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It depends on your specialty but they are very careful not to do anything that guarantees (or suggests a guarantee of) clinical placements. When I was at Vanderbilt, we were told that local clinical placements were considered those within a 2 hour (o...

FYI - her name is Lauren (not Laura) Underwood

The CNS role is, in my opinion, being replaced the the CNL (clinical nurse leader). If you look that CNL programs, they often look a lot like what some of the old-school CNS programs did before they were blurred with NP roles. The CNL, however, is no...

Wow! So much ignorance it's hard to know where to start. Look, your hanging you argument on mainly on the phrase, "clinical practice experiences are provided for students in all programs." which, at a cursory glace sounds like schools have to arrang...

That's exactly what laissez-faire means: government leaves it to the market (in this case job market) to sort out the details. States like yours are relying on exactly the situation you described. Providers, employers, and collaborating physicians wi...

Programs like this usually teach skills in on-campus "intensives" which are more or less bootcamps for procedures. These campus visits may include everything from teaching multiple skills, allowing some practice times, and doing some type of testing ...

I'm one of the outliers in the nursing field in that I don't see RN experience as essential to becoming an excellent APP. I would like to point out that there is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that RN experience has any impact on perform...

Some states, like yours, are much more aggressive at bringing practice in line with the Consensus Model. Others are very lassie-faire and rely on employers and collaborating physicans to sort out the details. This is why it's still best advice to ear...

Thank you for clarifying. You're right, in your OP you mentioned first assist which would be limited to what occurs in the OR (and is not an advanced practice role). For the other duties an NP might do in a surgical practice, clearly an ACNP is the a...

And this is the real issue.

So the key error in your reasoning is the idea that an employment benefits are static. If you read yours and any common employment contract, I highly doubt it locked in your benefits unchanged in perpetuity. Chances are the contract allows the employ...

Indeed. Employer-sponsored health insurance originally only covered hospital charges and was offered at a single hospital (first to teachers, then to hospital employees). Considering employers are offering a benefit which you are under no obligation ...

Yes this is possible just as it is possible to work as a RNFA without any advanced practice credential. The problem with your question is the (incorrect) assumption that the RNFA is an advanced practice role. Any nurse who is appropriately credential...

Most schools will let you take classes as a non-degree student although they might have limits on which ones. Schools that have multiple APRN specialties sometimes have sections for specific specialties for pharm and/or health assessment and might re...

Unless you plan on leaving nursing altogether, you're going to have to bite the bullet and apply. Don't list your previous employer as a reference and make sure you have at least 2-3 solid references you can use. Often times if you don't list a previ...

As a staff nurse, your role in wound care is much more about understanding the wound care and healing process including what to watch for, document, and how other health issues might affect wound healing as well as prevention especially for pressure ...

Wow, that's a long time and a lot of kindergartners! I would do something like talk about what you do when using a hypothetical pt (ideally a kid around their age). "Timmy fell off the swing and hurt his arm..." Obviously avoid anything too graphic ...

You would have better luck with following patients across settings with the ACNP. The Consensus Model does differentiate acuity from age-defined scope of practice but the acute vs primary care specialties are distinguished on the needs of pts treated...

The United States is unique in connecting midwifery and nursing. In counties where midwives provide a much higher share of materinity care and have far better MCH outcomes, it is a completely separate career from nursing. There are even 5 states in t...

You might want to consider a review course like Kaplan. Unfortunately, you won't be eligible for the pass guarantee but it might help. You might also want to research if there is an LPN refresher course around since employers might be hesitant to hir...

[ATTACH=CONFIG]27674[/ATTACH] Wow! So much contempt for a basic education that you publicly suggest diploma mills and/or fraud to avoid the risk of learning something. It's a shock nurses are more respected members of the healthcare team.

You should go for a straight RN-to-BSN. Since most RN to MSN programs don't grant a BSN at all and if, for any reason, you don't complete the whole program, you will have no degree so show for it. When hospitals say BSN, they mean BSN. Not ADN + bach...

I want to start off by saying that I don't mean to offend anyone nor do I want to start a debate about the merits of the ADN. I am considering a move into nursing education and I know one of the entry level jobs is teaching clinicals especially in AD...

RNFA if you want to work in the OR Many surgeons also work with NPs (usually acute care) who round on and follow pts post op CRNA would also be good if you like the complexity and pathophysiolofy of surgical pts with multiple co-morbidities

She'll be lucky to keep the job she does have. So she spent time at work accessing information on lots of employees for personal reasons. HR would lose their **** over this.