SteveRN

What I find interesting is that some other health professions, physical therapy for example, prefer a different order for listing credentials. The American Physical Therapy Associate, for example, has the order as license first followed by highest physical therapy related degree (John Smith, PT, DPT for example). This is actually the order that I was taught when I first entered nursing (John Smith, RN, BSN or John Smith RN, ADN, etc.). It has taken me some time to get used to writing my credentials as MSN, RN. I don't think it is worth an argument and my facility actually endorses whichever order the clinician finds most comfortable. I just think it is interesting that different professional organizations seem to have differing perspectives on this. Anyways, just my two cents.

Well, I am a male nurse getting ready to start rural nursing. I worked at a 101 bed hospital for 4 years primarily on a Med/Surg floor, occasionally floating to Peds or ICU. I left hospital nursing to work for a couple of years doing home and ambulatory infusion center-based IV therapy (chemo, TPN, IV antibiotics, etc.). For the last four years I have been working in the IT department of my old hospital as their Clinical Systems Coordinator. Now my wife is being transferred to an HR management position at her old job in another community with a large regional hospital, but we will be living 20 miles away in the mountains and I have taken a position at a 12-bed (you heard right!) critical access hospital!! They staff one RN on the inpatient unit and one RN in the ER and I am soooo looking forward to it! I look forward to reading more about the experiences of others in rural nursing. Steve