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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    BostonFNP replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I absolutely agree this is a problem. Quality over quantity. Programs churning out subpar novice NPs hurts us all in many ways and hurts
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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    BostonFNP replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have no idea what outcome studies will look like then, we can all venture opinions, but it remains just anecdotal. As I have said several times, that we need to root out subpar programs. As far as...
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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    BostonFNP replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Have you compared them in terms of outcomes? What does the extant data
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    Job Market- in Mass

    BostonFNP replied to TREndzetta's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    The cutoff seems to be about 25-30 miles from the city; if you get outside of that radius then it should open up a
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    Job Market- in Mass

    BostonFNP replied to TREndzetta's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Depends on where you want to work. If you want to work in one of the big tertiary care centers in Boston the market for new grads is extremely difficult and will require for most a BSN+, experience,...
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    Online FPN programs that help or provide Clinical Placements

    BostonFNP replied to Kk23's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Nursing@Simmons and Nursing@Georgetown both help with preceptors last I
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    FNP pharm case study

    BostonFNP replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As other have said there is really not enough clinical information to make many different answers right/wrong. I think you did a good job of assessing the situation and developing a reasonable
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    FNP Student, need opinion on experience

    BostonFNP replied to Cnrsego's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I think you are as good if not better off in telemetry than you would be in the
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    What do NP's wear

    BostonFNP replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I thought we all just bought our uniforms at Target for $30. On a related note, I have a hard time finding the XXL size I need as they don't make a dedicated men's
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    What do NP's wear

    BostonFNP replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I tried putting "1-2yrs backup dancer experience" in my last job posting but no qualified
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    FNP pay

    BostonFNP replied to Littlenurse08's topic in Advanced Practice

    This is what nursing does
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    FNP pay

    BostonFNP replied to Littlenurse08's topic in Advanced Practice

    That's an awful low wage for a lot of responsibility. To put things in perspective, the retail clinic here pay $58/hr plus productivity. The avg NP salary according to the Advance survery in the...
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    What do NP's wear

    BostonFNP replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sounds like a fun place to work count me in! Business dress in the fall/winter/spring, business-casual in the summer. If you are thinking of becoming an NP, try to find some to
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    Husband became a RN

    BostonFNP replied to NurseLady1210's topic in General Nursing

    I think this really sums up a lot of the issue. When he was working and she wasn't, he felt she wasn't pulling her weight. When she was working and he wasn't, she felt like he wasn't pulling his...
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    Nurses smoking weed?

    BostonFNP replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    This is a highly potent psychoactive drug with high lipid solubility; fat sequestration results in both a very long half-life, and in chronic users, produces a relatively high steady state of the drug...
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    Nurses smoking weed?

    BostonFNP replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever looked up the pharmacokinetics of
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    Wait the same nurse has had this before? With a missing unused
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    Taking the Nclex for the 5th time 2016

    BostonFNP replied to hpalmer23's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    At your 5th attempt your chance of passing is very low. Have you spoken to your program about resources they may have to help
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    This is a huge problem! You'd think the director would be irate about it! Unless the director is
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    I would buy that if this was simply an old patch that wasn't signed out. But this is a brand new patch that is missing. What part of training covers "when you take a narc out make sure the patient...
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    How is a brand new missing fentanyl patch a process error? It was signed out of the emr and never placed while the old one was left on for 6
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    I would honestly report this up the chain. In my opinion you are leading by
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    DNP application question (please help)

    BostonFNP replied to AS8812's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Some places like to separate out clinical and non-clinical work experience as well as volunteer
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    BostonFNP replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    You found a serious error. It is not your job to judge if it was an innocent error or not! I would have serious concerns about a manager that wasn't very interested in the error you brought forward. A...
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    DNP application question (please help)

    BostonFNP replied to AS8812's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Normally this would be professional clinical experience: where you have worked as a nurse, a cna/ma, emt, medic, etc. If you haven't had any professional experience, perhaps you can include your...