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I thought the hardest class in the first year of my program was pharmacology because we had to memorize so many drug names and physiological mechanisms. It was very time consuming. NCLEX-based med-surg classes CAN be very difficult because often times the instructors would present a general overview of the topic in class but the tests would be from minuscule aspects of the readings. This depends on your instructor and how well they teach the lectures to the NCLEX.

Just got done with my junior year of nursing school :) Just two semesters to go. I'm thinking about taking the GRE over the summer so that I can apply to some graduate programs that would start right after I graduate. I want to be a PMHNP. Is anyone else considering going straight through to grad school?

Did you read the OP? She said that the patient was a nurse who was impressed by the student's care and wanted to keep her as a professional contact.

Overshare how?

Thanks guys. I definitely learned from it. It's been a couple of days now and no one has said anything so I'm guessing I won't be kicked out of clinical for it.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. One main question is whether visiting unit census pages even comes up in their auditing software. But it sounds like even if it does become apparent to the auditors that I visited the psychiatric patient census page, it won't be a true HIPAA violation and I won't get kicked from clinical. It's certainly a wake-up call though -- I don't see myself as the type of person who would do something really stupid like post a patient's info on Facebook or take a picture with a patient, and yet I'm having this "close call" HIPAA situation. It goes to show that students who are not used to the intensity of health care privacy laws need to never stop actively preventing themselves from violating HIPAA.

Thanks so much. I can't fall asleep because I'm so worried about it. It just didn't occur to me at the time that it was sort of a violation... like you said, my intention was to learn and I was in learning-mode. It sounds like I probably won't get kicked out of clinical for it. Thanks :)

I'm a junior nursing student. I was chatting with another nursing student on the med-surg unit and we wondered if it was possible to look up psychiatric patients (we are both interested in mental health nursing). So I went to the patient list of the psychiatric unit. I clicked on a patient, then a little warning popped up saying "if you access this chart, you might be audited etc etc". So of course, I pressed cancel and didn't go to the chart. Obviously, after perusing this website, I would never do such a thing again -- I just wanted to learn about mental health nursing and our clinical instructor has had us look up pt's on other units in the past so I didn't think much of it. Never again... Summary: I accessed the psychiatric unit patient list in the EMR while on a different unit. I did not go into any specific chart of a patient. I only saw the patient list. Is this a punishable action if I were to be "caught" by an auditor?

I'm planning to work for a year before going back to NP school. How do you explain something like this in a job interview? Or do you just say "I'm not sure how long I'll plan to be there, but at least a year"?

I go to a day program at a university. I suppose I can call and ask.

Haha. I got those numbers by looking at my state salary search. PM me if you want to know which school this is.

Will BSN programs sometimes give you clinicals on weekends?

Jerseygirl, thanks for the info! It doesn't say how many semesters the programs take to complete f/t. With 48 semester credits, I'm guessing it's either 3 or 4? Did they tell you? Thanks!

Hi, does anyone know how many semesters is the psych NP program at NYU? Doesn't seem to say on their website. Thanks.

I mean, as a professor at a U. Thanks for the feedback. :) I know at my U they make 80-170k, I imagine this is high? I go to a state school with a strong nursing program.