KatieRN04

I am wondering if anyone works at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio? I am thinking about interviewing there in the critical care units. I wondered what the working conditions are like, what the ratios are like on the floors (in cse I do not geti into ...

Where do you get the pepid program?

Med-surg will give you a good foundation, but there are people in my program that have nver even worked with adults, just peds. And the FNP focuses on adults and peds and geriatrics, so I think you just need to get at least 2-3 years experience first...

In Youngstown, the Humility of Mary (St. Elizabeth's: youngstown and boardman) and Forum Health are the hospitals. Forum is unionized and St. E's is not unionized. I went to nursing school which utilized Forum Health for clinicals and I work at St. E...

From personal experience, the UOP is a good school, and has a 98-100% pass rate on the 1st try for the certification test. The instructors are very knowledgable. I would recommend them. Of course though, you always have to remember with anything, in ...

There are NP's in AZ with their own practice since the scope of practice doesnt require a MD be present in the same facility. There are a few other states like this also. There are even some NP's who run their own speciality clinics such as cardiolog...

what hospital offers 28 as a new grad?

I have wondered the same thing. I will have a MSN with a FNP. However, if the DNP does truly take off and people buy into it, then I wonder if other stake holders like Medicare will require the DNP for billing. I imagine that there will be grandfathe...

Hello. I am in a MSN-FNP program. We have been drilled over and over on the core competencies of APN's: direct clinical practice, expert coaching and guidance, consultation, research, clinical and professional leadership, collaboration and ethical de...

thanks for the responses

I started an FNP program a year ago. I have all the basic MSN classes down (theory, research, politics, those sort of things) and have down the NP classes (patho, pharm, health assessment). Did this working full time, and it was hard but do-able. I j...

Core0: I do not hope to come across the wrong way, and this is in no way meant to be an attack or insult, or any judgement in any way. I was wondering though how you always have such insightful and in depth answers on the practice of nurse practition...

Hello, Does anyone work or worked in the Ped's ICU or Ped's CVICU at St. Joes? How is the management. How do the nurses treat each other? Are there many epxerienced nurses working there to help teach and learn, or is it mainly new grads on the ...

UOP is geared for the working adult, so it is awesome for me. However, you will come across people that say it is expensive, but it is grad school, and from my research, grad school costs more than undergrad school at any place you look at. Same with...

It is an interesting exhibit for anyone, although the basic organs and stuff didnt thrill me b/c I have already seen that stuff many times. The information is real basic on how each system works, which as a healthcare provider, you already know, so i...

When you say some schools are more prestigious than others, what schools would that be?

If you work in surgery or PATS/PACU or an ER, there is alot of flexibility in shift hours compared to if you work a traditional floor. Also, this 12 hour shift thing is mainly an AZ and/or SW USA idea. Many parts of the USA offer 4, 8, 12, and 16 hou...

Not necessarily true. Nurses with years of experience come in and are treated lousy along with the new grads, so I dont think anything about new grad vs. experience has any grounds for how you are treated.

If I were you, I would check with the scope of practice in your state. If you do something you are not allowed, and get called to court, and you said, oh, so and so, said I could, I imagine that judge would laugh for following advice from online and ...

How I see it is, yes, nurse practitioners follow a nursing model by practicing as RN's first and governed by the board of nursing, however, that being said, the board of medicine does put up fights to the board of nursing on NP's, hence one of the re...

LJUN: Whoops, did not realize that was you on that forum also. Sorry. Silly me, hope your vacation out here is good. Keep us posted.

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Generlized life adive that could be applied to this situation: Never settle for second best

Granted, I am not on an admission board, but I think the essay if just to see who you are, your goals and reasons for wanting to be a FNP. I did jsut that. I wrote a little history of my nursing career (where I had been and experience), why I wanted ...

sounds like daisy's advice covered all bases. best of luck on retesting. there will be many people thinking of you and hoping for the best. as a future test taker to become an np, i have what many be a silly question. what is the difference between t...