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  1. Advertise a specialty rather than "General Pracitce"?

    NAVY RN posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I read somewhere that private practices may actually attract more clientele by advertising a specialty rather than offering a "general" practice. For example, rather than advertising yourself as a...

  2. CAN someone tell me PLEASE!!!

    NAVY RN replied to taapple's topic in Government, Military

    That's interesting. It seemed like all the civilian nurses at NNMC had to have many years of experience before they were

  3. How would you structure orientation for a medical assistant?

    NAVY RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I want to restructure the orientation that the hospital corpsmen (Navy's version of medical assistant/LPN). Currently, the corpsmen with more experience are teaching/orienting the new corpsmen to the...

  4. Any Navy Hospital Corpsman out there?

    NAVY RN replied to ldshaw's topic in Government, Military

    Prior Enlisted HM3 Great Lakes HM Class

  5. Navy Nursing

    NAVY RN replied to warmrain's topic in Government, Military

    Of course when you think of the Navy you think of ships, but in all actuality Nurses do not belong on ships. Most ships need only a medical officer and a few corpsmen. The bigger ships, i.e. Air craft...

  6. CAN someone tell me PLEASE!!!

    NAVY RN replied to taapple's topic in Government, Military

    I wish I could tell you about Balboa, but I just left the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Those two hospitals plus Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia are known as the "Big...

  7. looking for NP program in MD, PA, DE, VA, please advice

    NAVY RN replied to ira1027's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    From my experience working with many of its graduates, the University of Maryland in Baltimore has an excellent Critical Care/Trauma NP/CNS

  8. Cutdown????

    NAVY RN replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    In ATLS I was taught to do cutdowns, but this should only be used after a peripheral/central/intraosseous access attempt has failed. The most common place to do a cutdown is at the great saphenous...

  9. Executive Nurses

    NAVY RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I'm currently pursuing an MBA part-time. I'm an active duty Navy nurse and I'm hoping this will help me understand the operation of military healthcare and when I get out civilian healthcare...

  10. Scrubs!!

    NAVY RN replied to NavyCheerGirl's topic in Government, Military

    That sounds about right. I spent some time at Bethesda and it was the same there. However, I'm overseas now and on the ward the nurses wear their uniform (khaki's) on Monday's and Friday's. All other...