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    Outpatient Specialty Offices

    LibraSunCNM replied to JBMmom's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well that's a hot, hot
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    Outpatient Specialty Offices

    LibraSunCNM replied to JBMmom's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    100%
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    How Has Your Nursing Career Affected Your Relationships Or Other Aspects of Your Life?

    LibraSunCNM replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    If your posts are genuine and you're not a bored troll, you need professional
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    Free-Standing Birth Center Salary?

    LibraSunCNM replied to aspiringcnm3's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Right now I am actually per diem so I only work about 12-20 hours per week. Normally our 1.0 FTEs work about 6 days of clinic and 11 12-hour shifts of on call per month. Our volume is such that on a...
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    Free-Standing Birth Center Salary?

    LibraSunCNM replied to aspiringcnm3's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    If you are looking to maximize your salary to pay off student loans, a FSBC is probably not the way to go. The highest salaries will be in private practice, usually with MDs, and require working like...
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    Mental Illness & Unable to Work Nights

    LibraSunCNM replied to Josie French's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I am a CNM, and I agree that becoming a WHNP would be a compromise for your interests and health issues. I don't know of any CNMs who are currently doing deliveries who do not have to work any...
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    Nurse Managers: Do you answer your phone on your days off even when not on call?

    LibraSunCNM replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I will repeat my reply to your other thread---based on your posts, unless you are just a bored troll, I strongly recommend therapy to help you start taking a hard look at your life choices. You are...
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    CNM Application Boosters?

    LibraSunCNM replied to LaborAndEmergency21's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would highly recommend doula training! Not all midwives work in settings where they are doing much labor support, but many do, and it's a good foundation to have regardless. I'd also recommend the...
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    How Has Your Nursing Career Affected Your Relationships Or Other Aspects of Your Life?

    LibraSunCNM replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    You work 16-20 hours per day, 5 days per week? That seems both incomprehensible and unwise. Based on this post and your past post about your diet, it might be time for some
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    Outpatient Specialty Offices

    LibraSunCNM replied to JBMmom's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm a CNM, not an NP, but I personally feel that yes, it is your responsibility to point out stroke-level blood pressures and concerning rhythms. You're right, not every physician can solve every...
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    COVID Misinformation/Ignorance

    LibraSunCNM replied to GS ED RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Agreed 100%. Also fascinating that so many of those who are rejecting the truth and insinuating that the lives of the elderly who were "old and sick anyways" are meaningless, often also staunchly...
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    Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You know I try to live my life according to the dictates of Victorian poets, Davey
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    Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    My husband and I just finalized our wills yesterday, including living wills, POAs, the whole nine yards. We know each others' wishes but it felt good to get it official and on paper. Better to have...
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    Aspiring midwife, frustrated with L&D

    LibraSunCNM replied to withwomen's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    You're not wrong to be discouraged. Some institutions are just bad, like yours sounds like. There is nothing wrong with intervention in birth when medically necessary, but you're right---it sounds...
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    COVID Immunized Guilt

    LibraSunCNM replied to TravelNurseLady's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Think of it like the safety information on an airplane---give yourself oxygen before hooking someone else up to it. You have to protect yourself first so you can protect
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    Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Update 24 hours after dose #2: just a very sore arm (think tetorifice shot) and slept maybe a little harder than usual last night. I've been waiting to feel feverish but so far, so good! Funny how...
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    Nurses with Unusual Diets

    LibraSunCNM replied to SilverBells's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I agree that you sound oddly proud of your diet, which is puzzling to me. What do you consider "tolerating very well?" What's your BMI? Hemoglobin A1C? Unusual not the word I'd use to describe it,...
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    Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just got dose #2 this morning, waiting for the likely fever/flu-like symptoms that most seem to be getting. Armed with a chocolate milkshake to soften the blow
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    Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just got it this morning. When the occupational health guy greeted me at the door I literally said "I'm so excited!" like a nerd and he laughed. The NP who gave it to me had excellent technique,...
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    I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    LibraSunCNM replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    To quote a meme I saw recently, I would take this vaccine in my eyeball right now. I'm scheduled to get it tomorrow morning, luckily only in my arm ? I'm currently breastfeeding and tried to get...
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    NP Hates from Physicians?

    LibraSunCNM replied to Myec's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This. Reddit is not exactly the forum I'd use to judge a profession at large, it's full of insecure, miserable
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    Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    LibraSunCNM replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm getting mine Wednesday! So excited and grateful to have access to it. May we put this horrible chapter of history behind us as soon as
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    NBC's The Nurses - Just another nurse show?

    LibraSunCNM replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I saw a commercial for it and knew I wouldn't be able to sit through 5 minutes. While "ER" was by no means perfect, and got crazier and crazier story lines as it went on, I still loved that show and...
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    DOC Guilt-Tripping Me To Accept Call-Ins

    LibraSunCNM replied to amanda269's topic in General Nursing

    This!!!
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    DOC Guilt-Tripping Me To Accept Call-Ins

    LibraSunCNM replied to amanda269's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! I'm always baffled by nurses who worry that they will get in trouble or "a bad rep" for not accepting overtime. What are they gonna do---fire you and then be even more short? If you don't want...