ZenLover MSN, RN, NP

APRN / Critical Care Neuro

Currently working to add Neuro-Vascular board certification to my credentials

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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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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
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    Women's and Children Telephone Triage

    ZenLover posted a topic in Telephone Triage

    I am currently a general medicine ICU nurse at a small community hospital, previously cardiothoracic stepdown at a large University hospital. I have approximately 6 years of nursing under my belt. I...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I like the way you explain this and people should think of it in terms of WWII and the Nuremberg trials. Never again did we want to create an atmosphere of “I was just following orders” and if...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    ZenLover replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In a lot of ways graduating with a NP is like graduating with a Bachelor's in Business Administration. You can get either degree in a lot of different places, completely online, cheap, or you can...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    Excuse me? I don’t have to keep anything except a respectful tongue in my head. Why? Because this isn’t my personal battle. I have an opinion. Maybe not worth anything, but I was never looking...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I hear ya and I never fell for it. Some of these young ones being hired in out of school and no life experience are easily bullied. Hopefully they don’t let these high level life and death...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I didn’t miss any of that. I don’t remember reading the precise details of this situation concerning the extubation. They aren’t there as it is still under investigation. I am not assuming...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I hunker what is surprising me is everyone’s attack on the RN. I work in an ICU. The pulmonologist / Intensivist orders extubation. The Respiratory therapist assists as does the RN. Not only...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    ZenLover replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    Because senior leadership basically runs the quantros or safety programs put into place for low level employees to notify leadership of questionable situations. If I was a nurse and had entered a...
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    let go from job

    ZenLover replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with everyone’s comments above. I have been in the position to be fired and have had to be in the position to fire someone. Neither feels good, at least not to me. 1) Don’t ever take...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    ZenLover replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Even if you are doing distance DNP you still need to do clinicals. One of the things they make clear are the number of clinical hours required and I really liked that. I live in VA and so the...