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1. Loan Forgiveness Help

   LiLoRN replied to LiLoRN's topic in NP

   Those are all great ideas...but none will work for us. We already operate on the bare minimum, although I suppose everyone has *something* they can cut back on...but not enough. We are a family of 5 so there's no family that would take us in haha, an...

2. Loan Forgiveness Help

   LiLoRN posted a topic in NP

   Hello. I'm a new NP, been working in urgent care for a couple months now. I am drowning in student loan debt. I am really considering moving somewhere that I can get guaranteed loan forgiveness. I've heard that you have to start working in a place, t...

3. 2015 DNP Requirement for APNs

   LiLoRN replied to IcanHealYou's topic in NP Students

   I don't know if this point has been brought up as I just read the "last" page of this thread, but scwolf, my school no longer has just a MSN program so I am in the DNP program. They give us the option of obtaining the MSN along the way, which I am ge...

4. Home based RN business

   LiLoRN replied to DavinaRN's topic in Entrepreneurs

   Kevin Ross, can you please describe your business? Thanks!

5. Are Nurse Practitioners' in demand?

   LiLoRN replied to f_nurse2b16's topic in NP

   I live in FL and everyone I know who's graduated found a job easily. Look at indeed.com to get a feel for it.

6. American Academy of Family Physicians thoughts on NPs

   LiLoRN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in NP

   Oh dear! You do realize you posted this in a NP forum, right? And you're a NURSE who's thinking about becoming a (gasp) lowly NP? Yikes. I'm trying hard not to take offense to this post. Maybe some more education on the scope of practice of NP's is i...

7. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

   LiLoRN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Safety

   I live in Fl also and have had to work thru hurricanes. Believe me, it's AWFUL. I've been on both teams. It was pretty much one of the worst experiences of my life. Let's see...we had no water and no electricity (sure there was a generator but it did...

8. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

   LiLoRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in NP

   Sorry, have to play devil's advocate from someone who is 100% pro choice. It's not your place to judge her. Whether you like it or not, people have abortions every day for all sorts of reasons. And the reality of it is, you don't know for a fact that...

9. Loans just for living expenses

   LiLoRN replied to Doyelfamily75's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Chuckster, trust me, if those of us who have student loans *could* get by without them we WOULD. Unfortunately, lots of people don't have that kind of disposable income to pay for school. Hence, the $1 trillion debt as you described. But thanks for t...

10. Feeling insulted but not inferior

    LiLoRN replied to pedspnp's topic in NP

    I don't blame you for being angry. If you didn't need a referral it would have been a moot point, you could have just gone to UC. But unfortunately he has the CYA mentality. And yes, I agree that he didn't need to make that comment about your educat...

11. Second child while in school

    LiLoRN replied to OhioRN1234's topic in NP Students

    Hello! Yep, I had baby #2 my first semester of FNP school and will be having #3 at the end of my 2nd to last semester. I am fortunate in that I am not working (I go to school FT and have accumulated mucho student loans) so I don't know if I would hav...

12. Your opinion of the DNP

    LiLoRN replied to kayceeACNP's topic in Doctoral

    Hmmmm...free would definately make me think more about it. But if I'm getting a free education, I'd probably enroll in a post-master's program that actually could get me a different job/pay scale....That's an interesting question though and if I eve...

13. Your opinion of the DNP

    LiLoRN replied to kayceeACNP's topic in Doctoral

    1. In your area are the nursing schools transitioning the NP from an MSN to a required DNP? Yes; my school "got rid" of the MSN a couple years ago, requiring everybody to enter as a DNP candidate. However, you receive your MSN along the way and many ...

14. Switching careers and interested in psychiatric NP

    LiLoRN replied to Mkim680's topic in NP Students

    Under normal circumstances I would say work as a RN first, but since you already know what you want to do and have worked in the field, I would look into direct entry programs and once you get your RN license try to work a couple days a week while yo...

15. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    LiLoRN replied to Bortaz's topic in Professionalism

    Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their fb 'professional'? Does anyone? What people post on their fb pages is THEIR business. Whether or not they keep them public or private is again, their business. I'm so tired of people complaining about wha...