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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 supervise you. If we lose, it is over until 2023. T...

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. Usually at least a few to 4 years like a residency ...

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 supervise you. If we lose, it is over until 2023. Te...

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 supervise you. If we lose, it is over until 2023. Tel...

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 legislators and let your voices be heard. This i...

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 Metro West NP Association has asked everyone to c...

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 legislators and let your voices be heard. This i...

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 Metro West NP Association has asked everyone t...

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, friends, or adult children, you can double or trip...

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 [email protected].

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 the petition and email. https://ntnpmw.enpnetwork...

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 the same day. If you have a vacation day coming ...

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 and 1200 emails to the House of Representatives. At...

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. Texas Nurse Practitioners

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. Texas Nurse Practitioners

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 pathophysiology. It also appealed to me that there was a...

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 with about 3-4 years of experience. Anyone have any...

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 the brevity of the encounter?

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 say sounds reasonable but I would really like to kn...

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 as hard as possible and screaming, respectively. T...

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 responsible for obtaining the rest of them. I ask...