LetsChill

Lol my pic has always been the same. Thanks for the info tho. I'm quite autonomous currently at my tertiary care facility, working nights with no physician there, taking call for our team's 80 pts and doing 10-15 admits a night. It'll be a change of pace though I'm sure!

Hey all - Do any of you have insight into the day to day life of a provider working in a critical access facility (rural/regional facility with less than 25 beds)? What do you wish you had there that you would find in a larger facility? Do you prefer a smaller facility over a larger one? Why or whynot? Thanks for taking time to answer these questions! Lets Chill

Either way. Ultimately, I'd just like to know if I were to accept an NP position in Colorado, would my past experiences allow me full practice authority for prescribing. Thank you in advance, Letschill

Hi all- I am 2 years post graduation from an Acute Care NP program, working as a Hospitalist outside of Colorado. I have 4 years of RN experience before that. What will it take to be able to get Full Prescriptive Authority in Colorado? I mean, will my experience count toward the required mentorship, or will I still not be able to prescribe until those 1000 hours of mentorship are completed? I'd like to move to Colorado for a Hospitalist opening but the above is still unclear to me after my online research. Thanks in advance, LetsChill

Congrats, Justin. Very cool and welcome to nursing.

I emailed L.B., who does the clinical placement, and she said that an updated immunization card and/or titer results will suffice for the clinical requirements. Good news for a lot of us. 5 months away!

Has anyone looked into the admitted student requirements? New Students | Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Anyone going to start these ahead of time?

Accepted!! Direct Entry ACNP on campus!

Haven't heard a word. I'm doing the direct entry. You?

Congrats to the first on this thread to be accepted! #runningtomymailboxrightnow

Tons of new grad NP jobs out there. I have the Indeed.com app. I just typed in 'New Grad Nurse Practitioner' and right now I am getting 1,759 results. Now of course location, specialty, and salary are all factors but there are jobs. Period.

Anyone out there applying for the Direct Entry Acute Care NP?

Probably depends on how many credits you take per semester and how many clinical clock hours you are required. Sounds doable though. The NP programs I've looked into total around 40 credits or so plus clinical hours. Most ppl I know that have gone through school or are now in a program can work either part time or full time. Some accelerated programs, that'll do such a program in just 12 months or so, will still give time for work, but you have to be very good at time management skills! Good luck in school!

I agree. I hope everyone was able to submit they're application. If not, get 'er done! It's no fun waiting in anxiety for a response from the committee but at the same time I'm so pumped! Let us know on here when you guys here back from Vanderbilt!

Officially sent my application. It said early March we should know if we get in. I've heard others have known even in February. Let's do this!

So many pts come in with "chest pain" soon after they eat. Many times relieved with or without any cardiac or GI intervention at all. Yet most likely they'll still go for stress tests just to be sure. Also, if troponins are trending up, no one I know would schedule them for a stress so it's to the cath lab for them, emergently if nothing will relieve the CP.

I've got everything ready to submit. No hurry though. I want to keep revising my interview survey questions. We still have 2 months until the priority deadline. You don't get a special tuition discount if you submit before then. Relax, no hurry.

Check with other RNs, including your charge nurse. You will learn when and when not to call and what the MDs need to know at 3am and what can wait until morning through more and more experiences like this, but for now ask your charge and go off his/her opinion and experience.

Yes. You can start and/or finish and submit your application without having submitted your GRE score. Same goes for the transcripts. Each just needs to be submitted prior to the priority deadline for first consideration.

I've already submitted my transcripts and GRE score. I am waiting on the application to open up online so that the recommendation letters can easily be submitted online. I'm still working on the interview survey and goal statement. Those seem to be the biggest hassle. Does anyone know if we get to submit a resume with the application? I would think the admissions committee would like to see what kind on schooling and experience we have.

An hour later was discharged? We'd keep him on a gtt and put him on PO before taking him off the gtt then home eventually on PO. Did he go home on cardizem or metoprolol PO?

Pt walked onto your floor with that HR? Not on a stretcher? Wow. Lucky he didn't collapse with that HR and then fall and bleed (just guessing this is a history of a fib and he's on Coumadin or something similar). Anyway, exercise is going to make his BP higher than at rest, even with a fib. I always document the admit BP after pt has been resting awhile. Walking stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, and in pts with a cardiac history (which I am assuming he has) it doesn't take much exercise to increase BP and HR. I'd say both are elevated in this case r/t his activity. Guy needs a gtt and rest.

This sounds really cool. I'd love to find a job like this. I don't have experience in this field, but I did shadow there once as part of my orientation to the CVICU. The nurses and cardiology techs both team up to get the STs done. Teaching the pt what they were going to be doing, why, and what positions they'd have to stay in (for echos and what not). Not much assessment in that dept. though. Let us know what you end up doing!