{"id":160,"date":"2003-07-29T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=160"},"modified":"2003-07-29T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2003-07-29T20:30:30","slug":"flying_solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Flying Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy getting things ready for my switch to having independent nurses.  It hasn&#8217;t been easy.  Most people in my position use a nursing agency to manage their staffing needs.  I&#8217;ve been with a nursing agency of one type or another since I first was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthatoz.com\/healthatoz\/Atoz\/ency\/tracheotomy.html\">trached<\/a> at age 13, some good and some bad.  When I decided to go independent, I had to familiarize myself with a complex system of regulations, advertise and interview for additional nurses, show everyone how to submit the proper documentation to get provider numbers, orient new staff, draft a schedule, etc.  I can&#8217;t imagine too many people choosing to go this route; it&#8217;s more complicated than it needs to be.  But for my lifestyle, I think this will actually work pretty well for me.  For the amount of advocacy I do for consumer control in my job, I should start practicing what I preach.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/29\/politics\/campaigns\/29DEMS.html?pagewanted=1&#038;hp\">Democratic leaders are warning candidates not to seem &#8220;angry&#8221; or &#8220;far left.&#8221;<\/a>  When, oh when, will Democrats stop shrieking like schoolgirls when someone calls them liberal?  For those of us who proudly proclaim our liberalism, it&#8217;s disheartening as hell.  You don&#8217;t see conservatives running away from the &#8220;conservative&#8221; label.  We let conservatives bait people with the &#8220;liberal&#8221; tag for too long.  It&#8217;s time to take it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy getting things ready for my switch to having independent nurses. It hasn&#8217;t been easy. Most people in my position use a nursing agency to manage their staffing needs. I&#8217;ve been with a nursing agency of one type or another since I first was trached at age 13, some good and some bad. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=160' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}