SCSTxRN

SCSTxRN

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About SCSTxRN

SCSTxRN specializes in Psych.


I'm a change of lifer with 4 kids and two grandchildren. I spent several years teaching math, science, and special ed . I grew up wanting to be a doctor, then chickened out. I spent a few years in different nursing specialties before I fell into psych, and finished my MSN-PMHNP in 2015.

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  1. Time to remove the "nurse" in APN?

    I am a PMHNP- I wish there had been more Psych CNS style skills in my education, and I still work to bone up my therapy competency, as well as trying to improve my psychopharmacology knowledge. I'd do a DNP in either one, but only one of those.
  2. Post MSN FNP Online Programs

    I have met a few people who were admitted to UTA's online np program. I know no one personally who successfully completed it. I can not recommend it, but I'm sure there are others who do.
  3. I Need Help In My PMHNP Program

    I like dsm5 made easy and stahls
  4. lying about clinical hours

    Forget getting in trouble with school... In Texas academic dishonesty can get you in trouble with BON. I don't think a co-worker would approach me like this, but if they did I'd have to tell them in writing that what they are doing is academic dishon...
  5. How Much RN Experience Prior to Psych NP?

    1. Enough to be confident in your physical assessment skills, because psychiatric patients don't always give good histories. You also need a good, broad understanding of meds because ours are dangerous and don't play well with others. You need eno...
  6. UTA RN to BSN while working 40hrs /week?

    Online, discussion boards and email collaboration
  7. Getting around the 18 y.o requirement

    It might behoove her to get her CNA at 16, but I believe that is the minimum age for that program. She may find that nursing isn't exactly what she thought it would be, and she has plenty of time to look at other fields that are just as academicall...
  8. RN to PA

    Given the option, I'd have gotten both - PA and PMHNP - because I feel the PA training is much more rigorous, med school based, and would have given me more equal footing in some conversations specifically related to pathophysiology and pharmacology...
  9. Forensic nurse versus psychiatric nurse

    I am a PMHNP. I work in a forensic state hospital. The people I work with are not categorized as victims in the crimes that brought them here, but they have frequently been victims prior to becoming perpetrators.
  10. Advice needed

    A. Because I wanted to be a nurse practitioner; and I wake up every morning excited to come to work. I tried to get all of my kids to do it, my older 2 went to CNA school and decided nursing is *NOT* their passion. They are happy in their chosen fi...
  11. The University of Texas at Arlington

    I finished the RN-BSN in 2013, and my MSN-PMHNP in 2015. Both at UTA.
  12. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    This - totally. I think the OP's statement was borne, originally, out of a recognition of the difference between kinesthetic learners and auditory/visual learners - in school, on the tests, it's the ability to 'learn' by seeing/reading/hearing... in...
  13. Negotiating my salary is exhausting!

    Flip a coin, heads means RN, Tails means take the NP job for low pay. If what you get gives you a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, go the other way.
  14. LPN being scheduled to work as CNA....

    I'd probably be looking for another job - and once I had the offer in hand, submit my concerns to the DON - politely - in writing, along with my two week notice.
  15. Nurse Practitioner Restrictions

    In Texas, we do have to have a supervising physician in order to prescribe, but not to practice 'advanced nursing'... but there is no distinct supervisory quantity requirements. New NPs and MDs have to face to face monthly, the requirements decreas...