ohiosam2

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1. Acute Care vs FNP, advice needed please

   ohiosam2 replied to kimbalotz's topic in NP

   It is highly variable on your state and your individual hospital. In Ohio, you can indeed work in the ED as an FNP. However, at some hospitals (like mine) if you only have an FNP you will find yourself working in the urgent care area. Others might l...

2. Are you happier as an NP than you were as an RN?

   ohiosam2 replied to TheRuralNurse's topic in NP

   I certainly understand that fact that you feel stressed and burned out! Working as a nurse is to operate at full speed at all times. You are always short staffed and pressed for time. Am I happier now that I am an acute care NP in the Emergency Depa...

3. Fnp

   ohiosam2 replied to Hnmoving's topic in NP

   Run, run, run, run!! Why do nurses and NP's feel they have to put up with this? You are not receiving the respect that is due you. Don't tolerate it. I am lucky because I am in a position where the physicians who I work with respect me and often p...

4. I messed up today.

   ohiosam2 replied to Crorns's topic in General Nursing

   You are pretty much new to the floor! Give yourself a break. The floors can get rough. It is really tough to learn how to organize yourself and get a routine down so that you think of things like this. We are all human. I have news for you, we ar...

5. Nurse practitioner vs Medicine turf war?

   ohiosam2 replied to Infofreak411's topic in NP

   There is a turf war. No doubt about it. Look what happened in Ohio when NP's lobbied for independent practice last year. The AMA threw up their heads and howled. Here's the fact: I am not a doctor. I am an NP. Are there things that are beyond me...

6. TNCC?

   ohiosam2 replied to m0lasses's topic in Emergency

   TNCC is nice, but not necessary. I would not take it unless the place you are working for pays for the course. I would not spend my own money on it. I echo the other comment though, ATCN is totally worth it. Great course. I actually would pay out...

7. NP's answering to Nursing Management?

   ohiosam2 replied to ohiosam2's topic in NP

   Nursing managers do not practice medicine. Our manager now is a physician who offers us a resource and recommendations on how we practice and how best to practice Emergency Medicine. He reviews our charts and will offer constructive criticism and pra...

8. Training for ER; Didn't do so hot

   ohiosam2 replied to RNEulogy's topic in Emergency

   You are being far, FAR to hard on yourself. I was ED nurse for 20 years and now I am an NP in the ED. I have oriented more people that I can possibly remember. Now I orient NP's to the ED. I've done trauma, pediatric ED . . you name it. First of a...

9. NP's answering to Nursing Management?

   ohiosam2 posted a topic in NP

   I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this. I have been an NP in my area for a few years now and I am very familiar with practice at other hospitals. I currently work in an ER. There are both NP's and PA's in the ER. We work under physi...