Izzy11

Izzy11 NP

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About Izzy11

Izzy11 has 5 years experience as a NP.


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  1. It's hard enough to find an on-campus program that gets your clinical placements. Forget about an online program helping. I think it's absurd that programs can do this but that's how they work.
  2. Unsolicited Advice From A Preceptor

    I went out of my way on some other things to help him out that I didn't get into on this post, so it really rubbed me the wrong way that he wanted to skip out on what would've been about an hour of clinical time. But I get what you're saying. Right....
  3. Finding a FNP clinical preceptor

    Does your program provide any assistance with finding preceptors? If not, then I don't know how they expect you to find any without cold calling. I would just go ahead and cold call. One suggestion I have is to ask your own providers if they know of ...
  4. I'm an FNP and I want to share some advice that I assumed was obvious, but apparently is not. I started precepting students this fall and I had four over the semester. Two were rock stars - one is just graduating and I recommended her for a job with ...
  5. The Hotel Phenomenon

    I have the opposite issue. I work in a SNF/LTC and we get way too many admits who would've still been in the hospital even five years ago.
  6. ACLS class prep

    This is my point. If I had known I had to learn this all on my own, I would've saved some money and taken it on-line. But since I have no experience with any of this stuff (I work in a nursing home/SNF, I've never seen a rhythm strip on the job), I w...
  7. ACLS class prep

    I'm taking ACLS next week and after going through the pretest, I don't know much of the material. I'm wondering what they actually teach in the class if you're supposed to learn it all on your own beforehand. I've been reading the book, but if I hav...
  8. Metropolitan State Denver ANO 2012 applicants

    Mike, The program had its ups and downs. The faculty was extremely supportive and really wanted us to succeed. They really prepared us well for the NCLEX - my class had a 100% pass rate on the first try. My primary gripe is they didn't give us an...
  9. Metropolitan State Denver ANO 2012 applicants

    I graduated from the program in May 2012 and I thought I'd share a couple of things that annoyed me with the requirements, although it might be a little late. When I started the program, the school health center had some extra immunization requireme...
  10. You work for company A and receive a job offer from company B. You accept the offer and give notice at company A. Company B then rescinds the offer the day before you are supposed to start. Company A won't rehire you for obvious reasons. How woul...
  11. I am a second-year nurse and I've been working in LTC but I want to find another job. I just started an FNP program with an expected graduation of 2015. Should I put this on my resume? Whould it look good to show that I am in school, or would it h...
  12. Did you learn IV in NS?!

    At my school, we learned in lab on the fake arm, which is just like a real one (yes, that's sarcasm). We were told we'd get to do them in clinicals. I only got to try two of them. Now I'm working in a SNF/LTC and we don't do IVs there, so I've nev...
  13. How to get in to a clinic

    Thanks for the reply. My question is how do you find the jobs? They don't seem to be advertised anywhere. And there are a zillion clinics and you don't know which ones hire RNs, so it's hard to do cold-calling like I did with nursing homes.
  14. How to get in to a clinic

    I've been working in LTC and skilled nursing since I graduated about a year ago. I would really like to work in a clinic, office, or outpatient setting. How do I get into one? I'm an RN and it seems all the jobs posted are forv LPNs. How do you ...
  15. Fort Hays State U. FNP program applicant

    Do you live in Kansas? Even though the program in online, you have to do the clinicals in Kansas.