mom and nurse

mom and nurse specializes in Acute rehab/geriatrics/cardiac rehab.

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1. Age vs Years Nursing

   mom and nurse replied to Erika Patterson's topic in General Nursing

   I am 61. Been a nurse 16 years from age 45. Four years as a BSN RN. 12 years as an Adult Nurse Practitioner after getting my Masters

2. Brian Short News

   mom and nurse replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   I have been posting and mostly reading in recent years since my undergraduate nursing school days. I graduated from nursing school in 2004 and with my Masters in 2007. Now I am a Nurse Practitioner....

3. Calling all gerontological Nurse Practitioners....

   mom and nurse replied to MommaRN86's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Actually, I don't work for the physicians nor the facility. I work for the parent organization of the facility which places NPs in the nursing homes.... makes life easier..the physicians do their...

4. Calling all gerontological Nurse Practitioners....

   mom and nurse replied to MommaRN86's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I am an adult NP working at a subacute rehab nursing facility with mostly geriatric patients. Always was interested in Geriatrics but the GNP would have allowed me to see only 55 and up. As an...

5. What will you do after floor nursing?

   mom and nurse replied to Blouis's topic in General Nursing

   Not sure if I count. I did floor nursing after getting a BSN then due to the stress, etc. went back to school part time to an adult nurse practitioner program where the first two or three classes...

6. Most common disorders seen in practice

   mom and nurse replied to MERCEDES674's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Diabetes, Hypertension,

7. Am I too old?

   mom and nurse replied to frann's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Back to college at age 42 with a non nursing degree that was 20 years old. Started nursing school at age 43. Earned my BSN by age 45, worked a year as an RN in a hospital, returned to school and...

8. How many years have you been a nurse?

   mom and nurse replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

   Around 5 and 1/2: graduated in 2004 at the age of 45, then 3 and 1/2 years as a bedside nurse, almost 2 years as an NP. (acute rehab for most of the time.) Now community health and primary care

9. I LOVE Community Health

   mom and nurse replied to missjennmb's topic in Public, Community Health

   wow.. I just left hospital nursing after about 6 years. (3.5 as a staff RN working at the bedside and a year and a half as an Adult NP. I left my NP job after tiring of workin 10+ hours a day at a...

10. Homeless-- where do they go after discharge?

    mom and nurse replied to AmericanChai's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sometimes they are discharged to places like this one in DC http://www.christhouse.org/ other times they end up back on the street....or back in a shelter or group

11. 46 too old to start nusring school?

    mom and nurse replied to cute2's topic in General Nursing

    Had a previous degree in another field which I never worked in. Decided at age 42 to go back to school, even though I was married and a housewife with a house full of kids. I took the prerequisites I...

12. CABG... highest number of grafts you've seen?

    mom and nurse replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I work inpatient cardiac rehab. CABG x 7 is the most I've

13. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    mom and nurse replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Wow - this thread is still going strong.. I posted a little over a year ago when I was in school to be an NP and have now been an NP for over a year. I worked as an RN one year before heading part...

14. Am I Crazy? 38, never thought I'd considering nursing but now I am

    mom and nurse replied to Elizabeth K.'s topic in General Nursing

    Nope you are not crazy. I started nursing school at age 43, graduated with the BSN at age 45 and actually discovered that I'd passed the boards to be a Registered Nurse exactly 5 years ago today...

15. Nursing Nightmare - Whats's the most number of patients you cared for by yourself?

    mom and nurse replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    nine, as a bedside nurse in acute rehab....and I was the charge nurse for the evening...one was a readmission who showed up somewhere in the midst of the shift... I also had at least one nursing...