ZenLover MSN, RN, NP

ZenLover has 11 years experience as a MSN, RN, NP and specializes in APRN / Critical Care Neuro.

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   Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

   ZenLover replied to smithdnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I have an entire career in healthcare before coming to the bedside or getting my RN. I was given some level of credit for this. I am not sure what to entirely expect of myself or my career as I...
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   Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

   ZenLover replied to smithdnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   First, I don't know if you intended the tone here to be condescending, but it is. Second, I made it clear my experience is in the ICU. Of course you never asked what kind but after the past 2 years...
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   Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

   ZenLover replied to smithdnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I am currently working on an offer that does give me credit for previous nursing and my hourly rate / salary will also be above average. I am a brand new NP starting a Critical Care Neuro position....
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   Interviewing a Phoenix

   ZenLover replied to ZenLover's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for your positive feedback. It took a pandemic for me to finally just "put" myself out
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   Interviewing a Phoenix

   ZenLover posted a topic in General Nursing

   My most recent experiences sound so much like what you have already heard. Being a critical care nurse in a pandemic has not been easy. But what is easy? What in life is ever easy? Falling down, but...
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   Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

   ZenLover replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

   What amazes me are the number of employees anywhere acting like this vaccine is the first mandate ever. Umm...TB testing, even outside of healthcare. And if you had a positive result you had to do...
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   Tolerating Abuse from Grieving Families

   ZenLover replied to evelynkarirn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I work in the ICU and with COVID we see a lot more of this than ever before because many of our patients are unvaccinated and come from families that didn't really believe COVID was real. As a result...
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   Removing Calazime

   ZenLover replied to Orion81RN's topic in Private Duty

   I don't know if this will work for you but I know what your talking about because I work in a hospital and that thick Zinc is hard to deal with once pasted on. I remember though when my son was a...
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   Anybody ever seen anything like this??

   ZenLover replied to Saf1's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1742-6723.13537 Not that it was necessarily Ivermectin, but this link looking at the potential toxicity of different treatments at home for COVID might...
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    Anybody ever seen anything like this??

    ZenLover replied to Saf1's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I saw something similar in a grown man that came into our ED and up to our ICU. His pH was 7.02 and it was metabolic acidosis, not respiratory driven. They were thinking it was because he had taken...
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    How to educate spouse about what I do as an NP?

    ZenLover replied to deliverator's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I, personally, would avoid "talking at her". She obviously doesn't like it and you are getting frustrated = not working for either of you. Most miscommunication is not bad intent, is bad...
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    Nurse Practitioner Credentialing

    ZenLover replied to GEB16's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I worked on the business side. Credentialing is time consuming, not necessarily expensive. I am not saying you need to argue or even seek him out on the conversation. Professionally I would ignore...
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    Passed ANCC/FNP Boards TODAY, how I did it.

    ZenLover posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Okay, so ya'll are probably like why did you hop on here, you should be celebrating. Seriously, I have to tell you though that after reading all the posts about how I passed the boards I needed...
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    Home Healthcare NP

    ZenLover posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Are there any NP / FNPs or the like that work in home healthcare? I am potentially looking at being hired (within the hospital system I currently work in) as a new grad FNP in home health. Basically...
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    Women's and Children Telephone Triage

    ZenLover replied to ZenLover's topic in Telephone Triage

    Thank you for sharing! It is very much