newyorkgroove

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About newyorkgroove

I have 4 children. My oldest (14) wants to be a vet tech so we are planning her future...other than that, I stay pretty busy with work and school (NP).

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  1. That was like education back in our granparents' days. People would only have an "8th grade education" but if you look at what they were taught it looks like rocket science compared to what kids are expected to learn today. In a little hick town my g...
  2. Will they really be contacting me?

    I read and re-read the email. It said they will be contacting me. That was 5 days ago and I haven't heard anything, so I figure that's that. Just poor wording on their part.
  3. Will they really be contacting me?

    I applied to a hospital online and got an email that said they would contact me in a few days to let me know what the next step would be....does this mean they will really contact me or is this just a way of letting me know they are not interested?
  4. How to Handle Student Incivility

    There is another NP student in the clinic where I am doing my clinicals. He can regularly be found lounging in the doctor's chair on his computer, working on his Typhon logs. The doctor is too nice to tell him to beat it, but I know this is an inconv...
  5. University of South Alabama FNP Assessment course

    That's about all you can do at this point (what you're already doing). You will get more individual attention in the specialty courses. Just pay attention to the DVD they send you and learn what's on the list. You won't have to do everything on the D...
  6. Haven't even graduated and already burned out...

    I was thinking about having my own clinic and a sign to let people know: NO NARCOTICS PRESCRIBED HERE. That should eliminate a lot of trash and game-playing. Unfortunately, it's big business, but I want no part of it.
  7. Haven't even graduated and already burned out...

    because I'm feeling a little disgusted by what I'm seeing in primary care; scores of young people on mega doses of hydrocodone, valium, Xanax, Percocet, you name it, they're on it. It just seems so wrong. I'm hoping to find a place where I won't be e...
  8. Want to be a Med-Surg Nurse

    Feels older every day...
  9. Working and NP program?

    Now that I am in my last two semesters there is no way I can work anything except 8 hour shifts on the weekends, which is what I do. My family is large and we have no other income so you can imagine how poor we are right now. I worked up to a point d...
  10. Patient's addicted to narcotics

    There is a national database where health care providers can look up a patient's records to see all the narcotics a patient has had filled, regardless of what pharmacy was used.
  11. What do you think of Clinical Nurse Leaders (CNL)?

    We have a highly educated nurse at work who is good at certain tasks and has a lot of book knowledge, but she is bumbling and totally inept at floor nursing. She was taken off the floor and put on the treatment cart because she would do things like g...
  12. This must be from a foreign student. I would have to investigate this further. Probably suggest remedial English.
  13. Want to be a Med-Surg Nurse

    I used to be a LPN, then went to ADN, now I have a BSN and almost enough credits for a NP degree. I'm sitting here at my computer with my stethoscope around my neck. A couple of years ago I worked for a couple of months on the med surg floor of a rur...
  14. NP thinking about CRNA

    Actually not yet an NP, but I'm a senior in my program. It is a primary care program, and while I fully intend to graduate, I'm thinking I will be miserable seeing the same old patients with the same old complaints, same old drug-seekers who are nonc...
  15. Struggling NP student

    I am in my next to last semester of NP and I feel the same as you I've never liked clinicals, hated them, actually, but NP school is especially bad because of the number of hours you have to spend on them. I have also found myself trying to find reas...