Lilith

Lilith

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About Lilith

A mid-life nurse

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  1. Can someone please help me answer this question?

    The only justification for B I could think of would be that the other three options were designed to tempt you out of your scope of practice: i.e. don't diagnose and practice medicine. This is the...
  2. What a terrible way to start off the new year

    Know how to cross multiply fractions for the ratio/proportion method of determing medication doses, know how to work and convert in the metric system - mostly with regards to measures such as cc...
  3. What a terrible way to start off the new year

    You may need to take a break for a year. Take a job in something completely unrelated. Breathe. Have some fun. Make new friends. You may be surprised to find that this might re-affirm your committment...
  4. I would like advice on how to handle RN's who challenge a new Nurse Practitioner. My nursing background is as an ER RN, and I have just started a new job as an ER NP. I'm finding the role transition...
  5. Your career track to far as an NP

    1980 - graduated from high school 1984 - graduated from BA program 1984 - 1999 - almost every job under the sun, seriously lacking direction 2002 - graduated AS nursing, work in ER for three years...
  6. Myers-Briggs Type

    INTP - ER nurse.. Three INTP's in a relatively small sample, curious since we are something like less than 1% of the population and females even rarer (facts from memery, may be alittle off). I would...
  7. What is a "Code Black"?

    :roll In my hospital, code brown gets you the poop
  8. New to Agency Nursing

    Hi, i have occasionally worked for an agency, but I'm in Massachusetts and do critical care. The paperwork is usually little more than standard HIPA and precaution stuff, and a self appraisal of your...
  9. First job - nurse extern in ER

    What you lack in experience, try to make up for in preparedness. Carry the following things on you/in your pocket: tape, trama shears, alcohol wipes, more than one pen, pad of paper, kelly clamp,...
  10. Regardless of whether you go to an ADN program or BSN program you will get different standards of education depending on how good that individual program is. There are good and bad programs out there,...
  11. Boneheaded Nursing: A Cautionary Tale

    Again, thanks for sharing.... In today's nursing, more and more, the system sets us up to fail. I know that orienting a new employee, or hosting a student nurse is HARD WORK. Some of the scariest...
  12. PA's faster than NP's in ER??

    lalaxton, Good point about already working "holistically and efficiently" as I am one of the "faster" RN's in the ER. at this point, it looks like it would be the physician's group who would hire me,...
  13. PA's faster than NP's in ER??

    Thanks! Your "real life" situation is extremely valuable to me....could you tell me more about how policies are written to allow you to practice in this way? How much MD supervision/cosigning is...
  14. Hi folks - I'm new to this forum - usually hang our in the ER forum. I am an RN,CEN and will be starting a graduate level FNP program in the summer. I have been trying to "sell" my current employer on...
  15. Interview on 1-6-05 For GN Position in ED.

    You have done many of the right things. Make sure during the interview that you make it clear that, dispite your many accomplishments, you have the ability to be humble and admit when you don't know...