ENTFNP

Alright girl take a breath. I get it. I completely get it. I was an OR nurse for 7 years before going back to school. It's DEVASTATING when anything happens in the OR because its just you. Yes, you have support from anesthesia, surgeon, and CST, but it's you. All you. The fact that you're taking this so hard, proves how good an OR nurse you really are. This should bother you. You are the patients sole protector in that room and you let them down, but you will LEARN from this. You will always do better for your patients from this experience. This incident does not define you as a nurse. So you lost a central line.. who cares. They weren't extubated. They didn't break anything. This was not a life or death situation. Don't be so hard on yourself. We will always be our biggest critics and I think you should be a little nicer. You're doing great. Don't let this incident ruin you. You got this.

Thank you for the thoughts, I can ask them next week just to make certain, I just feel like during school someone probably should have went over how to order even the basics and then a prep "peer to peer" so you have a better understanding kind of thing. ?

Honestly, it takes so long to transfer your license to a new state and then start the credentialing process, you might give birth and take your full maternity leave before you step foot inside a practice. No one tells you in NP school how long this process really takes, but i've been working on getting credentialed since December with a hospital in NYC and still am not allowed to have an ID badge. Luckily the doctor i'm coordinating with has two offices that we travel to, so I can still work in the mean time, but as for hospitals. It takes MONTHS. Don't stress. This is a beautiful time in your life. Jobs will come. As my doctor said the first time I met him, this is work... everything else is life. We don't live for work.. that's not what it's about.

Thats so crazy to me that after two weeks they let you go? It takes FOREVER to get all the credentialing done so to just let someone go after all the work blows my mind. I would say because you're so close to delivery just wait. You can still interview.. tell them you anticipate it will take 2-3 months for the creditentalling process to be completed, which is when you'll take your maternity leave, but you will be readily available throughout to fill out the necessary paperwork to get the process completed as soon as possible. They can't discriminate against you because your expanding your family.. it's illegal and I would honestly think about reporting your previous employer for going against the disability act.

Hi everyone, So I just became a new NP and took a job with a very experienced ENT. He always has had fellows in the past and currently has them now. So i'm taking every opportunity to learn from them. However, we saw patients in the clinic yesterday and was like, hey! Order a CT of the sinus with navigation for biopsy mapping for nasopharyngeal cancer. I'm thinking okay. Not a problem. I'll just write it in my orders just like that... now of course the panic has set in because NO ONE from NP school has ever taught me how to order specific scans whether that be MRI or CT. I just want to make sure i'm ordering these types of things correctly. Anyone have any advice how to order such intense and specific tests?