Larry3373

Suck it up, and find another job. Also get rid of the attitude that your problem is this older nurse. More than likely you contributed to getting fired in some way. Since you can only control your actions, I suggest finding another job and kissing...

About 11 months

To answer the OP, the PCU I worked for had many ambulatory patients that could take care of their own hygiene for the most part. Some of them were pretty sick as they had recently undergone heart surgery or were awaiting a heart cath. If your PCU g...

The basic idea is when you read to ask yourself how you would apply the information in a given scenario. For each objective you should make yourself some flash cards showing what you as the nurse would do and in which order you would do it. For exa...

https://allnurses.com/nurse-practitioners-np/acnp-jobs-990136.html

Oh I'm sorry, I read your post again and it seems like you meant what states are acnp able to find jobs. Not sure about the states you mentioned.

My research has revealed that acnp can work in specialty practices like cardio, neuro, etc or surgery. They also can work as hospitalists. I have seen them in the icu as well. ER may be difficult because they would want you to be able to see all a...

I transferred to float pool after almost 4 years bedside including 2 years in the ICU. I'm not sure I would fare well working in every unit of the hospital (excluding L&D and surgery) if I did not have that background. I would say it depends on...

I agree that anything is better than nothing. I know a few people that started out that way and were able to find acute care positions later. It looks better than no experience at all, that's for sure. You may be able to get your student loans ext...

My 2 cents is this. If you stay for a while you will get better and your anxiety level will go down. That being said, there are plenty of other areas in nursing that you would likely enjoy more. The problem is that most of them require a good bit ...

It may have been causing the patient some discomfort, but it might also have caused discomfort if you tried to start an iv and were unsuccessful a few times. Then you would have needed to find someone else, which would require a third attempt. Also ...

I worked just over an hour away for nearly a year. There were days when I struggled to stay awake on the long drive home, but most of the time it was fine. Just take a good nap the first day and go straight to bed each day until you have a day off....

I can answer number 2. Try becoming a patient care tech and working at a local hospital before you graduate. Then you are more likely to get hired after graduating. The best thing to do after that is to try to get your New York license and start a...

Everyone I know in south MS able to find a job with no difficulty

I'm enrolled in an emergency dual role nurse practitioner program at the university of south Alabama. Basically it's just the family and acute care nurse practitioner certifications all rolled into one. A large part of my clinical rotations will be...

Take the peds ER for the experience. I worked for nearly a year at an icu about an hour away. You essentially will lose 2 extra hours of sleep per day. However, the ER will give you critical experiences that will help you wherever you go after tha...

I've had a couple patients who have done this. The "seizure" only really happens when someone is around, and there is no postictal state. Try picking their hand up afterward and dropping it on their face to see if they will slap themselves, lol.

From Medscape.com: Carbon dioxide retention from depression of hypoxic drive has been overemphasized. Despite the widely held belief that too much oxygen causes significant respiratory depression, multiple studies in the literature dispute this view...

You have to look at each person individually to assess their baseline. Many times a patient with COPD may live with higher than normal CO2 levels in the blood and lower than normal O2 saturation. It used to be believed that some COPD patients were ...

If an ED will allow them to only see adults, I don't see why not. My understanding is that for the fast track they prefer an FNP due to the fact that they can see all ages.

Acute care is designed for setting like icu, specialty practices such as cardiology/surgery, or other inpatient roles like hospitalists. FNP is designed for primary care in the outpatient clinic, or urgent care, or emergency dept fast track. You w...

Some free resources include all of Mike Linares YouTube videos and David Woodruff's videos. The latter is the editor of critical care made incredibly easy. Mike Linares has a website too and it is Simple Nursing, but you have to pay for a membershi...

Yes, I kind of alluded to this in my comments above. The Consensus model is attempting to better define the roles of various types of nurse practitioners and other APRNs like CNS. This is one of the reasons I'm working toward two specialties rather...

FNP (family nurse practitioner) can see all ages. Most people choose that track thinking it will offer them more job opportunities. The acute care NP (AGACNP), is designed to work with more unstable patients, such as ICU or just inpatients in gener...

I would look up YouTube videos. David Woodruff has several videos on body systems that are free and very good. He is the editor of Critical Care Nursing made incredibly easy. Speaking of that, you might try reviewing some of the made easy series l...