HRoark64

Hi everyone! I applied to two PMHNP programs last fall - one private, one state, and was accepted to both. I was excited about the private school option and accepted, but I'm having second thoughts now. I didn't get as many scholarships as I hoped and I'll have to do clinicals away from where I live (which was kind of the point of the private school, or so I thought...they're partnered with a massive hospital and usually hand feed everyone preceptors.) All in, private option will be $85k plus I'll forego a year of RN income since it's full time over 1y and I'll have to travel for clinicals. So $160k-ish. State option is $22k all in and local clinicals. Great school, just not the big name to go on a resume someday. I'm leaning toward the state university option since I doubt anyone is going to pay me 7x regular NP salary for the name on my degree. Any opinions or advice? Does the grad school matter enough in this field to justify the expense? Thanks in advance!

Hey! I'm about half a year late to this post but I'm interested to hear how your job hunt turned out. I'm currently in peds CVICU and heading to peri-op 101 next month. Love the current work but the inpatient schedule doesn't work with what I have going on in life at the moment. Also love watching our bedside OR teams operate - surgeon, RNFA, circulator and a scrub show up and work miracles for us. Hope to join them someday. For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of RNFA & circulator jobs posted on Nomad lately. It seems to have overtaken the critical care & ED postings now that we're in the warm months. Let us know what you found!

Andy, Looks like some solid advice in the previous replies. I have a different approach to pitch if you're interested. Look into Vanderbilt's direct entry MSN program. PMHNP is one of the track options in it. It's essentially an accelerated ADN/MSN program. You spend your first year knocking out the RN portion + NCLEX and your second year (maybe +1 semester on top of that) completing grad work. At the end of it you'll have your MSN in hand and you're eligible to sit for state boards. I know this isn't in your area but I found a few like it in other large metro markets when I was planning my second career. Not sure how flexible you are with location and finances, but this path definitely accelerates the time portion of the equation.

Has nothing to do with Trump. Broadcast stations, especially news types, have been shills for corporate interests for several decades.

As opposed to mainstream media outlets that advertise for pharmaceutical corporations, research funded by pharmaceutical corporations, and government bureaucrats that leave their taxpayer funded jobs to go work for pharm and healthcare lobbying shops? Straight shooters, no doubt.

Okay ? look up covid particle size for me. 0.06 to 0.1 last time I checked. N95 filters down to 0.3. Surgical mask doesn’t even come close. Yes, will stop some secretions. Hope you’re wearing at least six around town. Feel free to cite reputable studies on surgical masks and 6’ distancing btw

A pt in respiratory isolation is likely there for a reason, right? Some illness, injury, condition warranting isolation, unlike the average person walking around outside. Yes, if we all isolated to a box until the end of time we could defeat Covid with a perfect score. The idea is that the fix shouldn’t cause more fallout than the problem. Let’s revisit the long term effects of economic displacement, missed screenings, overdoses, and suicides in a year or so and see if isolation and shutting the country down was a good move. Masks work great for keeping secretions out of open surgical wounds and blood splatter/tissue/bone from ending up in the team’s nose or mouth. I don’t walk around with open wounds that welcome foreign invaders, nor do I regularly cut/saw/pry people open...and I think everyone outside of the OR is pretty similar. Soooo masks in the surgical suite are a good idea. 99.9______% of society doesn’t hang out there.

Without a doubt the lamest comment I've gotten on here. My kids exercise, eat well, get plenty of sun. They both had covid last year before vaccines were available...so did I. We all recovered just fine! I got my flying vehicle, fuel for it, pay, and benefits from the government, courtesy of taxpayers. Hindsight being 20/20, I now realize that invading Iraq was a reaction to Saddam attempting to sell his oil for Euros instead of US dollars. If you don't understand that, look up 'Kissinger petrodollar deal' and get back to me. Then there's Afghanistan - home of the most abundant poppy fields in the world. The Taliban (also a creation of our benevolent state during the Soviet occupation) banned poppy growth because they didn't want their country's main source of income to come from the base product of opioids. Enter: benevolent US govt in 2001 to fight the Taliban for 'harboring Osama.' Also a rue. What do we have now? Opioid epidemic in America and pharma flush with cash flow because their inputs were so cheap while I chased brown guys into caves so the farmers could do their thing. So no WMD's like our government said and the Taliban (AKA full time residents of Afghanistan) for all their flaws had nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with restricting the growth of a sought after commodity. The siren song of a scam is a pitch that can't be disproven. Did all the measures taken after 9/11 make us safer? No terrorist attacks = the measures worked...but continued attacks = we need more measures. Did the war on poverty work? Less poverty = it worked....more poverty = we need to intervene on a larger scale. Did the war on drugs work? Less drugs = it worked...more drugs = we need to intervene more. Get it yet? So when we get a 'third wave' which will be nothing more than modifying the test threshold again, the obvious move will be 'we need more ____.' This is the circular logic of totalitarian states. How about this - if lockdowns worked, why would we do them again? If they didn't work, why would we do them again? If masks worked, why are we still wearing them? If they didn't work, why are we still wearing them? Ah, and the dumba** tax comment. Even when I don't pay any, I still do...as do you. It's called money printing by the Federal Reserve that inflates the currency supply and deflates the buying power of your wages. They started in 2000 during the .com crash, again in 2008 for the housing crash, all in an effort to restore balance to markets. What's happened since then? Greater and greater wealth disparity - ref. the war on poverty they were supposed to win for you. The fix? Printing even more money!! Your benevolent govt hard at work for you with circular, irrefutable logic.

Don’t bother. Anything not cr**ped down their throats by a media conglomerate won’t count as science. Rumble, ***ute, Odysee, or any other decentralized platform definitely won’t cut the mustard.

As opposed to the concerning lack of long term safety in covid vaccines?

There it is...'the science.' Link it, please. And nothing funded by a pharmaceutical company. Generally unwise to let foxes guard the chicken coop.

It might, it might not. The one thing about them that's guaranteed to work is continued pharmaceutical corporation welfare on the backs of taxpayers for a virus that won't kill 99.7% of the population. Good nutrition, exercise, regular sunlight, vitamin supplementation when there's a shortfall...all easy exit ramps. The pandemic in this country is that the majority now believes in the benevolence of the state and waits on its marching orders.

Wrong on many counts...way to continue the red/blue dialectic that keeps any meaningful debate from happening. I haven't heard from a single conservative representative or senator lately telling me not to get the vaccine. Most of what I've heard is a lot of pushback against lockdown and mask policies that make zero sense and can't even pass anecdotal/common sense tests, let alone an actual study. BTW - don't take that to mean I'm on that side of the aisle. I spent six years in OIF/OEF observing America from the outside and seeing how the political systems we install to control other populations were perfected in our country first. Break up with two party tyranny as soon as you can. Tell me something...why do the states with the most draconian measures have the same or worse infection & mortality rates as the states without them? How about the countries that didn't enact such measures? Why hasn't the entire homeless population died from this yet?? They don't wear masks, social distance, or even bathe regularly. Weird. Not a forum for gun blathering either. A person who shoots someone without provocation/justification is called a 'criminal.' Gun legislation only keeps law abiding citizens from buying/possessing guns - criminals don't typically care about laws...hence their criminal nature. I expect nothing less of Democrats though, being the party of the Klan, to keep the gun control push alive and well since its original aim was to remove firearms from black communities in the civil rights era.

Post the fact checking plz. And the source of funding for said fact checkers. I love hearing the left’s mantra of ‘trust the science’ which is usually followed by ‘the science is settled’ which is the antithesis of science.

Last I checked the only pseudoscience being cherry picked was by the MSM. Imagine a virus so deadly that you have to be tested to know if you’re carrying it. Then telling people to stay indoors...because everyone lives in a HEPA filtered, negative pressure house, right? Ah, and masks. Where are all the biohazard receptacles to properly dispose of such infectious material? Then as soon as a new administration is in, the WHO admits that PCR testing with >30x amplification is useless and drops it to the low 20’s range and POOF...the vaccines are working!! Just remember the same people pushing solutions and the same media selling them to you also said Iraq had WMD’s and Afghans in caves wanted to kill you for how good you have it in America. Why would they lie??