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  1. Nurse Practitioner Needed/Not Needed?

    babyNP. replied to Sigrimis's topic in Advanced Practice

    Entirely depends on where you live and your specialty. There is a shortage of PCPs in many rural areas and there is a shortage of neonatal NPs in most areas of the country. Additionally- I think...

  2. "We don't hire male RNs" and other things you should never say to me

    babyNP. replied to labordude's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For clarity I was mostly responding to Silvernova to point out how ridiculous their line of reasoning was to have such a blanket statement that men can’t work in OB. Gender is a fluid thing in our...

  3. A rant and a question re: CRNA master’s program

    babyNP. replied to RN_2001's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Doctors pick up and move their families all the time through residency, fellowship, and first attending job. As do military families. Where there’s a will there’s a way. It’s okay to be...

  4. "We don't hire male RNs" and other things you should never say to me

    babyNP. replied to labordude's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I guess the other question in the room is- how do you feel about gay nurses in L&D? Trans men? Trans women? It's one thing if a mother does not want a male caregiver- that is her right (and I...

  5. Why The Future of NP Practice Maybe A Two Edged Sword

    babyNP. replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    A couple of things- pay is region dependent. Wages are depressed in nyc and other major cities in the northeast due to supply and demand. A lot of people want to live there and therefore hospitals...

  6. What's the least saturated specialty in APRN?

    babyNP. replied to soljhs's topic in Advanced Practice

    edit to the above, we are actually 2% of the NP population, not 0.02%- math %

  7. What's the least saturated specialty in APRN?

    babyNP. replied to soljhs's topic in Advanced Practice

    Wow, this blew up for awhile before I noticed! I'll see if I can put together a cohesive reply- many interesting points members have brought up... I think adventure_rn had some great points. Other...

  8. One Third (1/3) Healthcare Spending on Bureaucracy

    babyNP. replied to FullGlass's topic in Advanced Practice

    100,000 people die every year due to preventable medical errors. I’m not saying that the Joint Commission or DOH is perfect but not having any oversight will harm more people, not help

  9. well baby nursey to NNP (it's long, sorry)

    babyNP. replied to babynurse5x's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    lol, yeah I side eye that quite a bit. To be fair the wording is something like “will consider” and there are some units that are NICU/PICU combined. I have a hard time thinking of a regular NICU...

  10. STABLE Instructors?

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

    I was a STABLE “support instructor” for a hot second in my first NNP job but it’s not routinely offered where I work now and I didn’t pursue the full certification. It’s fine, great if you...

  11. well baby nursey to NNP (it's long, sorry)

    babyNP. replied to babynurse5x's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Actually there are a couple of schools that consider people with PICU experience, fascinatingly enough, and there are several schools that let you get the 2 years NICU experience while in school,...

  12. Nurse Assault: My Story

    babyNP. replied to Shawna Kratochwill's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am so sorry this happened to you. To anyone reading this that may face something like it, always keep in mind that you should always report if you can. Even if there were no charges brought, there...

  13. This is becoming boring

    babyNP. replied to Juanito's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Of course living in the United States pretty much automatically makes all of our problems #firstworldproblems and of course those that live in developing countries have more serious and heart...

  14. starting a wellness business

    babyNP. replied to Lolly M's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think my biggest question would be how to make it work financially- how would it be billed for insurance? My employee has a contract with a wellness type of company where if we go get a physical...

  15. Any 22 weekers out there?

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

    I agree with the ableist comment. A neo pointed it out to me a few years ago- while we do need to provide a realistic picture, there are many families who want to take home whatever comes out of the...

  16. Any 22 weekers out there?

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

    I think it’s also important to keep in perspective that most NICU admissions are not micropreemies with high risk for bad outcomes. The vast majority of NICU babies do just fine and have a...

  17. Certification Renewal...need advise please

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

    I would recommend having a glass of wine and taking the assessment. In other words- don't worry about it. You can't "fail" the assessment. If you don't "meet standard" in an area, then you just do...

  18. What's the least saturated specialty in APRN?

    babyNP. replied to soljhs's topic in Advanced Practice

    I agree that there is a culture in the NICU of being hyper-alert and anal about care that doesn't really matter (who cares if the duckies are facing the wrong way? lol). But to be fair to our...

  19. What's the least saturated specialty in APRN?

    babyNP. replied to soljhs's topic in Advanced Practice

    Hi ghillbert, Virtually no NICU will hire a PA without an extensive orientation (think 6 months) or what is now more common- a year long fellowship. Even then many NICUs will not hire a PA even with a...

  20. Nicu resuscitation nursing

    babyNP. replied to Neonurse1515's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If you don’t have someone available to be a recorder then you just have to guesstimate. I find it easier to write things down by minutes in age from the apgar timer (“around 2 minutes” vs an...

  21. What do you call a SICU NP? ICU/Critical Care/Surgical NP?

    babyNP. replied to scrubulator's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My guess is that it is region and hospital system dependent. You would be taking the ACNP boards from a board of nursing

  22. Genital exams at school physicals and well-child check-ups?

    babyNP. replied to AmyB_NP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    While in grad school, we got a lecture from a pediatric endocrine NP. She put forward that if you're not doing an exam on all the body systems, why can't we just skip cardiac or respiratory? The...

  23. New-York-licensed-NP practicing as RN

    babyNP. replied to ADNRN2016's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This has been discussed ad nauseam. I don’t know NY law but I do know that as a RN without hospital provider privileges, you can’t override a provider’s orders. All you can do is go through the...

  24. NP Salary

    babyNP. replied to KimmyAGPCNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is off topic, but I think that NPs being unwilling to move for their careers when starting out hurts their and NPs overall salary potential. Doctors just out of residency are often similar ages...

  25. NP Salary

    babyNP. replied to KimmyAGPCNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Texas is a big stage. Are you open to working anywhere there? If so it shouldn’t be too