dirty button pushers

I worked last night, after being up all day, and now I'm on call again. The good news is that scrubs make really good jammies. I will have to hope that McCabe leaves me alone today.

I spent a good portion of the afternoon yesterday trying to figure out how and when I was going to score enough CEUs to recert my medic card by the end of the year. It's a bit of a ways off, but it's better to get it organized ahead of time, especially if things keep accelerating the way they are. I'm beginning to wonder whether it's not impossible to finish up the program by the time my lease is up; if so, things are going to be a little crazy around here at the beginning of next year.

For my last recert, I was able to rely almost exclusively on my ADN classes. National Registry puts a ten hour cap on "distributive" courses - web, magazine, video, etc., but I had unlimited use of my nursing school credit. While they were "online" courses, the credit is by proctored exam, so I got away with it. I have access to tons of great online CE now, but I don't have the loophole to apply it all to a medic recert. And, unfortunately, the BSN classes are far less useful for a recert; there is virtually no clinical content. I was getting irritated at the thought of having to sign up for a refresher class when I remembered that I had critical care orientation last year -- 66 hours of classroom based, clinical CEUs. And I got PAID to sit through it. Cha scams again.