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Any experience for past graduates? Anywhere, but I'm located in central FL if there's anyone there too. Did your program talk about how preceptorship/clinical works? Most NP programs across the US don't provide clinical/preceptorship placement, including mine, so you have to do your best and go about the community and find placement. If your program does not provide placement for you, start early in your search for preceptors, primary care, OB, and peds. It is worthwhile to find at least 2 primary care ones in case you need a back up or would like to experience different preceptors. My advice is to start now in your search for preceptors. Use your current place of employment as a resource. There is a Facebook group for nursing practitioner preceptors (forgot the name off the top of my head) that you may want to look into. Can anyone tell me the different units we need to get for clinicals? OB/GYN and primary care I'd imagine at the least? Most programs will want you in primary care, OB, and peds. Programs usually require X amount of hours and potentially X minimum patients to be seen per specialty. If I recall correctly, my program required at least 650 total clinical hours, 90 peds patients, and 120 OB patients at the very least. I don't know exactly how much I needed for these, but for adult (under 65 years old) I think it was like 240 adult patients and then over age of 65 (geriatric) I needed like 120. Once you go through your programs initial orientation, you will know what "type" of clinical sites are accepted that will count towards your numbers. For example, in some programs such as mine, urgent care does not count at all towards primary care, peds, or OB, but you were welcome to do preceptorship there once you completed the minimum number of patient and hour requirements. Also, what do past graduates recommend for studying in preparation for the boards? I did about 6 weeks of straight studying after taking about 2 months off. I used Fitzgerald for raw knowledge (it's a very dry textbook), used Leik's for more condensed and "hint" like test questions, and lastly, I used APEA's lectures, syllabus, and recordings for additional resources. The only practice questions I did were from Fitzgerald and Leik's textbook. I didn't use anything else. Sarah Michelle's textbook and guides are pretty popular. As nurses we got a lot of recommendations, what about as WHNPs for the licensure exam? Thank you!! Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to this as I went into FNP only.

I got into nursing because jokingly enough, I followed the Filipino "stereotypical" route of going into nursing just like my brother and relatives. Doing my GE and pre-reqs were based off that. I was young, didn't really have a care in the world to do anything in particular other just going for nursing because that seemed like the route I should be going at that age. Fast forward a few years later, I got lucky with a per diem job as a lift technician (basically help with patient transfers and repositioning through the unit/hospital) and that opened up my eyes, ears, and my passion for nursing. I thought to myself, "if a simple reposition in bed made a patient's day/night all that much better, man, imagine what it would feel like if I was his/her nurse." And that's really what helped solidify my "passion" for nursing. Many years later and now an NP, getting my patient to smile or lighten up there day is a win in my book for a good day's work. @ZombieMedic123 Awesome update! Do you have any plans on going beyond nursing or looking to do something else now that you're no longer a nursing student, a new grad, but now and experienced nurse?

Don't limit yourself to a "top" school. Most employers don't care where you get your degree, as long as you pass your NCLEX. And as long as you go to an accredited nursing program, you can sit for NCLEX. So you should be applying everywhere and anywhere.

Read your contract carefully, but if it's a standard 30, 60, 90 day contract, you are pretty much stuck working like a dog until your last day. Just do your best and document appropriately. The last thing you want is a doc chasing after you for breaking a contract. Threats of suing can be made, but as long as you're following your contract to the T until your last day, you just have to suck it up. I wish you luck.

This job is a non treating position which is why you don't need a collaborative agreement with a physician. It is strictly an interview/assessment (physical exam) and you do not make any treatment recommendations because this is a compensation exam, not a treating exam. I've been doing these exams for a DNP for the last 2.5 years and it is a very lucrative job depending on who you work for and which company you are contracted with.

I dabbled in it for a bit. I work for a DNP who's business is finding 1099 gigs for us, and one of them are those risk assessments, which I think are the same as annual wellness visits? At the time, it was 125 per visit, with a few extra change if we did extra tests. It would be like 5 bucks for spirometry, 10 for spot A1C check, etc. On paper, the pay is insane. But in reality, at least for me, it was awful and inconsistent. The schedulers would schedule patients that were completely out of the way and back. So even though patients were scheduled once every hour, more often then not I spent more than 30 minutes just to drive to the next locations. And as we know, patients talk a lot so visits were a lot longer and I would always run behind. The other big issue is that it was inconsistent. Even though I gave like 9am to 5pm availability, sometimes I would get a full schedule, sometimes I would get 2 visits spread out. I didn't last more than a month doing that. I DO know that it's different depending on an employer. I colleague of mine did the visits with another company in which she said visits were consistent and the routes were good, but just the pay sucked. I think these wellness visits is a decent side gig to do for extra cash, but definitely not worth FT unless you work for an employer that guarantees your pay and provides you a decent scheduling route for the patients.

He should have a palliative care provider who should be the one managing the pain meds so that should be the person to contact, not the PCP. He has CP but not on any muscle relaxants? I'm assuming he would at least some sort of contractures and/or stiffness in the extremities so he should at least be on a muscle relaxant. I would recommend baclofen for sure.

Easily one of my top all time TV series. Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai are great actors, though I'm not necessarily too fond of Cosmo Jarvis. Not sure if it's the actor himself or the type/style he was made to play in the series. The series was slated for one season, but it got so many great reviews and with audience raving for a second season that they ended up going for it. I am definitely hyped for the second season and what story they have coming next.

I watched the original. I'm a huge war movie enthusiast and this one was great. Joaquin Phoenix is a superb actor. My GF hasn't watched this, so the director's cut version will be on to-watch movie list!

I'd recommend you pick up mal practice insurance ASAP. Seems like everything is going well now, but who knows 6 months, 1 year, 5 + years down the line something with this patient comes flying back at you. Mal practice for RN is super cheap anyhow.

I unfortunately had the privilege to watch the movie in theaters when it first came out. I had high hopes as I enjoyed the 2 "28" movies prior. The environment, scenery, and setting were pretty good, but the overall plot was just like....what? LOL.

Jude and Nicholas?! Definitely on my soon to be watched list!

Recently finished the mini series of The Count of Monte Cristo, the English version starring Sam Claflin. It was an overall great story telling with great acting, especially by Sam Claflin. I very much enjoyed the route "Edmond Dantes" chose for vengeance. Sam very much looks like Henry Cavil in this and had often thought Henry was in this haha.

I don't mean to be rude, but it doesn't matter if you live X miles away, you arrive X minutes early, and you leave X minutes late or if you are in a big or small clinic, or taking home work. This has nothing to do with allowing you to leave just a tad bit earlier for lunch or have a few minutes longer. Now onto the topic. I feel like they're just being nit picky. Who is actually the one that has issues with it? The doctor or is it the clinic manager doing payroll? As FullGlass said, just be upfront and ask what are the issues with a few minutes or or later. But at the end of the day, it goes back to the whole "clock in" and "clock out" time frame and you should be abiding by your employer's attendance policy. Ask for clarity if you are able to leave early for lunch or at the end of the day if your work is finished? Whoever has the issue, maybe this wasn't brought to his/her attention? Sometimes simply just saying, "hey I'm done for the day, I'll see you later" can be all he/she wants. But yeah, you gotta sit and talk with whoever has the issue.

The fact that they told you may never be an NP again speaks volumes of that employer. Honestly, I would stay clear of that employer and leave overall and take the leave. What if you do end up doing the internal transfer, word gets around that you quit that first job, and things don't look good on you? Leave now on mutual, agreed terms. Again, what they said is super shady. I was not in a specific situation as yourself when I was a new grad, but I did end up leaving my first FT job within 5 weeks after finding out it wasn't "the right fit" for me. Long story short, I was unexpectedly expected to do RN work and cover for RNs that called out as an NP which was not stated to me on my employment contract job responsibilities or in the interview process. I was devasted, even fell into a short term depression as I had NO idea what specialty or what to do and I thought that leaving 5 weeks into a new job would look awful on my resume. I ended up working for a super cool DNP doing contract work, medical examiner and annual wellness visits to "pay the bills." After almost a year of doing that (finished out that new grad 1 year), I ended up starting to look for a more stable, full time job with benefits and landed in rehab position. Despite the internet talking about saturated the NP market is, there will always be jobs out there. I'm a huge propronent of doing contract work as it is flexible, can be really good pay, and something to do on the side to build that experience. Work bedside if you want, but at that time, I had NO intention to go back to bedside. But like the other commenter said, we all do have bills to pay. Hope this is some sound advice for you