mkpatl APRN

mkpatl has 10 years experience as a APRN and specializes in Psychiatry.

Latest Activity

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   Changing Careers At 42

   mkpatl replied to Zakando Z's topic in Pre-Nursing

   @Zakando Z I changed careers at 35. I made less money than my previous career for the first several years, but I was so much happier. Serious quality of life improvement. Only thing I'd change is doing it sooner. I went straight to BSN, but the ASN f...
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   PMHNP Walden

   mkpatl replied to Alix's topic in NP Students

   I’m a little late to the game on this post, but wanted to comment. I will finish my PMHNP program at Walden in May '22. I’ve had an excellent experience and it is a very good program. As with any online program, you get out what you put in. Every cla...
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   Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

   mkpatl replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in COVID

   I came to nursing after 15 years of working a desk job in IT. Answering to The Man, only getting two days off a week to live my life. I made a lot more money, was able to work-from-home a couple days a week, but I lived to work, never had enough free...
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   cargo pants

   mkpatl replied to RN_17's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I have a closet full of old, no longer needed, scrub pants... After I found the Koi Lindsey I've only had eyes for them! They have a side pocket on both legs, the material is thicker than the normal thin scrub pant, they have back pockets that are fl...
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   Need some input please.

   mkpatl replied to Pjones71's topic in Chamberlain College

   I know how excited you must be, especially after wanting to be a nurse for a while now. But, just as an example to look at it differently, if somebody said they would give you $65,000 cash if you would graduate in DEC 2020 instead of JUL 2020, would ...
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   Chamberlain FNP January 2018

   mkpatl replied to babyiguama's topic in Chamberlain College

   @Marlene7 - I just finished the first course, NR-500. I was nervous at the beginning too, but the first class did a great job of easing us into working and thinking like a MSN student. It is a very low-stress class. So far, the content and structure ...
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   Laid back nursing job

   mkpatl replied to FutureNP357932's topic in Career Support

   You could give psych a try! It won't help with your doctor phobia, but you might enjoy the change of pace. I was working Med/Surg then got on with an agency doing local placements. I had them place me in a psych facility to try out something differen...
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   Brenau part time Nursing Program -starting 2011

   mkpatl replied to DZErika's topic in Georgia

   I did ok on the Kaplan, but I was really prepared. I had taken the Net to get into GPC and didn't do as well as I would have liked because I had not studied correctly and was expecting math much different than what was on the test. So, for the Kaplan...
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   Brenau part time Nursing Program -starting 2011

   mkpatl replied to DZErika's topic in Georgia

   Yeah I'm starting the part time program in Jan. too. I'm soooo excited! I had my orientation this past Saturday. Are you register already? Everybody that registered with me had the same classes.... Med. Terminology, Patho, Jr. Nursing Seminar and Hea...