ImThatGuy BSN, RN

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    Medical TV shows you love...

    ImThatGuy replied to NurseEric81's topic in General Students

    I never got to see Scrubs much. I liked Becker. That was pretty good. His personality and mine are similar. I also liked watching ER. Dr. Alex Stone in The Donna Reed Show was a pretty good doctor...
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    PA-C or NP? What would you do?

    ImThatGuy replied to Guttercat's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    From the outside looking in at both I'd go for PA school if given the chance. If that were a more geographically accomodating option I'd do it. Heck, I'd have already done it, but I chose instead to...
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    Army vs Air force nursing

    ImThatGuy replied to Courbsh17's topic in Government, Military

    I don't know a lot about the military particularly nurses in the military. However, the air force has had to cut back on several thousand officers, and nurses are officers. Something to consider....
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    Should I get my CCRN before my FNP? Opinions please...

    ImThatGuy replied to Pachinko's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I don't know how much the certification costs, but I'll assume that it's around $200. I'd also assume your salary increase would be at least $2,000. I'd say that's a good investment. Why renew it...
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    Picking a Career Path

    ImThatGuy replied to keith443's topic in Male Nursing Students

    If my school had a one year accel. program instead of the regular 2 year BSN program (assuming you have all the prereqs) I'd have done
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    How do you work nights and go to school?

    ImThatGuy replied to WannaBNursey's topic in General Students

    I am a police officer and work as one because I thoroughly enjoy it although I went through a spell of hating it. Without going into why I'm in nursing school here's what I do. I work Monday,...
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    Picking a Career Path

    ImThatGuy replied to keith443's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'd pick the fastest and cheapest. Nursing isn't the kind of field where Harvard or a six year bachelor's degree is going to mean a lot. If you've got the license you're in. Now, if you've got any...
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    No IV Practice / Little hands-on practice in clinicals

    ImThatGuy replied to SlyFoxRN's topic in General Students

    Nursing school clinical rotations do seem like a horribly mismanaged affair. To me, it would make more sense to complete all of the didactic and laboratory components and then move on to a clinical...
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    Common Nursing Complaints & Psych NP's - Not As Bad?

    ImThatGuy replied to SmoothJams's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is the 40 minutes to do therapy? As far as a business model goes, I wouldn't even encourage a psych NP to engage in talk therapy. There are simply too many other types of therapists out there that...
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    Common Nursing Complaints & Psych NP's - Not As Bad?

    ImThatGuy replied to SmoothJams's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I wish I could do a direct entry path or make the leap without the obligatory year of nursing experience, but alas the school I'm going to for the master's requires 2,000 hours of work experience...
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    The "Why don't you go to Med School" Question

    ImThatGuy replied to AL1992's topic in Male Nursing Students

    If someone would support me in giving me the standard of living I have now and would pay for not only going to finish the undergraduate prerequisites but also pay for going to medical school then...
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    Now I get why experience means everything yet nothing

    ImThatGuy replied to bsnanat2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You have got to realize that this is the exception rather than the rule. Read about the history of physician assistants, and you'll note that the role developed from seasoned, military medics. Next,...
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    How to deal with ****-poor teaching?

    ImThatGuy replied to BlueEyedGuy's topic in General Students

    Frankly, at the end of last spring's semester I washed my hands of it. I just show up and listen to their spill and go on with
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    Just rocked my exit Hesi

    ImThatGuy posted a topic in General Students

    I spanked that test, and that's all I have to
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    What field of nursing do you want to go in and why?

    ImThatGuy replied to aghols12's topic in General Students

    who are you to suggest what i'd like and not like? i can very well say that i would not enjoy being an accountant, and i can accurately gauge that i would not like med/surg. in fact, i cannot envision...
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    What field of nursing do you want to go in and why?

    ImThatGuy replied to aghols12's topic in General Students

    Many of my cohort members entered the program not knowing what they wanted to do, as you'd expect, but several of the girls wanted to go into OB. None of them want OB now, and I think nearly everyone...
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    There was a thread that bashed that book from several people,
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    Accelerated BSN? Transfer BSN? or Bridge?

    ImThatGuy replied to MegMont's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Cheapest and fastest. Decide in that
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    Yep, I think the Potter & Perry foundations book even mentioned that. Granted, that was a sorry excuse for a book, but do you feel nursing is more aligned with biology and chemistry (a science)...
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    I am not saying nursing does not draw on science or make inferences based on science. I am, however, saying that nursing, as a field, is not a science. Nursing aligns itself,as a field, with the...
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    Any ME time at all during RN program?

    ImThatGuy replied to LatinoHealthNut's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Honestly, I know there's a lot of hype about nursing being the worst thing ever, but it's not. It is not the most difficult thing I have ever done, and it won't be for you either. Everyone in my...
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    Why does it HAVE to be scientific? What's wrong with nursing being a field of study you go learn and then do? I'm completely comfortable with that. Sure, someone needs to exist to study the acts of...
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    RN with bachelors degree in Business to NP Program

    ImThatGuy replied to Nurse Student86's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    UAMS has what you're looking for, and all of their courses are online. Look into
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't say the school of nursing, NikiCharles, has a mastery of science or not. A school's curriculum is largely regional. My point initially was that nursing, as a body, is not scientific, or I...
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    why is med/surg so difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    no, i believe the scientific disciplines are physics, chemistry, geology, and biology with their respective subfields. nursing could attempt to align itself with the biology realm, yet it chooses not...