mookyjoe BSN, MSN, APRN, NP

Hi everyone! Just wanted to give my two cents about passing the AANP boards Jan 2018. Study wise I took the online Fitzgerald review as required by my program. I also used Maria Leik's book and Hollier's book, answering everything in all of them. I t...

Finger crossed!!!How bad do you want it? Let that resound in your mind when you're sitting in front of that screen saying, "WTF kind of question is this!" Slow down and read carefully. It's all up there.

Need to wait for your license in order to apply for your NPI and don't list your home address, give a business address or every drug rep in Kingdom Come will come to your house! You can change the address once you find employment.

ER specifically....as some others suggested, SBAR to begin with, with a review of meds and how much the patient is already taking/being given will guide the physician to make further changes if warranted. Remember new grads, if you don't have a tren...

Hi LeeDe. If you PM me here then I can get back with you. I think passing was really a matter of reading the questions and all the choices. I usually scored over 73% after my first predictor (68%) and remediating for 4 weeks. Until you were scori...

While albumin is not considered a banked blood product at some institutions, it is a component of blood, as FFP, etc., regardless of where it is kept in a hospital setting. Whether the institution treats it as such is a secondary policy, but I agree...

We only teach percussion as to how it should be used which now relates more to gas in a belly, but there still are plenty other circumstances. Other techniques are for advanced nurses and are for diagnostic purposes. Everything should be covered in...

I taught for 5 years at technical colleges, universities, and community colleges. The bottom line is what does the institution call for as far as qualifications. I only had my MSN when I taught and was offered a full-time assistant professor positi...

I can tell you I had no clue how tedious it would be to cold call every single clinic office from my city to up to 4 hours away before I found all my preceptors that I needed. You seriously cannot be picky about "maybe I'll find something closer." ...

Hi Doc, You ask a pivitol question IMO. As a Nurse Educator, now, Post-MSN FNP certificate seeker, I asked this myself! I worked ER and saw what you saw and I worked med/surg, community, pediatrics, and women's health and asked myself why are skill...

This is probably going to be the worst advice, but I HATE the hospital except for ER myself and while it does get boring, I like having something I know and something that is not go, go, go for 12 hours. It's my own little hospice at times. I have ...

Anyone have any thoughts about Diversicare? I am considering a position and after reading this long, but educational post about LTC facilities, I am also wondering....did any DON's walk into a place knowing administrator's weren't interested in your...

Hi there, it's been over one year, but I was wondering if you found preceptors? I attend APSU as FNP student and am currently hunting for my own. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Hi MiahMSN, I am starting at APSU this fall. I do have to secure my own preceptors which, I have my adult health covered, but still need to find peds and women's health preceptors. This would have been a snap had I not relocated at the beginning of...

If you can stand a heel, then you will LOVE Klogs. It really is spelled Klogs with a "K," they are not hard like Danskos. If you don't like a heel, they do make low profile ones too. My personal faves right now are actually Sketchers Go Walk 3. I...

I absolutely LOVED my program (UND) and having the freedom as an adjunct instructor to work any specialty that came to mind is a BONUS . The issue I have, and others have testified as well, is that this profession is not about $ unless you are a PhD...

Is this part of today's clinical lesson? Don't I get like an A, B, C, or D choice?

I never actually attended, I was just accepted by phone. Working is possible while going through the program, however, it all depends on how comfortable you are with studying, clinicals, and home life. Best of luck to you!

After your BSN, you would need to be admitted into a MSN-NP program. There are some I heard that get into MSN programs with no experience as a RN and there are more folks that say there is an unspoken rule that you must have one year of experience a...

Are you applying directly or going through RODP? I was accepted over the phone as I thought we would be moving there, and then found out that we wouldn't be moving to TN and you have to do clinicals in TN. The program was well organized though and ...

Hello All! I was looking into applying to both University of Nebraska Medical Center and SLU's online post-master's FNP programs. I have seen tons of stuff about SLU and applied a couple years ago with no experience and was rejected. So glad too.....

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I am new faculty for a PN program and my job is too assist in teaching 4 basic nursing skills, and instead of handing me 4 pages of paper on how and what they expect to be taught, they handed me a fundamentals nursing book. That was a little rude si...

This post is a little older, but I have almost 2 years experience in acute care (ER and Med/Surg), with 7 months in community health also. In teaching PN students with my BSN, and I can say that teaching only includes the basics and anything major h...

I have just been accepted into Uiversity of North Dakota's online MSN-Nurse Educator program and my advisor it very open to calls with any concerns or questions. To answer your question about teaching experience before graduation, I did something a ...