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  1. Long time CCU nurse looking for a set schedule and a way to coast into my golden years without a broken back. I also miss getting my nails done. I have been exploring this option, and have but one...
  2. I guess if you were to start a DNP school from scratch and have it be merited upon a clinical designation with completion, you're going to need to have a baseline tool(s) that will quantify the value...
  3. But there is not a residency within the DNP education. This lack of formal, goal-oriented residency-based-mentorship is the basis for my DNP project, and there is a glaring gap in this respect....
  4. Whenever I see a reference to Doctoral degrees in nursing not adding anything to the clinical sphere, I always wonder about why we don't marry learning the tools of clinical inquiry to 'clinically...
  5. Nurse Educator Experience

    Years and years of Critical Care/Trauma ICU experience, then PACU phase I/II for many years and was tenure track faculty for a nursing program. What level of nursing do you wish to teach? If...
  6. Hired as a PNP, forced to work as an RN

  7. Hired as a PNP, forced to work as an RN

    I am at a slow burn after getting to this point. One poster said it best: Do the Physicians take turns working as MA's? They're certainly capable enough, I would hope. FIRST – what I would do...
  8. Are the majority of DNP programs poorly organized
  9. I would have to say that the majority of patients KNOW what a nurse practitioner is because we have used the title for many years. The longer we drag our feet with permissive ignorance of the title...
  10. Hello, I’ve spent several months looking through different websites, looking in the Nebraska Health and Human Services website for Nurse Practitioner, looking through current practice standards in...
  11. What an awesome idea verene. I am very willing to travel to a remote outpost if necessary to get the experience. I will approach the guidance professor at my college. Also, no, there isn’t a...
  12. Thank you, Nebraska is in the process of addressing this issue https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=20859 however, this program is only open for current UNMC NP students ? Keeping fingers crossed...
  13. Thank you kindly for responding to my question with the suggestions. I thought I would update you on this link: https://cchealth.org/residency/ which refers to primary care for rural medicine, as it...
  14. I am full time faculty in a nursing program, as well as working on the side at my ICU per-diem job to keep my skills current. I think it is absolutely fascinating that someone would require...
  15. Write yourself a wonderful reference, with a statement about how you have worked in "X" capacity over the years. Take it to each manager and ask them to sign it, or tweak it and give it back to you....
  16. Which prereq classes are cool to take online

    I CLEP'd my Sociology, and tested out of Public Speaking via Dantes. I also took an accelerated three-week Developmental Psychology class. I am not aware of many higher education universities that...
  17. MSN while part time faculty?

    I worked two jobs for a total of 44 hours per week as a floor nurse while obtaining my clinical MSN degree. I'm now full time faculty, and think that it would be similar to be part time faculty with...
  18. Does the Chancellors office know about this? What does your State Board of Registered Nursing list as minimal qualifications to teach? Is this Instructor the instructor - of - record” with the...
  19. Meaning of your username?

    [emoji768]Nurse means just that; Registered
  20. How do I get into the OR as a new grad?

    I was an LPN for 15 years before I became an ADN RN. Not one single place, to this day, ever gave me credit for that 15 years experience. I really wanted to work ICU. I was burned out on M/S,...
  21. Non NP MSN types

    I have a MSN/CNL. I have had decades of experience as a RN. In my experience, the CNL is very versatile. I was able to articulate my CNL degree into a full time nursing faculty position at a college...
  22. My facility utilizes bedside report in a uniform manner throughout each floor, including Mother Baby. The purpose of bedside report for our hospital is to introduce the patient to the oncoming nurse,...
  23. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    Valium and Ativan were not counted in the drug count Glass IV bottles were the norm. Reyes Syndrome was new. You actually had time to feed a patient. Heat lamps were used on decubs Treatment and...
  24. The film: Vaxxed.

    Confession: Sometimes I put ice in my wine. Will I still be allowed over for a drink
  25. The film: Vaxxed.

    MunoRN, I agree. This is the stumbling block that those without an understanding of how a research project is conducted, have difficulty wrapping their heads around: - - - What exactly, Wakefield did...