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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!

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.

It wouldn't actually let me make the group until I had a second person to invite. =/

It's "UW DNP Fall 2019 Cohort"

I hope everyone is having an awesome summer and fun time preparing for our start in September! Please PM me your e-mails and I will send an invite for our Fall 19 FB group. It'll come from "Ali Cia"

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.

Heard anything yet? Do you have to pay money for the waitlist acceptance?

Just received an acceptance email to the FNP track!

I guess someone had made a 2019 post! It never came up in any of my previous searches. https://allnurses.com/university-washington-uw-dnp-t693530/?tab=comments#comment-7284176

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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"

Remember to always ask questions! Don't be afraid to bring another nurse in the room with you to check out a patient if you aren't sure. The patient and the other nurse will respect you more for it & you'll learn something new!

A CRNA is supervised by an anesthesiologist, but that doesn't mean the MD has to be in the room with the CRNA the whole time. An RN supervises the work of a CNA, but that doesn't mean the RN has to be in the room every time the CNA is getting vitals. You just have to make sure the LVN followed protocols and documented correctly. If it were the way you are describing, they wouldn't even hire LVN's because it would be doubling up resources (might as well only hire RN's) and not saving them any money!

I never understand questions about weaknesses and "where will you be in 10 years?" If I were an interviewer I would know these questions are unfair and will almost never yield a truthful (truly) response. If I were to answer this question I would say I will come in every day and work very hard, but I am not going to suck up to you/coworkers, I will probably not add you/coworkers on facebook, and I will probably never go out with you/coworkers outside of work. I personally don't view this as a weakness, but it sure has given me a lot of flack over the years I've been working.

One thing I don't think anyone has asked is if you have a learning disability? Again, not trying to be rude and you do not need to answer this question on this board, but you repeat time and time again that you know the content and English is your first language. The way you present yourself to this forum and the way you type, your "cadence" so to speak, represents someone who may not fully understand the English language. Have you had difficulties learning or test taking before? Anxiety? These are questions you need to ask yourself and get help with if it is so. After attempting and not passing the NCLEX 9 times, maybe you need to stop asking this board for prayers and advice, but you need to re-evaluate yourself and what you absolutely need to do in order to pass this test. Responding to sound reasoning with "shut the hell up" is inappropriate as well.

Sending passing thoughts your way! I took mine today and got the "good" pop up. You will be a-okay. I feel Kaplan was well worth the $$ and knew pretty much everything on the test (maybe I just got lucky). My heart was pounding out of my chest at the beginning and at question 75 but just take some cleansing breaths if you get nervous in between. Remember your ABC's and maslow. To be honest I didn't use the decision tree much, but I did always make a topic. Every other question was an alternate format for me after question 5 so just build yourself that bridge and stay on top!

The main things to remember with antibiotics: 1. Do NOT take with foods except cephalosporins and sulfonamides. Cephaplosporins take with MILK! 2. People on birth control need to use a barrier method. 3. Check for Penicillin allergy to any -cillin or CEPHALOSPORIN! (cross rx) 4. Vancomycin: ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity! Also "red man" syndrome from histamine release 5. Tetracycline: no for breastfeed and children under 8. Photosensitivity 6. Ciprofloxacin: no for breast feed and under 18. 7. EDUCATION: Always complete the therapy even if patient feels better! Those are my take away "important" nursing facts about antibiotics. I hope it helps!! You're going to be fine, really!

I am the same way with the hotspot questions. From EVERYONE I have talked to they say the test is almost impossible to study for and I totally agree!! I have tried to retake some of the kaplan questions that I didn't know the first time around and guess what, I still got a lot of them wrong. I just figure if I don't know it, I'm not going to know it. You sound like a very intelligent, critical thinking person. Remember statistics are on our side and we've prepared to the best of our ability!! To be honest I am glad I am taking it sooner than later because I originally had picked a test date in February which made me even MORE anxious and I was glad I could change it to one closer. You'll do amazing! Stress and anxiety are enemy #1.

This happens with my flats!! Haha! I haven't ever had danskos, but can you change the insoles in them every once in a while? I find its more the insoles, not the shoes that retain the stench.

I have been in the mid 60's on all the qtrainers (with qt7 my worst because I kind of gave up in the middle of it..I know that's bad!). I have a 64% avg on the qbank though! I feel as though I can't use the decision tree on a lot of the kaplan questions. Did anyone find it was easier to use the decision tree on the actual NCLEX?

I just graduated this past December from a BSN program and I am 21 years old. I feel that we are going to be the new generation of nursing, and you starting out young in life is putting yourself at a great advantage. What do they believe is "life experience"? Are you supposed to be partying it up and getting in trouble to get this life experience? There is this amazing book I read by Dr. Meg Jay called The Defining Decade, Why your twenties matter. I think you would benefit greatly from reading this book as I myself had doubts about starting my life without doing any "fun" things. I was able to secure a job BEFORE graduating school which not many people can say, and I don't have a ton of life experience either. I lived at home my first 2 years of college and the only reason I had a car was because I fortunate enough to find a cheap one at auction & have had family helping me. Even so, I rode the bus to school most of the time. I did work on and off through college because I liked having extra spending money. Try volunteering at the hospital or a clinic to gain some experience in a healthcare setting if you are worried about not having any clinical experience. You could even get a job as a home health aide somewhere (no formal education needed). What do those people expect you to be doing if not getting a college education that will set you up for the rest of your life? I think you're on a great track...