jeepgirl

jeepgirl LPN, NP

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  1. Can anyone recommend a few good DNP or PhD programs?

    jeepgirl posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Hello! I am interested in completing my DNP or my PhD (I am actually leaning towards the PhD, as I want it to teach). Anyway, does anyone have any advice on this? Programs I can complete from a...

  2. Vanderbilt for MSN?

    jeepgirl posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Anyone go to any of their programs for grad school - NP? Was it worth the cost to you or would a state school have sufficed? Thanks in

  3. Pediatric Primary Care - How many patients do YOU see per day???

    jeepgirl posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    HI! We are running up against some issues were administration is becoming very - focused on collections and revenue. I work in a government type setting. As a NP, I see anywhere from 14 (slow days)...

  4. Salary info?

    jeepgirl posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hello! I am trying to look online for reputable info on nurse practitioner salary info, but I am not finding any! Some of it is saying that, for instance, an NP is going to start out at like 95k and I...

  5. How to get stool smell off of your hands?

    jeepgirl replied to mickjordmoll's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty sure it has to do with the friction and breakdown of the latex

  6. Salary info?

    jeepgirl replied to jeepgirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    and that is for a new

  7. How to get stool smell off of your hands?

    jeepgirl replied to mickjordmoll's topic in General Nursing

    Don't double glove - it weakens the integrity of the

  8. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    jeepgirl replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    this is true. it can cause a worsening of the asthmatic state as well... pretty much try not to give asthmatics nsaids if you can help

  9. Getting Percocet thru a Port-a-cath!!!!

    jeepgirl replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    if i was sure that was what was happening - i would have came out and told her - YOU WILL DIE and i would have told her the patho behind

  10. How do YOU DE-GERM your scrubs?

    jeepgirl replied to Mannursemike's topic in General Nursing

    thats overkill! i agree, wash them on hot with soap - run then with a prewash if you want - and dry on

  11. Frontier Clinical Bound

    jeepgirl replied to MidwifeMom's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    **** - are you kidding? no way i wouldn't have done my NP program if they made us do that... they hired people at our university to do our pelvic "experience". i heard they got paid like 250 bucks for...

  12. Has anyone done the Post masters NP tract?

    jeepgirl replied to mbtran321's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    i did both my nursing education and my np at the same time. it was only 12 extra hours to do the nursing ed on top of the np. hope this

  13. Salary info?

    jeepgirl replied to jeepgirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    south /

  14. I got reprimanded at work for not using a bra !

    jeepgirl replied to Kath80's topic in General Nursing

    Go to Lane Bryant. They have good bras there and can fit you

  15. Aspirate on Rhogam IM?

    jeepgirl replied to Bortaz's topic in General Nursing

    i had an improperly given ventrogluteal injection last january in a physicians office - i won't let anyone in that office ever touch me there again. i wasn't paying attention has i have had tons of...

  16. Aspirate on Rhogam IM?

    jeepgirl replied to Bortaz's topic in General Nursing

    you give it in the ventrogluteal or dorsogluteal but never the deltoid - and you always

  17. Running an IV ABX at a slow rate, does this do much harm?

    jeepgirl replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    some antibiotics need to run in at a certain rate to reach a theraputic concentration in the blood stream / body. i would run at the recommended rates unless your supervising provider says otherwise...

  18. I got reprimanded at work for not using a bra !

    jeepgirl replied to Kath80's topic in General Nursing

    if you decide not to wear a bra you should at least wear an undershirt... but when i first read this i thought - its none of their business!! lol! but i always wear at least an undershirt (with a...

  19. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    jeepgirl replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    i had a patient allergic to "meat". yes, meat. he actually went to an allergist - and they had us put on his chart "allergic to

  20. Zofran ODT in kids

    jeepgirl replied to bjaeram's topic in Emergency

    i also took zofran "off label" from the chemo association. i took it for hyperemesis during my pregnancy. it worked wonderfully, but it was very expensive. finally i got an override from my insurance...

  21. Zofran ODT in kids

    jeepgirl replied to bjaeram's topic in Emergency

    Phenergan is black boxed, not zofran. We gave it in peds all the

  22. 1 year, 2 years, or 3? or 5?

    jeepgirl replied to westcoastgirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    what the heck - what job is this that the nurses are making 55 bucks an hour staff? i looked at jobs for travel and most topped out at 40 an hour...

  23. resign

    jeepgirl replied to pedspnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    that is STUPID! OMG! i would have said "i'll go pick some up later, but is it critical right now? so and so has been waiting for three hours." she may have felt that you tried to "one up" her by...

  24. Are you treated with more dignity now?

    jeepgirl replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm in the same boat with you sweetie! LOL I can tell hubby over and over again that he has a raging sinus infection, but until our physician says it (and says "jeepgirl already told you had one,...

  25. asked to resign

    jeepgirl replied to pedspnp's topic in General Nursing

    actually, tired MD - i have seen this happen more than once. sometimes, yes, i think you are right - but usually MAJOR issues have been occuring and the employee is not blindesided. Think evals that...