Riburn3 BSN, MSN, APRN, NP

Internal Medicine

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About Riburn3

Riburn3 has 17 years experience as a BSN, MSN, APRN, NP and specializes in Internal Medicine.


I have been an RN since 2007, where I worked for almost 8 years in CVICU as a charge nurse. I graduated with my MSN-FNP in late 2014, my AGACNP in 2017, and work as a hospitalist.

Latest Activity

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    Remote NP work while abroad

    Pretty much why I joined the State Department. Collect a nice US government paycheck and get to live and travel all over the world.
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    Remote NP work while abroad

    Yeah. There are a few remote jobs out there but most are fairly competitive or are sort of shady where you end up prescribing some random branded drug to a patient you do a phone consult with.
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    Remote NP work while abroad

    Taking a shot in the dark if anyone out there knows of remote employment opportunities for NPs while living abroad. My family and I currently live in West Africa. I am an NP working for the U.S. Department of State. My wife is also an NP, but d...
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    NP Salary/Pay Let's Be Transparent

    Thanks. I had to crawl through the muck before I got this job, working for a large volume practice, seeing 30+ patients a day all over a decently sized city, and barely was scratching 6 figures. It prepared me very well for my job, but it's proof t...
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    Did you feel ready to practice upon graduation?

    I didn't feel uncomfortable (but also not really "ready"), but I also was very aware of my weaknesses and not afraid to look things up or ask questions. My first job was in a large IM practice that I did a huge chunk of my school clinical work in,...
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    NP Salary/Pay Let's Be Transparent

    Hospitalist NP in Southern, NM employed by a large national physician practice. We work independently within our group and admit to ourselves with no physician oversite. NM is a very NP friendly state. -$171k base (have to give fourteen 12 hou...
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    ANCC AGACNP Exam Tips

    Both of you sound like you’re putting in the effort and are on the right track. I scored all over the place on practice exams. The Barkley practice tests are in my opinion much harder than the real deal. Keep doing what youre doing and maintain a p...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    Meh, our group did fire a physician because they were a giant dumpster fire and couldn’t punch their way out of a paper bag. They were a hangover of the previous hospitalist service. They never quit, but at least the NPs knew it wasn’t the right fi...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    I think the issue is the person that edited the article is a preferred editor, sooverriding him/her is more difficult. The article also has a soft lock until November.
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    There are tons of discussions about this over the years on here. Youll see posters say that experience matters. You’ll have some that didn’t have any experience and say it didn’t hurt them. My personal belief is that its helpful in many ways. I fe...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    To be honest I don’t know. It’s still not a very large sample size and it’s just now only being tried in other places I also mentioned earlier it was really tough finding the right NPs to fill the role. In the first year, 3 NPs essentially left onl...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    Well it is True True, but I admit one of the program struggles initially was getting the right kind of NPs into the job as it requires a very high level of autonomy and critical thinking (we cover ICU as well). Once we found our core, it’s been smoo...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    Hmmm you sure like to just make up a lot of bologna. My comment on consults was in regard to you saying they would run away at an NP run hospital. My point is lots of NPs isn’t scaring anyone away, we live in an underserved area so many consultants ...
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    It’s sort of funny you mention “an NP run hospital”. I work as a hospitalist in a group that is 50/50 physician and NP hospitalists. We are part of a pilot program by our company to determine if a larger pool of NPs in a group is effective and safe....
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    NP Wikipedia Article

    So because those are the only studies you’ve seen makes it definitive I guess? Many states have had independent practice for over 20 years. You’d think it would be all fire and brimstone there with how terrible NPs are. Look at a map of states that ...