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I am a FNP and a guy!!! HA! I agree it helps at times being a guy, sometimes it helps being a women:idea: sometimes it helps being nice! For me the nursing bit is always a bit in my background but yes I do practice medicine here in the state of WA, w...

I make quite decent +100k, 30 hrs a week or so and I love my profession as a ARNP in the state of WA, I could never imagine going back to the bedside as a RN, though I value and would never change my experience as a RN as it made me who I am today.

I frequently deal with this but it becomes sort of background noise for me. I introduce myself with my first name and say "I am a nurse practitioner" Seemingly the older generation will persistently call me Dr. I genrally am quite clear in a joking w...

As Captain Crab says "Mother of Pearl"!!!! heck yes I am happy. I had a mild epiphany and went back to school to be a ARNP. Hard work, stressful on my life and my family, and worth every minute of the pain and suffering without a single question. Do ...

Hmmm I have no idea what forum you read that on but I wonder if it may be a med student/resident sort of thing. I have encountered NO issues from MD's DO's or who ever. Here in WA state we have independent practice and in my setting are perferred ove...

extremity injuries, rashes, eye complaints of all types, URI's, dysuria, cough, lacerations, back pain....

one of the challenges with "traveling" as a np is that you of course need licensure in each state and i am not aware of any compacts for np's like they have for rn's so of course you would have to apply to each state you expect to work in. also most ...

I agree with Finally2003NP-C, having myself spent 20 yrs in ICU, ED airlift etetetet when I went to work in a ED (as a ARNP), I knew what was expected, No I did not feel I had the NP part nailed done......do not know if I ever will !!! My first coupl...

its a tough issue, with your family background the ED might not be a good place for you to practice. Though I wish to point out to another poster that narcotic withdrawal will not kill you, other rx will but not narcs, you just wish you could die. Th...

its called leadership and team work Laura!!

well, i have seen some great np's change over the years, womens health to ed, to cardiology, to family practice. i do not think you are destined to be stuck, but i do understand your concern and i think it is good tobe aware of on a related note, is...

So, I will take a bit off track, but same outcome. You have advice from people you trust and they are telling you to do one thing(FNP) but you are looking for opinions that support what you want to hear.... I agree with the opinion that gero is too ...

I am dealing with this now. I am working half time as a FNP in a ED and remain currently in a half time RN consulting (not bedside) position. Both for the same large system. I am currently waiting for a FTE in the ED. As I was a old ED RN and new FNP...

Yikes! don't say that!!! I am 52 and just finished school and start my new position on the 10th, I figure I have another 20 yrs of of life left in me! ap

and I add HA! I am still clueless ap

Just work hard, pay attention, pay attention to the science and patients, avoid the cliches and you will do fine. I was a/the manager of what was then the largest ED in the US in late 90's, level 1 trauma and burn, center. and hired both new RN's a...

WOW! Lengthy post that my eyes blurred reading! Did you type all of that!!! I am replying to your first paragraph about telemedicine. Yes I like it. I was a level 1 ED RN, Manager, airlift, na na na na . Took a Consulting Nurse position with a prog...

I think a bit of it is in the eye of the beholder, though certainly resouces are an issue. Another school in Seattle you did not mention was Seattle Pacific University. Large enough to have had a FNP program for a while but small enough to custom tai...

Wow! as a "guy" nurse if a pt did that to me I would noty feel guilty but ****** off and consider it a assault! it sounds like you held it togther great. I would be rather methodical about it and find out the process in your facility. What if he had ...

Yes I would consider this a breech of the intent of HIPPA. The Health information that the HIPPA is served to protect is defined as any information, whether oral or recorded on any medium including paper and computers, that is created or received by ...