ACNP-Ray

As Lisa stated the Master's is not a Certificate, it is an actual degree much like the DNP is a doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. Their are Post-master certificates you can earn to add onto your masters. But to your original question, there it ...

If you and the OP are doing this only for the money, then Admin is the way to go and not bedside nursing or NP route. According to all the nursing salary surveys I'm in the top 5-10% for NP's, but I don't make anywhere near what CNO's make. One of ...

One of my professors at Tech was dual board certified in both Family and Acute Care. I asked him about it and he said he loved working in the ER so he went back for his post Masters certificate as a FNP so he would be covered to treat kids as well a...

I spent most of my time at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio between the ER, Trauma ICU, and medical ICU. I did a full semester with a urology group as well. For my assessment course I did time with my kids pediatrician, a womans health NP do...

The hospital I was working at last year hired an FNP as my opposite on the night shift. I did 7 on and then she took the next 7 nights. I can tell you only what the ICU nurses said to me while I was there. She wasn't an ICU nurse before she starte...

I graduated from Texas Tech's Adult/Geri Acute Care NP program after having been an ICU/CCU/ER nurse for 10 1/2 yrs. I was trained in school to do central and art lines as well as lumbar punctures. Spent an entire day at my clinical site going from ...

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For the anxiety you might consider a short term script for Adderall so you can get through the test. I too had the xrays and ekg's on my test. Another crazy question I had was on Rocky Mountain spotted fever...no clue where that one came from. Hav...

What type NP are you? AG-ACNP Where (state)(rural/urban) do you practice? TX Urban Are you independent or in a group? Independent practitioner in the office How many years experience? 3 as an NP; 10 yrs as an RN before I became an NP What is your...

My condolences for not passing, it was a difficult test. I used Barkley's book and CD's exclusively to study for it back in '13 and that was really all I did for about a month or perhaps a bit longer. Did you have any overwhelming anxiety before/du...

I see no reason why as an ACNP I cannot manage somebodies DM, HTN, cholesterol, etc. If I can manage a pt in the hospital while in the hospital, then I can do it from my office as well and I frequently do. Sure I may not have a pt on an insulin drip...

Doc, It really does depend on if your dealing with a Family NP or an Acute Care NP. As an Acute Care NP I did 3 of my semesters at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio with one of their ER docs along with splitting my time in the Trauma and Surg...

First I'd like to ask how long you've been an RN? I went through TT AG-ACNP program and all the NP students take the same courses until you get to your FNP 1,2,3 classes. We had a couple of students do exactly what your doing but they had not been ...

To address that first issue; you are correct it's not the preceptors job to teach me, although, a lot of the MD/DO's preceptors I had did just that. But this is where active adult learning comes into play. I went and bought and read 3 different boo...

I understand everybody learns differently but the way I viewed it was school was for the core knowledge but the practical knowledge came from my clinicals and what I was learning in the Trauma ICU with my preceptors. You don't need to go to a sim la...

I spent 10 1/2 yrs in various ICU's and ER's before going to Texas Tech for their AGACNP program. A large amount of the program is online but you had to go back to campus each semester(once) for a couple days to go through clinical testing and for yo...

That "Vital signs WNL" will get you in a lot of trouble should you ever have to go to court. DONT ever chart that. It can be argued that what is normal for a 2 yr old is not normal for a 22 yr old...etc. It doesn't hurt to actually put the vital s...

I would first contact who ever is servicing your loan and ask them directly. Now off the top of my head I would say "Yes" they will pay it but it's always nice to hear it from the "horse's mouth" to be on the safe side.

Very interesting article on Gleevec and yes your correct about the kinase inhibitors, not all of them will work in all instances. Some like Gleevec are very specific, fascinating how they went about developing it. I also agree that drugs are too ex...

Was actually responding to Alisonisayoshi, LVN response to my initial "rant" and I hear what your saying about him/her taking a lower salary but honestly who wants to make less money. I know I would balk if my employer came to me and said "Ray, I ...

Once again you ask your doc/np/pa to change you to Novolin R instead of Humulin R and go to Wal-mart and pick it up for 27 bucks. There are usually always other alternatives. That was one of the first things I did at my last job, going through and ...

Not to mention the fact that healthcare and "big" pharm is a business. It's simple economics. As an NP I expect to be paid for my services, if I wanted to do charity work I make that choice for me and my two little ones. Drug companies are in busi...

I have to admit even though I took my exam back in 2013 it was more difficult than I expected but I did pass. I bought both Fitz's book and Barkley's book and CD's off Ebay. Fitz's wasn't cutting it for me, so I took the CD's and copied them to my ...

Ya'll with test anxiety....get yourself a script for some propranalol.....Smooths ya right out according to one gal in my class who swears by it. I personally have never experienced it even when I took the nclex I went in knowing I was going to beat...

You may want to join the state and local NP groups to get to know NP's in your area and smoooze with them. Let them know your a student and will be looking for preceptors in the very near future. Texas Tech ACNP 2013 grad