postmarked

The receipt for my fingerprints was in my email box yesterday so today I got the rest of my paperwork together and sent it to Illinois for my temporary permit.  I am still waiting for San Jac's paperwork to be returned so I can send out the rest of my paperwork to get my permanent license.

Of course, Chicago no longer has a position listed, but hopefully something will work out.  In the meantime, Dallas does have a position listed, only for 4 weeks, but I already have a Texas license so, why not?

some more waiting...

I am still waiting on the fingerprint place to email me a confirmation that they've received and run my prints.  I mailed them Thursday, so they should have received them by now, but they have to run them.  I had my manager fill out the Verification of Employment form, and I am waiting for San Jac to email me back the Verification of Education form.  Really, all I need right now is the receipt for my fingerprints so I can mail in the application for a temporary permit, and then get the rest of paperwork into place. 

printed!

I called the police station yesterday to verify which department fingerprinted and when so I could make my plans accordingly.  The station I went to last week had an officer available on Thursdays from 9-11am for fingerprinting so I went this morning and got that done.  Afterwards, I went to the post office and mailed the card and money order to Chicago and now I just have to wait for them to email me a receipt which I will then send with my application to IL and will hopefully at least get my temporary permit while I finish up the paperwork for the actual nursing license.

roadblock

I went and had my physical done, so one more thing completed for Cross Country, but then I went to the police station to be fingerprinted and was once again roadblocked.  Apparently they only do it every other Wednesday, and the next time isn't until the 25th!!  She said the City does it (I think that's what she said), but they only do it on Thursday from 11-1 or somthing like that.  I literally cried in the car on the way home. 

Am I not supposed to travel nurse?!

slow process

The application for IL is daunting and I've started and stopped on it a few times.  I have to verify employment/experience with my current job, verify education with my nursing college, verify my Texas and MI licenses, be fingerprinted...  and I'm probably forgetting what else.  You'd think that my having a MI and TX license would be enough to give me one in Illinois, but apparently not. 

Tomorrow I will go get my titres checked and my OK to physically and mentally work as well as stop by the police station to be fingerprinted.  Once that is done, I can mail the prints to a company in Chicago and they'll process them.  I am hoping by Tuesday of next week they will have received and processed them, and emailed me the receipt so I can submit at least the portion of my application that will allow me a temporary license.

I am still trying to get ahold of San Jac to determine exactly how I need to mail my education verification form. 

Meanwhile, there is a night shift posting still for Chicago, but there could still be changes between now and September.  Shelby is working to try to get me in on a dayshift, or rotating schedule, in September.  I looked on their site tonight and saw a posting for Ann Arbor.  It's night shift, but it'd be so much closer and I could skip the housing and take the money as the drive wouldn't be too bad.  If I worked my nights in a row, I could get a hotel to sleep in during the day and maybe pocket some of the housing subsidy...