Yesterday we drove out to Miles City again, this time, to buy paint! We're really getting geared up to move into the house at the end of this week. We also bought bug bombs, and some groceries. The trip out was nice. Since Stephan worked all night Friday, he slept on the way there. We stopped for coffee on the way back, and bought a bluegrass CD.
Stephan is working nights this week- Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday night. He gets there at 5:45pm, and leaves at about 6:15 in the morning. During those hours the PCP (primary care practitioner, like the MD, nurse practitioner or the physician's assistant) is on-call, not actually in the building. So all the meds, ER visits, or new patients are taken care of by the RN's. They decide whether a problem warrents waking up the PCP's or not- they deal with everything they can before making that phone call.
At the end of this week, Stephan will be on his own! We've been working really hard to get his license taken care of. We have his finished application already sent to the State of Illinois, with a priority overnight envelope so hopefully they will get the license back to us promptly. Once he is issued a license number, it will appear on the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation's website. We can take that number and apply for a "verification of license" to be sent from Illinois, to Montana as rapidly as possible. Hopefully the license number will be a reality by Tuesday, then we can overnight the verification request, and that will hopefully arrive back at the State of Montana by ... let's say ... a week from Monday. They will have the Montana license number by Tuesday, giving Stephan the title of RN in Montana!
The second issue we're dealing with at the moment is the scholarship application. The US Department of Health and Human Services has a Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program that Stephan qualifies for. Their deadline for the 2007 application is March 9th. What is required for this? Well, a Montana RN license for one. A list of all of Stephan's loans for two. A two-year commitment to work at a qualifying facility for three.
Do we have all these things? Will we by March 9th?
Stay tuned to find out!
2 comments:
I’m on the edge of my seat and can't wait until the next episode! Oh the suspense!
I actually tried to get audio attached to this entry, it's scary, like, Jaws music... but I couldn't find somewhere to host it.
So, please close your eyes, and imagine some very dramatic, "duh duh DUHHHHHHHHH" music right NOW.
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