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Hello! Please let me know if this has been answered elsewhere. I've recently graduated with my MPH in Health Education and Health Promotion. I have been an BSN/RN for around 7 years with a bit over a year of bedside experience, a bit of research and quite a bit of clinic nursing. I would like to apply for a BSN to DNP/FNP program next year since I've missed many of the application deadlines for this year. My question is, should I use the time between now and applications for next year working a bedside job? I'm not jumping up and down about the idea as bedside wasn't my favorite and my hope with the DNP is to work in a family clinic but I would do it if it would help my application. If not bedside, I'm comfortable potentially using the time to do another clinic position or utilizing my masters degree in a public health nursing aspect. Any thoughts? Thanks!

It is time to renew my CPN certification which I've had for I think 4 years. I've been in grad school for public health this year and the nursing for I've done hasn't been pediatric related. Because of this, I don't qualify for work related hours or academic credit since it's not a nursing degree. I planned to just do several CE credits but unfortunately it looks like the bundles on their website no longer pertain to CPN recert. What do I do? Does anyone know where to get CE online? I don't mind paying for them as long as its applicable and accredited. I really don't want to lose my certification as I'm planning on going back to pediatrics after graduation.

I understand that one has to have nursing experience in an area to actually educate. I've been a pediatric RN for 6 years with both inpatient and outpatient experience and now I'm getting my MPH. My question was more, is a MSN worth it or needed to further a future in health education and promotion or not?

This may be a bit premature but I can't help but think about the future. I've started a MPH program with a focus on health promotion and behavorial science. I don't have clear cut goals yet but I'm interested program development and evaluation as well as health education. I feel like it would be useful to get an additional graduate degree in nursing but I'm not sure. I do not want to become a nurse practitioner or work in informatics so that generally leaves nurse education. I was curious if anyone else has had similar thoughts or experiences.

I've been doing telephone triage for pediatric and adult neurology clinics for roughly 3 years. I've been burned out for so long. It's exhausting to sit all day, get yelled at on the phone and never be thanked for what I do. I answer between 50 to 70 calls per day not including call backs, result calls and occasionally PAs. You're the messenger so we take all the anger of the person on the phone, even when it's not our fault. It's awful. I'm getting away from it all in a few months with a career change but I was wondering if other nurses felt the same.

Thanks everyone for your support! I started the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine since they have a weekend program and I'm in Texas but if I ever plan to go further into the advanced stuff I'll need to move closer. A lot of their students have gone on to other outside of Texas schools for additional training as well. This is just the beginning of my journey and something new I'm trying so I don't know how it'll all figure together in the future but I think that one has to follow their interests and see what happens.

Hello! I am currently taking a beginner botanical medicine course with the hopes of continuing to their intermediate and professional programs eventually. I would love to somehow integrate being a practicing registered herbalist and a registered nurse. Obviously taking care to be aware of practice limitations. I am still on the beginning of this path but I'm curious if there are others.

I am considering applying for several MSN Education programs. I have a background in pediatrics but aside from that not really anything specific to education. Does anyone have suggestions for things I could do to bolster my application to make me more appealing? Volunteering, certifications or other activities?

I can't speak for everyone who has been hired in research nursing but I know that when I was hired as a research nurse coordinator they specifically were comfortable with someone who had no research background. I still think there would be a chance for you, especially if the area of research is focused on the age range of people you cared for inpatient and that you are comfortable with basic nursing skills like IV's and blood draws. In my interview I specifically noted why I was interested in research. I didn't make it a point to hide that I didn't have the background but reasons why I thought that research was the direction for me and why I felt I would be suited for it. Play up anything such as detail oriented, organized or comfortable talking/educating people since that relates to volunteer recruitment. If you can write a cover letter I would do that as well.

Thanks for the responses. I guess I'm still confused by the grant and payment systems because I'm new to everything research still. I know that I'm not tied to a specific grant to my knowledge so I can't lose my job if it runs out. If I am I've never been informed. I know that we are working on a new pharma trial and my boss has mentioned including study coordinator fees in the budget for the sponsor but I don't know how that directly ties to me...I've never been informed I would be receiving different pay or any extra money for coordinating the new study.

I've worked as a research nurse coordinator for around a month. When I interviewed I was under the impression it was a typical M-F job with the mention of an occasional Saturday if the volunteer couldn't make it during the week. What I was not made aware of is that I could be working 45 to 50 hour weeks on a 40 hr/week salary. A salary that is lower than my previous job. I was ok with this since I thought I would be happier and have a better life balance. This isn't the case. I am routinely required to come in an hour or more early and stay several hours late. Typically to walk a volunteer to MRI or get there to help set up for a study procedure. I have also been asked to work Saturdays completing procedures or to walk a patient to MRI that they couldn't have on the weekday. This adds up to many extra hours, typically with me just sitting around waiting for something to be completed. The physician doesn't seem to be bothered by putting stuff on Saturdays as long as it works with her schedule and I feel like I am being asked to keep all my Saturdays open. if I schedule something during a Saturday, there is no one I am able to ask to complete the task for me because I'm the only coordinator in my group. This isn't helping my work life balance as I typically volunteer for animal shelters on the weekend and am trying to take a graduate school course that meets on Saturdays. I can't do any of these things if I am being asked to work frequent Saturdays with no one to ask to help me. I am allowed to take a half day to make up for the overtime but that doesn't solve the issue of me having to basically keep all my weekend plans in the air in case something is scheduled for work. I'm quite frustrated. I didn't realize how much I was going to be asked to do in addition to managing 5 studies, learning how to do all nursing care and lab preparations as well. I've started to look for a new job but I hate to jump ship so quickly.

I can't help the OP unfortunately but I had to chime in and state that what drug tests are testing is not the psychoactive component of marijuana. Typical screening drug tests in no way measure impairment due to marijuana. Typical drug tests are testing the non-psychoactive metabolite of marijuana which is THC-COOH. This metabolite can linger in the body for days or weeks depending on the level and frequency the user consumes the drug. Therefore when someone fails a drug test it does NOT mean they are "high" or impaired when they took the test. It simply means that in the recent past (which can be a while) they used the drug.

Its a good program. I'm currently in their new grad residency program and I have met nurses in the fellowship program. The ones I have spoken to like the program a lot because it allows them to get 6 months experience, be considered experienced when they finish, it doesn't tie them to a specialty should they decided they don't want that area of nursing at the end and it may get them hired on that floor. The cons are that it doesn't pay very much, its not a biweekly pay, just monthly and I believe you only work two days a week instead of the standard three. Obviously it also means you aren't guaranteed a job at the end of the program but I think a lot of times the nurses will get hired to that unit if they want to work there.

1. Texas 2. $25/hr for days, $29/hr for nights, $1 extra per hr for weekends 3. New grad 4. Pediatric Med/Surg

My dream is to work in a NICU. I quickly realized that wasn't going to work as most required a lot of experience. I moved onto looking at pediatric jobs, unfortunately a lot of those jobs require experience. There are two children's hospitals in my town but only one has a residency program, I'm looking into it. My question is, I have been out of school over two months, I have applied to many jobs and haven't heard back from any of them. I write cover letters, I have had my resume looked over, the only thing left is to start calling the hiring managers and hope they listen to me. If I can't find a job in pediatrics/neonatal, should I move to adults? I've looked into postpartum but many require experience as well. I'm incredibly frustrated. I've heard its hard to go from caring for adults to children plus most pediatric jobs want pediatric experience. What should I do?