newtinmpls BSN, RN

DNP is meant to prepare a person to be a primary care provider from a nursing orientation. MD is meant to prepare a person to be a primary care provider from a medical orientation. If you aren't conversant with the difference between those two orient...

The DNP is "doctor of nursing practice" it's meant as a practice degree. The Ph.D. is a research degree, seems like it would be more logically connected to teaching. On the other hand, 1/2 way through my own course in getting my DNP, I've gotten hit...

I do know that I"m eternally grateful that I didn't work full time at first (frankly, or ever). I would have gone mad.

I hope the search is going better now.

Leave nursing? I wouldn't go that far, but leave this facility? Absolutely. Dian

I agree, "assessment" isn't in the LPN scope of practice in MN (where I live) either. I think you could use 'evaluation' (I can't recall for sure what the preferred term is). As for the GPA, since most schools use a 4.0 range, you only need your actu...

I am a new RN with no experience who got into a RN-BSN program. so if I continue streightforward, I will be NP in three years, but will only have 3 years of RN experience since i will work as an RN during my BSN and MSN studies. I think I will feel v...

My answer is "it all depends". I've seen patients come in psychotic, struggling, violent & dangerous and then a month later are chuckling over the "weird things I used to think." I've also seen patients who don't respond successfully to anything....

I'm a year into my BSN-DNP and I just turned 50. Too old is an excuse, not a reason. Dian

Hi, Just got an e-mail this week from my college (I'm in a BSN-DNP program, paying for it with student loans) and now grad school doesn't qualify for subsidized loans - I'll still get the same total amount, but they will all be unsubsidized (interest...

I've been thinking about this and while I do work in psych (inpatient & acute/emergent), and I have seen patients in a combination of restraint/seclusion/PADS (the latter is a kind of restraint a pt can walk around in, but they don't have enough ...

I work in psych, and since you can expect patients to go balistic if you use a word they don't like such as "psychotic" or a diagnosis they disagree with, or god knows how many other things. So in psych we managed to make it mostly written with a 'l...

I can see the advantage to having the whole CV (and I'm not even going to try to spell it) available, including CEUs and articles written and so on. However if you can't summarize to one page - that says something about your writing skills - I know f...

When I hear from HR, they say "one page". Although I've heard many other sources (such as advisors, etc.) say that more than one page is okay - since they are not HR, they are not going to be hiring me (or tossing my two pages into the trash). One p...

If you really want a job, apply for everything nursing. I wasted a year applying "only at the places I really wanted to work" but it was the year of working at the "last choice" places that got me the experience, that got me the better job. Dian

I am taking full time grad school classes (ranges from 9-12 credits), and couldn't possibly afford my house payments if I didn't work. As it is, I take all the loans I can get, the (minor) tuition reimbursment from my work, and though I'm hired at .6...

I looked for psych programs and found very few. I live in MN, so the easiest ones to get to were U of M, and The College of St. Scholastica. The College of St. Scholastica had fewer hopes & didn't require a GRE, so I applied, they accepted me and...

I faced that same question; I had just finished my BSN by scholarship, no student loan dept, happy graduation, feeling on top of the world and could do anything. So I considered - should I just go for the MD or Psychiatrist? I came to the conclusion...

Maybe we aren't thinking of the same thing. With us, 5-point is limbs and a waist restraint. Diane

When I was hired, the managment accepted previous work as a PCA to a brain-damaged young lady and as an RN on a dementia unit as related enough to psych. I asked what the hardest thing about psych was, and they said that it was hard for some to deal ...

I love psych, which is why I ended up in a psych-based BSN-DNP program. That being said, I never want to work full time at it; and my preference is to work sometimes in inpatient and sometimes in Acute (the ED version of psych). The most theraputic t...

Our version of a B52 is given either orally or IM and consists of Benadryl 50, Haldol 5 and Ativan 2 (if IM, you have to give the benadryl in a separate syringe). Give it at least 10 min. In the ED they tend to be a little quick on the draw with dro...

Hello, Yes, I work in psych, and yes we still have patients with other problems (diabetic is the usual), but my blood drawing skills are crap, and I know I'm not as up on some of the physical stuff as a med surg nurse would be. I do see "the look" an...

I'd be honest. Yes, I was looking for another job, feel like I need a change. Heck I'm the kind of person who volunteers to float to other units because doing the exact same job all the time is too annoying (and it's too easy to get sucked into the p...

Epidemiology? I start that in Jan '12, tell me more. It looks scary but interesting. Reminds me of the public health class I took in my BSN. Dian