ERNP

What were you eating before. You can make 75K at the bedside in the terribly paying Southeast. So at these pitiful low rates for NPs you can at least eat and pay the mortgage as well as you ever have if you just wait for the offer to go up. And when...

I intend to use it

BS!!! There are jobs out there and if all of you (PAs included) would walk off laughing from those conversations, the salary will go up. Why, no supply increases demand. More demand equal more money. The just take any job mentality keeps the chains o...

While we are at it.... let's just allow this supervisory role for a couple of years out of school... then let's cut the poor doctors loose and show 'em what we got.

dunno. i guess he feels that's all a mid-level is good for. he certainly doesn't want them practicing independently. he's had this np student for a few months, and she's the one he's planning on hiring to do his scut work, as long as he can "train he...

If there is anyone at the scene (meaning the last 6 cars that have stopped and are clogging up the works) I keep driving. I have no tools to do much that would be useful anyway. I don't carry around the emergency bag. Now if you need a bandaid and I ...

I think FNP is the better ER option. If I was an ACNP I would go for the FNP as a second. As an FNP working in ER, I am thinking of getting ACNP for potential move into a hospital service kind of role. Just thinking about it right now. Might not even...

I use my first name. Introduce myself like this... "Hi I'm (first name), the nurse practitioner. What can I do for you today?" Then we move on, the cell phone rings, they answer and say that they can't talk right now because the doctor is in the room...

It has been quite a while.... whew!! I work ER... FNP certified. What is expected is widely variable from place to place. I work a rural ER and am the double coverage. I am expected to be able to see you if you have a chest wall deformity or a runny ...

Well if they were waiting for me to use the alcohol foam hanging on the wall they would be waiting a long time. I hate that stuff. My hands are dry enough without continuously putting alcohol on them. I use the soap and water method. However, the al...

Sometimes life just ain't fair. The End.

I am not sure what would be happening in an environment where one was being mobbed. I know just about everyone has been picked on before for something insignificant. Sometimes, it turns into a pattern (sometimes swirling the drain) of behavior. What ...

If they are able to understand the procedure and have had an opportunity to have all their questions answered by the surgeon (that is the part that I get hung up on) then they can sign for themselves. That being said it is never a bad idea to have an...

I attended an in person program and still had to find my own preceptors. The ER docs I worked with were more than willing to help, but I had to find office placement for 8 hours each week and it wasn't easy. Lots don't wish to perform this service to...

I love and could not live without the credentialing specialist that works with me. I don't know what they would do at an insurance company, but if I had to keep up with all my own stuff.... I don't know if I would have time for anything else.

Drives me nuts too!!

I was talking about nurses and nursing faculty too. I won't move on to the general populace until we can come up with a semblance of a collective thought. Besides, my interactions with the public would leave me to think many of them have a higher op...

Oh come on... I know you know the drill. They see NPs and all kinds of healthcare providers for colds looking an instant fix for the ailment. They are never happy to find out there is "no magic bullet". There are days when I feel like using a magic b...

I'll say... would you have a knee jerk suspicion of measles in a 50 year old woman?? I sent her home telling her I was having a hard time getting my head around it, but that was the thing it looked most like. Confirmed by lab.

One of the reasons employment with the state was unattractive. I have great benefits too, but don't want to top out at that wage or start so low.

You mean you have never offered just to give someone that 50 cents so they will quit looking for the coupon or just said, "Look just keep the 37 cents, I have to go." ??? To the OP, I agree. RN, whether it be ADN or BSN seems more easily marketable ...

Right, in the OR it wouldn't be the patients driving you nuts. Worse, it is the prima donna surgeons (in my experience anyway). And THAT is a problem that will NEVER be solved in your favor. I will take the whiney patients over the arrogant prima don...

Trauma, I am like you... I never spent 3-4 hours per credit studying for anything. And being the highly competitive beast I am, I did want to get as close to the 4.0 as possible. Only made it to 3.96. I don't even think I ever spent 3 - 4 hours study...

Oh... and when it comes down to it, no one is doing any job for free. All jobs are about cash flow.

Corrections might be good. But I wouldn't cross the ER off the list entirely. It isn't so much about hiney puffing, although occasionally a hiney might require attention. There are whiners, some days a lot of whiners, but the ER needs people also wh...