jenniferm1023

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1. Sepsis as Hospice Diagnosis

   jenniferm1023 replied to lpoore's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   My med director would say ... What caused the sepsis... And that would be her admitting diagnosis with sepsis as one of the 2nd diagnoses.. She always always looks at the big picture and then goes...

2. In-home NP Medicare Assessments

   jenniferm1023 replied to lvICU's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I do this as an independent contractor through Matrix Medical one day per week.. Pay is better than anyone here quoted. Its per visit, 5-6 visits per

3. Sepsis as Hospice Diagnosis

   jenniferm1023 replied to lpoore's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   You can google Palmetto Hospice LCDs and it will pull up all the current active LCDs that are allowed to be used.. I'm a hospice NP that does F2F visits so I deal with this every

4. Got a Per Diem Hospice position

   jenniferm1023 replied to reddgirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Do a search on "palmetto Medicare LCDs" if you are going to be doing face to face visits and you can print the active LCDs. This helped me quite a bit when I started doing face to face visit because...

5. Need help from a palliative care NP

   jenniferm1023 replied to nursetim's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I was hired straight out of NP school to work in the hospice field but I had hospice background as an RN, but we just hired an NP that has no hospice experience because we thought she would be a good...

6. Raise your hand if you worked and went to NP school full time?

   jenniferm1023 replied to TheDude77's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I worked 52 hours a week all the way through my NP

7. Reactions to being a NP

   jenniferm1023 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   Around here at one of the local hospitals a new grad RN is going to get between 19-20 an hour. There are three hospital systems and they are all consistent with each other. All the home health...

8. Reactions to being a NP

   jenniferm1023 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I live in Chattanooga,

9. Reactions to being a NP

   jenniferm1023 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   We are oversaturated... You can google it. I can tell you exactly what every hospital in this area pays. There are 9 nursing schools and 3 NP programs in a 50 mile radius. With 10 years of RN...

10. Reactions to being a NP

    jenniferm1023 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Not in my area either.. The average RN right out of school makes 35,000-40,000 a year here base pay with benefits and no OT. An FNP makes between 70,000-85,000 depending on what type of practice you...

11. Stay away from Walden University

    jenniferm1023 replied to BLACK HAWK's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I don't know anything specifically about Walden but I finished my associates degree through Excelsior College and obtained my RN through them. I am now a nurse practitioner but back when I finished my...

12. FNP pondering...

    jenniferm1023 posted a topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm a new FNP and I'm pondering over the doctorate after I have time to get my feet wet. I'm trying to decide what schools to look at.. Quality is important as well as cost.. Any

13. Why do NPs call associate MD their "Boss"

    jenniferm1023 replied to IcySageNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Our medical director is my direct supervisor. She approves my payroll, is the person I talk things through with, she approves my time off... She is my "boss". The other MDs are not. I don't have a...

14. House calls

    jenniferm1023 replied to Not_A_Hat_Person's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I do house calls although not for home health or for an insurance company. I work for a large not for profit hospice and do the face-to-face visits. I am a full time employee and I work four 10 hour...

15. Working during school?

    jenniferm1023 replied to mss6721's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I managed to work my 52 hour work week and do all my class and clinical work and maintain a 4.0 gpa. As the only income in my household I didn't have a choice. I made it work even though it was not...