PollywogNP ADN, BSN, MSN, LPN, NP

Med-Surg/Tele/ER/Urgent Care

Former Faculty, ex Navy Nurse, Family Nurse Practitioner in Urgent Care

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    The Worst Interview of My Life! Ever!

    PollywogNP replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    Went for an interview and I waited for over an hour in the hallway of admin and no one ever came to interview me! Asked the secretary a couple of times is she forgot about me. It was 1980s, Phoenix in...
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    Are we intervening too much?

    PollywogNP replied to NovaFNP22's topic in Advanced Practice

    D EDC is only an estimate based on when the patient “thinks” she had her last period. My comment was that most likely this was not the case in the aunt. Birth weight would help ascertain...
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    White Coat Ceremony

    PollywogNP replied to drsrn's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    The local university I taught at the Social Work students who are part of the college of health and share the building where the school of nursing is located now have a pinning ceremony. I think they...
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    Hospital New Grad Orientation. I feel like quitting nursing.

    PollywogNP replied to PinoyRN123's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! So even for a seasoned nurse Transplants would be challenging! What types of transplants? And this is a "step-down" unit? What is the nurse: patient ratio? How many weeks/months of orientation...
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    Are we intervening too much?

    PollywogNP replied to NovaFNP22's topic in Advanced Practice

    What year was this aunt born? How accurate were the pregnancy dates? Ultrasound was invented in the mid 1980's or so, & home births/birthing clinics were the norm in the 1950;s in many cities. Did...
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    Why did you choose that nursing program (current or past)?

    PollywogNP replied to NurseBlaq's topic in General Nursing

    Location & price! I could have walked to my LPN/ADN program, in fact some did not have cars. It was the late 70's, the program was a "career-ladde"; lived at home & was able to pay cash with...
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    Navy vs. Air Force

    PollywogNP replied to Ricee's topic in Government, Military

    You can't. You have no basis for it. You have never set foot on a hospital
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    Navy vs. Air Force

    PollywogNP replied to Ricee's topic in Government, Military

    Ok so you actually do not know what it is really like to serve on either hospital ship. It was not a lot of fun getting deployed (they did not call it TAD), Gulf War/Desert Shield we worked 6 weeks...
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    Feedback appreciated

    PollywogNP replied to jinct's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, that's what was happening to me as a fairly new nurse, that charge nurse & I butted heads all the time, she gave me the worst assignments! (40 years later I still remember her name, her...
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    Student Loans and Debt

    PollywogNP replied to jnniemeyer's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Is that the same as
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    Feedback appreciated

    PollywogNP replied to jinct's topic in General Nursing

    This reminded me of an incident when I had been an RN for about 2 years. My patient needed an ng tube to be used for feeding ( this is when Dobhoff tubes were just being invented) so I used a Salem...
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    Navy Nurse Corp Officer Canidate School

    PollywogNP replied to sorryimciara's topic in Government, Military

    You need to talk to the medical nurse recruiter about the following: 1. Navy nurse candidate program you must be enrolled in a BSN program they pay monthly stipend is up to 24 months. 2. ROTC if they...
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    Navy vs. Air Force

    PollywogNP replied to Ricee's topic in Government, Military

    Luxury cruises? Where did you get that idea? Did you serve on either hospital
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    Navy Nurse Corp Officer Canidate School

    PollywogNP replied to sorryimciara's topic in Government, Military

    Newly commissioned Navy nurses attend ODS Officer Developmental School in Newport Rhode Island for 5 weeks along with doctors, lawyers,, pharmacists,dietitians etc. OCS is for people not yet...
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    Putting license into inactive

    PollywogNP replied to KatiejonD's topic in General Specialties

    It may be easier to just pay the fees to renew
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    Burnout: What would you do in my situation

    PollywogNP replied to guest1074618's topic in General Specialties

    Half-way there is great. When you start clinicals that will give you opportunity to explore future options & to talk to others who have been in your shoes. When I finished FNP I was going to go...
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    Resume Question- To Include, or Not to Include?

    PollywogNP replied to UrbanHealthRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agree. List your MPH; It is relates to nursing in many ways! It may help you land your next
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    Student Loans and Debt

    PollywogNP replied to jnniemeyer's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    @jnniemeyer 1. So I just had to look to see which school you are planning on attending. That's too much money to spend. As someone who has never had student loans ( & neither did my 3 siblings...
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    Student Loans and Debt

    PollywogNP replied to jnniemeyer's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    What is a "PCP"NP? This acronym is new to
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    CNAs starting IVs

    PollywogNP replied to BSMSCCRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My daughter is an EMT working in stepdown ICU in the role of NA & she does start