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!!!

Yes, I was excepted into the Spring 2014 acute-care nurse practitioner program. I'm happy I got accepted, but I'm bum that I wasn't accepted into the fall classes and that I have to wait six months to be able to start.

You do not have to implement your Caplin study at work, while you're in your BSN program. I did because my manager heard about it and thought it would be a good idea. And education form is simply the form that you would use to teach people. So let's say you were doing cardiac education it would be a cardiac education form, or if you were doing on something on diabetes it would be like a handout, That you created to teach people about what your new processes is.

The implementation plan is how you would implement your new idea. I went to my CNS and asked her what the process would be ( who we would need approval from first) this might be your floor manager or a hospital patient care committee. You need to make education forms for how you would educate both the nurses and the patients. What is your research subject? You can PM me if you like.

What is the general rule on the GRE? As in I hear a lot of people talking about having to take one, but I have not been told that I need to do this. I've applied to Grand Canyon University acute-care nurse practitioner program and have my interview tomorrow, but I have not been told to take a GRE. Is it related to the GPA? Right now my GPA is a 4.0 so I'm not sure if I still need to take the GRE or not?

The capstone was much easier than I expected it to be. It's divided over the five-week period, so each week you do a little bit more of the capstone and in the fifth week you compile it all into one project. As long as each week you get a good grade on the portion of project that you complete, your final project will be ready to compile. The hardest part of that project, is during week one. The first week you have to do a literature search of 15 journal articles on a subject of your choice. Those 15 articles and that subject will be the basis of your capstone. Luckily for me I went into it knowing what I wanted to do my project on. But if you don't know upfront you could get hit with having to come up with a subject quickly. I did mine on cardiac rehabilitation. Another student did hers on urinary tract infections, and another person did theirs on wound care. I enjoyed the nursing research class. In fact, you begin to start thinking about your capstone project during that course.

Hello, I just completed GCU's RN-BSN program. I started the program in July 2013, and I just finished my last class this past Sunday July 28 2013. I graduated five weeks early because I doubled up on classes a few months ago. I found this program extremely doable, plus I worked full-time three days a week 12 hour shifts. We had discussion questions that had to be answered twice a week along with answering other students postings several times a week. Once a week there was an assignment due (sometimes twice a week.) Most of the assignments had to be under 2000 words in APA format, or a PowerPoint. The hardest part about the program was all the group assignments, ( many group members did not want to do their fair share of the work). Still, I'm walking out of the entire program with a 4.0. The best advice I can give you is always volunteered to be team leader or to edit the projects and be the one to make sure they get turned it. Stay on top of your discussion questions and work on your projects early, If you follow that advice you'll make it through this program; I had a great time and I learned so much! I am a better nurse because of this program. There is a lot of research because you do write a lot of papers but that research help me to really learn more about being a nurse and caring for my patients. My financial aid and my academic counselors were always available. The statistics class scared the bejesus out of me, but the teacher was very good and the colleges tutors help me get straight through that and I still got an A. Monday I have an interview with Grand Canyon to get into their acute-care nurse practitioner program so I'm going to continue my education at GCU, I would suggest this program to anyone. mschelee

Has anyone completed or applied to the acute care nurse practitioner program at Grand Canyon University?

I have a question for the nurses who work ICU step down. In your facility, our patients allowed to have family members bring food into them? Let's say your patient has a renal diet, Or cardiac diet, or even a diabetic diet. Are those patients be allowed to have their family members bring fast food in to them or are they required to stick to the diet that the doctor has set for them?