cfrimer

cfrimer specializes in Graduating in 2009.

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1. Maintaining MA RN licensure without clinical practice?

   cfrimer replied to cfrimer's topic in Massachusetts

   Thanks for your reply. The short answer to why I am leaving is that I am basically burned out. Not enough time to spend in the way I want to spend it with patients. (Or rather, I AM spending the time, but then work too many hours too often to be sust...

2. Maintaining MA RN licensure without clinical practice?

   cfrimer posted a topic in Massachusetts

   I am currently practicing as an APRN doing full-time clinical work as an NP in MA. I am thinking about leaving clinical practice though, and am interviewing for non-clinical non-patient care types of jobs. If I go down this path, I would like to main...

3. Cover letter for NP seeking RN position

   cfrimer posted a topic in Career Support

   I am currently working as an NP (due for first ANCC renewal next year), and am looking to change gears and leave the NP role behind. There is a job as an RN care manager that I am thinking of applying for... however, I am concerned that they won't c...

4. Self sufficient???? When????

   cfrimer replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in New Nurse

   Wow, I'm so glad I looked into this thread! I'm still in nursing school (final semester), and my second day of clinical was yesterday. I'm feeling totally ignorant and incompetent at this point, like all the info and skills I learned last year have ...

5. Is nursing your second career?

   cfrimer replied to Ready2BRN's topic in General Students

   Teacher2CRNA -- I got into medical writing through the back door. I always enjoyed and was good at writing, but no one was terribly interested in hiring a writer with no "clips." So I started out as a medical copyeditor, working for a medical commu...

6. Is nursing your second career?

   cfrimer replied to Ready2BRN's topic in General Students

   Oh, duh, it would have helped if I'd read the text of the first post, not just the title! I am in an accelerated program (1.5 years for the RN, followed by 1.5 years of NP work). We just started our second semester, and YES, it is INTENSE. I pers...

7. Is nursing your second career?

   cfrimer replied to Ready2BRN's topic in General Students

   Yep, nursing is a second career for me, too. I have a BSc in Neuroscience, and I worked as a medical writer for 5+ years. I did enjoy it, but I always knew that I wasn't "done" yet, though, ie, that I wasn't in the career place that I was supposed...

8. New Nursing Student

   cfrimer replied to USCUAmber's topic in Student Assist

   I second Daytonite. I am just finishing my first semester of an accelerated program, and I was so nervous in the months before classes started. I had to ban myself from reading this site, because I found it to be too upsetting; I was questioning my ...

9. Second Career Nurses (30+ years old)

   cfrimer replied to duxallinarow's topic in General Nursing

   I am switching to nursing because I wanted a better reason to get out of bed in the morning than meeting business objectives and contributing to the shareholders' net worth. I want to spend the time and energy I have in this life in contributing in ...

10. Psyc. clinical

    cfrimer replied to LaxNP's topic in Male Students

    I just finished my first day of psych (geri unit), and it was a very positive experience for me -- of course, not happy, since the patients are all in so much mental pain, but positive in that I felt like I was helping them just by being there with t...

11. Never thought you'd be a nurse?

    cfrimer replied to reese19's topic in Pre-Nursing

    hlfpnt, that's a wonderful story! It must have been amazing and meaningful for both you and your daughter to be in school together. She must have been so proud of you acheiving your dream at long last! I can just image the ceremony with her yellin...

12. HELP Everyone says I can't be a Nurse!

    cfrimer replied to mydee's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Romie has great advice! I have a similar problem with some of my family, in that they always take the defeatist viewpoint. The thing is, that viewpoint has nothing to do with YOU and everything to do with them. Here's what I mean. After college...

13. Direct Entry GRE, GPA

    cfrimer replied to BlueJune's topic in Post Graduate

    I don't think you have anything to worry about. The GRE is just one part of your application, first of all -- and honestly, I think it's a relatively small part, ie, many Direct Entry programs don't place a gigantic emphasis on standardized scores. ...

14. Never thought you'd be a nurse?

    cfrimer replied to reese19's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Like many others, I too had never thought about nursing. I studied Neuroscience in college, briefly entertained and then dismissed the thoughts of either a PhD (couldn't stomach animal research) or an MD, then went into medical writing instead. The...

15. American thinking of working in London

    cfrimer replied to MaleRNstudent21's topic in International

    Hi there, I haven't yet started nursing school (I'm in the US), but had harbored fantasies of being able to work in the UK upon graduating. Looks like maybe my fantasies are over! But what about advanced practice nurses? I will be in a Nurse Pract...