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babyNP. APRN

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  1. Scolded by the teacher!

    babyNP. replied to chacha82's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think you just need to pity her, that she gets pleasure out of treating her students like this. You know you're better than how's she treating you. Nursing school has many hoops to jump through....

  2. UK nurse, any US possibilities?

    babyNP. replied to nbenmore's topic in International Nursing

    I've done a bit of research since I'm a US nurse going to NP school and currently have a UK nursing license. One of the big differences is that you need a RN AND a NP license to work in the US,...

  3. Stopping patients smoking

    babyNP. replied to Rehabme's topic in Rehabilitation

    Well, I have no problem with people smoking if that's what they truly want to do, being fully aware of the risks and dangers. It's not my job to police their behaviors. I just become disgruntled when...

  4. Stopping patients smoking

    babyNP. replied to Rehabme's topic in Rehabilitation

    I remember patients wanted to be wheeled outside to smoke and we'd have to wait outside with them, when I was a tech. I refused because I wasn't about to put my health on the line for someone's bad...

  5. How much debt would you go into for NP school?

    babyNP. replied to nursing_student93's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    My undergrad cost me $17k (rest in scholarships) and my MSN is about $60k total. My hospital is paying for about $10k, but the rest is on me. I'm married and my DH and I make about $110k between the...

  6. Experience after NMC resumes overseas registration

    babyNP. replied to greatxander's topic in Nurse Registration

    Yeah, I feel really lucky that I did mine before all this happened. My DH wanted to wait until we moved to England, which could be years, but the NMC seemed to be making things more strict than not...

  7. NCLEX - RN :(

    babyNP. replied to arviee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The thing about it is that most US nursing schools use nclex style questions on all ther exams. That's two years of doing it, so most American nurses are well accustomed to it compared to foreign...

  8. NCLEX - RN :(

    babyNP. replied to arviee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    But it's true. If you fail around 75 questions, it means that you were doing very badly and had no chance of passing, otherwise they would have given you more questions. If you failed around 265...

  9. Thermoregulation and regularity of temp checks?

    babyNP. replied to MistyM's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've seen this happen at a couple of hospitals I used to do agency at, although my facility does continuous monitoring. One was a county hospital and the other was an up-scale NICU. It seemed to work...

  10. Question for atheist nurses

    babyNP. replied to pre-nurseshan's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    llg, care to elaborate? Are you talking about polytheistic religions? Pardon my

  11. nurse : patient ratio

    babyNP. replied to Norwichnurse's topic in United Kingdom

    I've never understood why the UK being so strongly for unions and going against "the man" doesn't step for safe nurse staffing ratios? My DH and his father were in two different fields of work in the...

  12. Uk nurse wanting to move to the america

    babyNP. replied to suzy12's topic in Immigration Advice

    It's a long and expensive process. You're going to run into the same thing with every other state...no

  13. Spring 2014 Graduates

    babyNP. replied to moonischasingme1's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm doing NNP and will be done in August 2014. I'm working full-time, but am taking a vacation day once a week so I'll only be working 2 days a week. The summer clinical is apparently 55 hours per...

  14. Becoming a neonatal nurse!

    babyNP. replied to Hannahcl's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Probably best to post this in the Australia forum; I've only seen American, Canadian, and UK nurses post here (any Australian lurkers?). You could also do a search for NICU in that forum as well. In...

  15. Delays on NMC Pin

    babyNP. replied to Elovecklein07's topic in International Nursing

    It took about 1.5-2 months for me to get my PIN after I registered in 2012. I don't think they're handing out cards anymore; you just look at the

  16. Salary

    babyNP. replied to %)'s topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We get paid more, but it's because it's ICU. There's a differential if you do ICU in my

  17. attn: experienced NICU RNs---

    babyNP. replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I did...I spent about 30 minutes typing up my day for that post this morning....but I ended up deleting it. I guess I get nervous about writing about my actual day because of the HIPAA stuff and the...

  18. UK Paediatric nurse wanting informatioion about working in USA.

    babyNP. replied to queenbee100's topic in General World

    You'll need a lot more clinical time and since you have no experience with adults and that makes up the bulk of an American nurse's education, I don't know how realistic it is to just do a couple of...

  19. Transcript Conversion: Credit-to-clock hours

    babyNP. replied to intl_RN's topic in Nurse Registration

    Here's my own experience getting NMC registration: https://allnurses.com/international-nursing/journey-foreign-nurse-651871.html You might just have to ask the school's course register office and ask...

  20. UK Paediatric nurse wanting informatioion about working in USA.

    babyNP. replied to queenbee100's topic in General World

    You'll need adult hours in various areas. It might be prudent to get your adult nursing license in the UK so that you can have more of the hours done

  21. RN's desire to move to the States with family, but spouse has a criminal record

    babyNP. replied to ambitious-student rn's topic in Immigration Advice

    You will likely need a lawyer. I highly recommend visajourney.com to post your questions relating to this. You'll need to provide details on what exactly he took, arrests, jail time, and how long it's...

  22. Anybody remember this

    babyNP. replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Nope. What is

  23. "Baby Friendly"

    babyNP. replied to aerorunner80's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I can see now that there is nothing I can say that will change your mind, not even offering the olive branch. I won't be returning to this thread and I wish you the best of luck in your future...

  24. "Baby Friendly"

    babyNP. replied to aerorunner80's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think it's pretty clear from your use of inflammatory language that you did not wish to engage in open discourse. I get it that you're tired of myths about breastfeeding. I agree, there are a lot...

  25. "Baby Friendly"

    babyNP. replied to aerorunner80's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I have no problems admitting when I'm wrong and I admitted my own ignorance for pumping in the immediate postpartum period. All I do know is that the majority of our premature infants can't breastfeed...