It's true that making an appointment when you are suffering with mental illness can be a huge undertaking. I didn't ask the patient what the reason for being late was on that particular day.
Thank you to everyone for your responses. I appreciate the advice and will definitely take it with me into practice (especially the recommendations to separate emotionally -that's a hard one). I feel better about the choice I made. I am very thankfu...
Hi all, I am a new NP working in the primary care setting and have a patient who was recently transferred to me from another clinic. The patient has multiple comorbidities including but not limited to hypertension and psychiatric illness. The first t...
Penguins10, wow thank you for all of the advice and encouragement! It means so much to me! I will definitely look into the resources you mentioned. THANK YOU!
Sadly we have no protocol book and I get no feedback from anyone. I really wish I had either one of those things or both. The physician who practices with us is so busy that it's really hard to sit down with him. When I do get the chance I feel very ...
Thanks, evolvingrn! That is great that you have those quick lab resources. I work with an undeserved population and lose a lot of patients to follow up. Sometimes I'm even unable to get labs on them because they refuse or want me to try to get record...
Thank you so much for these suggestions. I appreciate it. I'm not going to say which program I attended but I will say that if I had the chance to do it again I would not go there. I feel they did not prepare us. Thank you for responding.
Hi everyone, I am a recently graduated NP. I started my first job about 3 months ago at a specialty and primary care outpatient clinic. There are only three providers at the clinic including myself, one of whom is not always at the clinic the days I ...
I like the variety of working both day and night shifts! We do self-scheduling at my job though and I can group my nights together so I'm not flip flopping back and forth between nights and days... More resources and things to see on days, but nights...
I only did one set of Kaplan questions which was a 180-question test on a CD that came with a review book I checked out from the library. I also did some Saunders questions but not that many (maybe 100 total). The resources I mainly used were ATI and...