KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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About KatieMI

KatieMI has 11 years experience as a BSN, MSN, RN and specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.


I have been through the Hell and came back out singing.

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  1. The Board exam for ACNPs is not "FNP". It is quite different exam, ACAGNP. Content of both exams has not much in common (I passed both). One doesn't have to "obtain experience" before entering either MSN or DNP pathway. There are plenty of prog...
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    Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

    It is most probably about $$$$, not about knowledge or absence of it. Consultant gets paid for his job, in exchange "their" patients are admitted under hospitalist primary so that the said hospitalist gets his check as well. Hospitalist service...
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    Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

    I have hospitalist job 3/12, but it is a rare pick where I am. I agreed for this specifically to allow myself to go back to school (FNP, doing AGACNP for coming interstate moving' sake). The previous job was 4/10 irregular schedule and it was a...
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    Autonomy

    Small (25 beds) critical access hospital. 100% autonomy, on my days on I am the only one provider on floor. Support, if I need it, from ER doc and from "main" hospital over the phone. Enjoying it immensely.
  5. There is one in Philadelphia at La Salle University and International Nursing museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'd heard there is a private one in Glendale, Arizona as well. Here is some more: https://www.aahn.org/travel-to-nursing-history-si...
  6. In my time, I loaded them on a cart, brought in the corridor near hospital library and quietly left there with a sticky note "free books for everyone, BSN/MSN from X university just done". Did not bother to tell anyone. No idea what anyone was thinki...
  7. Not from the USA, but good analysis: https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/analysis-of-pressure-relieving-mechanisms-for-the-prevention-of-decubitus-ulcers.html Apparently, the waterbeds are mass marketed with the goal of pressure wounds treatment...
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    new job, can I be denied job for benzo PRN

    A nurse (or APP, or physician, for this matter) can take whatever drugs necessary to support her/his health, including opioids, benzos, psychotropics and so forth, as long as there is a current provider prescription and the drug doesn't limit the ful...
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    About FNP ?

    You can work in Internal Medicine (including Gastro, Cardio, Onco, Nephro and everything else) clinic with FNP without any problems or additional certifications anywhere in the country. You can also do specialty rounds in hospitals (if your job descr...
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    New grad FNP - Health Risk Assessments?

    One job which is quite similar but better in so many senses is doing "face-to-face" for hospices. It is also about visiting homes whuch can be, er... different, but at least you perform real physical and use VERY real clinical knowledge. And most peo...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    Worse yet, I am usually the only one provider who takes time to sit and explain those basics. I do not know how schools nowadays let out nurses who literally do not know ABCDs of pathology and pharma and how these nurses successfully pass NCLEX in d...
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    First APN Job: Not Getting Paid For Hospital New Hire Orientation

    Policies vary but computer self-taught modules are hardly ever (if ever at all) are paid exactly for the reason you noted: there are some people who can do it quickly and there are some who can't. And there is no ways to control or check if one reall...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    One thing for you to remember iron-hard: - there is no such thing as "good" and "bad" physiologic process. Blood pressure, coagulation, cholesterol, etc., CANNOT be "good" or "bad", just like rain or the Sun. They are here, and we are managing them w...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    Continuing: Without much ado about biochemistry (most interesting part for me, but it is another giant talk): Both clotting pathways work similarly. Each is a row of chemical reactions when one component (they are all proteins which present in plasma...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    OK. Get me coffee (black, lots of sugar) and one for yourself, too, make yourself comfortable. There will be a long talk (and likely several posts). To do its job - to deliver oxygen, antibodies, cells, nutrition and all that, and to flow out various...