Jules A

Jules A MSN

Family Nurse Practitioner

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  1. Is the job market for NPs good? NP vs CRNA job market

    Jules A replied to RNDude2012's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You nailed the cons of NP education and for those reasons if I was accepted into a CRNA program, thought I would enjoy it and would be good at it there is no way I'd consider NP. In many places there...

  2. Scope of Practice information.

    Jules A replied to finally03gt's topic in Advanced Practice

    Got it was seeking clarification on gross vs gross and you are correct that the gross and gross things I've witnessed were inpatient and not outpatient. Unfortunately where you will feel the burn is...

  3. Scope of Practice information.

    Jules A replied to finally03gt's topic in Advanced Practice

    Personally I'd deal with the gross medical things, if by gross you mean icky, rather than the significant medical conditions I see often enough in psych. Suicide, overdose, delirium, teratogenic...

  4. The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Speaking only for myself I'm not complaining about the number of NPs being created what I am complaining about is the lack of RN background, lack of criteria for appropriate applicants and superficial...

  5. The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Boston how do you think the outcome data will fare 5, 10 years down the road with the current trend of schools retaining undergraduate students through NP without ever having worked as a

  6. "smart enough" for DNP program?

    Jules A replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    It sounds like you made an uncomfortable but wise choice. Best wishes and when finances are better you can start back toward your

  7. Psych NP

    Jules A replied to Robinson1957's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Without any knowledge of a particular case I can't say for certain but very generally speaking the OP was correct in that benzos are usually contraindicated in dementia patients. BEERS

  8. Child Inpatient Psychiatry or Psychiatric ER?

    Jules A replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Geri is challenging but an excellent specialty niche. It is a sub-specialty usually in even more demand that psych already is because so few have a tolerance for

  9. Psych NP

    Jules A replied to Robinson1957's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Are you seriously you are a psychNP with no idea how to medicate a dementia patient? Your nurses will eventually bury you if that is all you are offering

  10. The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    For the love of Pete can we lay off the self-inflated NP BS and doc

  11. What do NP's wear

    Jules A replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Derailing the OP and not aimed at the poster of this very common fallacy but I can't resist snarking that scrubs and lab coats might "set off the patients" because they uhhhhh what don't realize they...

  12. Why is our salary so low?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I know I'm a loss leader most days at the OP practice where I work. They need prescribers to keep their therapists packed. Places without a prescriber lose clients to practices with prescribers....

  13. Why is our salary so low?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I do not believe there is a shortage of RNs or NPs in most places but in any event the posts in this thread are largely written by those of us who have in fact gone on to become a NP after...

  14. Psych NP new grad's pay

    Jules A replied to Woks's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What are other NPs in your area making? Your preceptors? NP friends? That's going to be the best barometer imo. When you say contract do you mean 1099 or employee with no health benefits? That makes a...

  15. Tampa ARNP-one yr post grad still no job!

    Jules A replied to Agriffin2's topic in Advanced Practice

    Try to get an email for phone number for the actual HR recruiter and stay in touch with them because that was how I eventually got my RN job with

  16. Tampa ARNP-one yr post grad still no job!

    Jules A replied to Agriffin2's topic in Advanced Practice

    Have you tried VA? It can take forever to get boarded and don't pay worth a crap in my opinion/experience, although I don't think most places in Florida do anyway, but once you get in its a lifer job...

  17. What do NP's wear

    Jules A replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Lol I was wondering if psychGuy considered it might not be "she" wearing the aforementioned garb? It is 2016 after

  18. What do NP's wear

    Jules A replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I feel embarrassed for us all. There has to be a happy medium between this and what I have historically seen in my area the disheveled, frumpy middle aged women wearing prairie skirts with knee socks...

  19. FNP pay

    Jules A replied to Littlenurse08's topic in Advanced Practice

    What are they making? Since they opened that door, or even if they didn't, I would ask. Odd that they admit their pay sucks and offering advice for you to look elsewhere but there they are still...

  20. What do NP's wear

    Jules A replied to FutureNP111315's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Right there with ya. I'm picturing the fresh faced 23yos who had no intention of ever laying hands on a patient and went to the super zoom version of HS senior to prescribing medications for someone's...

  21. Why is our salary so low?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Good points and I can only speak for my assertions and salary. Yes I am at the high end and as I have added previously I have a decent business sense, solid experience, a good reputation and multiple...

  22. Surgical NP Clinical

    Jules A replied to escapebigd's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I picked all my clinical sites with the overall goal of having prolonged job interviews. All other things aside going with the physician you like the best will foster a relationship for future...

  23. Child Inpatient Psychiatry or Psychiatric ER?

    Jules A replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Ahhhh the kiddos, the above poster reminded me of my first nursing job when there were nights on the inpatient pediatric psych unit that I would tuck in and read bed time stories to patients after...

  24. Why is our salary so low?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A classic example of how woefully lacking our NP education can be and imagine if you hadn't had this wonderful psychiatrist as a resource to guide you in the beginning. I shudder to think what the...

  25. Why is our salary so low?

    Jules A replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There is absolutely nothing except acknowledging the universities' business savvy and desire to increase their bottom line that could explain the proliferation of direct entry MSNs to my satisfaction....