JeanettePNP

JeanettePNP MSN, RN, NP

Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy

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  1. Volunteering

    JeanettePNP replied to CNM2B201?'s topic in Pediatric

    You're not limited to hospitals... try homecare or pediatric LTC. If there are organizations in your area that help special needs kids, they may be looking for volunteers willing to work as sitters or...

  2. Volunteering

    JeanettePNP replied to CNM2B201?'s topic in Pediatric

    Volunteering is always a good idea! It gives you hands-on experience with kids, and you get used to the way kids look and act with various diagnoses. Acting as a CNA has many of the same advantages,...

  3. Questions regarding SUNY Downstate Accelerated Nursing Program

    JeanettePNP replied to cupcake8503's topic in New York Nursing

    Yes, pretty much. OB is also intense because there is so much to cover in only 5

  4. New grad NP working as floor nurse

    JeanettePNP replied to JeanettePNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    How hard is it to find NP jobs if you have little to no RN experience? Not to restart the discussion of whether NP programs should accept students with no RN experience, but that's my reality right...

  5. Chemistry requirements for grad school

    JeanettePNP posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Which chemistry courses, if any, did you have to take for grad school, either as a pre-req or part of the program itself? I have very little chemistry in my background as I only needed to take one...

  6. What to do when you literally HATE your classmates?

    JeanettePNP replied to MamaSquared's topic in General Students

    I guess I just lucked out. For the most part my classmates were mature and we all got along. The only classmate I ever had an issue with was one who was very domineering and liked to assign everyone...

  7. Pediatric advice, please! Love kids, scared to death! Help!

    JeanettePNP replied to KayRN910's topic in Pediatric

    Not my grad program! :) I was accepted into PNP program without any peds hospital experience, although I did do a LOT of volunteering in peds homecare and

  8. Will I be shunned?

    JeanettePNP replied to studentgolfer's topic in General Students

    In my program the younger and more carefree students lived together in the dorm, so that worked out nicely for everyone -- it kind of kept them segregated from us old fudds who were worried about our...

  9. What to do when you literally HATE your classmates?

    JeanettePNP replied to MamaSquared's topic in General Students

    To be quite honest, HATE is quite a strong emotion to have towards your fellow classmates. Annoying and irritating, perhaps, but if you're really feeling that violent towards them that's something for...

  10. Grade Inflation in Nursing School

    JeanettePNP replied to Rhapsody86's topic in General Students

    I'd like to continue this discussion about lecture, if you don't mind, without derailing this thread. Bhanson, are these quotes from another thread on allnurses? Can you provide a link? I'm going to...

  11. Will I be shunned?

    JeanettePNP replied to studentgolfer's topic in General Students

    On the one hand, as other posters said, you're in nursing school to learn how to be a nurse, not to develop a social life if you don't already have one. I went to an accelerated program for second...

  12. Support Stickie for New nurses who are not coping

    JeanettePNP replied to madwife2002's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am not coping well with being unemployed. I am going back to school for my master's. Not sure that will help matters but I can only dream.... Sorry to all of you struggling with your jobs and...

  13. sad to graduate

    JeanettePNP replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Students

    I shared your feelings a great deal when I graduated. Nursing school is at least predictable, and you have the support and camaraderie of your classmates. There's a level playing field. After...

  14. Grade Inflation in Nursing School

    JeanettePNP replied to Rhapsody86's topic in General Students

    I didn't feel there was grade inflation in my nursing program. An A was 95 or above, so A's were few and far between. There were questions thrown out after every test, but in no other course that I've...

  15. New RN's...do you have a job ?

    JeanettePNP replied to pat8585's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You graduated from a direct-entry MSN program? What types of jobs are you applying for? I'm a new grad BSN, August 2010, couldnt' find a job after 6 months, decided to go back to grad school. Your...

  16. Should I become ACLS or PALS certified?

    JeanettePNP replied to MrsMwenja_RN's topic in Pediatric

    Taking these classes is something to do to make you feel that you're being proactive in looking for a job and leaving no stone unturned. However, it doesn't translate into any added benefit in the job...

  17. Questions regarding SUNY Downstate Accelerated Nursing Program

    JeanettePNP replied to cupcake8503's topic in New York Nursing

    Sorry, missed this question earlier. I don't know who's teaching the class now. We studied from the lecturer's powerpoints, which was kind of an issue since, well, let's just say we didn't always feel...

  18. Questions regarding SUNY Downstate Accelerated Nursing Program

    JeanettePNP replied to cupcake8503's topic in New York Nursing

    I'm not sure if there have been any changes to the schedule since I was there, but we had no clinicals in the first half of the summer. We had phys assessment which had a lab component, and patho and...

  19. Student loans - worth it?

    JeanettePNP replied to comeara's topic in General Students

    The rule of thumb is not to borrow more than your expected annual starting salary. Keep in mind that many new grads have trouble finding employment and you may be unemployed for an extended time after...

  20. Is it out of the norm to apply to multiple hospitals?

    JeanettePNP replied to Nevran's topic in General Nursing

    No such thing. If you both apply to the same job and she gets hired and you don't, she didn't take YOUR job. And there's no guarantee that if you keep word of all job openings a secret, that a) nobody...

  21. Is it out of the norm to apply to multiple hospitals?

    JeanettePNP replied to Nevran's topic in General Nursing

    I have no problem if they do that. Cast your bread on the waters and all that. I am not going to let the stresses of the job search turn me into a petty, mean individual who begrudges others any crumb...

  22. Does GPA Matter?

    JeanettePNP replied to Nurse McDreamy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have an excellent GPA and it didn't help me get a job. It did help me get into a very good grad school though. What I know now is that excelling academically isn't going to do much in the working...

  23. Tell me about continuing education credits

    JeanettePNP replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    Hm... apparently all we need is infection control and child abuse, both of which were covered in the nursing school

  24. Do you do venipunctures as a nurse?

    JeanettePNP replied to CassB's topic in General Nursing

    Blood draws and IV starts were not part of the official nursing school curriculum because of liability, but our clinical instructor (an ER nurse manager) took it on her own initiative to make sure...

  25. 100% on my exam and it wasn't exciting... :(

    JeanettePNP replied to NICURN2013's topic in General Students

    I had very few hundreds in nursing school... only when questions were thrown out or there was extra credit. I have never gotten every single question right. But if you did, and you know you didn't...