Rebelution

See if you have an Area Health Education Center (AHEC) regional office somewhere around you. I called a minimum of one provider/office every day for four months, and finally when I just happened to call an AHEC office (because I was calling anybody and everybody), they have been incredibly helpful, and landed my pediatric preceptor easily. https://www.nationalahec.org/

I've seen this happen, where the lab did not call a positive troponin, but yet called a "panic chlamydia" result. I've also seen our lab delay results, even if you and the physician call asking for them, and then call a critical at say, 1600, then back time it in the chart up to two hours earlier so that it looks like it resulted at 1400. That being said, I don't think I've worked anywhere where the lab didn't seem to be...difficult and even shady at times, to say the least. Pharmacies are always frustrating too, but to a lesser degree, but I digress.

One of my friends recently graduated NP school and took a dermatology job. She said that her pay exceeds six figures, that her paychecks "doubled" from when she was a BSN RN (which is very recent) and also stated that "you can definitely get that" in regards to earning in excess of $100,000 annually if you are willing to wait for the right opportunity and negotiate. This is in the mid-Atlantic, actually in a state that generally ranks in the bottom of economy, income, education, etc every time that type of list comes out. I didn't ask her for exact numbers, but if her checks doubled, and she made in the neighborhood of $30-34/hour, which is the going rate with someone her experience in the facility where she was a staff nurse, then it's reasonable to speculate that she is somewhere in the $65/hr neighborhood, give or take. In a year, that would put her in the $130k range.

If you still have time left to do it, go to HR and change your tax witholdings to claim 99 for your last check so that it doesn't get taxed. Where I live, you can actually do this about 5-6 times per year without having to owe, check with your CPA, but once certainly won't hurt you.

But I bet that Arctic Sun company made a lot of cash while the gettin' was good!

Agreed. Hopefully they go after him (legally speaking) regardless of his "retirement" status.

In my experience, the personalities and characteristics that tend to go with successful, seasoned ER nurses and doctors aren't generally very different in various regions. Regardless of area, there are still situations and personalities that occur in which ER nurses develop management and coping skills to deal with, and yeah there are different personalities and different ways in which they respond to/interact with patients, but knowing them personally and myself, there is also an underlying hardening of the psyche that develops after some time. Perhaps this is some of the perceived "not nice" when in fact it has nothing to do with nice or not nice, but rather high volumes of craziness day in and day out.

You can't hold them, and without a blood test there is no proof of intoxication vs. somebody on the street bumped into them and spilled their Miller onto the patient. Besides, the contradiction that I've always wondered about this line of thinking is this-the person chooses to drink and get drunk, and under any legal circumstances in which they make a poor choice under the influence of alcohol, they are still legally responsible. Why would their poor choice suddenly become our responsibility just because they happened to waltz into our 4 walls?

Yeah, who cares if it fits your lifestyle and you like it? I'd go for it and not worry about it.

TNCC will help a lot, also if you could sit in on an Advanced Trauma Life Support Class (ATLS), that will be helpful. Ask if you can keep your TNCC book and then self study it even after you've passed the course. It'll take time, you can't come in new and expect yourself to operate in the same capacity of someone with 15 years under them. Where I work, we do way more in trauma than charting and blood transfusions.

Part of the problem too is that people aren't happy being BSN nurses, so they're going the NP route in hopes that it will be better and that they can salvage their career. Some people legit want to be NP's, and that's fine, but many are simply unhappy as RN's and see NP as an oasis, still within the nursing realm. Yet most of the one's I've seen graduate are no happier as NP's than they were as BSN nurses. The entire profession wholly has a problem with burnout and unhappiness, particularly in the hospital setting. I think that if this were not first the issue, we wouldn't see so many flocking to NP programs.

At least a year, and then some. I don't mean that in a negative way.

Some of the funnier ones are "pain 10/10, eating chips" etc. Not triage related, but one time a patient had left without telling anyone and the nurse wrote "patient not in room, Mediao magazine on bed," as that was apparently what the patient left behind.

I'd take IR over just about anything that you can do in a hospital. I've worked IR and it's one of the best gigs I ever had, only left it due to relocation. The only thing that can suck is call, but that all depends on how your IR team does it, and how large the department is. It's interesting stuff, a lot to learn, but generally not stressful.

Has anyone here used their BSN to get a non-nursing specific masters degree, like an MBA, etc? I'm looking into getting a masters, but NP or CRNA aren't for me. I don't want to do education or hospital administration either. Masters of interest are Industrial Hygiene and Public Health, both of which I've read are good for people with a healthcare background. Has anyone had success with non-nursing masters, or found well paying, good work/life balance nonclinical careers with the BSN?