Lennonninja MSN, APRN, NP

MICU - CCRN, IR, Vascular Surgery

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    MSN (not CNL) as a bedside nurse- thoughts?

    Lennonninja replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Nursing Career

    That is exactly what scares me about this. I love night shift now, but you can bet that once I have my MSN or DNP, I will not be working 12 hour nights and holidays. I'll be in my NP office, and...
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    Dont ever want to do critical care ... Afraid of it?

    Lennonninja replied to trein's topic in Critical Care

    If you don't want to go to the ICU, why do you guess it's your next step? I personally love it there and appreciate it even more since I did a year of med surg also, but if you really don't want to do...
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    APA format software vs. Free Downloads

    Lennonninja replied to BMORE-CSU-RN's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I use the Purdue OWL and the NoodleTools webpage. NoodleTools has never gotten me dinged on my APA
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    Getting scary out there....

    Lennonninja replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    So far my Indiana hospital hasn't cut jobs, but we're all worried. Hoping all of these people can find something else
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    Am I the only one who hates 12 hour shifts?

    Lennonninja replied to jdubs99's topic in General Nursing

    Working 3 12s was one of the attractions of going into nursing. I've always worked nights (7p-7a) and you can pry the 12s from my cold dead fingers. I have no desire to work 8 straight night shifts...
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    Why do Nurses tell students to go BSN??

    Lennonninja replied to besaangel's topic in General Students

    Clearly it's been a difficult choice for you, and that's okay. Everyone's life experience is different. I'd go with what your gut tells you to do, and what you can afford. Here's my story - I had a...
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    Is the ICU for me?

    Lennonninja replied to LillyBud's topic in MICU, SICU

    You're never going to feel 100% ready to come off of orientation. How is the teamwork on your unit? Do you have other nurses that you feel comfortable taking your questions to? If you've never dealt...
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    Do your Charge RNs take patients?

    Lennonninja replied to RNMomma22's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a MICU and we have a free charge. We also have the rapid response nurse (they sit at the desk with the charge nurse) who is also free since they have to be a resource for the hospital as a...
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    Checking A Patient's Blood Glucose In His Earlobe?

    Lennonninja replied to Dazglue's topic in General Nursing

    I've had to do this before because my patient had such bad PVD that they'd lost all of their fingers! Check with your policy and procedure manual above all
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    How is GPA for entry into a program determined?

    Lennonninja replied to Surg-OncRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I think each school determines this their own way. I've seen some that take your complete cumulative GPA from your very first college course ever, nursing related or not. Some take only your nursing...
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    80% BSN staffing by 2020

    Lennonninja replied to jadelpn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm sorry, I just died laughing. When I have my MSN, I'm certainly not going to be working on the
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    Wage difference between an ADN and BSN Nurses?

    Lennonninja replied to JordynDickey's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    No difference in pay at my hospital either as far as I know. Some management jobs require a BSN in my hospital, but one can still get hired as a floor nurse and even work as a charge nurse with an...
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    ADN vs BSN

    Lennonninja replied to swngstr's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think your state board of nursing determines the number of clinical hours
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    RN to MD

    Lennonninja replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    One of my patients had a cardiology consult once (I work in the MICU) and the cardiologist used to be a nurse. She was fantastic to work with, even just stopped by to check on the patient personally...
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    Any ICU nurses come from med/surg?

    Lennonninja replied to healthcare4life's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I spent my first year on a renal med surg floor, and then moved to a neuro-medical ICU. My med surg background taught me about time management and the basics of nursing, and that helped when I became...
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    CCRN 2013

    Lennonninja replied to Suri08's topic in Critical Care

    I'm going to start studying in December after I'm finished with my RN to BSN program. My goal is to take it by July 2014. By that point I'll have been in the ICU for 2 years. I have one AACN study...
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    Newly graduated ADN! Job hunt or continue with RN-BSN?!HELP!

    Lennonninja replied to HealthNinja's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    If I were you, I'd start on the RN to BSN program while continuing to look for a job. I spent my first year of being a nurse just working before going back to school, and while that time off was nice,...
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    5 Healthy Reasons to Drink Coffee - Cartoon Contest Winner

    Lennonninja replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I trained myself to drink coffee to survive nursing school. Now I can't imagine life without it. Our hospital coffee tastes horrible though. I keep Starbucks VIA packets in my locker and bring coffee...
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    People sure do have some nasty opinions about nursing

    Lennonninja replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in General Students

    When I worked med/surg there were certainly times that I felt more like a waitress than a nurse I would never disrespect another nurse from another unit by referring to them as a waitress
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    How long do you generally have to stay past the end of your shift?

    Lennonninja replied to jenik1978's topic in General Nursing

    I rarely stay more than 15 minutes past the end of the shift, and that's only if something crazy happened right at the end of the shift or it's a very complicated report (MICU). Lately I've been...
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    What is your Achilles heel?

    Lennonninja replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    I gagged while reading that! Twice at work recently situations like this have caused me to dry heave. I too have problems with eye injuries and broken bones. The other night we had a pt with an old...
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    Is it hard to get into med surg if you stay in LTC/SNF for yrs?

    Lennonninja replied to RN&mom's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I work with a nurse who did 1 year of LTC and then moved to the ICU. It's
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    From CCU to MedSurg?

    Lennonninja replied to BusyRN00's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I think you'll have a hard time going from CCU to M/S. No autonomy and often M/S nurses are treated like they don't know anything (I'm ICU now, but I started as M/S so I've seen this first hand)....
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    How critical is your ICU?

    Lennonninja replied to calivianya's topic in MICU, SICU

    My hospital doesn't have a medical PCU (but we do have a cardiac and a surgical PCU) so sometimes we get stuck with those who are walkie talkies or almost walkie talkies. Lately acuity has been higher...
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    Vet tech to RN?

    Lennonninja replied to jmbjmb's topic in General Nursing

    I was an OTJ trained vet assistant for about 4 years before nursing school and it definitely made me feel a lot more prepared. I do miss working with animals a lot. Since so much of your assessment is...