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What is your hospital doing with nursing for patient function/mobility outside of the critical care area? Do you have a nurse driven program or protocol to mobilize patients? I am working on developing a program that will focus on educating nurses a...

I have been working as a psychiatric RN for three years in October. I will be transferring to an inpatient rehab around the end of September. From my understanding, most patients are those recovering from falls, stroke, etc. It has a 1:7 nurse patien...

Hello, I'm curious to hear from fellow nurses how you decided to go into management versus other areas of nursing. I was a charge nurse and I was presented the opportunity to be thr assistant nurse manager. I was promoted, and I am not only adjustin...

I am currently attempting to implement a better way to capture the burden of care with ADLs. Our RHS techs are typically completing the baths, so the nurses aren't always involved with ADLs in the morning, with the exception of toileting, because the...

Thomas University is the program I've applied. It's local, accredited, and doesn't charge out of state tuition I believe, although it is private and tuition is higher than some of the other universities I've looked at.

Have you figured out what you are wanting to do? I feel your pain in attempting to make a decision. I am currently an assistant manager on my unit. It's a small inpatient rehabilitation unit and I absolutely love it. I was working as a charge nurse...

Are any of you in the A-G ACNP program? I am curious to hear what your experiences are with the program. I have been looking into it as well as the program at Maryville.

I will be starting rehab nursing next month after doing psych nursing for almost three years. The unit I am going to, inpatient rehab, has their nurses trained for FIMS and promote being certified for the CRRN when qualified. Are there any other cert...

I was wanting to start a thread to get in contact with those who are applying for a graduate nursing program at the University of South Alabama. I am applying for the Adult-Gerontological Primary Care NP for entry this Fall.

I became FIMS certified a few weeks ago :) That was a surprisingly challenging cert but I learned a lot from it. Our unit director taught the class and she did such an excellent job. I definitely plan to stay in rehab while I go to school for my MSN ...

I did part time and it was definitely manageable working full time, even switching jobs. I think you'll like the program but it can be challenging with papers. Just be sure you don't wait to do things last minute. The instructors are kind to send you...

Congratulations and good luck! I'm assuming we won't hear anything until June or July, which is nerve wrecking. I'm looking into other programs just in case but I hope I will be accepted. I believe all Fall applicants take the beginning classes toget...

I have applied for their AGNP Primary Care program for this fall :)

I'm planning to go the route of AGNP primary care, and I may go into an adult psychiatric–mental health NP program post-master's option. I have a high interest in adults and aging population, and I want to focus on providing services to them. I had d...

Congratulations on this! That is fantastic! And thank you for posting this. :) I'm applying to the Adult-Gero Primary Care program for the fall of this year. My question is where did you do your clinical hours - were they all in the ER? I am wanting ...

I graduated from JU December 2012. I liked the program and I'm glad I did it online. The instructors were very understanding of how busy our schedules can be as nurses, but they also expect you to be organized and independent. I appreciated how they ...

That's really great. I'm really hoping that the hospital I work at will do tuition reimbursement with SU it sounds really good. Congratulations on your admission and good luck with it!

That sounds great. If the hospital I work for will pay some of the tuition, since there's an exception to online programs, I will definitely be interested in attending. My biggest interest is the amount of hands on experience so I'm curious to see w...

That's really great! Thank you for the information. Do you feel that South prepared you for your new role?

Hello, everyone, I am interested in the adult NP program and wanted your input. What kind of clinical experience are you able to have? Do you have to do any travel to the campuses? (I would be applying to the Savannah campus.) and how is the online...

I am considering a change in career in nursing. I have been working psychiatric and behavioral health since graduating from nursing school in 2010. I am wanting to go in a more stress free environment and work day hours which this position offers. I ...

On our unit it's rare that they'll have more than two nurses scheduled but I have seen up to three, even more rare are four. This typically occurs for day shift. They'll either float techs to another unit who is low, and for nurses, they can take PTO...

Our ratio is 1:7 for inpatient rehab. Census also determines how many techs we have. Day shift is easier because you have PT and OT staff who can help out, such as scheduled time in the morning for ADLs for a certain number so they can evaluate their...

I just wanted to say, I love working rehab. It has been a great experience overall and I am learning a lot. Also, to see the changes in patients, not being able to walk to the bathroom to walking the entire unit hallway is an amazing experience. Plus...

My unit trains every nurse on FIMS and promotes that they get CRRN once qualified. I am really looking forward to learning and getting certified!