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My first position as an ACNP was in an inner city emergency department. I started seeing patients the first day on the job as an extra "intern". I remained an "intern" for six weeks before moving up...

Great story... Except for using the term mid-level. While it's an accepted term in the medical community I remember reading a position statement from the ANA refusing to use the term... Personally it...

I choose an Ed.D in Nursing as my doctorate. I believe it's a personal decision based on what you want to do with it. While I like doing research and have been published, I really enjoy being in...

Being an APRN I've found that if I wear scrubs to work they ask when the doctor is coming to see them... If I wear a shirt and tie I have to explain that I'm not the doctor, I'm the APRN, to which...

How's clinical going for you?? Hoping it's everything you thought it would be!!!

"If you are an MSN prepared NP are you pursuing or considering pursuing a DNP? If yes, why?" With my current student loan burden and my position as an intensivist APRN locked down, there is no way...

Use your clinical rotations in your resume. Any procedures you may have been a part of, special patient populations, and/or any real life experience. Be persistant with HR, call, call, and call...

I never think anyone would want to hear my stories. You all humble me. You really do. Thanks for all the kind words!!!

Keep this in the front of your mind. Your patients need you. They don't care if you have short hair or long. If your tall or short. If you stutter or not. They care only that you are professional,...

Get out there, take another review class and pass those boards!!! Remember no one in an interview will ask you: So how many times did you take the boards!!! If you really want it, make it happen!!!

The beauty of being a nurse. Try one. If you don't like it you can always go back and get a post-doc or in some circumstances if it's in your scope of practice take a job in the other!!!

Just remember... your going to pass your boards soon and not have to worry about this ever again. That being said, if it's a wrongful termination you have action if you choose to persue it.

I took a job in a large teaching hospital as a new grad ACNP. Sure it was for less money, but the experience of rounding daily was invaluable. Have you looked into this? I don't know where you live,...

The profession is in trouble... I've been a nurse for 10 years now. I was trained in the old school way. Look good, act professional, and make a difference every day. I was also hired by my first...

Think our preceptor will find us up here???

I went right into the ICU as a new grad. I have never replicated the fear and paranoia I had those first few months when I thought everything I did was going to kill my patient. I worked as an ICU...

I sat for my CCRN 10 years ago and my CMC 8 years ago and still remember both exams like it was yesterday. I also did review courses but what really helped me was my clinical experiences... I...

Death is commonplace to me. As a former ICU nurse and now acute care nurse practitoner, I dare say I have seen hundreds of people die. I consider it a sacred act to be there at the time of a...

My first patient in the ICU died. I went into ICU right after I graduated and thought I was going to change the world. I won't go into the patient's story too much, but he was young and had a tragic...

Every summer I come back and re-read this article I wrote. I love teaching students, and yet, just tonight we were having a discussion on the unit I work as an APRN on and they were saying how evil I...

Anyone work as both an APRN and an assistant professor? I recently accepted as full time position, however, I am planning on keeping my current 3 days a week practice as well. It is possible hour...

As I said earlier, I wetread here for tube placement, line placement, ptx, etc. They are then read in the morning by the radiologist for final read. If I have a question, I have an attending on call...

If your in an APRN program before the cut off, which don't quote me but the last I heard was 2015 (and even that is doubtful) you will not have to go back for a DNP to practice. I have been an APRN...

Honestly I just got sick of fighting with residents and interns all the time. If I had to do it again, I would have become an intensivist.

When writing notes, I put APRN. On my lab coat it says MSN, APRN, and on my CV its MSN, APRN-BC.