djmatte

djmatte ADN, MSN, RN, NP

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  1. New NP - Michigan Controlled Substance License App

    djmatte replied to elpeet's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In Michigan, you never send in an application for a CSL. You only need a DEA. You operate under the CSL of your collaborator. The place of employment handles the details of where scripts are routed...

  2. Question concerning neonatal hyperbilirubinemia

    djmatte replied to djmatte's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I can assure you I was actively researching the topic and asking my fellow providers well before I posted here. But some of my source material was a little different and I felt inclined to ask here...

  3. DEA license, apply now or when offered a job?

    djmatte replied to flipper628's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Mine surprisingly took about 2 weeks from the day I started. Signed up somewhere around March 1st and had my number by the 14th or 15th. Getting it before applying can be beneficial for getting...

  4. Question concerning neonatal hyperbilirubinemia

    djmatte replied to djmatte's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Don't worry. I've asked the questions to the right people. Just getting other perspectives. Clearly some don't have an interest in helping out clinically. No worries and noted for the

  5. Question concerning neonatal hyperbilirubinemia

    djmatte replied to djmatte's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Just getting insight. I'm a new FNP and this was my first experience with it. Last I checked, this is a place where people come to ask questions. Mine were fairly simple and something that I would...

  6. FNP in In-Patient Settings

    djmatte replied to TeachEm's topic in Advanced Practice

    Mind you I'm not advocating for FNPs to do inpatient work. But if you have a patient you care for and want to ensure their meds and treatment regimens are what you're expecting, you shouldn't be...

  7. NPI help

    djmatte replied to rnBSN223's topic in Advanced Practice

    I used my home address. No reps showed up yet. Though my wife would probably appreciate the free lunch.

  8. FNP in In-Patient Settings

    djmatte replied to TeachEm's topic in Advanced Practice

    That imo is a complete disservice to the patient and an affront to the primary care team that cares for that patient. Especially if they credential an md to round on that patient from the same clinic,...

  9. Advice! NPs without RN experience

    djmatte replied to health_cc's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I agree that working in specialty for many new fnps is a bad idea mostly from a career perspective as it can be ultimately limiting. But I do know people from frontier who have excelled in pediatrics...

  10. working alone as a new grad

    djmatte replied to travelRN555's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    right. But you're talking new mds fresh out of two or more years of residency. I think that any new np in the field and anyone hiring them should so with the foreknowledge there is months of...

  11. working alone as a new grad

    djmatte replied to travelRN555's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't know if I agree with that entirely. I think for any new practitioner be it in medicine or a PA, you should expect a degree of orientation and ramp up and not expect that person to be entirely...

  12. working alone as a new grad

    djmatte replied to travelRN555's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Gotcha. Yeah that'd be no bueno for me as a new grad. Just off the questions I've bounced off the providers I Shasta a clinic through week one, I'm certain that an off site collaborator world be...

  13. working alone as a new grad

    djmatte replied to travelRN555's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When you say working solo, do you mean the only provider in the clinic? Or caring for patients in a clinic where there are other providers

  14. Will there be a huge turf war between PA and NP?

    djmatte replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We can have our own DEA number. We can't have a Michigan controlled substances license. That had to be routed through our collaborator. But like you said, most other privileges of independence...

  15. Questions about Pain management job

    djmatte replied to MidlifeNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't think a primary care background would be necessary for this position. You won't be in a position of managing the broad situations that can be expected of someone primary care trained....

  16. Questions about Pain management job

    djmatte replied to MidlifeNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If the practice is worth their salt, they will be utilizing multi-modal therapies to minimize or eliminate the use and need of opiates. Going from a hospitalist role to pain clinic is a bit different...

  17. new grad NP contract negotiation

    djmatte replied to travelRN555's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Good to stand your ground, but I would have still furnished a list of concerns. Specifically bite the inability to work elsewhere at a job that's rationally part time. I'd tell them if they want...

  18. Excellent Employment Prospects for Nurse Practitioners

    djmatte replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In most cases, you're misinterpreting disagreeing with attacks. As was pointed out, you all too commonly do this. My initial response to your OP was exactly that...a disagreement knowing that the...

  19. Excellent Employment Prospects for Nurse Practitioners

    djmatte replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There's this feature on smartphones called autocorrect that doesn't always correct appropriately. And here I thought you had a background in

  20. Excellent Employment Prospects for Nurse Practitioners

    djmatte replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I won't commuter I someone thinking their own projections are somehow superior to federal government estimates. Quite frankly, DHHS probably had a lot more expertise in this department than you....

  21. Excellent Employment Prospects for Nurse Practitioners

    djmatte replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm promulgating reality. By 2024 at current rates, nurse practitioners will be oversaturated in every single state. And that's across the board and not limited to high demand metro areas. That...

  22. Dislike ER nursing, FNP still good choice?

    djmatte replied to Nurseof10years's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Guidelines are typically put out with evidence taken into account. AAFP doesn't just decide Willy nilly that abx shouldn't be prescribed for acute bronchitis in a patient with no other comorbid...

  23. Excellent Employment Prospects for Nurse Practitioners

    djmatte replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I feel whenever the DoL releases these expectations, they turn into a list of fields to avoid if you are just going to college. I remember IT being among the list of most lucrative and fastest...

  24. Dislike ER nursing, FNP still good choice?

    djmatte replied to Nurseof10years's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Not to be off topic, but I'll never understand why they move items to the student section when people are clearly asking questions best fielded by people actively

  25. When to start applying for first NP job?

    djmatte replied to MSNrunner's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Off hand, the most important thing now is networking. If you have a strong state nursing organization, join them and attend as many functions as possible. Also keep an eye out for your own contacts...