tonet0908

tonet0908 has 9 years experience and specializes in Pain Management, FNP, Med/Surg, Tele.

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1. Brian Short News

   tonet0908 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   My condolences to their families and May they rest in peace.

2. I'm a sexless nurse

   tonet0908 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

   It's getting hot in here!

3. I'm a sexless nurse

   tonet0908 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

   This is all a bit funny to me and I apologize if I offend anyone by laughing. There is only one male nurse on the day shift on my unit and basically it's the culture on my unit that us nurses work as a team. We are all around the same age and so we a...

4. I give up.. Failed Aanp three times

   tonet0908 replied to Wakes's topic in NP Students

   I'm so sorry to hear this. Please don't beat up on yourself too much and definitely do not give up. You can't, you've come too far, made too many sacrifices and if other people have done it, why can't you? Why don't you try practicing questions in yo...

5. What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

   tonet0908 replied to fangirl's topic in Relations

   OMG! I am traumatized just reading this. Why wasn't there a security guard with her? Better yet, why wasn't she transferred to a Psych facility. A regular nurse is not trained to deal with demon possessed patients. After the Pepsi assault, I would ha...

6. What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

   tonet0908 replied to fangirl's topic in Relations

   Told me I reminded her of her house keeper after asking me what my ethnicity was. I was born on the island of Jamaica but grew up in NYC but because her housekeeper is Jamaican then automatically I must be a housekeeper as well. This happened a few m...

7. Do DNPs get compensated more

   tonet0908 replied to nurselyfe4115's topic in Doctoral

   Like my colleagues already mentioned, it depends on where you work unfortunately. Some employers will give you a pay raise for the DNP degree and others won't. I work in a single physician practice, it's just me, him and two PA's and he has made it c...

8. Black and Job Hunting

   tonet0908 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Job Hunt

   I agree, I live and work in NYC also and it's the other way around I think. My unit only has 1 Caucasian nurse and he is on the day shift, there are no Caucasians on the night shift. The rest of the nurses range from Filipinos , Caribbeans, Africans ...

9. When did it become OK to treat your nurse like poo?

   tonet0908 replied to paramed1's topic in Emergency

   I work on a Med/Surg/Tele unit so our patients are very colorful. Also, let me remind you it's a kosher Jewish facility as well. I had this patient the other day who was insisting on me getting him a grilled cheese sandwich (remember, kosher). I cal...

10. for those who work 12 hour shifts, how long is your lunch break?

    tonet0908 replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Nursing

    We get 1 hour unpaid for lunch and two 30 mins breaks but we normally don't take the last 30 mins. We only take 30 mins for breakfast in the morning and the hour lunch. You can always get paid for the hour lunch break if you were too busy to take it....

11. Areas of nursing you would NOT like?

    tonet0908 replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Nursing

    I am by no means interested in Psych, OB/GYN, any of the ICUs and definitely not Home Care because I hate going into people's homes. I'll deal with them in my turf.

12. When did it become OK to treat your nurse like poo?

    tonet0908 replied to paramed1's topic in Emergency

    I love that, I think our hospitals here in the US should adopt some of those traits from the UK when it comes to "waiting on" on some of these patients. Sometimes I feel like a glorified maid and I don't remember going to school to become a maid. S...

13. Nurse Practitioner School

    tonet0908 replied to sashyashyRN's topic in NP Students

    Well said BostonFNP, you verbalized perfectly everything I had a hard time stating in another forum. Thank you.

14. Given a do over, which (feasible) career would you pursue?

    tonet0908 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    Forensic Scientist

15. Recent DNP-FNP graduate, interviews approaching and pregnant. Advice?

    tonet0908 replied to FroggieNP's topic in Doctoral

    I guess that makes sense because the DNP program I'm in allows the Adult NP to take Peds courses in order to complete the FNP requirement and at the end, get their DNP Diploma.