Izzy11 NP

I'm an FNP and I want to share some advice that I assumed was obvious, but apparently is not. I started precepting students this fall and I had four over the semester. Two were rock stars - one is just graduating and I recommended her for a job with ...

I graduated in May and I began working at a LTC in July. I was suspended today because of a mistake I made yesterday when the state surveyors were there. The ADON told me to call her on Monday to make an appointment to meet with her after they fini...

It's hard enough to find an on-campus program that gets your clinical placements. Forget about an online program helping. I think it's absurd that programs can do this but that's how they work.

I went out of my way on some other things to help him out that I didn't get into on this post, so it really rubbed me the wrong way that he wanted to skip out on what would've been about an hour of clinical time. But I get what you're saying. Right....

Does your program provide any assistance with finding preceptors? If not, then I don't know how they expect you to find any without cold calling. I would just go ahead and cold call. One suggestion I have is to ask your own providers if they know of ...

I have the opposite issue. I work in a SNF/LTC and we get way too many admits who would've still been in the hospital even five years ago.

I just started working in a LTC facility and it's my first job out of school. It's taking me a long time to do the morning med pass, although I'm getting better at it. The nurse who oriented me said she saves time by signing out the midday meds at ...

I'm taking ACLS next week and after going through the pretest, I don't know much of the material. I'm wondering what they actually teach in the class if you're supposed to learn it all on your own beforehand. I've been reading the book, but if I hav...

This is my point. If I had known I had to learn this all on my own, I would've saved some money and taken it on-line. But since I have no experience with any of this stuff (I work in a nursing home/SNF, I've never seen a rhythm strip on the job), I w...

Mike, The program had its ups and downs. The faculty was extremely supportive and really wanted us to succeed. They really prepared us well for the NCLEX - my class had a 100% pass rate on the first try. My primary gripe is they didn't give us an...

I graduated from the program in May 2012 and I thought I'd share a couple of things that annoyed me with the requirements, although it might be a little late. When I started the program, the school health center had some extra immunization requireme...

You work for company A and receive a job offer from company B. You accept the offer and give notice at company A. Company B then rescinds the offer the day before you are supposed to start. Company A won't rehire you for obvious reasons. How woul...

I am a second-year nurse and I've been working in LTC but I want to find another job. I just started an FNP program with an expected graduation of 2015. Should I put this on my resume? Whould it look good to show that I am in school, or would it h...

At my school, we learned in lab on the fake arm, which is just like a real one (yes, that's sarcasm). We were told we'd get to do them in clinicals. I only got to try two of them. Now I'm working in a SNF/LTC and we don't do IVs there, so I've nev...

I've been working in LTC and skilled nursing since I graduated about a year ago. I would really like to work in a clinic, office, or outpatient setting. How do I get into one? I'm an RN and it seems all the jobs posted are forv LPNs. How do you ...

Thanks for the reply. My question is how do you find the jobs? They don't seem to be advertised anywhere. And there are a zillion clinics and you don't know which ones hire RNs, so it's hard to do cold-calling like I did with nursing homes.

Do you live in Kansas? Even though the program in online, you have to do the clinicals in Kansas.

Does anyone know if there are classes or such for RNs to get practice starting IVs and drawing blood? I don't feel like I learned them at all in school, and working in LTC I never get to do them. There are the IV certification courses for LPNs, and...

All the graduate programs I looked at just want the BSN from an NLN accredited school, so I don't see why they wouldn't accept a Platt degree. But as always, do your research. Ask some of the schools you might be interested in if they will accept i...

I haven't heard back on that job, but I had an "interview" for another job this morning. I put the quotes on it because the DON basically gave me the job when I walked in the door. It's just PRN, but it's something. I told her the story of why I g...

I don't see LTC as having a slower pace. Having to crank out a morning med pass for 20+ residents, do assessments, treatments, a midday med pass, chart, call doctors, pass PRN meds as needed, and take care of whatever crises come up does not make fo...

I got a call back today from an HR manager. She asked why I left and I told her the story and her response was "it was a minor error, I'll tell that to the ADON". So that was encouraging. Her main concern was that it wasn't a med error or something...

Thanks for the replies. I haven't had any interviews yet, but on the applications for why I left, I'm just putting down that it wasn't a good fit.

I had my 90 day review a couple of weeks prior to this and received "good" and "satisfactory" for everything. They said I was doing well.

Thanks. What should I say when it comes up with applying for jobs? I asked the ADON what she would suggest (I really think the decision came from above her and she wanted to help me), and she just said to say "it wasn't a good fit". But then the fo...