CecileSF

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1. Too old for NP school?

   CecileSF replied to Guest1030824's topic in NP Students

   Definitely not too old. I've had people in my NP courses who had long careers and then went back to school. They have fufiling careers as NPs now and their experience helped them transition. However, ALL of them took a substantial pay cut because the...

2. Anyone graduated USC FNP program?

   CecileSF replied to LDnurse2012's topic in NP Students

   Given comparable pass rates. I would attend the less expensive option. The curriculum is the same in all schools because boards require that FNP students take a specific set of classes. USC does not offer any extra classes or resources that other nur...

3. Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

   CecileSF replied to guest416560's topic in NP

   The FNP field is extremely impacted and many new grads have difficulty finding jobs. However, I found that some students know this fact going into their programs and are not expecting wages to be much higher than an RN. At least in my state. Those wh...

4. University of Southern California USC FNP fall 2019

   CecileSF replied to Rawrr88's topic in School Programs

   Hi and congrats! I wanted to give some helpful tips to the people who are starting. Keep in touch frequently with your clinical placement coordinators and get updates. Although USC finds clinical placements for you, there are students held back a sem...

5. OB CRITICAL CARE

   CecileSF replied to Sabrinamoran's topic in Ob/Gyn

   In some high acuity cases nurses are taking care of pregnant women along with all their co morbidities, the antepartum(pre-delivery) patients come with all their med-surg issues with pregnancy on top of that. Heart conditions, long term illnesses, ps...

6. Hating Nursing Currently

   CecileSF replied to vanaly's topic in General Nursing

   Almost every nurse I've know has either cried or were on the verge of crying as a new nurse (and beyond). It is stressful and nothing in school prepares you for the realities of nursing. You are are on information overload and learning so much. One d...

7. No real time for bedside nursing...I have got to chart!

   CecileSF replied to Ms.muhammadRN's topic in General Nursing

   I've stayed overtime to chart before because treating the patient is more important, but I really keep it to a minimum to cover myself if I ever have to go to court. Some days it is so busy in my department that I don't chart anything except for meds...

8. Nursing sadness

   CecileSF replied to faith010's topic in Stress 101

   You deserve to be on vacation and have some time off. You will come back relaxed. I want you to realize that being off and taking your PTO will not affect the unit. Sometimes managers will try to guilt trip people into coming into work when we are sh...

9. Experienced Nurse Unconfident all Over Again

   CecileSF replied to Pinny90's topic in Stress 101

   I had a same issue when I a switched to a new job after a few years of working. I am still a fairly new nurse but not a new grad. I went from a busy high acuity hospital to one which is less busy and I thought it would be easy. I am introverted and a...

10. How long is your commute to school?

    CecileSF replied to TheCommuterx's topic in General Students

    It really depends if you are up to the commute. You can always change your mind and move. Socal has one of the worst drives, even if you are going against traffic. I've done 1.5hr commutes in traffic to clinicals, and that was my limit. But I have ma...

11. Staff speak their own langauge at Work

    CecileSF replied to timmac98's topic in Canada

    It really depends on the situation, nursing practice areas vs. break room. However, I do admit that I have many co workers who speak their own language in public hospital areas. Some people just don't care and do what they want despite management ask...

12. Why do We eat our young?

    CecileSF replied to nellie272003's topic in Relations

    It's easy to pick on the young people and take advantage of them. I was a new grad just a few years ago and I did not get bullied as badly as some of my friends and co workers when I started. From the stories my fellow nurses have experienced AND wat...

13. Night Shift Causing Relationship Problems

    CecileSF replied to Purple_roses's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard for people to understand. And also, its very common for nurses to just take a nap in the morning so they can do things during the day time. People just assume they can stay up on only 3 hours of sleep. Sometimes it's guilt too. Night shift ...

14. Discrimination for being a new mom?

    CecileSF replied to Karn88's topic in General Nursing

    Managers and favoritism is very common in nursing, thats just how it is. I suggest that you make it know to your manager AGAIN and any other direct higher ups that you want to do day shift. This is not discrimination from pregnancy. Because at your w...

15. What do you think will happen if we actually achieve truly safe staffing ratios?

    CecileSF replied to Purple_roses's topic in General Nursing

    Would be nice to get rid of 12 hr shifts where it is so busy where I don't get a lunch or break.