjoy what I do. Would rather win the lottery but, someone over in El Paso just hit the $145 million jackpot last night.

Rick

They have a big VA hospital in Lake City, most PA's in Fl work for the military or Fed government (prisons). I love what I do & I am very good at it, but working for yourself is very difficult. If I ever meet you face to face I'll tell you about my nightmares working for MD's (it involves sex scandels, fraud, embesselment, prison, drug addiction) and why I opened my own office. I have been a nurse for 18 years (damn! that long????) and medicine has definately changed during that time. Sounds like you missed the boat on the lottery lol

I can understand setting up your own shop. Good for you.
I did family practice for a short time while I was getting my foot in the ER door but, it wasn't my niche.
That's the good thing about ER. Very little interaction with doctors. I work at a critical access hospital so when midlevels are here, there are no doctors around. Doc is available by phone. Whatever comes through the door is mine until:
a) I save them
b) I kill them
c) They die on their own
d) I calmly explain that the illness for which they are seeking care does not rank up there with situations that I consider to be emergencies. This holds doubly true if it is three o'clock in the morning and I'm on the last six hours of a thirty-six hour shift. If they become loud, obnoxious jerks in the process of my explanation, refer to option b) above.

Rick

Beadhoer, just trying to figure it out, how is your name pronounced?
beavis

It is a nickname given to me by friends mocking my accent (I ain't got no accent!!) for "bead w_hore" because I ended up getting a lot of beads at Mardi Gras. :-)

ok I get it now lol :)

It is a nickname given to me by friends mocking my accent (I ain't got no accent!!) for "bead w_hore" because I ended up getting a lot of beads at Mardi Gras. :-)

Hey Rita,

I got some beads at the ROT Rally this June. Did you earn yours the same way I did?

Wait, maybe to much info. Maybe we should just keep that too ourselves <G>

Hoot,

Earn them?? What in the world do you mean (wink, wink)???

Hoot,

Earn them?? What in the world do you mean (wink, wink)???

Atta girl, Rita. You go baby, let it all hang out. We only live once, well sometimes life de-rails us, and we have to start over again. But we are only young once and if we don't have a little harmless fun now, we will regret it when we are old and bound to the porch on a rocker, as crotchety old people.

Hmmmm, What have I done. Maybe I did indeed start something?
Well off to florida I go.
Catch yall next week

Hoot,

I agree with you 100%. Over the past couple of years I have learned to let my hair down & have fun instead of stressing over what I have been dealt. Life it too short for me to get gray hairs because of things I can't control.

If I have enough room in my bags I am going to bring special beads for every one, just to get them in the spirit! :-)

LOL...well a little closer to where this thread started....I am an EMT-IV. But none of that would mean anything if I get to KY lake....and bring my beads :) ...lol