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xos4eva

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  1. Robert Wood Johnson

    ​Hey all, I've interviewed at Robert Wood Johnson, a hospital in Central New Jersey and was trying to find out what the starting salary is for an FNP. I'm not looking for anything exact but at least a ballpark figure. Any help would greatly be appr...
  2. Not Sure How To Proceed

    Here's the short version, I'm 29, been an FNP 1yr, working in a Primary Care clinic for 6 months, was an RN for 7 yrs prior to becoming an NP. Currently feeling bored and unfilled, not quite sure where to go or what to do. Not sure what would make ...
  3. Not Sure How To Proceed

    Seriously Zenman hook a sister up lol. Whitney, I'm an active member in my church, help teach the youth class, and minister whenever they need me and I read the word and pray each and everyday but even in my spiritual life I feel like something is m...
  4. Not Sure How To Proceed

    Canuser, I'm not sure that FNP will fill your void. I here where you're coming from though. I've contemplated leaving nursing, I've contemplated going to medical school but even when I sit down and look at the long term, I'm not sure either would m...
  5. Not Sure How To Proceed

    Mamma - I can honestly state that I am a suffer of CDS, always have been, I did go to therapy once but I didn't really make any progress and so stopped going. I know about making rash decisions, I was a travel nurse for approximately 3 yrs because I...
  6. Not Sure How To Proceed

    Mammac5, I like interacting with the patients, I love when they come back and tell me that I've made a difference in their life, or when they tell me that I'm awesome not because I know everything but because I take the time to explain to them the te...
  7. Being On Call :0/

    Have been working at my current job for approximately 3 months and have started to be on call for this week, covering for my collaborating physician, I feel like I have not had adequate training but at the same time I don't want to be considered a co...
  8. Do FNP's really make 80k to 90k a year?

    I graduated last August, am in NY and was working for a city hospital making 65 K base salary, this is low for NY but common in the city/state hospitals. I'm curerntly working for an private organization and started as an FNP at 85K/yr, not sure how...
  9. Haven't even graduated and already burned out...

    I feel your pain and as BC grad I also work in a health care center where many people come in for pain, I try my hardest not to prescribe narcotics, and if I have to prescribe i give a very limited supply and refer to pain management, let them deal w...
  10. Lab Interpretation

    New NP here, just started working in a primary care clinic and as I'm family, I see from Peds to Geriatrics. Just having a little bit of a hard time finding some info on lab interpretation. I have found information regarding assessement and treatme...
  11. Lab Interpretation

    Thanks so much mom. ) All info is greatly appreciated.
  12. Glum :o(

    Ok, so I left my nice comfortable RN position back in January, started at a facility which did not share the same vision I shared for myself so I immediately began job searching, 2 months later I find a job that offers more structure, is computerized...
  13. Job market for new grads

    I think there are available jobs but sometimes the job offer isn't what you expect. I was offered a position in an Internal Medicine clinic, where I did my Clinical Rotation, but the MD offered me 75K/yr, working 10 hour sifts w/t/f and working ever...
  14. New NP Job

    Hey all, just started a new np job 2 weeks ago, am having a bit of a hard time adjusting to 5 days a week 8 hours/day. This has not been the most difficult challenge though. I accepted a position in a in patient drug rehab facility. I knew that th...
  15. New NP Job

    Thanks Max, I don't think the physician wants me to fail but he is too pre-occupied with whatever he feels is important and isn't really to caring regarding new grads. I just hate that the other NP's believe that this is the way things should be. I...
  16. New NP Job

    I've emailed the person who hired me and have not gotten any response, spoke with one of the other NP's and was told I know you want a support system but you can't count on me because I've been here x amount of time and don't know what I'm doing eith...
  17. Some Advice Please

    I gradauted with my NP over the summer, took my boards and have been interviewing, where I currently work there are no positions available so I've been looking else where for a position, interviewed in December for a position working with adults and ...
  18. FNP Students @ Stony Brook

    Hey all. I'm a FNP student at SUNY Stony Brook. I'm doing Women's Health and Clinical Nursing Research this semester. Anyone at Stony Brook? Looking to make some more friends who are NP's or studying to be NP's. Ericka
  19. working during clinicals

    Right now I'm in my 3rd clinical course of 4 and I've worked full time throughout the whole program, right now I'm definitely running on E. I work in a pediatric ER and at the end of my 12 hours I'm emotionally and physically drained, I feel like cr...
  20. advisement on adult np clinical placement in maryland

    Honestly the best thing I can tell you is to check out the Maryland State Association of NP's I know that the NPANY (Nurse Practitioner Association of New York) has a preceptor list which is available to it's members and those who are willing to be a...
  21. Advice

    I'm in a FNP program and it's totally online. I have submitted my H&P's without much difficulty but I have a video exam that is due this friday, I have watched the practice video approximately 3-4 times and understand the concepts of what is bein...
  22. CPEN

    hey all, i'm currently working in a pediatric er and have been there for the last 2 years. i'm very excited about the cpen and am looking towards taking it by dec 2009. i've been studying the pearls review series for the cepn and am reading the ena...
  23. NP to MD

    Hey all just wondering about how to go about becoming an MD once I'm done with my NP. I'm not sold on the idea but am just playing around with it and would like some advice as to how I would go about it after I graduate in May. Any info provided wo...
  24. the follow websites offer continuing education for a fee. rn.com - 49 dollars/year, unlimited access pearlsreview.com - 69 dollars/year, unlimited access I currently use pearlsreview and can't talk enough about how good they are. You can open the CE...
  25. Upset/Blah

    So..... Today is my first day of class in Women's Health. It's also supposed to be my first day in clinicals. So I wake up nice and early and get dressed, take extra care to look nice and professional, arrive at my clinical site to find that my "pre...