IcySageNurse

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  1. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    CrunchRN - thank you for your response. What if in the office I was working closely with the FNP and helping her with some procedures that I wouldn't get to do in a hospital

  2. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    Here we go. I'm so sick of nurses that think every freakin nurse on the planet is required to clean up poop and other things that 99% of the population wouldn't even dream of doing. There are plenty...

  3. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    I just meant that MDs and PAs diagnosis and treat without prior nursing experience, so shouldn't an NP program prepare an NP to diagnosis and treat without prior experience

  4. What are my options? Family Nurse Practitioner vs. Acute Care Nurse Practitioner?

    IcySageNurse replied to NurseDeroko's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Try shadowing an NP in both positions and see which you like more. If you become an FNP, you can always get your Acute Care post-master's certificate

  5. 12 hour shifts...dangerous?

    IcySageNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    RN Per diem - I agree about your statement about doctors, but do remember the key information there being that your brother was in his "intern year." Residents definitely have it worse than nurses -...

  6. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    I really didn't know nursing would be like this. I knew I wanted to be an NP - I've met many NPs who have served me in various specialties (primary care, mental health, dermatology, cardiology, etc)...

  7. 12 hour shifts...dangerous?

    IcySageNurse replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What other college educated profession is treated this way? Forcing us to work for 12 hours in a row and giving us a short 30 minute break. We're treated like uneducated common laborers, perhaps...

  8. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    Is not that I don't want to work - there are literally tons of nursing jobs that aren't quite so messy. I just think nursing gets the short end of the stick. What other college educated profession has...

  9. New Grad Leaving Hospital for Office Job

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nursing Career

    Anyone???

  10. Vanderbilt Grad Entry 2013

    IcySageNurse replied to LetsChill's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Kms, yes I would be working and doi the program at the same time, so no living expenses. I would be paying only tuition, fees, and books. So around $45,000 right? Seems steep if its mostly

  11. Vanderbilt Grad Entry 2013

    IcySageNurse replied to LetsChill's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Kms673 - 75,000 for the first year?? Am I reading it wrong? The PMHNP program has 44 credits and it says $1,100 per credit...so about $44,000 for the whole MSN program. Is that not correct? How do you...

  12. Info on USI Online

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Wonderful! Good to hear. I'm really interested in the program but I definitely want a high quality program and need to hear a little more about it since it's so new. I was comparing it with...

  13. Kaplan FNP

    IcySageNurse replied to Kmeadams's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    These programs, and others like it, are definately what bring down the NP prestige, as well as the nursing profession as a whole. Right now, there is an advertisement on the right side of my screen...

  14. Vanderbilt Grad Entry 2013

    IcySageNurse replied to LetsChill's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Do you guys know if it's mostly loans? I already have some student loan debt, so if it's $30,000 in loans still it might be a little too much for

  15. Vanderbilt Grad Entry 2013

    IcySageNurse replied to LetsChill's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    When is the deadline - is it too late for me to apply? Also - what about scholarships? Are those common for the MSN students? I'm looking into PMHNP but it's just so

  16. Recovering opiate addict: In need of advice

    IcySageNurse replied to GA_RN2006's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congratulations, GA_RN, on successfully fighting back against your urges. You must stop focusing on the negative for the moment and take a breath - realize all that you have accomplished. Many, many...

  17. Kaplan FNP

    IcySageNurse replied to Kmeadams's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would recommend against a for-profit, online only NP program. They care first about shareholders and a profit rather than students. Also employers will know you trained online vs. going to an online...

  18. Reaching the 3month mark...Unhappy, need advice STAT!

    IcySageNurse replied to TaniqueRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That's hard, but I would recommend that if you're not happy you start sending out applications for other jobs. If nothing works out, suck it up and deal with this one for a while. If it does, you...

  19. Best online Psych NP Program?

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am very worried about the number of NP programs out there - I wish our profession had higher standards and didn't allow just any online college to make up an NP program. I would love to go to...

  20. NP Changes that need to happen...

    IcySageNurse replied to Sabotai's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Most of the NPs I work with go by their first name. I like it, it seems more accessible. I think that's why patients give them a higher satisfaction score - it seems more personable to say "hey...

  21. Neuro Nurse Practitioner

    IcySageNurse replied to Delilah11's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't know that much about it, but when I was working on a neuro med surg floor, there was an FNP there that did rounds with the doctors. She seemed to do mainly the same things they did, and once...

  22. Best online Psych NP Program?

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That's for in state....if you're not FROM Alabama it's actually $1200 for the first and $1000 after that, which is ridiculous. I could go to Vanderbilt for that

  23. Best online Psych NP Program?

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm seeing...$1000 per credit OOS (times 43 credits) at UAB. Am I missing someting or has the tuition really skyrocketed that

  24. College based health center FNP pay

    IcySageNurse replied to SamIAm221's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When NPs accept those kind of low salaries, it drives down the prestige and view of the profession. We shouldn't ever even be hourly - hourly work is more for laborers. Professionals are almost always...

  25. Best online Psych NP Program?

    IcySageNurse replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Did you like Rush? It's so expensive! I'm looking right now at USI and Vanderbilt. USI is about 15K and Vandy is about 44K (if I'm reading it right - I keep seeing people say Vandy is very expensive...