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  1. Attention Texas APRNs: FPA legislation!

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If you are an APRN or plan to become one, we need your help. This will take a few minutes to promote full practice authority where you can have your own practice without a paying a physician to...

  2. Attention Texas APRNs: FPA legislation!

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Psychnursehopeful, you're right there are some diploma mills out there but states with full practice authority usually require some length of practice as a supervised APRN before being on your own....

  3. Attention Texas APRNs: FPA legislation!

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Advanced Practice

    f you are an APRN or plan to become one, we need your help. This will take a few minutes to promote full practice authority where you can have your own practice without a paying a physician to...

  4. Attention all APRNS! FPA legislation

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    If you are an APRN or plan to become one, we need your help. This will take a few minutes to promote full practice authority where you can have your own practice without a paying a physician to...

  5. Urgent TX Legislative Action Call. NP's fight for autonomy

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Texas Nurse Practitioners need support for NP healthcare bills to be heard in Public Health Committee. Some of you may know that Texas NPs are fighting for autonomy right now in the legislature. The...

  6. Urgent TX Legislative Action Call. NP's fight for autonomy

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Glad to see all of the support! The bills are going to either succeed or fail over the next two months and there won't be another legislative session until 2017. Now is the time to reach out to your...

  7. Urgent TX Legislative Action Needed! NP's fight for autonomy

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Texas Nursing

    Glad to see all of the support! The bills are going to either succeed or fail over the next two months and there won't be another legislative session until 2017. Now is the time to reach out to your...

  8. Urgent TX Legislative Action Needed! NP's fight for autonomy

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Texas Nurse Practitioners need support for NP healthcare bills to be heard in Public Health Committee. Some of you may know that Texas NPs are fighting for autonomy right now in the legislature....

  9. TX NP Autonomy Bill

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There are 2 bills in the Texas House and Senate that offer independent practice rights to NPs. It only takes a few minutes to sign a petition and email your legislators. If you recruit your spouse,...

  10. TX NP Autonomy Bill

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Zenman, I don't know if you could sign the petition or not. However, you could email the TX NP Association and ask them at

  11. TX NP Autonomy Bill

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Way to go, Steph! If you have time, there is also a free bus trip to Austin on April 8th from Ft. Worth to visit legislators. Please tell any friends or colleagues that might be interested and about...

  12. TX NP Legislative Bus Trip

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The Metro West North Texas NP Association is sponsoring a free bus trip to Austin to lobby legislators for practice autonomy. 42 more people are needed on April 8th to leave from Ft. Worth and return...

  13. Legislative Alert! TX NP autonomy bill

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    All Texas RNs and NPs are needed to sign a petition with the Texas NP association and email their state congressmen. It will only take a few minutes. As of 3/6/15, there are about 2000 signatures...

  14. Legislative Alert! TX NP autonomy bill

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Texas Nursing

    Update: The Texas Nurse Practitioners association now reports over 3000 signatures for the petition and 1735 emails. Keep it up and we can win this one! Spouses, friends, and children over 18 count....

  15. TX NP Autonomy Bill

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Update: The Texas Nurse Practitioners association now reports over 3000 signatures for the petition and 1735 emails. Keep it up and we can win this one! Spouses, friends, and children over 18 count....

  16. PMHNP and violent patients

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am currently enrolled in a FNP program but I am thinking of switching to PMHNP. I have worked 3 years as a psych nurse and I went for FNP because I liked learning about medical diseases and...

  17. DFW, Texas psych RN hourly rates?

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    I am looking for work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area as I want to move there to make attending school easier. I am looking for a prn job and would like to know what is the going rate for a psych RN...

  18. PMHNP and violent patients

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you, PsychiatricNP! A very informative post. I am wondering only one thing: that disruptive patient that you had to cut off - can you still determine what appropriate meds to give them despite...

  19. PMHNP and violent patients

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I used to work admissions at a local MHMRA and I also had to omit certain items if the patient was uncooperative. However, the next morning a doctor would have to come in and assess them. What you...

  20. PMHNP and violent patients

    TexanRN10 replied to TexanRN10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    No, our hospital (UHS) is chronically understaffed. Twice there was a tech present but the patients were sizable. They were pounding on a dayroom window with a small table and kicking an exit door...

  21. Preceptor questions for UT-Arlington Fall 2013 FNP

    TexanRN10 posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I am applying to the University of Texas at Arlington for the Fall 2013 FNP. At the information session, the administrators told us that the school would arrange our first two preceptors but we were...