KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

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    Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP): Job Description, Salary, and How to Become One

    KatieMI replied to Erin Lee's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The Board exam for ACNPs is not "FNP". It is quite different exam, ACAGNP. Content of both exams has not much in common (I passed both). One doesn't have to "obtain experience" before entering...
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    Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

    KatieMI replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

    It is most probably about $$$$, not about knowledge or absence of it. Consultant gets paid for his job, in exchange "their" patients are admitted under hospitalist primary so that the said...
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    Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

    KatieMI replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

    I have hospitalist job 3/12, but it is a rare pick where I am. I agreed for this specifically to allow myself to go back to school (FNP, doing AGACNP for coming interstate moving' sake). The...
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    Autonomy

    KatieMI replied to IcanHealYou's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Small (25 beds) critical access hospital. 100% autonomy, on my days on I am the only one provider on floor. Support, if I need it, from ER doc and from "main" hospital over the phone. Enjoying it...
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    What is Nux Vomica? State Board Questions From the Turn of the 20thCentury: An Era Gone By

    KatieMI replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    There is one in Philadelphia at La Salle University and International Nursing museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'd heard there is a private one in Glendale, Arizona as well. Here is some more:...
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    What did you do with your old nursing school textbooks?

    KatieMI replied to coopman712's topic in General Nursing

    In my time, I loaded them on a cart, brought in the corridor near hospital library and quietly left there with a sticky note "free books for everyone, BSN/MSN from X university just done". Did not...
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    (For the truly bored) Water beds vs. pressure ulcers: A thing or nah?

    KatieMI replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

    Not from the USA, but good analysis: https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/analysis-of-pressure-relieving-mechanisms-for-the-prevention-of-decubitus-ulcers.html Apparently, the waterbeds are mass...
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    new job, can I be denied job for benzo PRN

    KatieMI replied to seeing123's topic in General Nursing

    A nurse (or APP, or physician, for this matter) can take whatever drugs necessary to support her/his health, including opioids, benzos, psychotropics and so forth, as long as there is a current...
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    About FNP ?

    KatieMI replied to JenMH88RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You can work in Internal Medicine (including Gastro, Cardio, Onco, Nephro and everything else) clinic with FNP without any problems or additional certifications anywhere in the country. You can also...
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    New grad FNP - Health Risk Assessments?

    KatieMI replied to anchorRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    One job which is quite similar but better in so many senses is doing "face-to-face" for hospices. It is also about visiting homes whuch can be, er... different, but at least you perform real physical...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Worse yet, I am usually the only one provider who takes time to sit and explain those basics. I do not know how schools nowadays let out nurses who literally do not know ABCDs of pathology and pharma...
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    First APN Job: Not Getting Paid For Hospital New Hire Orientation

    KatieMI replied to keepitsimplesilly's topic in Advanced Practice

    Policies vary but computer self-taught modules are hardly ever (if ever at all) are paid exactly for the reason you noted: there are some people who can do it quickly and there are some who can't. And...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    One thing for you to remember iron-hard: - there is no such thing as "good" and "bad" physiologic process. Blood pressure, coagulation, cholesterol, etc., CANNOT be "good" or "bad", just like rain or...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Continuing: Without much ado about biochemistry (most interesting part for me, but it is another giant talk): Both clotting pathways work similarly. Each is a row of chemical reactions when one...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    OK. Get me coffee (black, lots of sugar) and one for yourself, too, make yourself comfortable. There will be a long talk (and likely several posts). To do its job - to deliver oxygen, antibodies,...
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    RN's required to be sitters???

    KatieMI replied to anneRN96's topic in General Nursing

    I bet that if in every single case you offer to trade sitter shift for the worst assignment in the unit, there will be a small line of nurses eager to switch. Boredom vs. PTO, it is anyone's choice....
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    RN after NP school

    KatieMI replied to mhnurse234's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The short answer is NO. RN experience generally adds not that much to nothing to your NP prospectives, and if you do that RN year it will just place you in unfavorable category of an "old new grad"....
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    Two roads diverged.....or nah.....

    KatieMI replied to Mpittsenbarger's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If you just want to do mental health, then go for it. But double certification as of today is one of the few unquestionably positive points in any NP resume. Being FNP/PMHNP will greatly improve your...
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    I want to work abroad in Switzerland

    KatieMI replied to Caitlin LH's topic in General World

    I will keep my big fat mouth shut regarding the very same issue in some (QUITE significant) parts of the
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    Too strong of a personality?

    KatieMI replied to NICU_rn_bsn's topic in General Nursing

    It is a question to those who are so unhappy about said "strong personality". I tried to figure it out several times. Usually all "concerns" come toward things ranked from enviable to petty to plain...
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    Too strong of a personality?

    KatieMI replied to NICU_rn_bsn's topic in General Nursing

    I was and still am exactly in these shoes. While you are going to work to care for your patients and not to be everyone's friend and dear, those talks behind your back happen. In the best case...
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    I want to work abroad in Switzerland

    KatieMI replied to Caitlin LH's topic in General World

    1) how can you be "undergrad" student in the US already studying for NP while all NP programs here are grad level? 2) Clinical roles for NPs as compared with what NPs can do in the USA are not...
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    Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP Job Outlook

    KatieMI replied to SN2751's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It is worse than for FNPs because AGPCNPs frequently cannot work in urgent care, "direct" family practice and "minute clinics", which all are in a huge and actively growing service segment....
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    Have you ever had to burst a left over balloon from a patient at work?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    I earnestly hope that you did not call the doc with panic update and asking for an advice of what to do next. Wherever you are, you guys have time of your life there if you are paid for...
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    Is it worth it to be an NP?

    KatieMI replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Considering what you wrote in your post, you should find some other thing to do. Unless you want to become a VERY unhappy Nurse Practitioner, it isn't gonna worth