Tegridy

Tegridy

Former NP now Internal medicine PGY-3

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  1. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    Fair enough. Even med residencies have much room for improvement. The VA has a few merits but these are overshadowed by government regulations and an inability to keep up with the private sector....

  2. Follow Up Visits

    Tegridy replied to CuriousConundrum's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I’ve found a lot of psych patients have unrealistic expectations part of which may be our fault. The other part may be just the way many of them are. This is in general medicine though most of our...

  3. Integrative Health & Healing DNP--is it worth it?

    Tegridy replied to LilRNonthePrairie's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I think you found the happy median. I am trueky glad it worked

  4. Student RN Scrubs

    Tegridy replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I agree but white is just a terrible color. Light blue would be more reasonable. And shoe mandates? Let them wear what is comfortable as long it’s closed toe and not ridiculous. Back when I was in...

  5. Student RN Scrubs

    Tegridy replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Isn’t that what admission standards are for? Otherwise I would agree with the rest. Just out of interest what do you mean by breasts out?I’m assuming this person didn’t just untuck them and...

  6. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    This post was about working at the VA not so much the care. It seems our VA does something’s patient care wise better than the private sector but other items are completely misssing. But this...

  7. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    GI, mostly due to good job opportunities, interesting procedures, and the specialty of neuro gastroenterology is pretty interesting. A lot of mystery behind the GI system that I would like to one day...

  8. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Neuro would be the most likely to diagnose it. It's not the first diagnosis on anyone’s radar since it is often picked up on EMGs ordered for other reasons. It is rather difficult though since...

  9. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It is difficult glad I’m going into a specialty. Primary care is probably one of the hardest specialities due to cognitive load and time

  10. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this statement. It is very rare and reasonable to consider in the ddx. I couldn’t not imagine behind told that I have severe ancient and fibro then later found to have a rather...

  11. Student RN Scrubs

    Tegridy replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    White is the dumbest color ever to make someone wear. While professionalism is important, instructor should focus on quality instruction instead of policing standards while making students wear the...

  12. Integrative Health & Healing DNP--is it worth it?

    Tegridy replied to LilRNonthePrairie's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Wow, universities are selling everything nowadays. I would take a hard pass on that garbage

  13. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    No doubt some can be entitled. I never served so I give them the benefit of the doubt. But some you can tell obviously never did anything combat related and are milking the system. Those are the...

  14. Student RN Scrubs

    Tegridy replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I remember we had to wear white tops bottoms and shoes. Nontheless I am a guy so it wasn’t as much of a problem. Changing colors as you mention is the most reasonable option as white is a terrible...

  15. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    Okay, this post is from a training standpoint, not a patient, or admin standpoint. The OP's post was revolving around residency at the VA so we will stick to this. - onboarding: The amount of...

  16. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    Okay I’ll type up some thoughts once on a computer and not phone. It is very VA dependent and I will say my experiences are from one of the better VAs. The patient care seems decent at the one I am...

  17. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It may help, but I surmise it will more likely lead to a lot of people requesting testing for the disease when they almost certainly do not have it. Seems to be the trend when something hits the

  18. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    LOL we have to do CLC for two weeks during our medical residency and all I can say is I’ve never been somewhere where they can turn a list of 12 nursing home patients into a full days worth of

  19. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    Yes it’s the VA. Literally the most inefficient hospital system in the county full of red tape and admin who collect w check for nothing. I dress the two months a year I have to spend there versus...

  20. Chronicles of a VA APRN Resident

    Tegridy replied to Freckledkorican's topic in Advanced Practice

    I couldn’t imagine spending an entire year at the

  21. What is Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)?

    Tegridy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Only saw it once, probably won't again. In a neuro clinic back in medical school. There was an article about it in the news a while back also, I believe it was about it not being diagnosed for years...

  22. NP Salary/Pay Let's Be Transparent

    Tegridy replied to SurgicalNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Similar to the job I did in south east a while back 12 admit per night ish cc for 40-100 usually 60-90 no doc 7/7 nights 6 to 6 Respond to whatever the hospital called rapids...

  23. FNP vs PMHNP Post Grad Certificate

    Tegridy replied to GirlMomNurse's topic in Advanced Practice

    May be easier to start a reg job first and try to add a special aspect of the clinic. For that I would probably do FNP. Post partum is a rather brief time period of someone’s life and may be hard to...

  24. Quit First NP Job Without Notice

    Tegridy replied to NPdancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hopefully not. Not throwing blame it is a tough situation. Hopefully they will just let it go but who

  25. Quit First NP Job Without Notice

    Tegridy replied to NPdancer's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What does capitalism have to do with this? No one forced them to sign the contract. The rest of the post is