AlwaysTiredNP MSN, APRN, NP

Take the other exam and you won’t need to do the CEUs. If you failed AANP, take ANCC this time.

I am an NP and some doctors treat me like this on the regular. Do not take it personal. Just like you’ll find nurses that are mean, and difficult to deal with you’ll find physicians that are this way as well. It’s not a doctor v nurse thing, it is a ...

I highly recommend doing the Sarah Michelle review course. If you can do the live review. Especially if you have test anxiety. She has strategies on how to manage this. Best of luck. You can do this!

If the union is active, it’s a yay for me. Better working conditions, better pay. Good benefits and better protections.

Right? Imagine! We all should be perfect out of school! Some people around here forgot what it was like to be new and based on comments on this thread and others I have seen doesn't seem to be too fond of NPs unless they are CRNAs.

then I guess an FNP shouldn’t take a job in cardiology and we should work on getting some cardiology NP programs going so they can be ready to go so school can specifically prepare someone for cardiology because if someone is an FNP they were prepare...

It is hard work as a bedside RN, you are correct but we aren’t going to do this “who has it harder” argument because it’s not productive. Both roles are difficult and stressful.

We cannot always just fire a patient, there is still some level of abandonment associated with this. There’s also a ton of responsibility, and a ton of nonsense associated with being an NP. It’s literally the same thing just a different side of the c...

I get that you feel that way, but nothing is worth compromising your license. Nothing. You might feel like there are no jobs available out there based on online listings, but the more you get out there and start networking the more you will real...

Reach out to your old preceptors, and talk to any NPs or other providers you know working in primary care offices to see if there are any open positions. A lot jobs out there are networking, and not listed. I would also recommend a professi...

This doesn't sound like the best environment, and I agree that some physicians don't understand what we do, or anything about our scope. If you don't think someone there is willing to provide you adequate training and orientation, you may have ...

time to go to a new employer! Likely both. Google your CEO's salary, your hospital has more than enough money to pay nurses what they are worth. They just probably don't value them. This is not a unique problem to your hospital, it is litera...

I actually really tried to get into Urgent Care because many don't have PM requirements for shifts, but none would hire me without experience... but I was able to get into the ED. I basically see Urgent level patients in the ED anyway; certain acuity...

It sounds like your instructor may also be a racist.

It *may* be in your best interest at this point to put in your notice at this time to save yourself at this organization. I would not give anyone my medical records. It's not any of their business. Take care of yourself, do what you need to do and th...

What is it that you would want to go back to school for? I am unclear. To work in surgery doing what? to go to medical school and become a surgeon? Do to RNFA? Surgical Tech? This is also kind of red flaggy... like how bad of a decision...

Life is too short to stay somewhere that you are unhappy with. If you are so unhappy that the thought of going to work is stressing you out, that's your sign that it's time for a change. There is really no harm in finding out an environment is not fo...

Now. Can you just go elsewhere? I would guess you can, the job market is hot right now for RNs. This place honestly sounds like a circus. Who puts a nurse in a management role with zero experience? Did this nurse lie about their experience?

I work in the Emergency Department as an NP, and I love it!! I have never worked hospice so I don't have a comparison there. I can tell you, that I wouldn't want to work Family Practice because I enjoy seeing patients and then sending them on their w...

THIS!! all of it! this is me so much. TO ME, my wellbeing and satisfaction and life OUTSIDE of work is so much more important to me than how much I am making. I have *enough*, I am happy, healthy, etc... there will always be jobs that pay more money....

What is it that you hate about nursing and can you do something else in nursing that doesn't involve the part you hate about it?

Organizationally, I think these hospitals need to start looking at why nurses are leaving though instead of trying to throw money (a bandaid) at the problem. This has always been an issue, and the pandemic just exacerbated it, because with all this b...

This is a very antiquated thought process, and many hospitals have residency programs these days in ICU, ER, L&D and other specialties and the nurses do great! Exactly this! There are New Grads in the ER where I work at, and they are doi...

This is literally not the nurse's responsibility to consider, and no one should ever be guilted into staying at a crappy job because it costs "an average of $40,000" to train them. What needs to happen is that hospitals need to start looking at safe ...

Sign on bonus of $20K is usually a huge red flag. Why are they offering a sign on bonus? why do they have to pay people that much just to take a job there? What's the turnover rate? These are the kinds of things you should be wondering. The grass is ...