HikingNinja BSN, MSN, DNP, RN, APRN, NP

I loved the Touro DNP program. Highly recommend.

Just finished the program. Like with any other program it has its kinks but overall very good. The pace is hectic, but I learned alot. I'd recommend it to anyone thinking of obtaining their DNP. However, you will need to complete some practicum h...

Try the Telepsychiatry and Mental Health Discussion Group on Facebook. Pretty active group of over 800 members, all telepsych. Many PMHNPs.

Glad I could help.

First, how many hours do you need this Fall? My program wanted 100 hrs child, 100 hrs senior, 200 adult and 200 whatever we wanted. But these were spread over 3 semesters & we could mix age groups each semester. I got the majority of my child ho...

Did you ever find a preceptor? Do you need child hours only? Or would adult be okay? What school? I might know of a place in Nevada. Quick licensure. But at this point I don't know if you'd be able to get a clinical contract in place that quickl...

I'm currently finishing up a PMHNP program. Expect to invest 2 - 3 years of your life. I'd go for a MSN PMHNP not the DNP. You can always get a DNP later if you want and it's not required for licensure in any state as of yet. Alot of the DNP prog...

Here's the one for Oregon. Still looking for Colorado. Oregon Secretary of State Archives Division

I truly believe you could work fulltime and complete the NP part time. ICU experience would be ideal and most places require a fulltime 2 year contract to be hired into the ICU. As a previous poster said, I would not mention you are in an NP progra...

A few things: Have you checked with local physician's groups, hospitals, etc. to see if they'll even hire you as an ACNP without RN experience? Where I'm from, ACNP's must have RN ICU/ER experience. Or they simply don't get hired. In the ER, we've...

Done. Not sure what good it will do. But it's worth a try. Just had a clinical buddy tell me her school popped up just a couple of weeks ago and told the class they decided their entire summer semester needed to be strictly therapy (its a PMHNP pr...

Hello fellow PMHNP students, I just wanted to put out there a few FB groups that have been invaluable to me. Some are career oriented, others are more clinical case consultation, some are strictly for students. But they are all specifically for PMH...

There's a FB group called PMHNP. You can join if you are a PMHNP, student PMHNP. They have over 3000 members. They do a yearly salary survey located in their files and often offer advice on salary ranges, negotion,etc. If you submit a request to...

Fellow ER nurse here. Do you have a union? If so, you can bring up these issues with a union rep? Even using procedural pyxis, i've always either written the pts name & MRN # down, rolled the computer over, or sometimes simply gone back to t...

I'm attending Gonzaga. I chose it for a variety of reasons. First - It is a second masters (I have an MSN Ed) already and wanted to be able to use federal loans. Post certs are out of pocket or private loans. Second - Good reputation and top rank...

There are very few programs out there anymore that will provide preceptors. At the time I started my program there were no PMHNP programs in my state. I chose a distance program with with a top ranked PMHNP program. Even that program would only as...

Not trying to start a fight. Just stating what I've observed. I have had a different experience than you most likely because we have not worked the same hospital systems. I have never worked on the east coast. All of my experience is based on the...

Here are the systems I've worked for, or am working at now, as perm staff in Las Vegas. Valley Health, HCA, St. Roses. All of these pay med surg/tele a lower base pay than critical care. This was for perm, full or part time. So these are the only ...

Nope. This was perm jobs. I always find out the pay scale for regular perm jobs at the hospitals I've gone to as a travel nurse. I'm currently perm staff in Nevada & those in critical care get about $5-7 / hour more than med surg/ tele nurses. I...

If the hospital route is not working out, you could try LTC or home health agencies. Many of those hire new grads. Also I if you are interested in psych check out some of the inpatient psych facilities, like Rawson Neal, Montevista, Seven Hills, Sp...

I'm currently attending Gonzaga for my PMHNP. They did not have a problem with WGU's pass/fail format. I know of a few other students who were accepted into FNP programs at Drexel, Duke, Frontier and a couple others too. The school I am attending ...

I don't know of any written models out there, but I can tell you what I've seen in the ED. I'm an ER and Psych nurse. In the ER the psych patients are assigned to an ER nurse until they are medically cleared (stable). The ER nurse gets labs (BMP,...

In my geographic area, and at all the assignments I've taken as a travel nurse, the pay scale is different. ER is considered critical care and is paid more per hour, even for new grads. I've lived and traveled in Washington, Oregon, California, and...

Where do you want to be in 5 years? 10 years? Health, and life in general is enigmatic. You might have a serendipitous life or one frought with poor health and calamities. There's little way to tell. Just ask yourself "Is this really what I want ...

I'm currently in a PMHNP program and these are my go to's. Also I have a wonderful preceptor (which helps immensely). The pharm book is like $10 and extremely helpful. The diff dx book has all the decision trees and is a life saver also. And hey,...