shortlittleRN

"95% attrition rate" !!! WOW!!! I'm glad that was a typo. Big difference between 'attrition' and 'graduation'. I'm currently in an FNP program now and due to graduate in Dec 2010. My initial plan was ACNP, but changed my mind before my clinicals b/c ...

Not sure my strategy is working cuz I'll probably get my first "C" this semester, and I've never had this much to read before.... Oh and be prepared to put out about 1G for books ( 13+), and that is just this semester.

You can work the first 3 semesters, but on the 4th, many people stopped working. I am PT and I wish I didn't have to work. They call the 4th semester the "weeding out" period. And you can't retain it all, unless you have a photographic memory...

I'm in my 4th semester of FNP with USA. What is the name of your friend? cuz he is my classmate. Be prepared to do nothing else but read... and I mean READ. 2000+ pages per 30-40 questions tests, which are almost every week. The program is very stre...

Hello, I am currently in my clinical rotation for the FNP program at University of South Alabama. I am overwhelmed with the amount of reading we have, and scared to death that I won't make it. Any alumni of USA's FNP program here for me to ask what I...

The National Cert review? Is that a separate book you bought? The database did take me a long time, and I am finished with the genogram as well. But I am not absorbing what I am reading... YIKES!!! I really have to review the study guides... We have...

Blessedx3, Your PM box is full. Can't send you anything until you clear memory. LOL. Here is my message anyhow. Unfortunately, I am in Baldwin County, no where near Hattiesburg. Thank you though. I've been calling the USA's clinic sites, but they are...

I can't find my 40 hr. preceptor either. Is primary care the same as family practice? Because I've been calling family practitioners for my 40hrs this semester.

At the rate I'm going... NOT But my paperwork is ahead. Let's hope I stay that way.

I was recommended to close all interviews with a question of when one can expect to hear from potential employers. That way, a time frame is established and call backs suggest serious interest from the interviewees. I think waiting a week is sufficie...

Please do not wait, if it is malignant, the growth can be very rapid. You want to control it while it is small and positively before any mets has occurred. If by chance it is benign, thank the man upstairs. But do not wait. From what I can decipher o...

Well, I'm glad to hear that. I graduated in the accelerated program at end of 07 and currently in the FNP clinical portion this fall. I was told by my instructor that South has the 2nd best accelerated program in the country, though I can't confirm i...

Depending on the acuity of your patients. I know our ratio is 5:1, and that is manageable. 6 is too much IMO. Sometimes 4 is too much if they require a lot of care. Pain med q2 with 3 pts., chemo on one and you won't have time to do anything else. Th...

On the hospital floor,not many. But, in an ambulatory clinic, maybe... The really sick ones come the hospitals, thus, oncology hospital nurses probably don't see many survivors.

Lasix would have brought her BP down further. Given she was palliative, morphine IV or nebulizer would have made her SOB better; making her more comfortable. Not trying to be callous but, if she is DNR and receiving palliative care, her death was ex...

NPs positions are in demand at this time. My concern is that like many other professions, the cycle of TOO MANY NPs will be in the near horizon. My current class number is 200+, while the ACNP program is under 100. The new RN grads are having a hard ...

I concur. Sadly, I don't think this option will surface any time soon in US. Insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists will not let this happen. We need to eliminate the lobbyists first. Without them, maybe our government will be more apt to act for the...

I graduated in Dec 07 as an RN. Started out as a new grad in a level 1 SICU for 3 months and quit. The combination of the cut throat staff and my scared to death new grad mentality caused me so much stress; so I quit and moved to an oncology floor. I...

That is wonderful. I'm starting my clinical rotation in FNP this fall, with the plan of focus in oncology when I graduate. But that won't be for another 2 years. Hopefully by then, the economy will pick up. Congratulations!

I've been on an oncology floor during the last year and decided to try to transfer to another hospital near by within the same system ( my hospital has a monopoly in local hospitals) as on oncology nurse. Interview went great, the manager wanted me, ...

No that was not the case at all. The job I applied at was actually a transfer to another hospital owned by the same health system. The position remained opened on their website after my verbal offer was rescinded for an additional week before they pu...

Wow! just reread what I wrote... and in my anger, I didn't bother to check my spelling or grammar.

Funny, that is how my personality is. Keep going til I get what I want. I remember disagreeing with an instructor while I was in nursing school and went to the head of the department to complain. Sadly, that marked me for the rest of my nursing schoo...

HR is there, I may go to them and see what I can do.

I don't know if I should just let it be. She'll make my life hell in addition to looking for anything to write me up on. Then, I really can't get out of there. Sad thing is, so many Great nurses left our floor because of the personal offense she tak...