Nurseboy1

Nurseboy1 has 12 years experience and specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

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1. NPs working Nights

   Nurseboy1 replied to mdevine22's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I work 12 hour nights, and I don't rotate. I don't sleep on my shifts, I sleep during the

2. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   You may think I'm bitter but I assure you that is not the case. The benefit of taking the longer path is getting broad experience and exposure to many different things. I'm well aware of Vanderbuilt's...

3. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I'm curious how you meet all the requirements to take the NCLEX after just a year. If you haven't graduated from an accredited program or completed the necessary clinical hours. Much less had the time...

4. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   As a practicing ACNP, I can tell you finding a NP position without any nursing experience will be difficult. You may want to consider a program that will allow you to become a nurse first and get some...

5. AGACNP Certification

   Nurseboy1 replied to Dr.KP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I took the exam a year ago. If you took the review and studied your plan you should do well. Best of

6. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

   Nurseboy1 replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Bipap for pneumonia? Sounds like the patient needed to be

7. Pros and Cons to becoming a Nurse Practioner (NP)

   Nurseboy1 replied to savedbygrace1228's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I thoroughly like being a NP and would not change my career pathway. I have a good scope of practice and wide prescriptive authority. The hospital I work for compensates very well, and covers the...

8. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

   Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I primarily have responsibility for all the patients on our census. The nurses call me first with issues or needs for order clarifications. If I'm tied up with one patient and another patient needs...

9. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

   Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I'm an ACNP in the ICU at my hospital. I work primarily at night. Our practice model is that it is me and my attending for the whole unit. Generally I do most everything for the patients. If an...

10. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    ACNPs in my area have a pretty decent job outlook. However most hospitals around here are not going to hire a FNP into the ICU, so if ICU is what you want then you need to do an ACNP program. My...

11. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Lol its north of

12. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I work in an teaching hospital, however the ICU that I work in is exclusively run by intensivists and NP/PAs we don't have residents in our

13. Anticoagulant Preventing CVC Insert?

    Nurseboy1 replied to betterinthesun's topic in MICU, SICU

    Working with cardiac patients, I routinely place central lines on patients that have received loading doses of plavix, aspirin, brilenta, or are on infusions of heparin, integrilin or aggrastat. I...

14. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am an ACNP in the ICU, I'm very hands on with the patients. I can intubate, place central lines, swans, A-lines, do bronchoscopy, chest tubes, LPs. And my salary is nothing to sneeze at. Just...

15. COB rollcall

    Nurseboy1 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Then only 9 more years to go before I can join the COB society ADN-2004 BSN- 2006 MSN- 2014 Aspiring member of the COB