drscepura BSN, DNP, RN

drscepura has 28 years experience as a BSN, DNP, RN and specializes in m/s, acute/chronic dialysis/apheresis.

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1. Dr. Pimple Popper Thinks Nurses Have No Place Educating Patients

   drscepura replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

   I kind of politely disagree. This seems like a deeper issue related to "hierarchy" and "pecking order" and almost a "patriarchal" sentiment. And, being a male nurse who did rotations in a variety of areas, any nurse can teach about sunburn. Does s...

2. Dr. Pimple Popper Thinks Nurses Have No Place Educating Patients

   drscepura replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

   I wonder if Dr. Pimplepopper realizes that one day she will be cared for a nurse when she needs it the most in her gravest hour? Duh. Show some respect, Dr.

3. new pediatric dialysis nurse seeking advice

   drscepura replied to Ashley_SF's topic in Urology

   I have been an adult and pediatric staff nurse, manager, and director interchangeably for 24 years. You will love taking care of the kiddos and their families. Because that is what it really is, a whole family experience. The turn around time for ...

4. Doctoral Research Dialysis RN Participants Needed

   drscepura posted a topic in Urology

   Hi Dialysis Nurse, I am a doctoral student doing my DNP at Edinboro University in PA. My project is on "retention and burnout". I have created an interesting learning module that discusses structural empowerment and 2 key theories to integrate i...

5. Anyone working for FMC annoyed by this?

   drscepura replied to CocoaGirl's topic in Urology

   In the good old days we had several choices of who to work for. Now the choices are very limited. I do not like how nephrology nursing has become entwined with for profit monopoly companies like FMC and DaVita. It's time for antitrust!

6. Have you gone to patient's funeral?

   drscepura replied to sunfirebsn's topic in Urology

   In the 14 years of being a dialysis RN I have only attended one funeral of a very special patient of mine several years back. I used to look forward to taking care of this wonderful patient, as she was such an inspiration to me, her demeanor, her f...

7. Negotiating travel contracts

   drscepura posted a topic in Travel

   I have been traveling over five years now and have used several agencies for my various contracts. I am sick to death of all recruiters and how they are parasites living off of the fruit of my hard labor! They sit behind the comfort of their desk...

8. Alaska

   drscepura replied to RNS2GO's topic in Travel

   mammabear, i'm a well experienced dialysis/apheresis nurse wanting to check out anchorage, or juneau for a travel assignment during june, july and august. do u know any agency that can help me go?

9. Recommendations....

   drscepura replied to kenesha212002's topic in Travel

   I have used Quik a few times. I like them for the most part, except the crappy housing in California. They gave me superb housing in Arizona. The difference is unbelievable. California is tough housing market, but Arizona very different. They...

10. Travel Nursing FULL TIME and yearly income

    drscepura replied to Nick&Leslie's topic in Travel

    Salary varies from contract to contract depending on what your specialty is. I believe that ICU nurses make the most money. I am a dialysis/apheresis nurse and I made excellent money in Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, and less in Phoenix, Bosto...

11. Advice needed for the following companies

    drscepura replied to positivethinker's topic in Travel

    I started with Cross Country and I had two good assignments with them, my recruiter was decent enough. But then there was always a problem of having desireable locations to go to and she couldn't come through for me, and she didn't start looking for ...

12. Hollister CA, Cottonwood AZ, John C Lincoln North Mountain Phoenix

    drscepura replied to htailog's topic in Travel

    i would choose john c lincoln. that is a nice hospital to work at. i lived in phoenix. is real close to north mountain which is great hiking. there is an amazing mexican restaurant across street from that hospital too that has 2.00 margaritas tha...

13. Traumatized by nursing - advice needed

    drscepura replied to kcsun3's topic in General Nursing

    No one promised you that being a nurse was going to be easy! The reality is young nurse that you have graduated during a time of great nursing shortage where resources for education, preceptorship are very scarce. My best advice would be to chang...

14. traveling-and being charge nurse

    drscepura replied to seanymph's topic in Travel

    when you are a confident competent RN the managers pick up on this right away wherever i go and inevitably i end up having to be in charge of the unit. this has happened so much that before i signed this last contract i decided i didn´t want to do c...

15. Any advice for working in NZ?

    drscepura replied to ionaht's topic in International

    Emmy, I see you are in Australia. I am curious about travel nursing to Australia and finding a good travel nurse agency to help me find either an acute or chronic hemodialysis position there . Can you help, I am not having an easy time finding a...