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What are you talking about? What Family Nurse Practitioner is seeing 40 patients per 9-hour shift day in and day out? Your very misinformed. NP's provide high quality primary health care and never resort to just 10 to 12 minutes per patients when in practice.

The hospitals spends a lot of money training new nurses through orientation only to lose the nurse after 6 month maybe a year later. A suggestion would be is re-apply but now in the cover letter state your aware it cost $15,000 to $25,000 to train a new nurse and you're willing to sign a 2 year contract guarantee that you will stay. This will separate you from the other new nurses and give you a a better chance just don't send this out to all 50 places, be discerning because you will have to live up to your end.

$23/24 in central Virginia area. My suggestion is STAY in school but work as a RN and get youself into a MSN-FNP program. Many places it's one day a week of school and after a few quarters 180 hours of clinicals a quarter. So work F,S,S night 7p to 7a. Make your money with having health insurance, use you time of for school and clinicals during the week. Suck it up for 2 more years and now make real money as a provider. My wife is 4 weeks away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner with her MSN. She already has 4 offers all of them in the 6 figures.

To receive a graduate degree without an undergraduate in topic doesn't exist in my research I have done in the past. My wife had duel bachelor's degrees in the arts of sociology and anthropology. Their wasn't a institution out there she could go to skipping a BSN going straight into a Masters program if going to a school to be a RN with an Associate degree. So she went to a University and enrolled in a BSN-RN program. What she was able to do was have her classes reviewed from her undergraduate degrees and apply many classes to the studies of the BSN. But even that was messed up because the administrator wanted her to take a class in sociology meanwhile she attained an undergraduate in sociology. Then she had to take a algebra class because she never taken a algebra class in H.S. because she tested out and went straight into trigonometry & calculus her freshman year. She brilliant. Anyhow my wife is 5 weeks away from her graduate and will be a Family Nurse Practitioner with her MSN and will continue to her Phd. It's unfortunate but my beliefs are, it's all about the money.

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My wife is a BSN-RN ICU Nurse and is deaf in her right ear, and profound hearing loss in the other. She is a travel nurse working at the top rated hospitals. She also a lip reader and gets through her job extremity well. She made her environment work for her, she doesn't work days or in med surg busy floor with lots of commotion. She uses a cardio electronic stethoscope, it magnifies 32x and cost $350 on eBay and it is the best must have equipment if it wasn't for this she would not be a nurse. Please don't bother with the Littman it falls short of what you're going to need trust me I done the comparison at a student nursing seminar years ago and had a Littman representative tell me we bought the best for my wife. My wife using her's now for the last 4 years, I agree. In addition, my wife back in RN school doing her rotations when a baby was born my wife caught a heart murmur that the doctor missed to the newborn. He bought one. Since then Two physicians and a nurse has also purchased the same stethoscope with the physician returning his electronic Littman. Today my wife is back in school attaining her MSN to be a Family Nurse Practitioner and is 5 month away from graduation. We are together learning American Sign Language and totally immersed in it for the reality is my wife is not a candidate for cochlear implant at this time. And she was told after that there's a chance she will be deaf in 10 to 15 years. We are with joy facing these challenges and more importantly preparing for them. I will post a link to ebay.

Life throws at you curve balls everyday. You dealt with it best you can. Don't regret something you can't be changed. What happen to you could be considered like tripping and falling down walking on a sidewalk. Do you stay on the ground? No, you get up brush yourself off and start walking again. My wife have had so many road blocks that if where written down the reader wouldn't believe it. Today she is a ICU travel nurse with her BSN as she finishing her FNP program. The end result is don't give up or allow anything to take away you dream, brush yourself off and continue your journey.

You redeemed yourself.

Jump ship, you will be more respected. Why? When interviewed all that needs to be said is: "that employment didn't work with your school schedule." In reality your be more respected for allowing nothing to get in the way of your goals. My wife was in same situation. She is also now just 2 quarters away with finishing her FNP and back in May worked in a 28 bed UCU Dept to a hospital that she was employed at for 14 years but was very unhappy. She now a in state travel Nurse and loving it and making a great deal more money. She now works S,S,M nights in ICU to one of the top 5 hospitals in Virginia and the assignment before this one worked a 13 week in the resource ICU pool to a trauma one top 3 hospital. We travel a few hours to the assignment and stay, have a great time and then she is back home for school and clinicals. Don't be miserable at work, you worked to hard and deserve to be happy.

You wouldn't be called for one either. Your probation isn't about what they have to do, your probation is what you have to do. Call the board of nursing, because not knowing would be considered negligence and you would be held liable for not follow the directions of the requirements. Take notes, date and time and have the information emailed to you. Sounds like your already in violation. It's unfortunate but the Board of Nursing are not effective communicators. I feel they would rather revoke your license and have you pay to have it restated then just tell you what to do.

Don't do it. My wife has did it. She went to a prestigious Women's University got dual bachelor degrees in the arts of Sociology & Anthropology. Then her mother got sick became paralyzed and she took a job in a nursing home became a CNA to better learn how to take care of her mother at home. After many years she went back to school taking classes and got into a University to attain her BSN-RN degree. Now with 8 years of University study she went back to school and is 6 month away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner. Then their the an additional 2 years to get her Doctorate Family Nurse Practitioner. She will have over 12 years of University studies, thousands of hours of clinicals more years of studies and credit hours then any physician would have only to make S100,000.00 to $200,00.00 a year less then a physician. So if you want to go down the same road of all kinds of different non-related studies? Ok but I don't recommend it.

You really answered your own question it's ICU. Why? You will be more knowledgeable, valuable & marketable. After a year or two you will most likely hate where you work. If you don't then the hospital management didn't do their job. Anyhow you will have options such as transfer to another department, go another hospital or what my wife did, become a travel nurse and gone back to school and is 7 month away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner and leave bedside nursing for good.

You got to get out of their. Why? Because you can't fix it and you lost your joy. Unfortunately Nurses are nothing but part of the room charge to hospital administration. Go back to school and be a Family Nurse Practitioner where you can actually have an impact and help people. That's what my wife is doing.

I hear your pain and frustration! My wife graduated from South University Richmond campus cohort 3 with her BSN 2 years ago. She was ask to come back to the University and be the guest speaker to two different cohorts of nursing students at the school to impart encouragement and share her amazing story back at the University 6 month after she graduated because of her amazing accomplishments before, during and after graduation. She ended up being asked and then enrolled in their MSN-FNP program in cohort 3 and now is just 10 month from graduation. But SU can BITE IT! as far as I'm concern because of their stand and or refusal to help their students secure preceptors especially in women's health and pediatrics. After contacting a possible 42 facilities and spending weeks and weeks to find a place we where not successful my wife had to quit her job that was just 5 miles away at the hospital that she was employed for 14 years. She is now traveling 165 miles to go to work and be in a teaching friendly area to finish her clinicals. We found it at Carillon Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Vurginia. Carillon has nearly 40 facilities in this area. My wife works as a travel nurse to the ICU's resource pool F,S,S nights. This is a teaching hospital and they have a Department that puts students with physicians and nurse practitioners. This place is a life saver.

Part 2 In Savannah Georgia. My wife went to the University at the Richmond campus in Virginia and graduated in cohort 3

Weather is South University Tampa, Richmond, or Timbucktwo. Doesn't matter because the curriculum for every one of their satellite campuses is the same and the curriculum is created at the headquarters and

Very nice but the conclusion (Nurse, BSN, RN) I have not seen that before. I have seen (RN-BSN) the level of of your degree follows the RN.

In addition everyone wants to work neonatal (it's something about being around babies.) As a new nurse (even with a BSN) it very rare to get hired as a new nurse in that department. Try for level 3 ICU first to gain some experience for the first year before applying.

Great goals and it's wonderful you have these goals at your age. My wife has 3 bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology and she is a RN with her BSN and is a full time student to attain her MSN to be a Family Nurse Practitioner that she is half way thru at a University. If you don't have the support at home and money is very tight, go for the associate degree in nursing and start working stay focus and go back to school while working to attain your BSN quickly. WHY? In a hospital setting the pay is not much different. With forgoing a RN wages for the additional 2 years of education and the cost of 2 more years of school this comes to over $120,000.00 in loss money and wages. We experienced a loss of $150,000.00 for my wife deciding to go straight for the BSN. The key to be successful is stay focused and don't take time off once you pass your NCLEX's. Get right back into a program. If you take time off you will come up with 100's of excuses not to go back to school.

If in a travel assignment and your renting out your home, your tax advantage is removed for your no longer a resident to that home and state and you are receiving income for that home. The money you receive for rent is income and you stipend money from traveling will also now be taxable. The government won't allow you to to have to have your cake and ice cream sort of speak because your no longer a resident to that home. Your better off not renting your home but have a "caretaker" take care of your home. It's sort of the same thing as renting but their is a big different. A caretaker is not a renter. A caretaker is their to protect and maintain your investment, your home. The key is "not" to make a profit. If you have a mortgage let's say $900.00 including property taxes and you pay additional $100.00 for water a sewage then a couple of other expenses so now that monthly cost is $1,250.00 to your home. You you bring in a caregiver and charge them lets say $1,240.00 for room and board while they are caring for your home by providing security and making sure your plants are watered. Since your expense exceeds your intake it's not tax. Another benefit is if the contract is properly drawn up, your caretaker is not protected like a renter. You don't have to worry about any long term rent agreements or if not receiving rent and having to go through the courts taking months to have them removed costing you 1,000's. A caretaker contact can be broken with just a 48 hour notice and they must remove themselves from the property or they would be trespassers and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. All of this would be in the contract for the caretaker. The key to make the caretaker work is you are to leave your main residence furnished and the caretaker is not to bring in any furniture. Check with a knowledgeable accountant.

In nursing it won't help (you will not make more money for it.) You should and you would be better for it in carrying and understanding you pts. It's really a shame but important truth to remember, a CNO Nurse once told me. "A nurse is nothing more than than part of the room charge." Now if you continue your education to become a Nurse Practitioner and get involved in mental health that would be another story you should check out.

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Notice that last year's Governor Dave Heineman was not in office this year? Funny he was not their this year to veto again a bill that passed 46 to 0 from the legislation. Other Governors should take heed. Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill Thursday that will give the advanced practice nurses their independence from doctors. Legislative Bill 107, introduced by State Sen. Sue Crawford of Bellevue, eliminates the current requirement for nurse practitioners to have a practice agreement with a doctor. Lawmakers passed the measure 46-0 on Friday. The Legislature passed a similar bill last year, only to have then-Gov. Dave Heineman veto the legislation.

That's great. It is also encouraging to others. Students fail that test, but that doesn't mean your a failure. It only means you failed the test. You going back to take it again and again, again and again shows others to never give up. Great job and congratulations!

You seem to be worried about a hypothetical issues. It's a non issue. You follow Law. It should not be a dilemma at all.