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I see 15-25. It totally depends on the nature of the visit. Is it routine? Is the chart organized? How stable is the patient? Are the family members at the bedside, if so are they CRAZY? Most routine visits you can breeze through in 10 minutes. With ...

Having an 11month home is probably the biggest part of the challenge. I have an 15 month old, who I leave at *daycare* everyday so I can go to work and deal with many ungrateful a-holes who are demanding an early refill on their Oxy, Phentermine, or ...

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God, I gotta just say- yeah, grad school was intense both physically and academically. However, no amount of training from either a piddly online degree mill or fancy prestigious university, could have prepared me for my first job. Hate to say it guy...

I disagree. Go for it. Your brain is young and pliable now. You will absorb the new information like a sponge. I am a recently graduated NP, with RN experience, and in my early 30s. Trust me, NP work is a totally different ball of wax. Sometimes, I f...

So, graduated last Dec and got a job as a new grad *phew* in a Long Term Care/Rehab facility. Feeling like Im ready to move on. Unfortunately, most of the job postings I have come across are looking for very specific experience in the respective fiel...

ER MDs in San Francisco make 205-250,000/yr ER NPs make 60-80/hr (roughly 1/2 the pay)

Do you both have Acute Care NP certification? Have any leads on Bay Area jobs (namely SF?)

Yeah SkiBumNP! That means we can have lunch in the Mission... -Iris P.S maybe you can help me get a job there too after I grow tired of the pay and lack of autonomy at my current entry level job

SkiBumNP- Job openings in ED at Kaiser San Jose and SFGH. Apply!

Although I would LOVE to work as an RN before finishing my FNP...there are absolutely no jobs anywhere for us. Any suggestions on how to get this RN experience that everyone says is so vital to being a competent NP? BTW- I worked as an Respiratory Th...

Second thought: Im in my second semester of NP school, taking Primary Care I and Pharm + over 170 hours of clinic. Just found out Im pregnant. Not really sure how to handle this one. Any mothers or expecting NP students out there? Will I be able to ...

Im trying to get through Pharm myself. The classes of antibiotics are giving me the most trouble for some reason. Epocrates has been helping me enormously in clinicals

Hey Blue! I live in Noe...we should meet up regardless of MEPN status

I have to hand to you my dear....you are pretty dynamic!

Nice to hear from you Karla- Im Iris, I have been lurking around these postings too with the occasional comment, but lately I feel that the vibe on this thread has gone south. I understand that everyone is really anxious, but there is no need to make...

Hey rinnop- my gres: Verbal 580 Math-650 Writing 5.5 It falls in an acceptable range, but nothing eye popping I dont believe that GREs are really going to tip the scales one way or another. I just dont buy that it accurately represents a candidate's ...

Hey Elizabells, Can I ask you a very honest question? So I have quite a bit of patient care experiene, I am an RT in the NICU and PICU. I went to school for 2 years to get my credentials, but this was all post-bac work. My undergrad GPA is nothing to...

This question is for Teenyjo: I just read part of your blog....and congrats on putting something together like that. In regards to city living, I live in Noe valley SF, which is about 6 blocks away from SFGH and I have ample parking opportunity. The...

Amen my dear....we are all freaking out hoping that by some strange luck, we get interviews. We all have completely different backgrounds/education/life experience and who is too say what the common thread will be. I work with 3 MEPNs at my hospital ...

I think that you are overlooking a very important aspect of the profession... teamwork. You will not last a minute in any unit if you dont how to help and work with your fellow collegues. This is not bootcamp

In regards to the med school vs. NP school- Addie and Newtonian, I think that you must look at what kind of lifestyle you want and your utlimate objective is. If you really want to work with with treating an underserved population via advocacy and ha...

Yes- I applied for the PNP track Ok- Exactly how important do we think clinical experience is? My freshmen year of college, I royally messed up...school was not my priority. By my sophmore year I did much better and from there on out, I was a pretty ...