Nashua, NH
Nashua, NH- a GREAT place to live (at least for 2 months!).
Some highlights:
-The Holiday Stroll
-A wonderful antique store on Main that takes your word as credit (if you happen to forget your wallet but really want to buy a cute fake mistle-toe for a special new friend!)
-Great shoes at great prices at the local shoe store with nice men who use shoe horns for that perfect fit
-Yummy yummy tapas and the best ‘holiday sangria’ around (MOP) AND porrons (need I say more?)
-A good beer garden
-Gourmet lunches with a sweet kitchen shop to browse in
-Yarn, Yarn, Yarn with free M&Ms
-A local pub with boggle in front of the fire
-Neighbors who will snowblow you a path in 1 foot of new snow in the morning 
-And especially, MARISA, a friend who can make you laugh as she tells you stories about how she told the mailmain to have a “Merry F*&:^ing Christmas!
I could go on and on about this little NH town that became my new home for Nov/Dec- a perfect place to be for a New England winter!
Locum Tenens Tips
Ask, ask, ask (and you might receive!)- this applies to…
1. more $$ (per hour or shift)
2. housing (ask for the budget and see if you can find a place on your own- then have them pay. this beats living in a hotel although you miss out on frequent ‘miles’)
3. extras- as in…cable/internet/phone/parking/car upgrades-4WD in winter
4. scheduling- an afternoon off every week? three day weekends? this can be in the contact in advance or worked out when you first get there and meet with their office manager
More to come…each time is a new learning experience…
Locum Tenens- Lamprey, Nashua Area Health Clinic, Nashua, NH
Another community clinic but with only 3 locations- the main one being outside of Manchester. The Nashua Clinic is located downtown Nashua, adjacent to Southern NH Medical Center. With a staff of 2-3 MDs (1-2 full time) and an NP and 2 midwives, there has been alot of turnover lately and they have relied on locums to fill in. Unfortunately, they seem to have had a few bad (really bad!) experiences and are pretty reluctant to continue along with new locums (hopefully my time there helped to change this attitude!). The staff here really make the clinic a wonderful place to work! Almost all women, they have a real family feel and treat the patients with respect. I got to enjoy quite a few parties and potlucks during my 2 months there. They also have an EMR which is pretty easy to use. As usual, all the regular trials and tribulations of a community clinic exist but the atmosphere here makes those issues alot easier to deal with. See other posts for info on Nashua.
