Ellen NP MSN, NP

I’ve never been harmed or seriously threatened by a psychiatric patient. I’ve been threatened by antisocial people in the ED....”if you don’t give me xyz drug (opioid, benzodiazepine) I’ll tear tbisplace apart.” I assure them that we will not allow i...

All new nurses have clinical experiences during school. They do not count for ‘experience.’ If the hospitals are truly looking for experience, you do not qualify.

Nevertheless, what we really need as NP's is more clinical training. If you want to teach, write, develop policies or do research, a DNP may well advance your career. If you want to have a 100% clinical practice, you need more clinical training hours...

This would make it a clinically valuable degree. Of course, as it exists now, the DNP is open to non-clinicians.

This was my experience 20 years ago but this has changed. Medical education is more holistic and NP education has become less rigorous and less standardized in terms of clinical training. Too bad that clinical nursing background is no longer...

My internist does all of these things and has superior medical training as have my past internists. Current medical training is much more holistic than in the past. Physicians are receiving more holistic training and NPs are having even less standard...

I did take all those hard sciences as well as 2 full years of Calculus (Calc 4). I can actually understand statistics, pharmacokinetics, read and interpret research. I use those sciences (that too many nursing leaders dismiss) every single day. I a...

I work in a state with FPA after 2 years of full time practice with supervision from either and experienced NP or physician in the same specialty. We have a good number of psychiatrists so FPA is not a barrier to finding psychiatrists as someone sugg...

I love my position as an NP on our Psychiatry Consultation Liaison service. I work in an academic medical center which has an inpatient med-gero-psych unit, and Acute psychiatric Unit (ED) and an active CL service. I work midnight to 0800, Sun-Wed, n...

many physicians have no understanding of NP education. We cannot just jump from specialty without training. An NP with 20 years experience may have no neuro expertise. Physicians often believe that we are trained like PAs as generalists. It's unfortu...

Just an FYI, in an independent state, were are NOT supervised by physicians. In fact, in my state, new grads can have their two year supervisory requirement met with an NP or physician. I happen to love both PAs and NPs. Neither is 'better' than the ...

Family PMHNP is now the only option. The adult only track is no longer offered just as the adult np (ANP) track has been discontinued. They are trying to prepare all specialties across the lifespan. I did my training at Drexel. It was a great progra...

They won't be identical questions, just similar. Every test is a bit different.

I actually passed the first time but know others who passed on the 2nd.

My understanding is that it will be essentially the same. They always vary from test to test.

I specifically tailored my clinical training to include neuropsychobiology, neuropsychopharm, etc. since I work with individuals with complex comorbid medical and psychiatric illnesses. My MSN program was quite good with actual medical didactics but ...

It's the PRACTICE doctorate, not clinical and is described as such.

Many independent practice states do require a period of supervision. Maine requires the equivalent of two years full time practice supervised by either a physician or experienced NP priorto granting independence.

The DNP was in no way meant to prepare NP's to compete with physicians. Too many people actually believe this and it certainly adds to animosity between prifessions. More clinical training is not even necessarily included. Practice hours spent in dev...

The DNP is not similar to the MD. You can get a DNP with a leadership or education focus and no advanced clinical training. NP's with DNP's do not have more clinical training than do MSN prepared NP's. Their additional hours are practice hours, not c...

NPs in Maine don't even need an on call physician although I think it's wise to have collaborative relationships with multiple providers.

I don't believe that malpractice insurers will cover this kind of situation. Termination is not the same as being sued for malpractice. If the patient had sued then malpractice coverage would help.

Are you close to a law school? Some schools take on work pro bono to get experience for students who are supervised by faculty?

Wow, a contract to repay training? You are lucky to be out of this place. I wonder if the contract is legally valid.

I can't believe that you were warned for a parking infraction. We can potentially be ticketed but it goes through the parking dept and doesn't involve HR or nursing dept.