Okay, January is always a rough month for most of us because credit cards statements come in from the manic shopping sprees not to mention property taxes in some states (like Ohio; we just received the property tax bill for our rental property), grade school or college tuition payments, estimated tax payments (don't even get me started), and other bills.
Its Bills, Bills, Bills, and more damn Bills in January. What a way to start the year, right? But unless you are filthy rich, bills, bills, bills and more damn bills is part of ordinary life.
However bill, bills, bills should not put on in an "analysis paralysis" and stop you from seeking legal advice and counseling.
How do you know that you need legal advice and counseling and maybe representation despite bills, bills, bills, and more damn bills?
1. You receive a Notice of Complaint from the Kentucky Nursing Board and you slap your husband in the face because you think he mistakenly filed the divorce petition (you have been waiting on) with the Kentucky Nursing Board;
2. You receive a phone call from an Ohio Nursing Board investigator. You return the phone call after you "smoke" because you want to be "loose.";
3. After a bar brawl, which was not your fault, although you have a BAC almost corresponded with your college GPA (non-nursing courses of course) you tell the arresting officer and every officer in the station that "I am a RN at ______ Hospital on the ____ unit and I am going to have your badge" so many times that the Chief of Police contacts the State Nursing Board to verify that you are really a nurse because according a bartender you can "throw a mean right hook"; and
4. You appear for your licensure reinstatement hearing before a Board Hearing Panel with "an attitude."
Even if you have bills, bills, bills, and more damn bills, you may have to go "cheap and dirty to get the skinny." Get your mind out of the sewer, this is a legal blog.
Cheap and dirty is a legal consultation. Its cheap because you are spending a hundred dollars or so for a consultation vs. several thousands for a retainer or flat fee for traditional representation.
Its dirty, not in the filth sense of the term, but dirty meaning "worse case scenario, best case scenario, and everything in between" that you can obtain in 30, 60, or 90 minutes; almost like a speed date. The skinny = options.
Bite the bullet and seek a curbside legal consultation if you have burning questions or issues related to your nursing practice or license. Yes, it going to cost you money, but your sanity and your piece of mind are: priceless.
I wish I could help everyone who contact me; I really wish I could help everyone. Jack reminds me all the time that we can't "save" everyone. I want to save everyone even if its from themselves; this is the nurse in me. I know it because I want to help everyone who contacts my office.
However I cannot provide legal advice or counseling without establishing an attorney-client relationship: either as a legal consultation or retaining me for a traditional attorney-client relationship. This requires the payment of a fee.
Bills, bills, bills, and damn more bills.
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