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Not certain they'll only take ANCC, but all our NPs in my group are ANCC so it hasn't come up. It's possible other NPs at...

ANP/WHNP here. Couldn't find a WHNP job, working as an ANP with no OB/GYN at all. I miss it and want to get back into the...

It's not the science prereqs, it's the 4 years of med school + residency. Most of medicine is routine. I think it's a great...

And I saw a patient recently who refused to see a particular MD (one known nationally as a thought leader in his field)...

I'm thinking about doing camp nursing for a week or two over the summer. Camp is a 3 week session and a 5.5 week session,...

$70,000 in a small poor town is a lot more money than $85,000 in a major city.

You're going to spend ALL DAY doing physical exams on people in a wide variety of health states, plus reviewing med lists...

Exam was very straightfoward. As in, asked for primary tx of a disease given typtical presentation, not 3rd line tx in...

This is another program that may apply to some folks: Public Service Loan Forgiveness | Federal Student Aid. I know many in...

Not where I work... Providers currently seeing 25+ patients per day, many with extensive testing done by MAs or RNs (vitals,...

Anyone taken the new test for medical examiners? Advice?

With, like, 2-4 hours of studying the nurse specific stuff, yes. Absolutely yes.

I did rotations with a midwife in a Community Health Center (primarily OB, some GYN), an outpatient OB/GYN service at a...

Maybe a controversial belief, but I'm strongly opposed to routine pre-employment drug screening. I mean, I do it because I...

I learned to suture at work. No experience during school, so my new employer put me in a room with a surgeon and some pig...

Direct entry grad, licensed July-ish 2012, job offer October, started this past January. As far as I know, most of my...

Every year, a few of the previous year's graduates go back to school to talk to the almost grads about the transition to...

I think very much needed! In terms of financing, I think it's doable. I'm a brand new grad making $85,000/year. My...

Your school requires a full medical records release? That's... something. I would find out exactly what they need and go...

I doubt it's an oversite, as they list multiple acceptable credentialing bodies and the specific credentials accepted from...