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I'm already CCRN cert for many years. I want to tke the CMC exam but I don't know anyone who has. Tell me how you prepared and what you thought of the test please!

Please tell me about the exam and how you prepped. Thanks!

ugh, stop GL, you are scaring me. Seriously, these patients are the main reason I want out of the hospital. I am sure they will always be around, but at least in my area, the NPs here can discharge drug seekers from the practice if they can't ma...

You can look at the Health and Human services website to see if there is an area identified as high needs that you might be willing to relocate to in exchange for federal dollars toward your outstanding loans. Also, the Indian Health Service has very...

I guess you are referring to the regents program? I have never heard anything about it. Some buzz that it exists, but haven't heard of anyone actually going through it yet. I will tell you that ETSUs reputation in this area is unsurpassed. The ...

Do you mind sharing where you went?

Thank you for failing him. Just Saturday night I took care of a commercial truck driver having his 9th AMI. He is 5'7", 308 pounds, smokes 3 packs a day, is a noncompliant insulin dependent diabetic and was eating a hamburger and "throwing bck a fe...

I am not personally acquainted with the Vandy grads, save one. She was not a DE stuent. She had been a CCU/ED nurse for about 10 years. I was suprised to hear she didn't take to NP, b/c when I knew her as a coworker in the unit, she was excellent....

And on another note, is there a reliable place that ranks graduate nursing programs? I've never seens one and I hope to be presented with a tough choice myself here, very soon.

I am acquainted with a physician that is a graduate of Emory. Great school, right? He's a moron. The other docs are pretty vocal about not trusting him. He's in internal med, was on call, surgeon wanted a med opinion on an issue tangential to his...

I get where you are coming from, because I have kids who have been in the same position. I do appreciate the value of an Ivy League education. If your expensive school is one of the genuine Ivy's, I might go for it. Outside of those, I don't think...

Isn't is really a moot point? I know a dozen NPs and I don't know a single one that goes by a title. They are not Mr or Ms so and so. They are Sue, Joe and Mike, etc, the nurse practitioner. I really doubt if "Mike" goes back for his DNP, he is going...

Honestly, I thought the GRE was pretty easy. I didn't prep at all, other than read the NYT every day (a vocab boost). In retrospect, I wish I had practiced writing, b/c I only got a 4 and I'm not happy with that. Upper tier sachools want a 5 minim...

I really appreciatre your response!

I saw a story in MSNBC that college financial aid is drying up and that student loans are going to be very hard to get next year. They were speaking about undergrad specifically, but I assume the same will apply to graduate programs. I filled out the...

I work with an ED physician who is widely known (by other docs as well) to order every available test just to cover his own incompetence, so it doesn't shock me that a NP might. I just don't think it is fair to make blanket statements, regardless of...

I think all of the program are getting many more applications this year. I was in email contact with MUSC and they said they have been inundated with applications for their brand new DNP program. Thy have many many more applications than they ant...

I am full of third hand information today. Like you, I was looking for student feedback last year, and I emailed with a member here who attends the ANP program at GWU. She had very positive things to say about it. I believe she was halfway through at...

One of my profs got her DNP from Rush. She has nothing but terrific things to say about the whole experience. She already had a PhD and said that for her, the DNP was more demanding b/c the traditional research and writting was more straightforward ...

Tammy: Eric (at Duke) told me that to be accepted into the DNP program, a candidate must first be accepted into the MSN program. When the MSN program roster is complete, the applicants further applying for the DNP will be forwarded on to that commi...

Today I find out a different professor never sent her electronic LOR to MUSC. They cannot consider my app, since the deadline was 2/1. That app cost me over $100 in various fees, so I'm a might po'd at the prof. Jebus, just tell me if you aren't goin...

FWIW, I know someone who went to Vandy for ANP and said it is a great program. She was already employed as the RN in a cardiology office and they paid the whole nut, she just had to agree to work for x# of years at a slightly lower than average (for...

Tammy: I mailed ole Eric my CV in a fancy vinyl folder, lol, with a copy of my license, my CCRN certificate, and an award letter I had from some volunteer work I do. I really do not care anymore if that is good enough. The first prof refused to s...

Now Duke wants a portfolio. WT_F am I supposed to put into a portfolio? I have been practicing nursing for 15 years, not making art! The admission advisor told me most people just put their CV in a binder and send that. I already sent them a CV, ...

I couldn't take it anymore, I called them. GW said "application is complete, thank you for following up." ***? Duke said they are missing a letter of rec, though my prof insists she sent it. I'm pulling my hair out about that one.... ETSU lost my...