JustKeepDriving

JustKeepDriving

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  1. NP or MD

    JustKeepDriving replied to HIstudent808's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If being a prescriber is your goal I would say go for MD or PA. I would not choose the nursing route. Especially if you have no interest working as a nurse. I absolutely loved nursing but there are...

  2. Psych RN Reading List

    JustKeepDriving replied to Krzysztof's topic in Psychiatric

    Although it's for medical students, I highly recommend First Aid for the Psychiatry Clerkship. It helped me a lot when I started my first psychiatric nursing job. It goes through the major psychiatric...

  3. Staff splitting

    JustKeepDriving replied to Seeing Myself Out's topic in Psychiatric

    These are the routes that you can go by: 1. Document the managers actions. If you feel like she is unable to maintain professional boundaries with this patient - and IMHO if you're throwing your...

  4. use of spit hoods on spitters

    JustKeepDriving replied to workingot's topic in General Nursing

    Worked at a state hospital, we used them regularly because a lot of the patients - especially the Hep C and HIV+ ones - had a penchant for biting themselves in the tongue or cheek and spitting the...

  5. Stanford Rape

    JustKeepDriving replied to brandy1017's topic in General Nursing

    It's that damn feminism! Thinking they can have premarital sex, show cleavage and imbibe libations! How dare they be a female out in public - tempting those nice boys into rape like Eve tempted Adam...

  6. Stanford Rape

    JustKeepDriving replied to brandy1017's topic in General Nursing

    Man I guess those kids/grandma's & grandpa's/mentally handicapped/women wearing burqa are totally "Asking for it" right? Damn sexy false teeth, provocative onesies, titillating wheelchairs, and...

  7. Having some issues with BPD (big shocker!)

    JustKeepDriving replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Psychiatric

    I get where you're coming from but although it's taboo to say but many people in healthcare have diagnoses, procedures, tasks that they just don't enjoy working with. I get it nurses are supposed to...

  8. Eliminating Physicians/Medical Schools

    JustKeepDriving replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'd love to see psych - any area of psych replaced by robotics. Que *robot voice* Welcome to [inpatient Psychiatry] you have been placed on a [51/50] hold for [Danger to others] after [Chasing...

  9. Why preceptors don't precept

    JustKeepDriving replied to sauce's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I actually don't know if they pay them or not in my area. I work at a teaching hospital that is attached to a UC medical school as an RN and do clinical rotations as an NP at different teaching...

  10. Does anyone live alone?

    JustKeepDriving replied to direw0lf's topic in General Nursing

    I prefer to live alone - It's given me a lot of mobility and I've been all over the US at this point. Living somewhere alone without knowing anyone is pretty common for me and it's never bothered me....

  11. Direct Entry MSN VS DNP

    JustKeepDriving replied to SeattleStudent123's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The NP job market is a lot easier to navigate when you have the RN job experience. Anecdotal but I do know direct entry NP grads and many of them are not currently employed (and they graduated 3 years...

  12. Private practice as a CRNA

    JustKeepDriving replied to oobray's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Even in independent practice states NPs are regulated by facility level protocols. There are also a lot of informal regulations that goes on and barriers to practice due to the fact that NP education...

  13. Private practice as a CRNA

    JustKeepDriving replied to oobray's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just going to throw this out there but you're assuming a lot here. Med school does allow for a lot of opportunities and a lot less BS than the APRN route. Degree planning is an individual thing it's...

  14. Direct Entry MSN VS DNP

    JustKeepDriving replied to SeattleStudent123's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm curious as to why you would choose the NP option over the PA option if you wanted to go direct to midlevel? UW doesn't have an entry level MSN NP program because there are other schools in the...

  15. APRNs should only be DNPs!

    JustKeepDriving replied to Lovanurse's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I think all in all what you see from a many of the posters that dislike the DNP is a lot of frustration. This is just my opinion but I see it as a money grab by the schools and a push by the AACN to...

  16. Is Psych Nursing Easy?

    JustKeepDriving replied to resilientnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    People don't understand until they've been there. I've done geriatric psych, Acute Psych, Step Down Psych and do grad clinicals in out patient and psych ER- nothing comes close to Forensics. Max...

  17. Shift work and dating

    JustKeepDriving replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    My process involves alcohol... whoever doesn't run away fast enough... that's the one! (Who am I kidding? I'm so lonely. *cries into cheap bear

  18. APRNs should only be DNPs!

    JustKeepDriving replied to Lovanurse's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    You're wrong. I'm an MSN-NP student and I definitely think more education is better (most of us do!). I just don't think fluffy degree filler will make me a better practitioner. The DSW degree...

  19. Gender, a fluid social construct

    JustKeepDriving replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient is okay with it then the TransFemale nurse can do the catheter. This is true. Gender is a social construct. It's not like it's biologically embedded in us that women wear dresses...

  20. Eliminating Physicians/Medical Schools

    JustKeepDriving replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That's incorrect. To get accepted to medical school most program require extracurricular activities including Physician shadowing, volunteering, hospital experience (a lot of the students take scribe...

  21. Terminated. Pursue a Lawsuit?

    JustKeepDriving replied to ERgirlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Even if this wasn't a diversion case the fact is that you showed a severe lack of judgment - which on it's own would be grounds for termination. Not having someone to waste with isn't unique...

  22. Eliminating Physicians/Medical Schools

    JustKeepDriving replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have a 2.1 GPA from the University of Phoenix in English literature of the 1900 and would like to pursue this Doctor of NP surgery degree. I am looking for a program that doesn't require RN...

  23. Why preceptors don't precept

    JustKeepDriving replied to sauce's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    These aren't my opinions. It's my observations from being an APRN student and part of an interdisciplinary focus group on NP education in my city. The director of my clinical preceptorship site in an...

  24. Why preceptors don't precept

    JustKeepDriving replied to sauce's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Actually no, we don't have to all get there somehow. There is a significant problem when people think that an NP is like the participation trophy of medical professions. At least in my region NP is...

  25. Is Psych Nursing Easy?

    JustKeepDriving replied to resilientnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I worked in a Level 1 Trauma Center in the OR (scrub and circle - all services except CVOR) and that was cakewalk compared to some of the Psych positions I have had. Unlike corrections we don't have...