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Hey everyone. So I am thinking about getting into an Urgent Care owned by a fairly large healthcare organization in my area. I am a new grad but a very strong candidate. What would be a respectable salary for a very high volume urgent care (30+ patie...

I would like to compile a list of signs and symptoms you would ALWAYS report to the MD or send the patient to the ER for. Ill start with the obvious ones: Chest pain SOB Severe Nausea Acute onset of Edema

I was hired as a new grad to an urgent care with a base of $95k and production bonus. Most of the midlevels at this practice easily clear $130k+ a year. The topper is we only work 12 days a month. If you want it, you can get it.

As our licensing exams should be. This is the reason why I took the AANP FNP exam. We are training to be clinicians right? I didn't want to fill my head with the mumbo jumbo the ANCC requires on their exam.

Took it this morning and passed. I found the test to be rather uncomplicated. Most of the answers were very obvious. 80% of the test seemed to consist of answer choices where only one really made any sense. Know the basics, standards of care, and tre...

I think I will get a partial refund, but they keep $160 unfortunately. I really didn't want to study that theory and research crap anyways

Good stuff, congratz!

I am taking my AANP this Saturday and the facility I got a job at doesn't even know or cares what the difference between them both are. If I am licensed through the state, that's all they care about. So the HR people tell me.

Let us know how it goes! Best of luck!

Ya, I heard of barkley saying not to use any practice exams. Eh, I sit next Saturday and other than reviewing some things, I am doing practice questions. I don't know what else to do. I am to the point where I feel like I am looking at the same mater...

I am sitting for mine on Saturday. I scored 80% on the AANP quiz and have done pretty horrible on a few of the fitzgerald quizzes. Its all relative and is totally dependent on which questions you get on the real thing. How are you preparing these las...

Good stuff, I scored a 80% and thought the practice test was pretty easy... The ones I missed were those 50/50 ones, and I chose the wrong answer lol. I felt like it was pretty straight forward stuff for the most part.

Awesome, thanks for that! I am taking mine in a couple weeks. Gone through fitzgerald and leik and mostly just going over it again. I took the AANP $50 practice test and scored a 80 on. Been scoring in the low 80s on leiks questions as well. So I thi...

I couldn't agree more with everything said. Its ridiculous the amount of complete BS entails NP training and licensing. No one cares about all those letters behind your name. It doesn't make you look anymore important. What we need is more medical tr...

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone else out there will be taking the AANP in the next month or 2? I am hoping to sit for it at the end of May (graduate this Friday!). Been going through the fitzgerald book, Leik, and the fitzgerald CDs/workbook. Hope...

Awesome, gratz! Looking forward to getting it over with. Anyone else taking it soon?

I have all the CDs/MP3s for both courses, just no review book Anyone out there have either they would be willing to sell?

Any NPs out there working in the ER? What kind of advice would you suggest for breaking into this speciality? I have some RN experience in the ER, not years worth but a decent amount to be comfortable and know the basics.

I am in my last semester, graduate in May. I have been busting out my hours so to speak. I really wanna work in the ER, so I want to do everything I possibly can to get there.

Just curious if anyone out there has done a few specialty hours in like the ED or ortho and just didn't count it towards their clinical hours? FNP programs obviously won't let you get your hours in the ED, but whats the harm in doing it on your own t...

I hear ya, the ER I worked at as a RN isn't really hiring right now due to the saturation of the market in my area. So basically I have to go out and get a job at a ER without them really knowing me.

Well I have just shadowed mostly and practically did everything you mentioned for the most part, but I am mostly worried of getting in trouble. I have a feeling my program isn't gonna let me do a rotation in the ER even though my clinical hours for p...

WOW, I guess I am unable to comprehend what I am reading. You know what, you need to get off your high horse. Who cares that you spent an extra year doing some capstone project to get your DNP. Whoopdie doo, now you want to be called Dr. in the cl...

Jeez man, you and me think alike.

NP's should never introduce themselves as Dr.'s in the clinical setting, even if they have a DNP. I just say, "Hey, I am Mike a nurse practitioner. What brought you in today?" Most of the time they don't even give it a second look. If your competent ...