Now that I have been working my first home health assignment for a whopping 1.5 months, I’m basically a pro. Totally kidding, however, I have learned how to prepare for potential HH interviews! Let’s start with “why home health?” Listen, literally 4 months ago I was telling my recruiter “any setting other than home health.”…
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One of the negatives to travel is long distance relationships. Don’t listen to the haters who say they never work out. This doesn’t exclusively refer to just romantic relationships either. When you travel, you move from family, friends, and yes your partner if you have one. Sometimes this can take a toll on you being…
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If you follow me on social media, you know that I just got out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and wanted to share my experience with this virus. My symptoms were thankfully mild for the most part, but still present. I get tested twice a week with a PCR so on Mondays and…
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I never thought I would become so passionate about the legislative side of physical therapy, but here we are. I even did an interview with Dr. Mercedes Aguirre, PT, DPT (@theptadvocate) on the issue. This concept seems so logical and simple to execute on a national level in order to make licensing for PTs and…
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Because everyone aspires to work in a skilled nursing facility right? I get it, and if you have read any of my other posts, you would know the last place I wanted to work was a SNF. However, in the current market after PDPM changes (NOT the COVID market), SNFs became a more popular setting…
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I know what you’re thinking, “seriously, a blog post about renewing your tags?! I can easily do that online.” Well, yes, SOME of you can. However, some of us have tags that come from a county that require emissions testing. I’ve lived in two counties since being of driving age and both of those required…
Read more What I wish I knew about Tag Renewals as a New Traveler
With July boards coming up, I can’t help but think back to my own experience with preparing for boards, and the mental breakdowns I inevitably suffered along the way. I graduated in late June and sat for boards late July. Of course during the last quarter of school we took practice boards, and I bought…
Read more NPTE: What I did to prepare, and some resources I used