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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    I am not sure what argument you you consider invalid. Education and experience are not mutually exclusive, and research has demonstrated that both education and experience influence patient outcomes....
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    leaving clinic with Patients still in exam rooms?

    BostonFNP replied to bethburlson's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our clinic rule is that MAs can leave providers once the patients are room provided there are at least two providers in clinic. We never leave a single member of staff alone in clinic with patients...
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    NP/RNFA

    BostonFNP replied to TRC211's topic in Advanced Practice

    NPs can bill while RNFAs cannot so that may be one reason. They can also manage pre and postoperative patients on the floors and do consults in the clinic and on the wards. Every facility is...
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    For all who Failed FNP AANP/ANCC exam-Study Group?

    BostonFNP replied to GizaGora's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    How are you working as an NP without board certification? Are you in a state that doesn't require it for
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    Doctor's negative view of NP / Psych NP

    BostonFNP replied to Granted Fal's topic in Advanced Practice

    How long have you been working as an NP? I only ask because some of your comments are typical reactions in the first year or two of practice. I think you really answered your own question: there are...
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    NP/RNFA

    BostonFNP replied to TRC211's topic in Advanced Practice

    It depends on your state and what your BON has to say about it and then what your individual facility has to say about
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    "I have a PhD, I know more than you do!"

    BostonFNP replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    You and I obviously disagree about this, because as I would interpret a nurse identifying themselves as a healthcare professional and then giving medical advice outside of work and without any...
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    Based on the number from the ADVANCE 2015 salary survey there is a pretty significant difference in salary by degree. That doesn't mean that job X pays a BSN-RN more than a non-BSN-RN but it does show...
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    "I have a PhD, I know more than you do!"

    BostonFNP replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    This has been an interesting discussion. I wonder how the BON would view it if the pharmacist also made a complaint; I would question whether that would be considered giving medical
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    Help - FNP Placement Coordinator Gave My Clinical to Another Student

    BostonFNP replied to SusanFNP2B's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Because they pay preceptors $1500-2500 per block per
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    There was good data somewhere on the educational path broken down by initial degree but I can't remember where it was, will have to look for it, and it actually may be very outdated given the recent...
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    My question is why is that
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    I've posted my thoughts on this before, but I feel that is a strength of the study; it shows that no matter what the experience of the nurse that more education yielded better results. The only reason...
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    I also think that nursing is different now than it was 10-20-30 years ago. Things are more acute and the timeline shorter, there are far more meds, far more complex patients, far more dependence on...
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    I am always surprised to see that there are a significant number of nurses that consider the increase in the overall education level of the profession rising as a bad thing. After the 1954 white paper...
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    BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    BostonFNP replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    The major studies, including the landmark Aiken 2003 study, do control for
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    MD gossip

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

    MDs are actually very tough on one another; there is very little "letting it slide" in medicine. Everyone makes mistakes and those mistakes are learning opportunities. I made one early in my career...
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    Help - FNP Placement Coordinator Gave My Clinical to Another Student

    BostonFNP replied to SusanFNP2B's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    A few things that I hope will help: 1. This is a very specific post that could very easily be linked right back to you. You may want to change some details/provide less details if your plan is to...
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    50 Things New Nurses Need to Know About Calling Doctors and Other Providers

    BostonFNP replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I ask nurses all the times to see if anyone else on the floor needs anything when I get a call in the middle of the night. I must be an awful person. I do it in a nice way though. That being said, I...
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    RN-BSN SCAM

    BostonFNP replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    "In a nationally representative sample, we found that higher patient satisfaction was associated with lower emergency department utilization, higher inpatient utilization, greater total health care...
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    RN-BSN SCAM

    BostonFNP replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Who has done all of the landmark research on nurse staffing ratios and patient safety? And you didn't answer the
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    Pendulum Swinging too Far on Pain Meds?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I feel for the suffering the patient went through, however, I could also see an argument that pain meds are not the appropriate treatment plan for an ischemic limb and by not getting narcotics he...
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    Pendulum Swinging too Far on Pain Meds?

    BostonFNP replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is a huge issue in primary care, something I deal with every day. We are talking with all of our non-cancer chronic narcotic users and starting a dialogue based partially on CDC info, partially...
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    RN-BSN SCAM

    BostonFNP replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Now, would you want a nurse with 20+ years experience and certifications that stopped school with an associates 20 years ago or a nurse with 20+ years experience and certifications that over the past...
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    RN-BSN SCAM

    BostonFNP replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    So I am sure you are a supporter of enforced nurse-patient staffing