Rocknurse MSN, APRN, NP

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    Salary of an RN?

    It really depends on your location, your expertise, your experience, your qualifications and your area of practice. High end RNs with a BSN in Massachusetts in critical care can make excellent money,...
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    Work Schedule and School

    In undergrad, I worked in an ICU 11a-11p and every third weekend so I'd just work on assignments on days off as I only worked 3 days a week. That was pretty sweet, and everything was online anyway...
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    Drawing labs from CVC locked with heparin

    I guarantee that if you only draw 5ccs from a heparin locked CVC that your PT/INR will be hugely off. I've worked both acute dialysis and ICU and I can vouch for the fact that this is an issue...
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    Acute versus Chronic

    This sounds like the role of an acute RN, not the FA. All the FAs I have known (and I've known a few) worked office hours with the exception of some later meetings on occasion, and always being...
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    Acute Hemodialysis Nursing

    Congrats on your new position! I was a clinical coordinator/charge nurse for an acute unit for a few years. I had a tech who was quite simply the finest tech I have ever worked with. If you could be...
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    New NP-Negotiating a Salary

    Thanks for your input. It's helpful to understand this stuff before I graduate and have to negotiate
  7. You sound like an ideal candidate! You won't know until you try. Go for it! I'm at UCONN right now and getting in was tough because they required experience and good grades. There were many applicants...
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    First NP interview at mayo

    I would think of how to explain why working there interests you more than working anywhere else. What is it that distinguishes that place for you and what do you think you have to
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    Medical Marijuana for nurses

    I'd agree with many posters above. I think it's a great idea, and I'm intrigued, but until thee's no question of legal issues, I'd avoid it. I am aware that some people have a chronic condition, and...
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    So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    I really, really love taking care of very sick patients. The ones on CRRT, IABP, multiple gtts, vented, paralyzed, cooling blanket....the whole thing. That's why I went into critical care. The walky...
  11. I was hired as a nursing informatics analyst without any certification or experience. I was trained and certified in EPIC shortly after I was hired. I had a BSN and am now doing an MSN to be an APRN...
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    Bsn to nurse practitioner

    How do you know if you want to go back to school if you don't even know what you want to do? It's an expensive whim. NP is an MSN, but is a different track. Do you want to remain clinical, or do you...
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    Writing papers

    PERLA is superb. Couldn't live without it. There are lots of proofreading sites out there that also scan for plagiarism. It's always good to run things through those. Grammarly is
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    New NP-Negotiating a Salary

    I have a quick question for those in the know. Do acute care NPs get productivity pay too, or do they tend to be employed by hospitals as staff? I usually hear that term in reference to primary NPs or...
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    Help!

    I'll play devil's advocate here because I don't like to rain on anyone's parade. I would say if it's something you really, really want to do, then no amount of naysayers should prevent you from doing...
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    Failed NCLEX, should I become a CNA?

    You can do this. Don't be defeated. Buy some used (cheap) NCLEX study books and answer as many questions as you can every day. Do thousands of them until they're coming out of your ears. Eventually,...
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    New NP-Negotiating a Salary

    I don't have anything to offer except to thank you for starting this thread as I feel it's very valuable information that we need to be talking about. It's a while until I graduate but I'm keen to...
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    Associates or Bachelors??

    I speak as a 23 yr veteran diploma nurse who made the transition to BSN after seeing the landscape change. If the market had been the same as it was back in 2001, I would say get your ADN and work...
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    Question for cardiac or ICU nurses

    However, it's unlikely to be a single, solitary blip. While compressions are taking place there's major artifact on the monitor. During a compression pause to assess rhythm, there may be an underlying...
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    First Intubation!!

    Congrats! I'm really looking forward to this part of the program. I'm still in didactic but can't wait to intubate and put in
  21. I'm taking advanced patho this Fall and I'd like to spend the remaining weeks of summer reading up a bit before class starts. Can anyone who has taken this class recommend what I should be reading up...
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    Advanced pathophysiology

    I'll actually be starting my second year, but I'd love to be part of this
  23. I don't know about that. A friend of mine just completed her DNP at UMASS and had to find her own preceptors. She almost dropped out in her last year because she couldn't find one. Maybe it depends...
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    Acute Care NP Preparation/Interview

    In my interview for an acute care program I was not asked any clinical questions. I was asked to tell the interviewer about myself and why I wanted to be an acute care NP. Granted, I knew the dean as...
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    Advanced pathophysiology

    Thanks all. No, I am in the acute program at