malenurse122879 MSN, RN

FNP in Texas considering relocation to Boise/Meridian area - trying to find average wages for FNP (in primary or specialty if you can give either) as well as what the market is like. The flood of new grads here are driving wages down. Tons of competi...

I've been lurking the forums for quite a few months now - reading the other tester's stories and tips... So, I thought I'd return the favor and post mine. As of yesterday, 11/17/17, I passed the AANP certification exam first shot. Four weeks before...

OP - any chance you remember what you scored on the PSI? Thinking about taking it this week and curious what someone who passed boards scored so I can try to gauge. I'm hitting upper 70%'s on APEA 150 questions Qbank "Practice Tests" now so I think I...

Yes - I'll be taking AANP. Thanks for the tips. That's what I'm hearing from friends on content - lots of elderly and either heavy on pregnancy or peds. I have been doing the Qbank off and on since April along with my classes plus I'm doing Fitzgeral...

Congrats. I'm testing before graduation next month. Did you only try PSI and the APEA Qbank? Did you try board vitals or the fitzgerald bank with the review book? what about Liek? I've heard APEA qbank is nothing like boards questions. Thoughts?

Thanks for the writeup. Did you take the APEA review online or in seat? I graduate on 12/14 - I take Fitzgerald's live review on 11/7-11/9 followed by APEA on 11/12-11/14. I figure Fitzgerald will dig in too deep, Amelie will reinforce the main ideas...

Group One is actually not the force it once was. MANY employers have left it. Even Baylor has quit using them. I think the main ones left that use it are Childrens, THR, Nueterra (Cook's northeast hospital), and Parkland. I made an updated post abou...

Which test did you take?

I'm the last group in their legacy program. It's been a disorganized cluster the entire program. At least three potential graduation delaying changes made in our last year alone.

I graduate from their FNP program in December. Don't do it.

I graduate in December with my FNP. I've worked 36 hours per week through the entire program and have taken full-time courses. While doing so I've also held a 3.5 GPA. It's very doable, you just have to make yourself take the needed time out of the w...

Be nice to nurses... we keep doctors from killing you.

thanks for the info!

Change schools. Best advice I can give anyone at or considering UTA. Id do it before taking more than 9 hours so everything transfers. And Id recommend taking something easy like Roles or Skills with Patho.

Go ANYWHERE but UTA. I'm two classes from graduating their FNP program and can tell you first hand it has to be the BIGGEST cluster I have ever seen in a program. They make MAJOR changes every couple of months - we're talking changes that could impac...

Not sure if it state matters or not, but I checked ANCC (FNP-BC) just now and they also require 1000 hours in a 5 year period. Just go to either certification committee's site and check renewal requirements - both are 1000 over 5 years. Not sure abou...

It's 1000 hours in a five year period. Only 200 hours per year (at least for AANP which is FNP-C)

Haven't heard anything about Tyler, but UTA is a no-go. If I could do it over I would have gone anywhere else. When I started, we were required to take an elective... a semester or two in that went away. I had to have all of the management courses c...

Run from UTA. I'm in my last three classes in their on campus FNP. Started in the online FNP there. It is an utter cluster F that changes every semester. If they could figure out what they were doing then it might actually be decent. Spend your money...

Well... There is finally hope for those of us in Central Texas who may have made a poor decision in our nursing past (not giving a two week notice in my case) which landed us on the Group One blackball list... The company I worked for and didnt give ...

Sounds like you're at UT-A with me....

There's a petition on a website to have nurse Kaci Hickox's license revoked for refusing quarantine after working directly with Ebola patients in West africa.

Are her 21 days up yet? Nope. Theres your science.

I got accepted into UT Arlington's Academic Partnership FNP program with the 6/30 start date. Anyone else in there with me? I was checking out the syllabus for Theory and we've got a 15 page paper due by week three... That along with whatever Patho ...

This program just started in february.