FiremedicMike

FiremedicMike BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care (AGAC), Adult Gerontology Primary Care (AGPC), or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)?

    FiremedicMike replied to NewRookie's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The overwhelming majority of ED patients are not even close to acute, but are essentially primary care patients who either don't have a PCP or don't want to wait for their PCP. Midlevels (or APPs...

  2. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care (AGAC), Adult Gerontology Primary Care (AGPC), or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)?

    FiremedicMike replied to NewRookie's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I think you need to be more clear about what you want. If you want to be a trauma NP, responding down to the ED for trauma alerts, then admitting them and coordinating their inpatient care through...

  3. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care (AGAC), Adult Gerontology Primary Care (AGPC), or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)?

    FiremedicMike replied to NewRookie's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Fyi FNP makes up the majority of NPs in the

  4. All Med-Surg units created equally?

    FiremedicMike replied to wendalin920's topic in General Specialties

    In my area, ED's are fairly open to new grads and generally have a good onboarding process. My last experience with med-surg was in my final semester of nursing school, and just to chime in with...

  5. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    Last year, 3 months from graduation, I emailed the recruiter at 7pm for an ED position. She responded 5 mins later to setup a phone interview for the next day, a 5 minute discussion to schedule a...

  6. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    Prove it. And don't cite studies that say "hospitals with more BSN's have lower mortality rates" because that ignores a myriad of other confounding variables. Frankly, it's academically...

  7. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    To be fair - I was responding in general. There are several posts on the thread comparing LPN to RN and MA to RN, I wasn't calling you out

  8. Typical NP resident/fellow salary

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hello there, for those of you who follow my posts, I've decided to pursue the inpatient NP route and am actually in a dual enrollment program where I'll be taking some of the gen-ED MSN classes during...

  9. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    But your post really has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is BSN vs ADN. There is a world of difference between LPN and RN education, and MA isn't even in the same ballpark. There are...

  10. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    This issue is being conflated by people trying to compare LPN to RN or even MA to RN and is a completely irrelevant to the

  11. From CVICU to ENP (Best route?)

    FiremedicMike replied to JuicyJ95's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm not an NP, just an ED nurse pursuing ACNP to work in hospital. Id recommend finding an ED NP that you can shadow for a few hours to make sure that's the place you want to be. Constantly...

  12. Sick of other NPs abusing patients - psych practice

    FiremedicMike replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    djmatte may be harsh, but not wrong. You do have a pretty extensive history of aggressively arguing any bit of advice or input that doesn't explicitly agree with your own

  13. ICU ACNP to CRNA?

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    To be clear, I plan on going on and not working as an ED nurse forever, I'm just trying to figure out the path to get to where I

  14. ICU ACNP to CRNA?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hey all, quick background, I've been a ff/paramedic for a long time, with a few years of critical care (MICU and rotor) experience managing vents and drips. I have 2-4 years to go before I can retire...

  15. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    I had my first job lined up 2 months before graduating in May of 22 and was offered the standard new grad rate. Between job offer and my actual license in hand start date in June of 22, our system...

  16. Chances of being hired in ICU

    FiremedicMike replied to Irene Carmel Salado's topic in General Specialties

    With that resume, I can't imagine you'd have an ounce of trouble getting any ICU job you

  17. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    I think at the end of the day, you and I completely agree. Folks who went to high quality BSN programs out of the gate may be better prepared as new grads, but in my experience, the majority of folks...

  18. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    Why are you so smug? You fly into these education threads and insist that nursing education isn't an inconsistent mess, crapping on everyone who questions their rigor and insisting they chose a bad...

  19. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    I go to a respected nursing college that has been around for 120 years, this isn't a fly by night program. I'm getting exactly what I paid for and exactly what I wanted - the least painless...

  20. Phasing Out ADN?

    FiremedicMike replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    Just popped in to say that I'm wrapping up my first class of my RN to BSN. Last weeks homework assignment was a discussion board post about our opinions of technology and a 5 question quiz on...

  21. Spousal duties as a student nurse?

    FiremedicMike replied to Nursingstudentwifey's topic in Male Nursing Students

    You're not being unreasonable, however the situation you described was the reality for a lot of us during nursing school. It just sucks and by the time you get done studying or prepping, you have...

  22. Rotator cuff surgery

    FiremedicMike replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Health, Stress Management

    My 10/10 pain that I compare everything to is the night the block wore off on my

  23. Rotator cuff surgery

    FiremedicMike replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Literally the worst thing I've ever been through. I had one in 2013, was told about 5 years ago that I need another and I've been putting it off and self-rehab.. really don't want to do it

  24. iPad or Laptop

    FiremedicMike replied to ToHealTheSick's topic in General Students

    If you can only have 1, get the macbook without a doubt. I bought an ipad pro and the magic keyboard and tried to convince myself that I could replace a laptop with it, but you just can't.. Full...

  25. jobs while in nursing school

    FiremedicMike replied to Elaine80's topic in General Students

    Unless you're going to quit your career, I would not suggest picking up a 2nd job while in nursing school. If you've already left your first career then I'd echo the other advice, CNA somewhere. I'd...