mmc51264 BSN, MSN, RN

orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes

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    Considering MSN (Informatics) + NP (FNP), please give me opinions/input.

    mmc51264 replied to iridius's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Those jobs are coming. And they are requiring more credentials. As an ADN nurse, get involved in the committees or groups that deal with the EHRs. Volunteer while you get your BSN and then you can...
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    Nursing in NC - considering moving

    mmc51264 replied to INN_777's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    our stepdown is usually 2-3. Our sister unit does both intermediate and stepdown. Their intermediate pts are 4:1. ICU is 1-2. Usually if I start with 5, at least one of them is a discharge. having a...
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    ADN with Masters Degree in Health Admin, Job Advice

    mmc51264 replied to PearlGrey's topic in General Students

    Ours does not require a BSN but you have to commit to starting within 2 years. Another hosp does not hire non-BSN and yet another requires it be completed within 2
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    Random Question

    mmc51264 replied to NurseEnvision's topic in General Nursing

    Ours isn't set up that way but ortho is on the 6th floor
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    ER GN Quitting Smoking - Any tips?

    mmc51264 replied to AlmostERnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I was hypnotized 17 years ago when I found out I was pregnant, haven't smoked since. Hard to find reputable person, I was near a big city but def worth looking into. I tried the gum and I tried...
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    Nursing in NC - considering moving

    mmc51264 replied to INN_777's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I am at a large teaching hospital and it is an orthopedic unit that takes only intermediate patients (although most hospitals they would be considered step-down, we do PCA, regional nerve blocks,...
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    From the other side...nurses as patients.

    mmc51264 replied to kataraang's topic in General Nursing

    It is very different being on the other side. I have experiences WAY too much this year. I was in a car accident, my son had 2 buts of dka, one very serious and then I was just recently in the ED for...
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    MSN in Informatics

    mmc51264 replied to nurse2yu's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I specifically chose Informatics for my MSN instead of nursing education (I have a masters in teaching). I want to learn the Informatics part and when I finish my DNP, I can teach if I want to. I did...
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    MSN in Informatics

    mmc51264 replied to nurse2yu's topic in Nursing Informatics

    "most nursing informatics programs will just give you an overview of informatics" disagree. It is a very specialized program. Healthcare informatics are not nursing degrees and the Nursing Informatics...
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    MSN in Informatics

    mmc51264 replied to nurse2yu's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Just about to finish at Duke. All online. Top of the line. Love
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    ADN with Masters Degree in Health Admin, Job Advice

    mmc51264 replied to PearlGrey's topic in General Students

    It is is a Magnet facility, you will end up needing the BSN. I started with an ADN and a Masters in Teaching as well as BS in Biology. The best part is that all i had to take was min or nursing...
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    Nursing in NC - considering moving

    mmc51264 replied to INN_777's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I am on an intermediate ortho floor. Staffing is
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    Any DNPs teaching in an online adjunct professor role??

    mmc51264 replied to christvs's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I have a friend that teaches part time for the school she did her BSN at. I think this is where networking comes in. She had zero teaching
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    What do you think will happen if we actually achieve truly safe staffing ratios?

    mmc51264 replied to Purple_roses's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe I'd get lunch once in a
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    OMG, DNP School Preparations

    mmc51264 replied to Find's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I am finishing my MSN in Dec and have an appt to go right into my DNP. I think i I wait, I won't do it and that is a bucket list kind of thing. The MSN is fulfilling one (a diploma from Duke) and then...
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    New grad interview on Ortho Unit

    mmc51264 replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Orthopedic

    I have to respectfully disagree with your statement about ortho being monotonous! We are a level on trauma so we get all the cases that all the other hospitals won;t touch. We have GSWs, MVA, work...
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    ZDoggMD

    mmc51264 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone watch or follow him? Not everything is appropriate for the more sensitive, but I find him hysterical and informative. Love his wife. He did a great thing on diabetes the other day. Just...
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    Nurse Informatics clinical

    mmc51264 replied to npham82's topic in Post Graduate Students

    My advisor found me my placement. The first one fell through and she found me another. Not all schools do that. but I think your school promises to
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    I don't understand bsn to dnp programs

    mmc51264 replied to direw0lf's topic in School, College Programs

    AS far as I can tell, DNP is about theory and not any real specialty. I am getting an MSN in Informatics and then starting my DNP. I can use the specialty of my MSN to find a project to do for my DNP,...
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    Does she look in pain?

    mmc51264 replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    We have just put in a new pain policy and one of the options is "assume pain present" for non-verbal, or demented pts, or intubated pts that are post-op. We also have scales such as PAINAD and...
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    online BSN- no proctored exams

    mmc51264 replied to KRH123's topic in General Nursing

    KRH123 Ignore that one. Being able to pass tests does not make you a better nurse. I developed terrible test anxiety in nursing school and ended up have to take meds to test. I ended up a nurse,...
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    online BSN- no proctored exams

    mmc51264 replied to KRH123's topic in General Nursing

    @Olive RN I am doing an MSN all online, same as my RN-BSN was. No tests, but not easy by any stretch. I am doing Informatics so I don't know what the other programs are like. very difficult data...
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    I hated being a CNA, will this mean I'll hate being a nurse?

    mmc51264 replied to TinyLilly's topic in General Nursing

    i would ask what it was about being a CNA that you didn't like. I worked as a home health aide while I went to school. there was no way I could have done LTC or hosp. I loved the work but the...
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    online BSN- no proctored exams

    mmc51264 replied to KRH123's topic in General Nursing

    I would check your state universities. I got my BSN online and we had no testing. papers, projects, for advanced assessment, we had to videotape ourselves doing an intake assessment, I can't remember...
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    MMR didn't take

    mmc51264 replied to Jen51685's topic in General Nursing

    Make sure they are doing the right test. I had an instructor that shared an anecdote about an IgM being done and needing and IgG to show immunity with a titer. Same thing happened to me. They did the...