ThePrincessBride MSN, RN, NP

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    What NP Specialty Should I Choose?

    ThePrincessBride replied to Bumex's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am actually having this dilemma. I work as a NICU RN FT and a med/surg RN contingent (started there casually). I LOVE my babies and would love to be an NNP. However...the schedule NNPs have in my...
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    OCNRN63

    ThePrincessBride replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    My thoughts are with her and her
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know there have been a thousand or more threads on this subject, but hear me out: I have been working on a neonatal ICU unit for almost two years now. Prior to that, I worked in adult med-surg and...
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    ThePrincessBride replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I am going to disagree. Nursing is indeed a trade and this anti-education sentiment that permeates much of the "profession" is proof. Most nurses are chronic hourly workers. We punch in a clock, have...
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    Choose my Baby or my Career?

    ThePrincessBride replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    You misread her post. She wouldn't be working three days a week as a case manager but working Monday through Friday. At any rate, I would probably take the work at home job and stay PRN in the PICU....
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    Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    So, I have heard some stories of female doctors being mistaken for nurses...so I was wondering this: have you, as a male nurse, been mistaken for a
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    Transition from Operating room RN to Med Surg Floor?

    ThePrincessBride replied to Chocolate39's topic in General Nursing

    I think it also depends more on what kind of NP OP wants to go for. If she wants to do something like FNP, I think med/surg would probably be better as she will see more and more diagnoses and...
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    Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios

    ThePrincessBride replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I strongly believe that quality of patient care (in med-surg) declines when a nurse has more than four patients. There is something about having that fifth patient that just throws things off balance....
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    Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios

    ThePrincessBride replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You would think so, but these hospitals are too short-sighted. And let's be honest, the nurses are not really breaking any budget for what they pay us versus what they charge and receive from the...
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    Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios

    ThePrincessBride replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Amen. I work med-surg contingent and one of the reasons I left full-time was because of the unsafe staffing. One night, we had a full house (26 patients), one sitter case, four nurses and one tech...
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    What are Your Goals for 2018??

    ThePrincessBride replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Get into NP school Travel more Lose weight Read more Write more Be healthy Be
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    What are Your Goals for 2018??

    ThePrincessBride replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Get into NP school Travel more Lose weight Read more Write more Be healthy Be
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    PSA: Don't forget to invest!

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in General Nursing

    I guess this is more of a public service announcement/reminder... I was talking to a bunch of coworkers and became deeply disturbed by a certain trend: many Americans are completely ignorant in...
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    The Financially Independent Nurse

    ThePrincessBride replied to MNC's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^ Agree. Also, consolidation, depending on the situation, can be a horrible idea as it leaves a massive amount of debt at an oftentimes fixed interest rate. The Dave Ramsey "snowball" approach makes...
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    Holy pay cut shock!

    ThePrincessBride replied to Scorchednurse's topic in School

    Eleven dollar pay cut? Ouch. I have thought about becoming a school nurse (summers, holidays and weekends off? Plus snow days? YES!). But I couldn't justify low pay at this stage in my life. But that...
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    Are we a dime a dozen?

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ok, so I am enrolled at a 4 year college, but I am currently taking a couple of prerequisites for the BSN program at my local community college. It seems as though EVERYONE wants to be a nurse, many...
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    How My Orientation is Going

    ThePrincessBride replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Also want to add that there are codes and ERTs on my unit. They aren't everyday, but they happen. And really, you can get excitement from the crazy business of most med/surg units without the...
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    How My Orientation is Going

    ThePrincessBride replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Med/surg...boring? Monotonous? Come work where I work. I have so many interesting stories to tell, from people shoving appliances up body orifices, overdoses and drug withdrawals, confused elderly...
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    What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    ThePrincessBride replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school was traumatic for me. Lack of support from the school and a couple of clinical instructors who made my life miserable. Plus, I was dealing with other stuff in my life that made it...
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    Uhhhh, That's Kinda Personal

    ThePrincessBride replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    I've been asked so many times if I am expecting that I want to smack some of my patients. What is wrong with people...it is like they have no
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They were wonderful. No cliques. Much more diverse. I stayed contingent for that reason. There is just one NICU at my hospital. No step-down
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If there is a trio (three people being partnered as secondary nurses in case there is an odd number of numbers), I am the one that is left out by some of the cliquey nurses. They will relieve each...
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am so sorry to hear about your kids. I was extremely shy as a kid and was afraid to do the simplest of things (like ask a grocery worker where something was). I grew out of it, but am still...
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    Black Sheep...time to leave?

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If I go for my NNP, I will stick it out, but upon graduation, would transfer. They don't respect me now as a person...why would they respect me as a
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    Have You Ever Passed Gas And Blamed It On A Resident?

    ThePrincessBride replied to moretonel's topic in General Nursing

    I have blamed a baby