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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...

  16. Respectable salary for an Urgent Care?

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

    It all depends on the area you live in. Here, there is an over saturation of nurses and now NPs and salary is not good. Nurses start out at $18-19 an hour. NPs start out around 72,000 a year, 75,000...

  17. Barleys hime NP review

    jenniferm1023 replied to kathrn99's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    UAB will likely put you through the Fitzgerald review your last semester. Check with the faculty for your program and see. I know for FNP they

  18. United Healthcare Housecalls

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

    I spend my days "going into people's homes" as a hospice nurse practitioner. People who can't leave their homes need to be taken care of

  19. NP Salary

    jenniferm1023 replied to Missy89's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's all about where you live. Here the range is 70,0000-

  20. Traditional Textbooks or eBooks (iPad)

    jenniferm1023 replied to hik9258's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm not real crazy about iBooks so I was using one called Readdle and I liked that I could easily organize everything into folders. It recently changed the name to Documents by Readdle and then I Used...

  21. Traditional Textbooks or eBooks (iPad)

    jenniferm1023 replied to hik9258's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I used ebooks and my iPad to organize all the stuff the school gave me to print out using a document app. So instead of having binders full of papers everything was on my Ipad. I liked it and it...

  22. UAB online... Clinicals per week?

    jenniferm1023 replied to %63theend's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It's doable. I worked a job that was 52 hours night shift each week. I did my 135 hours and banked 40 the first two semesters so that I could knock them off the 360 in the fall. I also found...

  23. ANCC and AANP

    jenniferm1023 posted a topic in Advanced Practice

    I failed the AANP six weeks ago after studying for six weeks straight after graduation. I was totally devastated. I did my CEUs and reapplied but felt really opposed to retaking it, a personal thing...

  24. Failed ANCC FNP certification exam

    jenniferm1023 replied to hiddencove's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Just a bit of info even though I'm not the one you asked. The Buppert text was were I found a lot of info as well as from the Fitzgerald review, and the ANCC review

  25. ANCC and AANP

    jenniferm1023 replied to jenniferm1023's topic in Advanced Practice

    I didn't order it directly.. I bought it used from someone on EBay. It was 1200 pages long but I found it very helpful for