Oldmahubbard

Oldmahubbard

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  1. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you for the perspective you

  2. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My negative opinions about direct entry are based solely on my intuition, I must admit, not on any objective evidence. I know a few NP's who don't impress me, and they all had at least some RN...

  3. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I could definitely be wrong. I just know in psych, I needed all my RN (psychiatric- specific) experience. I should keep in mind that some direct entry people could be very much the cream of the crop...

  4. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am really surprised that such well known schools do not require any RN experience. With DE, I can't help but feel we are cheapening and dumbing down NP education, which was already cheap and dumb...

  5. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yes, 4 years of Psych RN experience, during which time I was in NP school, one class at a time, and asking myself every night when I got home : what is this diagnosis, and how should it be managed?...

  6. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There will be some DE grads that will swim, and some that will sink. It may have more to do with personal factors, ie nothing to do with experience. Some people are much more comfortable in new...

  7. NP boards- will I know of I pass right away??

    Oldmahubbard replied to FuturePMHNP's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I took the Psych boards a few years ago, had the results right then and there. They were ridiculously easy, I am ashamed to say. I wasted a weekend of my life studying that I will never get

  8. Don't bring your misery to work!

    Oldmahubbard replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    The word is "personality disordered". Unprofessional does not begin to describe

  9. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Unfortunately the thread has descended into the sarcastic, as many do. I worked with a woman whose nursing experience was mainly in public health. She got her Master's, became an NP, and worked in an...

  10. A private PMHNP practice

    Oldmahubbard replied to Oldmahubbard's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Part II. After the practice started making some money, usually seeing 3 patients an hour (there were exceptions), apparently someone complained that they "didn't get enough time". As a result, the MD...

  11. Too Many Nurse Practitioners?

    Oldmahubbard replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting thread. As a PMHNP, I can confirm that the AANP "board certification" exam for Psych NP's is an absolute joke. If that is all you know, you are a danger to the

  12. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is quite bad news. Only a few years from now, there will be a slew of DNP's who won't be able to get a job, and even if they do, the fact that there is such a glut will result in a low salary....

  13. HELP. I AM DROWNING

    Oldmahubbard replied to Gus0110's topic in Nursing Career

    it would be helpful to know more specifically what you feel you don't know, and what are the mistakes you are making? Nurses only have a brief introduction to mental illness in school. I would expect...

  14. Please help me - dread going to work

    Oldmahubbard replied to Newnurse8123's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A nurse practitioner is a different profession from an RN. The two jobs are very different, and have almost nothing in common, other than nursing philosophy, whatever that may be. So yes, I like being...

  15. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I can remember the awful sinking feeling I had when I graduated in 2004, being told there is s surplus of NP's in the area. Thankfully. I did get a job in a roundabout way. Are there really 27 states...

  16. Don't bring your misery to work!

    Oldmahubbard replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    If you come to work angry and hostile on the inside, and try to cover it up with artificially sweetened syrup, co-workers will sense it. They also will know when you are on your very, very last nerve....

  17. Which Area Has the Most Compassionate Nurses

    Oldmahubbard replied to RNite's topic in General Nursing

    Not a HIPAA violation, but I would only do it on my own time, on my own computer at

  18. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'll never forget, back in the 90's, 4 years after graduating from an Associate's RN program, going to an Urgent Care and seeing one of my former classmates there as a provider. I can clearly remember...

  19. New Grad NP - How I Got Multiple Job Offers

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    She could never get a straight answer on whether the sites were eligible. Perhaps eligibility comes and

  20. New Grad NP - How I Got Multiple Job Offers

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just beware, I had a friend chase different jobs around for years, ie "might qualify for loan repayment" and none of them ever actually

  21. Private Practice PMHNP Question

    Oldmahubbard replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If BCBS is now paying 240 dollars for 45 minutes, I will eat Donald Trump's shorts. Please don't take me up on it. A few years back, when I was in the private practice, BCBS was paying half that, at...

  22. You don't need RN experience to get an NP job

    Oldmahubbard replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    To be fair, I don't see how nursing experience would help an outpatient primary care provider that

  23. Any Psych Nurse Practitioner's out there?

    Oldmahubbard replied to HealingThoughts's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Old thread, but I thought I would chime in. In my area, Upstate NY, psych NP jobs are paying in the low 6 figures, which to me, is just barely making your MSN degree worthwhile, and a long way from...

  24. Post Master's Psych Certificate

    Oldmahubbard replied to Palliative Care, DNP's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Yes, this is a huge issue. Lack of preceptors. I did it some 15 years ago, and I was on my own to find someone. It was a repetitive nightmare, too. I had a preceptor who refused to give me credit for...

  25. Adding PMHNP degree

    Oldmahubbard replied to Heidi84's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes, though I never worked as an ANP. Although the experience was good, had I do do it again, I would not have done the ANP, because I was really interested in Psych. I was just afraid I wouldn't get...