mom and nurse

mom and nurse

Acute rehab/geriatrics/cardiac rehab

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mom and nurse specializes in Acute rehab/geriatrics/cardiac rehab.


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  1. Age vs Years Nursing

    I am 61. Been a nurse 16 years from age 45. Four years as a BSN RN. 12 years as an Adult Nurse Practitioner after getting my Masters degree.
  2. Brian Short News

    I have been posting and mostly reading in recent years since my undergraduate nursing school days. I graduated from nursing school in 2004 and with my Masters in 2007. Now I am a Nurse Practitioner. This site has had a wealth of information for me...
  3. The Five Patients You Meet In Heaven

    A very heartfelt "thank you" to you
  4. Calling all gerontological Nurse Practitioners....

    Actually, I don't work for the physicians nor the facility. I work for the parent organization of the facility which places NPs in the nursing homes.... makes life easier..the physicians do their work and I do mine.
  5. Calling all gerontological Nurse Practitioners....

    I am an adult NP working at a subacute rehab nursing facility with mostly geriatric patients. Always was interested in Geriatrics but the GNP would have allowed me to see only 55 and up. As an Adult NP I can see folks from the teen years on up. ...
  6. What will you do after floor nursing?

    Not sure if I count. I did floor nursing after getting a BSN then due to the stress, etc. went back to school part time to an adult nurse practitioner program where the first two or three classes were online. I continued working.....though I eventu...
  7. Most common disorders seen in practice

    Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia.....definitely.
  8. Am I too old?

    Back to college at age 42 with a non nursing degree that was 20 years old. Started nursing school at age 43. Earned my BSN by age 45, worked a year as an RN in a hospital, returned to school and continued working part time, graduated from school w...
  9. How many years have you been a nurse?

    Around 5 and 1/2: graduated in 2004 at the age of 45, then 3 and 1/2 years as a bedside nurse, almost 2 years as an NP. (acute rehab for most of the time.) Now community health and primary care NP
  10. I LOVE Community Health

    wow.. I just left hospital nursing after about 6 years. (3.5 as a staff RN working at the bedside and a year and a half as an Adult NP. I left my NP job after tiring of workin 10+ hours a day at a job which required a 3 hour round trip commute Mon...
  11. Homeless-- where do they go after discharge?

    Sometimes they are discharged to places like this one in DC http://www.christhouse.org/ other times they end up back on the street....or back in a shelter or group home.
  12. 46 too old to start nusring school?

    Had a previous degree in another field which I never worked in. Decided at age 42 to go back to school, even though I was married and a housewife with a house full of kids. I took the prerequisites I needed at a Community College one at a time mainly...
  13. CABG... highest number of grafts you've seen?

    I work inpatient cardiac rehab. CABG x 7 is the most I've seen.
  14. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    Wow - this thread is still going strong.. I posted a little over a year ago when I was in school to be an NP and have now been an NP for over a year. I worked as an RN one year before heading part time to school to be an ANP. By the time I graduated...
  15. Nope you are not crazy. I started nursing school at age 43, graduated with the BSN at age 45 and actually discovered that I'd passed the boards to be a Registered Nurse exactly 5 years ago today (July 4, 2004). After a year of working in a hospital...