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1. Acute Care NPs - To do a residency or not?

   socal1 replied to SopranoKris's topic in NP

   thats one thing people seem to miss, being a 10 year ICU RN will help you know certain acute care skills, but if you have someone with SOB, you have to find out why, its not just crank up the O2 and Peep. you have to know what your are looking for, a...

2. Acute Care NPs - To do a residency or not?

   socal1 replied to SopranoKris's topic in NP

   hospitalist? as a new grad?!

3. For-Profit NP admissions... I thought they were joking!

   socal1 replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced

   The role of the NP is losing its status because these schools are accepting everyone and not looking at their background, no entrance exam or anything. Just because you were a good bedside nurse will not make a good NP, you have to be knowledgeable n...

4. Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare

   socal1 replied to mahaandai's topic in Advanced

   Unfortunately, many of these things are true and with the amount of incompetent NP's running around you will see decreased reimbursements and worse things occur to NP's because of so many mistakes made by them.

5. Feeling Lost As An NP

   socal1 replied to plantmom4lyfe's topic in Advanced

   I would like to refer AlwaydTiredNP to reddit.com/r/noctor how can you be a NP and diagnose, treat, but only piggyback off of MDs...didn't they say in school NP care is to the standard of MD....you just embarass yourself when all you talk about is pa...

6. Feeling Lost As An NP

   socal1 replied to plantmom4lyfe's topic in Advanced

   blame the schools that churn out nurses and lead them to believe they are somehow smarter and can diagnose and treat complicated cases...there needs to be more of a stringent process on accepting students and these diploma mills need to be closed.

7. Ifants and Checking Tympanic Membrane

   socal1 replied to Exhasxar's topic in NP

   and we claim that NP are on par with MD LOL

8. Acute Care NPs - To do a residency or not?

   socal1 replied to SopranoKris's topic in NP

   NP schools don't prepare you for anything, they are mostly a joke especially with the diploma mills, and yes definitely would recommend a residency just to be more competent in relation to peers and patients.

9. OMG, I cannot believe what I did. What I should do now!

   socal1 replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

   everyone is quick to point out that OP did something wrong, yet when OP posted the steps of PICC removal no one replies if its correct or not. LOL get a grip, its pretty much an IV removal and nothing happens. Just make sure they aren't bleeding and ...

10. Patient’s family threatening to report me to BNE

    socal1 replied to GilligansPlace's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you understood what i meant, i was implying that nurses as a whole for some reason worry about doing something wrong and having something occur to their license much more often, and they are usually reported by their own peers for petty...

11. Recently terminated- being reported to state BON

    socal1 replied to nurseinthecity11's topic in General Nursing

    not charting something properly? thats ridiculous, half of the charting of nurses that i know of are either blank from night shift, either they were out to get you or the nurses you work with (managers) are a real crappy people.

12. Patient’s family threatening to report me to BNE

    socal1 replied to GilligansPlace's topic in General Nursing

    Not misogyny when you see it posted on here all the time, and how nurses feel so worried about license issues, you wouldn't see things like this in any other medical profession about license issues.

13. Patient’s family threatening to report me to BNE

    socal1 replied to GilligansPlace's topic in General Nursing

    I noticed that in the US most female professions have these issues where it seems you are so worried about your license than actually the patient. You dont see this in medicine as much or with respiratory therapists. And often times its the nurses th...

14. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    socal1 replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced

    I had a question about the full scope of practice changes that are slowly occuring in certain areas. If this is enforced and NP's have full scope of practice, are they still able to work under MD's or will they just work in their own clinics and unde...

15. Grand canyon university online acute care nurse practitioner program

    socal1 replied to mschelee's topic in NP Students

    Also looking into this program, whats the curriculum like, lots of papers? it seems a lot longer than the other universities.