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If 2 paramedics can run a code, why cn't you an an acls trained nurse run a code.. The odds for patient survival increase with early defibrillation. Rather than just CPR

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I graduated form nursing school with A BSN in August 2007. Now I am a part time ACNP student an a full time nurse, 36 hours/ 3 12's a week. It will take me 3 years to finish my MSN. I am 55. If you are in good health and reasonably fit you can do i...

Male ACNP student here with no plans to go beyond the MSN. I'll finish in 2012.

For those who keep hearing the DNP will soon be mandatory here is an excerpt frm the NLN's June 2010 statement concerning the Master's Degress vs DNP in Nursing. I have also included a link if you would like to read the full statement. "http://www....

PAERRN20 gives good advice. Watch your Doctors and PA/NP's. Focused assessments are not only expected they are survival in busy high volume ED's. Which is not to say you ignore everything else. The doorway assessment as you walk in the room, how t...

Look into OR positions they usually start at approx 0530 and in the afternoon

How about gumball machines in the lobby filled with Percocet? Snicker snicker! Just kidding!!!

I am in an ACNP program as well and asked the same questions in my area. yes some of the ACNP's work as you stated but others work in specialty clinics ( heart failure, neurology, etc. ) some also work in Urgent Care clinics. (Urgent care NOT family ...

If you already have phone service and ipod touch does EVERYTHING an Iphone can do except make phone calls

If you want to be a nurse. I would suggest your first step is to go to the closest community college or university with a nursing program and find out about their program. It would also be helpful to talk with a working nurse in order to gain more i...

It depends on your state and the facility. In mine adult ACNPs can see patients down to 13. Also, if you ED is one that has a separate PEDS ED and Adult ED, not most, then seeing kids is not an issue. As for me I am in an ACNP program with plans of ...

While not advertisted as a dual program, Duke also has the option of dual cerification/majoring. I spoke to my advisor and was told adding FNP to my program would be possible but would add approx. a semester and a summer to my 3 year part time progr...

I am 54. and this a new career for me I've been a nurse for 2 years and now I am in an ACNP program. Don't sweat the age thing. Mac

Go to one of their quarterly info. sessions and talk to the instructors. They are very helpful and willing to talk. If you sign up on their more info link they will notify you by email. I am in my first semester of the MSN program and while I am wo...

Congratulations!!! Us wannabees would like to hear how your transition into your new job goes. Good Luck!!!

The aviator scrubs run almost twice the price of regular scrubs but I'm hooked on them too. Thats all I buy now.

How interesting. When I was in the US Navy I saw the large numbers of foreign workers in the middle east and often wondered about the hospitals. Are there any male nurses in the hospitals? Where do the doctors come from foreign or locally educated?

I'm an RN and while I have only good things to say about the LPN's I have worked with but the truth is you will have many more options and recieve significantly higher pay as an RN. Some hospitals do not hire LPN's and the ones that do in my area on...

The argument of PA's vs NP's has cropped up again. It is counterproductive for professionals or future professionals to argue this silliness. The fact is both professions have contributed a great deal to health care and anectdodal (sp.) evidence abo...

Could anyone comment on Nurse Practitioners around the Fayetteville/Cumberland county area. Do you have many of them are do you see more np's in the Raliegh Durham, Lumberton, or Wilmington area? Also, does Cape Fear Valley employ any ACNP's. Thanks....

Could anyone comment on Nurse Practitioners around the Fayetteville/Cumberland county area. Do you have many of them are do you see more np's in the Raliegh Durham, Lumberton, or Wilmington area? Also, does Cape Fear Valley employ any ACNP's. Thank...

Sharann Are you aware that there are programs designed for ADNs to get their MSN/NP ?

Better look again most aren't switching they are offering the DNP in addition to the regular master's NP

Real World Nursing Survival Guide Series Book Title is Hemodynamic Monitoring publisher is elsevier saunders ISBN 13: 978-0-7216-0375-9 or ISBN 10: 0-7216-0375-0 Its a good book and very similar to the made easy series. You can probably find more in...