bryanleo9

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. Your future patients deserve that and many doctors...

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 nobody is going anywhere.

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 have talked extensively with a foreign nurse who ...

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 programs don't let you use, clinics are closed on...

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

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 the treatments. Only the alert residents got the...

^ great advice.

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

And like you I would go back if LTC was changed dramatically.

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 there.

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 care.

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 LTC.

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 complete at psychiatric NP certificate need real ps...

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 for you. I have seen so many psych NP students pr...

^ 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" answers.

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 need to find their own preceptors aka (beg your way ...

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 vital to being a component provider. If you don't ...

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 with hospital nursing. We are here for the pay and w...

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 of the worst np markets.

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 busier. I am taking one class at a time as I am in n...

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 they had seen a ghost. Upon witnessing the feces ...

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. Good luck!

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 psych.

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

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 license.