ZenLover MSN, RN, NP

APRN / Critical Care Neuro

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

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  1. 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 to help save ya'll some money. 1) Keep some of...
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    Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

    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 begin a new position soon, but I KNOW there isn't goin...
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    Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

    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 alone I was definitely part of the conversation. ...
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    Does RN experience affect NP salary quote?

    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. My experience is ICU and Rapid Response Team. I u...
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    Interviewing a Phoenix

    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 not getting back up. Failing to show up, but not th...
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    Interviewing a Phoenix

    Thank you for your positive feedback. It took a pandemic for me to finally just "put" myself out there.
  7. 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 chest x-rays with months of meds that have a lot mo...
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    Tolerating Abuse from Grieving Families

    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 we have been screamed at, one patient's family ra...
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    Removing Calazime

    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 baby he managed to get Strep in his gut and it gave h...
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    Anybody ever seen anything like this??

    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 be useful to you right now. Problem is that I am...
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    Anybody ever seen anything like this??

    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 a new prescription of Metformin....but no way it w...
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    How to educate spouse about what I do as an 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 understanding. Quit trying to educate her and educate yo...
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    Nurse Practitioner Credentialing

    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 the comment and do my job to the best of my abilit...
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    Home Healthcare 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 (5) 8 hour days a week seeing 8-10 patients a day...
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    Women's and Children Telephone Triage

    Thank you for sharing! It is very much appreciated.
  16. 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 have finished one semester of grad school. I hav...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 you feel compelled to ever say this it should make you s...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    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 spend a ton of money getting the degree at Yale. The...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 to make enemies and I will not be replying to again for...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 decisions land on the lowest rung like this. I am hoping t...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 anything, I am sorry you are. There are multiple listed ...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 does the RN not make the decision to extubate, they don...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    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 quantros for an overdose situation that brought harm ...
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    let go from job

    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 responsibility for someone else’s decision. You can not ...
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    Oversupply of Nurse Practitioners

    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 question didn’t come up for me. Perhaps from a compact ...