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  1. NP Worries

    bryanleo9 replied to ADNRN2016's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Schools don't teach you how to diagnose. You have to put in hours a day self studying as well as having great preceptors. I don't recommend NP programs if you can't sacrifice hours a day to study....

  2. RN Correctional Facility Exam Rank

    bryanleo9 replied to nursesftw's topic in Correctional

    Lay off ...next to never. One prison lost some RN positions due to a new prison opening and PT's needing to transfer. All these RN's got jobs in other prisons. Most prisons are desperate for staff...

  3. LTC is making me hate nursing!!!

    bryanleo9 replied to Angeljho's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They will just sponser foreign nurses to come here in visas and to them it's the best thing ever. And even if it's not, they can't quit as they sign 2 year contracts and don't want to be deported. I...

  4. Can one work a Mon-Fri RN Job while in NP Grad School?

    bryanleo9 replied to Kyla RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thousands of people work full-time and get through np school every year. 8 am to 5pm Monday through Friday weekends off is the worse schedule for clinicals though. Other than Urgent Care, which some...

  5. How to study for AANP

    bryanleo9 replied to SoonToBeAPRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Liek's book is highly recommended here by people that have passed the

  6. LTC is making me hate nursing!!!

    bryanleo9 replied to Angeljho's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have witnessed it and while I was on orientation the LVN said "it was the only way to get all the work done." She combined multiple med passes at one time and wouldn't change dressings or do half of...

  7. In Desperate Need of a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner to Precept

    bryanleo9 replied to Reida's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    ^ great

  8. Scared RN ?

    bryanleo9 replied to JenMH88RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I found the bf's and husband's rejected male students more than the

  9. Nursing Home, chronic understaffing, and dealing with profit driven business owners?

    bryanleo9 replied to AnOldsterRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    And like you I would go back if LTC was changed

  10. Walden BSN-MSN AGPCNP Guidance

    bryanleo9 replied to Sara Ann's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Not many Walden students post here as the school is bashed constantly. If you are concerned about the reputation there are so many other programs out

  11. Nursing Home, chronic understaffing, and dealing with profit driven business owners?

    bryanleo9 replied to AnOldsterRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They are all driven by the "bottom line". Saving money at the workers and residents expense. Administrators and owners see numbers, they could care less about patient

  12. LTC is making me hate nursing!!!

    bryanleo9 replied to Angeljho's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The current system sure pushes nurses to take short cuts and not provide certain care/treatments. I could not lie like that so I got out of

  13. PMHNP/PSYCH NP

    bryanleo9 replied to Success2011's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I am referring to inpatient and forensics. Outpatient psych patients can easily become acutely ill d/t medication non-compliance which is a huge issue. No matter the setting, the people wanting to...

  14. PMHNP/PSYCH NP

    bryanleo9 replied to Success2011's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Highly suggest you get psych experience. Real experience. Flesh eaters, testicle removers, feces eaters, patients who cut their wrists and throat etc until they pass out or die. It just may not be...

  15. Sawyer Initiative

    bryanleo9 replied to Richard Michael Brett's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    ^ some of the schools had never even heard of the initiative. After I explained it and the background behind it I got "yeah, that's not going to happen"

  16. Sawyer Initiative

    bryanleo9 replied to Richard Michael Brett's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As I have posted before, I called six Universities about this initiative. Each one, whether brick and mortar or online, all told me that the initiative was not a mandate and that the students still...

  17. Scared RN ?

    bryanleo9 replied to JenMH88RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Way harder than RN school by a long shot. We are dealing with a whole new realm of liability and responsibilities. School only prepares you so much. There is massive amounts of self study that is...

  18. Jail house: Good News or Blues?

    bryanleo9 replied to Ghost of Dobby's topic in Correctional

    Exactly. A lot of things going on behind the bars. If an LVN who is in RN school wants to work in a hospital, yes corrections experience won't help. Most of us in corrections want nothing to do...

  19. United States University (USU) FNP

    bryanleo9 replied to Mrskeene3's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    In some parts of California FNP are making less than RN. I have posted this and ads repeatedly on this site. Most RN make over 125k a year and the few ads for FNP are 99 - 120k. Sacramento has one...

  20. Walden University-Class Overload?

    bryanleo9 replied to crystalyjones26's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I just finished the transition to grad studies class. I really enjoyed it. It kept you busy but it wasn't overwhelming. It was 3 units and the rest of the classes after it are 5 so expect to be...

  21. Best Experience for PMHNP

    bryanleo9 replied to WrekDiver88's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I respect that you want experience before starting down the PMHNP path. I have about 8 years of inpatient acute psych experience and we would get PMHNP students arriving for clinicals. It was as if...

  22. Ltc to clinic

    bryanleo9 replied to Nurse_lpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Many of us have left LTC and found success and job satisfaction in a new environment / nursing field. Expect to be floating with relief and happiness your first few months of being in this new spot....

  23. Best Experience for PMHNP

    bryanleo9 replied to WrekDiver88's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You really need a strong psych RN background to be working inpatient with suicidal and self injurious behavior. See if you can go per diem in

  24. Best Experience for PMHNP

    bryanleo9 replied to WrekDiver88's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Volunteer to go onto an inpatient acute psych unit to see what it's like. Outpatient can turn acute

  25. Should I try LTC?

    bryanleo9 replied to Yellownurse15's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I found a post of my LTC experience from 2006, under my old LVN account. Anyone considering LTC please read this thread. I changed to this account name after getting my RN