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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 degree.

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. This site has had a wealth of information for me...

A very heartfelt "thank you" to you

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 work and I do mine.

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 Adult NP I can see folks from the teen years on up. ...

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 were online. I continued working.....though I eventu...

Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia.....definitely.

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 continued working part time, graduated from school w...

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 NP

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 job which required a 3 hour round trip commute Mon...

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 home.

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 needed at a Community College one at a time mainly...

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

Our facility is considering the use of "Admission Nurse/Nurses" to facilitate the admissions on our busier days. Has anyone had any success with the use of an admission nurse (or nurses). We're an inpatient rehabilitation hospital. Specifically, wo...

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 time to school to be an ANP. By the time I graduated...

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 (July 4, 2004). After a year of working in a hospital...

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 assistant's help.

One school's musical take on how it feels to survive a semester in nursing school. :)

No comparison really. In nursing school, the patients are folks in need and you are the wonderful nurse coming to aid them. In real life the patients are folks in need who -realize they are in need and appreciate your help or -realize they are in n...

As an inpatient NP working with a mostly elderly population in a hospital, ... never a dull moment... :)

I'd find a job working around CNAs, RNs, etc. Before I started NP school I had worked a year as an RN and continued to work while in school for the next almost 3 years. So by the time I graduated I had been an RN over 3 years... I can't imagine g...

or another may be: Onset, Location, Duration, characteristics, aggravating factors, relieving factors, timing, (OLD CART) And then there is Severity... but that would make it OLD CARTS and too many letters :)

I may be wrong..but I always thought there were only six variables of a symptom as designated by the letters P Q R S T U Palliative/Provoke - what makes it better (and what makes it worse) Quality - How does the pain feel Radiate/Region - Does it ra...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!:clpty:

Not from the Philippines myself....though i lived there as a little girl....and work with so many wonderful nurses from the Philippines.....I found this tribute... :)