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No one has mentioned this, but check for a military clause in your contract. Generally your husband's orders will extend to you for purposes of employment and housing. I think you made a good choice and who knows when he'll PCS. Keep on doing you, you're doing a great job killing it while having the added stress of your husband being overseas with limited communication. Pay in FL is notoriously low. If you can pay your bills, save, and the culture is good, keep on keeping on. California people sometimes don't understand because they pay out so much in state taxes and cost of living. Congratulations!
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I think they are weeding out those who don't want to do the work to get into the program. The more requirements = the less amount of people will apply making it easier for them to choose. The question you need to ask is if you want to go to the university. Read their mission/vision, curriculum, and e-mail the school to ask questions about the quality/caliber of the program or other questions about what you're looking to get out of your education. I believe they take new graduate BSN into their program, so your experience won't necessarily hinder you.
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I got a call from FNP faculty as well (not the lead). She was very nice and extremely helpful. I'll be planning on working part time (approx. 20 hours) to hopefully avoid student loans. I'm in a few housing groups on facebook for the area. Do any of you have any good recommendations on where to live in Seattle? I'll most likely be commuting to JB Lewis-McChord once per month (USAFR). I was looking at living in Capitol Hill for the experience (I'll be getting a housing stipend from the GI Bill), but not sure how much I'll actually get out between working part time and school. Excited to meet everyone! The faculty I spoke with said it'll be around 100 total in the DNP programs, 28 (+/-) in FNP.
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Hello! I am not sure why, but your post only just showed up for me! There is another post that is also for the UW DNP 2019 applicants (newer). Anyway, I totally messed up the written portion of the interview (waaah). It was actually a technical error with the site & I e-mailed them about it, but never heard back. We'll see if it affected my application much. Good luck!! Hopefully we hear back soon. The other post said they were shut down for a week due to the winter snow.
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Hello! I applied to the FNP track. I have no information about the process other than what I have read here and their website. I live in Florida so it would be a cross country move for me if accepted. I'm actually a bit wary of the NP profession right now considering the amount of graduates last year. I applied to UW because they seem to have a positive reputation in the community and their graduates are reported to be in demand. They had a pretty thorough application process, hope mine stands ground! Good luck everyone!
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Hello, In your experience, does a doctor need to specify in a discharge order whether to remove an IV line or telemetry? I always removed it unless specified otherwise, and have only discharged a patient once with an IV line in on purpose due to the patient receiving a home health infusion later that day. It was specified in the order to leave it in. Are there any articles referencing this practice? Are there any legal implications if the doctor did not put "remove IV line/telemetry" in the discharge order? TIA
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Hey nurses, I just need to vent a little. I'm not sure why this medication error is hitting me so hard as it isn't the first I've made and definitely not the last. I have never made the same type of error twice and this is no exception. I think I may be frustrated because of how the doctor belittled me for the error as if I were incompetent. Here's the story: My patient had a home medication for metoprolol in her room. Per our policy patients cannot take their medications. I looked on the Mar and there was no order. This being night shift I called the on physician twice with no answer so I then called the attending. The attending gave me a verbal order for the medication, I proceeded to put the order into the mar. I give the med. Three hours later: pharmacy calls me and states, " the med ordered is not the same as the pt takes at home. " What?? I re look at the mar then look at the med rec...I had put in the wrong drug. The same dosage and frequency but the Medication was a different form of metoprolol. I about cried. I got my big girl panties on and assessed the patient. She was fine her bp was good and she said she felt normal. I called the on call doctor... He asked me in probably the rudest tone you could muster, "SSo you thought it was okay to call me at 1130 at night to ask me about a blood pressure medication?" Well no...i am calling about the error. "You just aren't getting it, I find it odd you don't understand why it isn't okay to call someone who is sleeping about a blood pressure medication." Erm...The patient is stable and I read off her vitals. He just kept asking me why I called him. Eventually I gave up trying to explain what happened and stated it was a medication error between these two medications the patient is fine and because I called you I get to write in my note and incident report that you were informed. "Click" Damned if you do, damned if You dont. I just wish it hadn't of happened and glad I am able to learn from my mistake. Thanks for your continued support in my sanity
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Just so you know it is illegal for employers to discriminate against genetic information. Genetic Discrimination Also, Gov. Brewer vetoed the Arizona "discrimination" bill. Personally, people should be able to smoke on their own time and employers can just make it so employees may not take breaks to smoke while at work. Just my opinion which holds no weight haha.
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How are you supposed to perform tasks quicker while still performing them to maintain patient safety? Med errors happen when we are rushed, and then we start cutting corners! I would be up front with the patients about having a lot of tasks to complete with not a lot of time, and the time you do have for them you want to make sure you're performing them appropriately and safely which is why you don't get a lot of bedside time to spend with them. That way when they complain they will say the hospital needs to hire more staff so they can feel safer with their care instead of saying "the nurse never spent time with me and looked rushed"