mschelee

This is a good discussion. I'm getting ready to enter into a contract as a nurse practitioner that would make me an independent contractor. The company I'm working for would pay me and I would have a 1099, and be responsible for my own taxes my own Medicare etc. in Las Vegas we don't have state tax so I guess I'm lucky there... It was suggested that I also register as an LLC, it was presented as a way that I could lower my tax burden but I didn't really understand. The person that suggested this said I could have a certain amount of my income placed into my LLC and that would be pretax dollars; I'm not sure if this is true because the way I understand it you have to pay taxes on all of your income. So I also don't understand how an LLC is a benefit. You mentioned that it protects your assets, so I'm wondering if that means it protects my personal assets my home my car etc. if I were to get sued, does that mean some we can only sue the LLC but they couldn't sue me personally? I just am not sure how the LLC is really the benefit

For nurse practitioners I don't think the question really is about what you can order, it is more about what you should order. Meaning the less expensive test that works is the most appropriate one if you could order a CT, why order an MRI...

It is year-round. Each class is 8 to 12 weeks depending on which class it is. I don't think we're allowed to double up on classes like I did back in the BSN portion, but I haven't asked. The entire program will take three years full-time.

I jay started using grammarly along with my PERRLA, together they work nicely.

Depends on where you want to work. FNP's are trending towards working out in the community , like family practice doctors offices and clinics. ACNp's, are designed to work in the hospitals in an acute care. What do you want to do?

PERRLA has made my Gcu experience so much easier. I recommend it!

Our protocol calls for PO Amiodorone to start approximately three hours before the gtts is discontinued, this is due to the PO 3-9 hour peak time. The resident may have been concerned because amiodarone is hepatotoxic.

yes IM. I actually finished my RN to BSN, and started into the acute care nurse practitioner program. For the capstone I did mine on cardiac rehab. I picked that, because it is something that I dealt with at work all the time, and I was able to see how I could help improve our process. You should Bayshore capstone on something you do Earth Ceat work that you see a way to improve upon that process. For instance improving upon diabetic teaching, or improving upon wound care or wound care documentation. Good luck, if it is time for capstone, your almost there!

Some of the best objectives that my precepts have handed over to me are things like "become comfortable talking to doctors", "understand labs better", organize, prioritize, become more comfortable delegating to the CNA, and one of my favorite do more patient teachings. That one is my favorite because it something we do all the time, all day long, educate educate educate patients. So when precepts say they're really interested in doing more pt education, it makes me happy. It's also a good thing to use your preceptor time to learn things you have a little bit of a hard time with like identifying breath sounds or become more comfortable giving G-tube medications, or even become more comfortable inserting IVs. I had one precept who was very interested in diabetes, she wanted to learn everything she possibly could about diabetes and blood sugar and how it affects patients when they're ill in the hospital. This is a good thing for her to want to learn, especially because we have a certified diabetic center in our facility I was able to hook her up with the diabetic RN and get her into some seminars, all because she was proactive enough to tell me that she really wanted to learn more about diabetes.

hi, I just thought it jump in here for a second and say a few things. I started the RN-BSN program in August 2012 and completed it in July 2013. I doubled up one class and that was during spirituality I took the ethics class and the spirituality class together, however they did not allow us to double up on classes before this. I was not allowed to pick my instructors and you are not allowed to take classes out of order because each class teaches you what you need to know for the next class. I graduated with a 4.0, and I didn't struggle to get it I am however single and had a lot of time to do homework. I also worked full-time. The hardest thing was the group projects, because there's always one or two slackers in your group, and for me I was always worried they would mess up my grade. Take se advice, volunteer for team leader. Use the grade rubric' as a guide to set up your paper. As soon as I graduated with my BSN, I immediately started the acute care nurse practitioner program and now am in my third class. Even these classes are along the same schedule, a couple of discussion questions, several papers (750-1000 words), but the group projects are actually much much larger. My counselors always helped me and were easy to get a hold of, my financial aid counselor was always on top of things and I never had problems. The financial aid paid more than enough, in fact I generally got between 12 and $1600 back every couple of classes. The books for the BSN are included in the prices and their digital copies. The classes were well worth it and I learned a lot. Congratulations I hope you guys like it because I do, it was well worth it. You'll need to know how to work with PowerPoint, and I hope you know how to write papers in APA format. I personally kind of suck at APA so I bought PERRLA and it did really good job for me, now I'm a APA expert! Oh, and check out http://www.writecheck.com it's a (fee) website that does grammar checks and plagiarism screening. It cost me money, but it save me a lot of headache when you it's time to turn you paper in! Good-luck! Mschelee

I am also in my 3rd course of the ACNP at GCU (online), so far it isn't too bad. Lots of paper writing, and group projects that span over the whole 8 week course. I have not had a hard time juggling school and 3 12 hour shifts. Right now I'm in an ethics/finance class, and it doesn't look like it will get to overly hectic. I was told the other day by my counselor that they have a office that helps us with setting up clinical preceptors, or we can find our own.

I am starting the online ACNP Program on August 28. How did you guys like your first classes?

In 2010 when I took the NCLEX, I tried the Pearson view trick. It worked for me. I went home I got online I tried to read register for the NCLEX again and it said that I couldn't so I figured it meant I passed. It was right I did.

I'm so happy, I just got the phone call today. Somebody decided not to start their nurse practitioner program for fall 2013 which begins next week, and I was first on the waiting list. That means I'm in I'm starting school next week for my acute care nurse practitioner!!!