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Wouldn’t I need an MSN for this?

Been in ICU bedside for almost 7 years, never thought I’d see the day I say that. May not be a lot compared to others but for my young of 27, it feels like forever! I start AGACNP school this fall. I don’t start clinical until Summer 2021. The thing is I want a break or reprieve from the ICU. I won’t go into details, but I’m just tired and burned out. What are some NONE bedside jobs that I can do during NP school? It seems most none bedside jobs will be M-F and 8-5 type of jobs that will undoubtedly compete with my clinical needs for school. I CAN work part time but I would rather work FT to save money for a home and pay off school as I go. Ideas? Suggestions? Currently I’m an RN, CCRN and I’ll have my BSN in July and start my MSN in August. 1.5 years experience in a post surgical specialty ward in a level one trauma and 5 years in ICU at a level one trauma, experienced with balloon pumps, CRRT, and PA catheters. What doors are open to me in July?

Bump LOL.

That is my biggest fear. I’m all for treating the patient as opposed to the disease, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t learn the disease in depth and understand the correlations between the pathophysiology, the symptoms, the treatments, and so forth. I want to understand *how* the drugs work, the biochemistry of different aspects of physiology (endocrine, cellular mechanism, and so forth), much like is taught in CRNA school - but I don’t want to practice anesthesia. I want a solid education in physiology. I am all for self-teaching, but I shouldn’t be paying a school thousands to not receive a quality education.

Context clues? I meant physician, clearly it was an autocorrect. No need for the smart remark. I think you understand well what you did.

Pipes, vessels, volume, and pressure - what’s the difference? Come on!

Off topic but did you get into med school? Did you finish? I’m considering making the leap. Being a doctor is my dream.

Time to take some time for yourself. Take unemployment if you can. Use that cushion if you have. If you MUST work then do part time if you can manage it. Take care of you right now. Allow yourself to grieve the passing of you father. I am terribly sorry all this happened at the same time.

How has she survived nursing becoming anxious when things don’t go as planned? Thats like all of healthcare? Even outpatient. Like, things happen. In fact, this is the world in general. I’m guessing she’s just learned to cope.

We should also try to reduce all the psychosocial jargon and APA paper pumping done in nursing curriculum. Seriously. Just stop! I know the nursing profession wants to DESPERATELY be taken seriously but making students pump out papers about holistic care and patient centered theories BLAH BLAH BLAH, is not going to help. Too much touchy feely stuff. Let’s incorporate more science, especially biology/biochemistry. This will also raise the standards for WHO gets in to nursing. Let’s add more pharmacology classes. Let’s add more pathophysiology classes. Let’s cut back on the humanity/psychosocial theories. Increase the clinical requirements. Make them REAL clinical rotations. Students should be receiving quality clinical rotations. Sadly most schools only care about making money. Tons of degree mills out there. Pumping out nurses and even NPs left and right. These NPs never even touched a patient (direct entry) in their life, beyond their “clinical” in nursing school. Then they go out and prance around and act like they can just treat anyone. There ARE MANY things wrong.

Just FYI ophthalmology is a medical specialty... I don’t think it’s a doctor of ophthalmology, but a doctor of medicine that is board certified in ophthalmology.

Has anyone here made the transition from RN or NP to MD/DO? I’m sure this topic has been touched on before, and I do realize that this is a NURSING site but I would like everyone to remain a level of honest objectivity. I’m 27 going on 28. I’m a RN/CCRN and have been for six years. I’m suppose to start NP school this fall. The thing is that the closer I get to starting the more I’m realizing that this may be not what I want to do, and it may only be a “comfort move” for me. I pursued nursing with practical intentions. I think deep down I always wanted to be a physicist but unfortunately life/finances held other plans for me. I so I went the nursing route, unfortunately the deeper into my nursing education I got the more I realized how incompatible I was with the nursing theory/model. I feel nursing is too focused on the humanities and psychosocial sciences for my personal liking. Even on the graduate level, I observe my colleagues and the “projects” and “papers” they have to churn out and I find them exhaustive. While I think I could make the best of it myself and self-study and take charge of my own learning, I also feel that as it stands, in order to provide complete care, there is no better route other than the study of medicine. Are there any NPs that can honestly reflect on their scope, and I don’t mean your legal scope, I mean how prepared do you really feel to take on any kind of patient/diagnosis within your specialty?(be it family, emergency, or cardiology). Do you honestly believe you have the training that is on par with that of a board certified physician in that specialty? This is not meant to be inflammatory, rather reflective and retrospective. NPs offer amazing contributions to healthcare, filling gaps where necessary. They take on the more routine and established patients, this leaves room for the physician to step in and provide medical expertise to those patients that present outside the algorithmic confines of what NPs may adhere to.