CuriousConundrum

CuriousConundrum has 15 years experience and specializes in APRN.

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1. Public safety personnel focused psych practice?

   CuriousConundrum replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

   Addressing the #2 and #4, you're right. It is more socially acceptable, but still not completely. I think that perception is even more regionally dependent. The psychological usually testing...

2. Prescribing stimulants?

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

   The stimulant drive and everyone suddenly having ADHD now is one of the reasons, about 30% really, of why I no longer enjoy my career. Also, therapists, who don't know anything about anything, are...

3. Bombshell Article by Bloomberg Businessweek

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

   I agree with

4. FNP transition to health/fitness

   CuriousConundrum replied to priorityhealthFNP's topic in Nursing Career

   Yes! I've been doing that for a few years, but since I began working from home before anyone ever heard of COVID, my motivation to do any other work has lapsed. I love being here, alone, as I write...

5. Is there a viable career demand for a board certified nurse coach in 6 months as some advertise?

   CuriousConundrum replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   Until Instagram slipped me a nurse coach ad, I had never heard of a nurse coach, and I've never met anyone soliciting a nurse coach. Frankly, I've only met one person who had a life coach, and I...

6. FNP transition to health/fitness

   CuriousConundrum replied to priorityhealthFNP's topic in Nursing Career

   I'm in psych with similar thoughts. I'm not "stuck" to psych at all. I've spent the last year and a half learning about lifestyle medicine, nutrition, fitness training, and functional medicine (all...

7. Psych NPs that Quit Psych

   CuriousConundrum posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   There won't be many here, but what would you do? What have you done? How many of you would leave mental health if you could maintain the same lifestyle? I have peers that wouldn't openly answer...

8. Public safety personnel focused psych practice?

   CuriousConundrum replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

   Having followed a similar path, we know that meds can be limiting to certain career paths as can the diagnoses. Talking is not necessarily a therapy and anyone can talk. Evidenced based...

9. When to use FNP when not in that role

   CuriousConundrum replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Advanced Practice

   Just combine them and say APRN or something and move on. No one knows what the FNP means, and no one really cares that you (or any of us) has a master's

10. standing orders after provider left practice

    CuriousConundrum replied to FNP912's topic in Advanced Practice

    Illegal? Probably not. Inadvisable, surely. Whoever gave their orders is still licensed, and you could follow them until doom's day. The license is the crux here, and the organizational policies...

11. RN pay more than new grad NP pay

    CuriousConundrum replied to MrsClarex4's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Ironically, I make quite a bit less in psychiatry than I did ten years ago. The only reason I still do the job is because I can do it from home. This really outweighs anything

12. what makes a perfect job for you? please share

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

    Autonomy. Flexibility. Compensation. Status within the organization. I don't really want to interact with management officials or support staff unnecessarily with a preference to work from home...

13. NPs, Please share the reasons you left your old job/specialty?

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

    Check out American College of Lifestyle Medicine. If you can segue a specialty change after this then cool. There is a faction of us, like you, who are gravely disenchanted with the traditional...

14. VA NP Grade Determination?

    CuriousConundrum replied to brsm's topic in Government, Military

    I had to describe, in detail, various perceived dimension of nursing practice and how I met those to come in as a NP III-5 or nurse III or whatever it was. A committee then reviewed those answers and...

15. ACNP in Psych Hospital?

    CuriousConundrum replied to Skeptic's topic in Advanced Practice

    How many patients in the psych hospital are admitted for "acute anxiety/depression?" I rounded on psych hospitals for many years, and the overwhelming majority of patients were seriously mentally ill...