Nurseboy1

Nurseboy1 has 12 years experience and specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

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1. NPs working Nights

   Nurseboy1 replied to mdevine22's topic in NP

   I work 12 hour nights, and I don't rotate. I don't sleep on my shifts, I sleep during the day.

2. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in NP Students

   You may think I'm bitter but I assure you that is not the case. The benefit of taking the longer path is getting broad experience and exposure to many different things. I'm well aware of Vanderbuilt's program, it was a program I considered applying t...

3. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in NP Students

   I'm curious how you meet all the requirements to take the NCLEX after just a year. If you haven't graduated from an accredited program or completed the necessary clinical hours. Much less had the time to rotate through the different areas to get expo...

4. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in NP Students

   As a practicing ACNP, I can tell you finding a NP position without any nursing experience will be difficult. You may want to consider a program that will allow you to become a nurse first and get some experience prior to starting the NP portion of th...

5. AGACNP Certification

   Nurseboy1 replied to Dr.KP's topic in NP

   I took the exam a year ago. If you took the review and studied your plan you should do well. Best of luck

6. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

   Nurseboy1 replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Relations

   Bipap for pneumonia? Sounds like the patient needed to be intubated

7. Pros and Cons to becoming a Nurse Practioner (NP)

   Nurseboy1 replied to savedbygrace1228's topic in NP Students

   I thoroughly like being a NP and would not change my career pathway. I have a good scope of practice and wide prescriptive authority. The hospital I work for compensates very well, and covers the costs of my malpractice insurance. They also provide ...

8. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

   Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in NP Students

   I primarily have responsibility for all the patients on our census. The nurses call me first with issues or needs for order clarifications. If I'm tied up with one patient and another patient needs help then the attending steps in. If I need help my ...

9. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

   Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in NP Students

   I'm an ACNP in the ICU at my hospital. I work primarily at night. Our practice model is that it is me and my attending for the whole unit. Generally I do most everything for the patients. If an admission comes I see them and take a history, I do the ...

10. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in SRNA

    ACNPs in my area have a pretty decent job outlook. However most hospitals around here are not going to hire a FNP into the ICU, so if ICU is what you want then you need to do an ACNP program. My salary is significantly higher than it was as a bedside...

11. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in SRNA

    Lol its north of 100K

12. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in SRNA

    I work in an teaching hospital, however the ICU that I work in is exclusively run by intensivists and NP/PAs we don't have residents in our unit.

13. Anticoagulant Preventing CVC Insert?

    Nurseboy1 replied to betterinthesun's topic in MICU

    Working with cardiac patients, I routinely place central lines on patients that have received loading doses of plavix, aspirin, brilenta, or are on infusions of heparin, integrilin or aggrastat. I even place them on patients who have received thrombo...

14. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in SRNA

    I am an ACNP in the ICU, I'm very hands on with the patients. I can intubate, place central lines, swans, A-lines, do bronchoscopy, chest tubes, LPs. And my salary is nothing to sneeze at. Just pointing out that there are places where NPs can have a ...

15. COB rollcall

    Nurseboy1 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Then only 9 more years to go before I can join the COB society ADN-2004 BSN- 2006 MSN- 2014 Aspiring member of the COB society