newtinmpls BSN, RN

newtinmpls is a BSN, RN and specializes in Dementia & Psychiatry.

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1. DNP vs MD

   newtinmpls replied to healthstar's topic in Doctoral

   DNP is meant to prepare a person to be a primary care provider from a nursing orientation. MD is meant to prepare a person to be a primary care provider from a medical orientation. If you aren't conversant with the difference between those two orient...

2. DNP: What did you get out of it?

   newtinmpls replied to Aussierules1985's topic in Doctoral

   The DNP is "doctor of nursing practice" it's meant as a practice degree. The Ph.D. is a research degree, seems like it would be more logically connected to teaching. On the other hand, 1/2 way through my own course in getting my DNP, I've gotten hit...

3. Am I doing the right thing? New nurse getting butt kicked

   newtinmpls replied to j_tay1981's topic in New Nurse

   I do know that I"m eternally grateful that I didn't work full time at first (frankly, or ever). I would have gone mad.

4. Foreign Nurse Licensed in the US. RN, BSN, Masters.. Without job for over two years..

   newtinmpls replied to Propanolol's topic in Career Support

   I hope the search is going better now.

5. Ready to leave nursing for good

   newtinmpls replied to OrlandoRN2011's topic in New Nurse

   Leave nursing? I wouldn't go that far, but leave this facility? Absolutely. Dian

6. What's Wrong with My Resume?

   newtinmpls replied to bstewart40's topic in Job Hunt

   I agree, "assessment" isn't in the LPN scope of practice in MN (where I live) either. I think you could use 'evaluation' (I can't recall for sure what the preferred term is). As for the GPA, since most schools use a 4.0 range, you only need your actu...

7. Advice on Psych NP vs. Psychiatry MD/DO

   newtinmpls replied to kris_10's topic in Psychiatric

   I am a new RN with no experience who got into a RN-BSN program. so if I continue streightforward, I will be NP in three years, but will only have 3 years of RN experience since i will work as an RN during my BSN and MSN studies. I think I will feel v...

8. dilemma regarding antipsychotics

   newtinmpls replied to evanpatten's topic in Psychiatric

   My answer is "it all depends". I've seen patients come in psychotic, struggling, violent & dangerous and then a month later are chuckling over the "weird things I used to think." I've also seen patients who don't respond successfully to anything....

9. Is 31 too old to start a nursing career?

   newtinmpls replied to dannygurl84's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I'm a year into my BSN-DNP and I just turned 50. Too old is an excuse, not a reason. Dian

10. Tons of student loans, pursue DNP still?

    newtinmpls replied to MystyqueOne's topic in NP Students

    Hi, Just got an e-mail this week from my college (I'm in a BSN-DNP program, paying for it with student loans) and now grad school doesn't qualify for subsidized loans - I'll still get the same total amount, but they will all be unsubsidized (interest...

11. Shady S/R practices. . .

    newtinmpls replied to BSNBritt's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been thinking about this and while I do work in psych (inpatient & acute/emergent), and I have seen patients in a combination of restraint/seclusion/PADS (the latter is a kind of restraint a pt can walk around in, but they don't have enough ...

12. Ugh...Bedside Report

    newtinmpls replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    I work in psych, and since you can expect patients to go balistic if you use a word they don't like such as "psychotic" or a diagnosis they disagree with, or god knows how many other things. So in psych we managed to make it mostly written with a 'l...

13. Should a resume only be one page?

    newtinmpls replied to modernhippie_'s topic in Job Hunt

    I can see the advantage to having the whole CV (and I'm not even going to try to spell it) available, including CEUs and articles written and so on. However if you can't summarize to one page - that says something about your writing skills - I know f...

14. Should a resume only be one page?

    newtinmpls replied to modernhippie_'s topic in Job Hunt

    When I hear from HR, they say "one page". Although I've heard many other sources (such as advisors, etc.) say that more than one page is okay - since they are not HR, they are not going to be hiring me (or tossing my two pages into the trash). One p...

15. Foreign Nurse Licensed in the US. RN, BSN, Masters.. Without job for over two years..

    newtinmpls replied to Propanolol's topic in Career Support

    If you really want a job, apply for everything nursing. I wasted a year applying "only at the places I really wanted to work" but it was the year of working at the "last choice" places that got me the experience, that got me the better job. Dian