Iconoclast

Iconoclast

SICU/MICU/NeuroICU, life flight

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  1. Choosing a NP focus: FNP, ANP, ACNP

    Iconoclast posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Can some of you speak to the career opportunities that may be unique or specific to each? I am leaning toward an ANP program, but the school also offers ACNP. Am I wrong in assuming that I could...

  2. GRE scores, what's good?

    Iconoclast posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    BSN program graduation is 15 months away, but I have to begin the app process for grad school soon to begin immediately upon graduation from my current program. I am gearing up to take the GRE,...

  3. Choosing a NP focus: FNP, ANP, ACNP

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

    I'd jump at that, it is exactly what I want. However, I'm 350 miles away and must go with one of the distance options. Based on the website, the FNP/ACNP looks like an on-campus program. Am I...

  4. Choosing a NP focus: FNP, ANP, ACNP

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

    Another thought. Is there an avenue to expand education and practice i a post masters program? For instance, if I did ANP and later decided it was too limiting, is there a way to get additional...

  5. Choosing a NP focus: FNP, ANP, ACNP

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

    Thank you for your response. There are not enough words in my lexicon to describe just how much I despise caring for pedi pts (and their parents). I do it all the time, and no one knows how much I...

  6. Have you encountered this? Religious conflict.

    Iconoclast posted a topic in General Nursing

    How do you handle it when a patient asks you to pray with them? I do not have the same belief system as my patients (I live in the Bible Belt) and when asked to participate I have always tried to...

  7. hourly rate/insurance negotiation

    Iconoclast replied to lucky1RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am in the same situation. My husband's employeer offers much better coverage at better rates, so I am under his. I tried to negotiate more money, but all they would do is offer me prn, but I'd...

  8. Should I speak up, or keep my mouth shut??

    Iconoclast replied to CareBayer's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with all the others. I would also add to keep documentation. You can't go in there 6 months from now and say "We always have too many patients, once I even had 13...." Dates, times, acuity...

  9. Family calls to the unit.

    Iconoclast replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    There are too many variables to say. How many patents I have, how many calls per patient and all the other things that might be going on. When it gets to be too much, I just tell them I don't have...

  10. incapable, helpless, unmotivated, unteachable pts who are unable to cope with life

    Iconoclast replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in Southern Appalachia and I see A LOT of pts like those described by the OP. They are either completely or functionally illiterate and very "backward" (no offense intended, can't think of a...

  11. Where is the light at the end of the tunnel?

    Iconoclast replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry you are so down. That is a lot going on all at once, I too would be overwhelmed. I hope that one of those jobs you applied for turns out to be a really great opportunity, ripe with warm...

  12. Have you encountered this? Religious conflict.

    Iconoclast replied to Iconoclast's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for the respectful discussion and helpful posts. I feel much reassured and possibly bolstered enough to help my patients more with their spiritual needs in the

  13. Have you encountered this? Religious conflict.

    Iconoclast replied to Iconoclast's topic in General Nursing

    Angus, I don't disagree, which is why I have always been OK with providing a hand to hold along with respectful silence when my patients engage in prayer. However, being asked to actually do the...

  14. How much is your pay?

    Iconoclast replied to rainbowcak3's topic in General Nursing

    Western NC, 15 years exp. Base pay is $18.83/hour, plus 50 cents for CCRN and $1 for night diff. The top of the nsg pay scale at my hospital is $23.85 right now for more than 25 years experience,...

  15. Have you encountered this? Religious conflict.

    Iconoclast replied to Iconoclast's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. Those are good suggestions, but I am at a disadvantage in that we don't have a chaplain (only a volunteer chaplain on some weekdays) and on weekend nights. In fact, I am the only person...

  16. How much difference in pay do two year rn's get than four yr??

    Iconoclast replied to bigmac018's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I know a nephrologist who thinks nurses get can their RN from Sally Struthers. His position is, why should we "respect" nurses or pay them more? After all, they haven't even been to college.......

  17. To all the "Old School" Nurses

    Iconoclast replied to TiggerBelly's topic in General Nursing

    Going on 16 years, does that make me "old school?" I don't think people are ruder, but I am much less tolerant of rudeness. When I was new, I could be intimidated by people. If some old lady...

  18. How much difference in pay do two year rn's get than four yr??

    Iconoclast replied to bigmac018's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have worked in places where there was a modest differential, 25 and 50 cents. My present work place does not offer any difference, and AFAIK there are only a handful of BSNs in the hospital. Our...

  19. Lower cost of living in NC? Whaddya mean? :>)

    Iconoclast replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I think NC is expensive too. The Raleigh area especially so. We lived in Lochmere in Cary while I was in nsg school at WTCC in what was then a $250K home, 2500 sq ft, 4BR 3 Ba. We sold it for about...

  20. NC: State puts FSU nursing program on warning status - FayObserver.com

    Iconoclast replied to Nursing News's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I'm not suprised. I worked at Cape Fear years ago and we all knew FSU ws BAD bad

  21. Wake Tech CC

    Iconoclast replied to LPN4U's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I graduated from WTCC 15 years ago. Except for one very traumatic experience, I had a great learning experience there. I took my first job at Wake Med on what was then 2C med-teaching (that unit no...

  22. anyone done ADN-MSN NP?

    Iconoclast replied to celclt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I looked at several, but going BSN first was less expensive. There are two state universities in my radius offering it, but they were overcharging for the degree by virtue of the fact that I would...

  23. Vanderbilt NP program..help!

    Iconoclast replied to BrandiannRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Wait a minute, I was just reading some other threads on Vandy, and I'm seeing numbers like 90K thrown around. I could swear my friend told me 30K for the one year ANP/cardiac subspecialty, so that is...

  24. Vanderbilt NP program..help!

    Iconoclast replied to BrandiannRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am finishing my BSN in Western NC right now, looking to apply to Vandy next year for either ACNP or ANP (can't decide). I have a friend who did the ACNP at Vandy and loved it. Her company paid for...