Bumashes MSN, APRN, NP

Hey All! Looking ahead, I'm thinking my hubby and I may look to get our NP licenses transferred into Canada. I already know each province has its own specific process and what it does and does not accept. The question I am looking to figure out ...

Hey everybody! I’m an AGNP & ACNP (have been practicing as an APRN for 5 or 6 yrs now), and I am thinking of going back for a terminal degree. It’s more of a life goal than anything related to wanting to teach or research. I am between a PhD at U...

SgonzoCPNP, thank you so much! That really helps. I have gone ahead and submitted all of my required documentation to the NursingCAS so as to hopefully enroll soon. Since I am already an AGNP and an ACNP, I will only be needing to enroll in the DNP p...

Ok. I'm putting my cards on the table. Putting my money where my mouth is. My boss asked all of us, physicians and nurse practitioners alike, to give ideas on what we can do to help with the flow of patient care at my hospital. In my opinion, right ...

Wow. That's actually quite an interesting idea. A resource nurse available for paging.... Definitely has possibilities.

Just got done rounding on my pts and charting charting charting, and I got to wondering.... Does anyone think it likely that there will ever be a way to become board certified as a Hospitalist NP? Just like how you can now graduate as an FNP and then...

Just google Upenn Streamlined post masters ACNP and it will bring up the info from Upenn's website. Email the one of the two ladies they list on there, and they can answer specifics. It seems to be a great option for those like us.

Thanks to one and all for your input. I actually printed the responses and gave them to my boss who is going to go over some of the ideas and bring them to the head of nursing education. I understand some of you telling me that it isn't my job and wh...

I went ahead and have enrolled in the Streamlined ACNP post masters at UPenn. It's a good program, well structured, and designed for folks in my exact situation (working as a hospitalist but with an AGNP primary care certification). I'll start this M...

I wish I had the time to do this during my day, but I don't think I would be able to do as much if I did. I would like like to be paid for it, but we will see about that one. I am encouraging more educator positions and better orientation, but pret...

I attended a mostly online program. We had to attend campus for skills/procedure training, but not for actual lectures. The lecture type material was a variety of things: recorded lectures, podcasts, powerpoint presentations, etc. The assignments wer...

Dodongo, best answer to that question. LOL! Everyone works everywhere but no one is ever truly qualified to work where they work. Yep. I am an AGNP and work as a hospitalist in south MS. Meh.

I graduated with a degree as an AGNP and practiced outpt internal medicine and urgent care, then I changed jobs after a couple of years and got a position as a hospitalist. So while I don't exactly meet your criteria of going back to school and then ...

Prelift, I agree. There is not much to be said about how our degree programs are built sometimes. The only reason I have more than the required Basic Chem, Micro, and A&P 1 & 2 is because a long ways back, I originally went to school thinking...

Thank you thank you. This is fairly much what I was looking/hoping for (as long as tuition wouldn't kill me, so hopefully it is reasonable as you said). Would be great to get some credit for current/past work experience. My hospitalist physicians gav...

Probably still got another 20 or so years I will be practicing. Litigation worries? No more than the average practitioner. Been thinking about it sucking it up, though, actually. Only 4 years into my NP career....so it could be worth the effort. How...

Hey! Just wondering if anyone ever finished looking into this program or actually enrolled or anything? I am certified as a Primary Care AGNP, but I practice as an inpatient hospitalist. I never ever want to practice in an ICU environment or anything...

So my program didn't really include much in the way of radiology interpretation, such as for xrays, CTs, etc. Not many programs do from what I can tell; they seem to rely more on where you precept or future OJT as to whether you get much training or ...

Neat! Thanks a lot!

Oh, thanks! Yeah, I know one class won't do it, but I would like a course that covers basics, like just terminology, positioning, determining if there's over or under-exposure, etc. And then maybe cover CXR, KUB, and a couple other very commonly orde...

Yeah, in MS our collaborator has to be practicing a type of medicine that is similar to what we are practicing. So if I do urgent care, then I need a primary care doctor, ER physician, urgent care doc, etc to collaborate with. So for example, an orth...

Meh. Nope. I would be okay with a day or two of shadowing someone. Mainly just to see if the pt population was the kind I was looking for and to make sure I could get along with the other provider. But more than that for free? Nah. I'd need some pret...

Urgent care, Pain Management, and Internal Medicine.

My part time job in pain management has me see about 30-40 pts per day for either injections or pre-injection exams. I work a10 hr day with an hr for lunch. It's a very focused exam, so it only takes a short time which makes this many pts very doable...

Wow. I know this post has been here a while, but I felt bad when I saw no one had responded. I live on the gulf coast (Biloxi/Gulfport) area. My first job was with one of the Coastal Family Health Center Clinics, and they pay only about 70k per year ...