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Hi everyone, has anyone ever left in the middle of the school year? I live 1 hr away from the school district I work in which was fine when my son was in daycare (just dropped him off close to where I work). He has now started kindergarten in my hom...

I entered school nursing two years ago with a large district working 2 days per week. We do not do any patient care, due to having one school for one day, we essentially only do screenings, IEPs, staff trainings, immunization, follow up on kinder req...

Is anyone here a hospice NP? I am a fairly new grad FNP but worked Admissions in Hospice as an RN for 3 years prior to becoming a nurse practitioner. I just got offered a position as a hospice NP but am having second thoughts about it. The position...

I am new to dialysis nursing and I had a question about this patient I had. Typically it seems that patients will have higher heart rate during dialysis due to fluid being removed. I have a patient whose heart rate goes down to 48, 46 during dialysis...

Just wondering what you all are using in your units-- What do you do in your unit to prevent tunneled catheter infections? What do you use to clean the site (Ex-Sept, chloraprep, etc.)? Anyone using antibiotic locks? antibiotic ointments? biopatch...

Hi, I am a new FNP. I have a large number of patients with diabetes and am looking for a good resource to help me manage/titrate oral antihypoglycemics as well as learning how to start/titrate insulin. Also does anyone have any good resources on ho...

I am a new grad FNP (RN for 4 years in med/surg and home hospice) and have an interview with a nephrology practice next week. The practice is 5 MDs and this would be their first time hiring a mid-level provider. I have always been interested in nep...

I am wondering if anyone here has finished NP school but decided not to practice as an NP... I have just finished an FNP program at a top-rated school. During the FNP program, I just felt like I did not love what I was doing and always felt like I ...

I just want to thank everyone for replying. I guess the sample here is a little skewed most people here are either practicing NPs or want to be NPs. It is comforting to hear that most new grads have doubts about their ability to practice as an NP......

hi traumaRUs, Thank you for replying. I read your previous posts and hoped you would reply and give more information! I haven't had my interview yet but am trying to gather information so I know how to negotiate. So you have your own set of patient...

Hi, I am undecided about taking a clinic nurse position and hoping you guys could help me! The job is in a county internal medicine clinic. There are I think 4-6 physicians and 4 MAs currently and this is the first time they are hiring an RN for th...

In my opinion, a nurse can be both a public health and community health nurse... For me, a public health nurse is someone who looks at the health of communities. So, TB screenings, infectious disease investigations, mammograms, health education to s...

hi! i am another person who has not found her niche in nursing yet. i have tried nursing home, hospital, and psych hospital and to all of these, i could not stay in any job for more than 5 months FULL-TIME. I got burnt out too quickly doing the sam...

I do think that being a nurse will give you an edge over other candidates for the position but I don't think you need to be a nurse. I attended the Lamaze International training course and our instructor wasn't a nurse. And half the class attending ...

Hi, I graduated from BC's DE program and had the same concerns about the time frame as others on this post. However, I ended up choosing it because it was the least amount of credits (and thus least amount of money) than other schools. Also, it's p...

I am just wondering if anybody can recommend any good, independent health insurance plans. I finally decided the perfect schedule for me is working two per diem jobs but the only problem is what health insurance to use (I can't use my husband's). An...

I was a new grad 2 years ago looking for jobs in NJ (graduated from out-of-state school) and heard from recruiters from Capitol Health (in Trenton- they were the fastest), St. Peters, and Centrastate (in Freehold). Have you tried those? I did not h...

If your interests are in public health, I would look into public health jobs or health eduator-type jobs and remain per diem at the hospital just to keep your hospital skills. I also went into nursing because I wanted to help people and found that nu...

i am fairly young (26) and received my MS in community health nursing in May. After graduation, I accepted a job as a program director in an adult day health center and have been working there since August- I have two years of nursing experience in ...

I guess you need to ask yourself what you want to do. Do you want to be involved in policy, research, program planning, etc. (more macro-level type jobs) in the health industry? If so, with an MPH and an RN, you have an edge over others who only ha...

hi, I am considering taking a position on an acute rehab unit located in a hospital. However, the reason I want to work in a hospital is because I want that "med/surg" experience (have 2 years community health experience but no hospital will hire m...

hi, thank you all for your replies. i didn't think acute rehab was really med/surg. i guess i was hoping it was considered acute enough so that if later on, i want to go and work on a med/surg floor or in a critical care unit or whatever, i wouldn'...

Is it possible to enter med-surg after 2 years of doing community health nursing (respite care and outpatient clinic)? I started off in a hospital after graduation and quit after orientation, but now want to go back to a hospital. i applied to all t...

hi, just wanted to give my input on your decision. i am currently enrolled at a direct-entry program (finished the rn portion, now working as a nurse and doing my ms portion part-time). if you want to save money, i would DEFINITELY recommend state sc...

Hi, I am a relatively new nurse (5 months med/surg experience) and didn't particularly like med/surg so I decided to try psych nursing since I've always had an interest in psych anyway. However, the unit that I was placed (adolescent) is very, very s...