Balki

I'll be 31 by the time I'll graduate. I'm one of the younger guys in the class.

K-Swiss white.

I'm still using K-Swiss white sneakers. I tried Danskos and they almost made me cry.

Congrats..

I personally wouldn't.

I published this in psych nursing forum with no luck, so I'm trying here. Sorry for redundancy if you've already read this post :) I'm a nursing student considering a career in psychiatric nursing and eventually going for an advanced degree in that field. I want to ask current PMHNP's a few questions. Your answers are much appreciated as I'm trying to figure out which road to take. What do you like and don't like about your job? Do you feel that getting a DNP adds anything to one's clinical practice? I've been browsing university websites and I get an impression that the classes added on top of regular PMHNP program are really not geared towards advancing practical skills but more towards administration/research. When it comes down to the service you provide to your client, does having a DNP really matter? If you specialiced as a Family PMHNP, how is your practice with teens/children different from treating adults? Do you believe that having med-surg experience would help/helps you?

The initial plan was 10% 1st year, 20 % 2nd etc. I think 2007 was 10 and 2008 was supposed to be 20%. All of a sudden in 2008 it was changed to 10 % a year, no explanations given. What it came down to: some of the students on the waiting list threatened with a lawsuit (a li'l birdie told me). There's lots of politics and hard feelings around these issues. CCRI should never have had a waiting list. It was poor judgement. If you have a large pool of applicants, simply figure out a good way to test them and take the best. If you believe that anybody can be a nurse, hold that thought.... until you are at the hospital and your nurse is just plain scary. It was a disservice to general public and to students who waste money and end up not making it through the end.

Has anybody in this forum been in either of these two programs (RIH student associate/Miriam Nurse Intern)? If so, could you please share a little about your experience. I am considering both of these programs, so any inside information would be much appreciated. I'm at CCRI, so apparently I wouldn't qualify for Advanced Collegiate Nurse Internship Program. A little birdy told me that @ RI Hospital it is mostly routine CNA work while Miriam tends to teach more. Any takes on that? Is it true that RI Hospital requires 40 hours minimum per month? Also, slightly off the topic: does miriam have a new graduate ICU training program? They are awfully vague on their website.

I'm currently a nursing student, but I have worked for a few years on ACT teams as a Case Manager. Incidents that nurses I work with have reported include: having one's car covered by shaving foam (actually did some damage to the paint), having poop thrown in your direction, same for a computer monitor and an office chair (all that middle school dodgeball training finally having some good use), feeling threatened and walking out of the office to call the security, being run over by somebody while trying to stop them from running out of the office (JUST PLAIN FOOLISH), having somebody figure out your phone number and call every night to tell you that you need to stop your voice echoing in their head. I've also heard about an incident from early 80's where a large female client actually tried to strangle a tiny female RN in her office. Nothing worth mentioning has really happened in recent years, it seems that there was more action back in the 80s and 90s. Oh yeah, a fire extinguisher recently got thrown into the plexiglass separating the MOA's desk from waiting room. Most of the day to day activities are actually pretty safe. You could end up being a victim working as a nurse anywhere really. :wink2: If your job would involve doing outreach alone to people you don't know, I would not do it. Agencies and states vary in their take on ACT teams and in how safe you would be.

I was admitted as a merit based applicant to Flanagan evening/weekend program starting this fall. Criterias are posted on CCRI website; it includes GPA (A's in certain subjects being more valuable), TEAS scores and Accuplacer reading score. I don't know what the cut-off points ended up being for the above criterias as CCRI has very little transparency in these matters. I wish you best of luck!