TiffyRN BSN, PhD

Nurse Scientist-Research

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About TiffyRN

TiffyRN has 31 years experience as a BSN, PhD and specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.


Nurse Scientist at last. Experience in M/S telemetry and NICU

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    Raises for RN certifications

    Different facilities will offer clinical ladders that can offer hourly difs for achieving various clinical and professional activities. Some (like my employer), will often cap how high one can go on that ladder if one doesn't complete a higher degree...
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    Walden U

    What is particularly attractive to you about Walden? it's usually wise to focus on universities with strong research programs on the topic you are interested in. I didn't do that and was just lucky that I bonded well with a professor who ha...
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    Doctorate for Psych, Non DNP, PMHNP

    Well, I have learned some about this topic. It does seem that at Vanderbilt, they will integrate 500 hours of clinical practice so that no DNP grad has only 500 hours. That is the only mention of additional clinical hours I see for MSNs with prior AP...
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    Doctorate for Psych, Non DNP, PMHNP

    "MY goal here is complete the terminal degree while learning something applicable onthe patient care side" There really aren't too many options for a terminal degree unless you want to start an entire new course of study (PsyD). If yo...
  5. @saheckler I haven't been on this site for a while for reasons. I'm glad you are sticking it out and about to finish. My advisor was a perfect fit for me, but not for a couple of my classmates. So it is hard to help people know how to pick an ad...
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    DNP UTMB

    I defended my PhD in nursing in Fall 2019. I had a couple of classes shared with the DNP students. The dean of the DNP program was on my committee. I know much more about the PhD program obviously. They are quite different, probably mainly due to the...
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    Weaning to open bed

    First of all I'd recommend anything you write be a "guideline" and now a strict policy. This will allow for some flexibility for individualized patient care. Our thermoregulation guidelines were recently re-written and if I recall them c...
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    NGT policies about days until removal for Neonates

    I've been in my current unit for 18 years. The dwell time for tubes was originally 3 days but those were stiffer plastic tubes. When we changed to silastic tubes the dwell time was changed to 3 weeks, then mysteriously changed to 2 weeks. We recently...
  9. Not familiar with the niv-nava but kind of have an idea from internet searches. Maybe lay down a square or rectangle of duoderm on the chin for stability, then use H-cut tape with one half on the duoderm and the the other half wrapping around your tu...
  10. Apparently it is very much dependent on how your department feels. The dean of my PhD program didn't like students to list PhDc so it wouldn't have been in my best interest to go against her. As for ABD, I've never seen that as an official designati...
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    Earning a PhD in Nursing after a JD and MSN

    One of my PhD professors was/is a JD as well. I don't know which one came first. I know she's tenured and has now moved into the position of director of the PhD program recently. She's taught special topics on biomedical mediation, legal and ethical ...
  12. While I'm not sure my program is classified as "competitive", it is a based out of traditional brick and mortar State university. The PhD program is largely online. I was required to go to a campus week approximately once a year for in-person interac...
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    Cluster Care & Vital Sign Frequency

    Feeders (what I do most): BP once a shift unless on anti-HTN meds. Temps Q3 if eating, can be stretched out further if they kid is ad lib and eats less frequently. For those more stable older kids we aren't likely to wake them up just for a temp unl...
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    Finishing Excelsior ADN Soon, BSN concerns

    The biggest issue with BSN schools after getting your ADN at EC is because many EC students only have 6 instead of 8 credits for A&P I & II (since no lab). My husband was an ADN EC grad so we faced this back in 2012. He would have needed to t...
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    CNEcl

    Congrats on that defense!! Sorry I don't have any advice, I just took my regular CNE exam today and passed. My only advice which doesn't really apply to you is just schedule that test so that it will force you to study. But you had a defense to deal ...