Arya0000

One school district I work in does all computer charting (SNAP) and the other district I work in is ALL paper. I absolutely hate the paper charting and I never thought I would say that! Once you go SNAP, you never want to go back. :-)

Nope, but it's a great idea. I'll have to look into that!

The school I sub at, the nurses wear street clothes. At my regular PT school nurse job, there is a uniform policy for all students and staff so I wear scrubs in the school colors that match the uniform. I prefer the scrubs so much that I asked my nurse leader where I sub if I could wear scrubs instead and she said no problem!

I don't think that advice is trite at all...makes sense to me. One of the areas I am investigating thoroughly is how many clinical hours are required and for the UMASS program, it seems very doable until the last semester, which is an immersion clinical practicum, and would be more difficult as it is about 28 hours/wk. but that is not until my 5th year in the program. Thanks for responding.

Hello, I am an RN with a BSN. I have about 15 years of clinical experience; became disabled due to an autoimmune illness in 2008 which is the last time I worked (pediatrics). I am doing better and am looking at all my future career options including back to work part-time and/or school part-time for my FNP. I am looking for opinions and trying to get the sense of the workload for both programs. I have no children at home and do not have the physical ability to work full-time at the moment due to my disability. One of my specialists suggested an online graduate program. I have looked at a brand new MSN program for FNP at Simmons College in Boston. Only the clinicals are not online pretty much. Also looking at the DNP program at UMASS Amherst. I have some concerns about doing doctorate work at the same time as learning to become an FNP with the illness business. Simmons is much more pricey per credit but it obviously requires less credits..half as much I believe. UMASS is much closer (if I need to meet with someone) and I graduated from there so I know the SON pretty well. I am also concerned about the effects of a stressful job like a FNP and any insight would be welcome. I am wondering if it would be worth it to just go for my MSN now and then start working while pursuing my DNP part-time is possibly? Thoughts about this? Thanks!