JustKeepDriving

Why nursing? Why not business, administration or politics - which seem a lot more egosyntonic with your personal beliefs on the allocation of health resources and provision of care?

I've lived in both the US and Canada. I've heard of people that have gone to the United States for procedures but I never met them and generally the procedures I've heard of were more of a luxury thing and not a necessity. I worked healthcare close t...

My state has really bad mental healthcare because treating that population is a money sink - they can't pay for it, the insurance often only covers so much of it, and the state is unable to finance community level mental healthcare - cause of the "ta...

I'm quite aware of the standardized procedures and patient specific protocols for California and how loosely the Nurse practice act defines scope in terms of certification. I'm also aware of the problems that have come from this. Just a word of advic...

I'm curious how this even works. I get managing stuff like simple anxiety and depression but as far as I know FNP/AGPCNP/ PNP don't get tons of training in managing stuff like schizophrenia, OCD, personality disorders, Bipolar type I etc and many I k...

The fact that this is a thing: [ATTACH=CONFIG]24765[/ATTACH] While this is also a thing (same facility): [ATTACH=CONFIG]24768[/ATTACH] Where someone can literally make more as an RN than an NP at the same facility - with lower liability? Tells me tha...

Probably the best presentation I've seen on it is: https://doh.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/doh/publication/attachments/Medical%20Cannabis%20Adverse%20Effects%20and%20Drug%20Interactions_0.pdf - District of Columbia Department of health on med...

Clinical rotations can vary so, so much and I agree that the apprenticeship model needs changed. My program placed students and even there - it was a lot of variation (and we still had to interview at our placement sites which created differences in ...

I personally am not a fan of the deinstitutionalization movement - mainly because although I understand the necessity of it, some places are overly zealous about it and the community treatment model doesn't work for everyone. States and counties rave...

Yep - one of the good things about my program is that we did a lot of our rotations in tandem with the residents and it put into a very harsh perspective how many deficits the NP program has in comparison to medical education (even the good ones). On...

One of the biggest frustrations for me as a new grad PMHNP is that in my specialty we just aren't exposed enough to the medical realm and yet, so many of the patient's we work with have a ton of comorbid medical issues (many caused by the medications...

A lot depends on your program - my first semester was light on clinical hours but heavy on theory/sciences and working full time was not a problem; however as it progressed I started picking up more and more clinical hours till it was almost a full-t...

So, a good look at the link shows MEPN admission with a list of MS specialty area's on the right hand side that admit master's entry students and include AGPCNP, FNP, PMHNP, WHNP ect. I've worked with graduates of such programs before my attending b...

Honestly, my piece of advice would be to contact the college of nurses in Ontario and ask them. They more than anyone could give you all the details on what is expected to get licensed and practice there as an APRN.

I'm have dual citizenship (US & CAN) and gotten all of my education in the states and have looked in to going back to Canada as I miss my family and friends. Unfortunately - it's a heck of a process. The first step is to start with the Canadian P...

One of the biggest problems with addiction is that people treat it as a 'disease of morality' and not just a disease. It's easy to look at people and think "you did this to yourself!" when they're on their 3+ overdose, or third admission to the Psych...

My personal philosophy on it is the grey rock technique. I try to be as uninteresting and boring as possible at work - it's a conservative field and like any field where you're interacting with the public, where isn't a creative field (fashion, beaut...

Until APRN nursing gets it's collective stuff together in terms of training people I'd be absolutely terrified to have an army of NP's replacing primary care provider MD/DOs. There is just way too much variability in programs and the quality of NP's ...

I'm have dual citizenship and have lived in both countries and just finished up my MSN-PMHNP degree (waiting to take the boards). Just getting licensed in Canada as an RN is an extremely arduous process if you were not educated in Canada - it's a lo...

Direct quote from the "Great site"aka literal word cancer

Honestly, and this is probably going to be a particularly unpopular opinion, but I'm getting tired of treating addiction like a criminal issue and not a public health issue. I live in a state where we have good diversion programs for non-nursing offe...

Meek? Yeah no. My first nursing job involved a riot shield, spit hood and 8-16 hours/day of dodging flying excrement and punches in a max security facility for the criminally insane. I don't consider not being 'meek' being arrogant, I call it "not en...

Didn't anyone tell you? Nursing is like a video game! You gotta get a job in a large level 1 trauma center ICU to reach max level and healing ability!!!! That way you can face down the big bosses of "Hospital administration", "Going Magnet", "HCHAPS"...

I researched my bum off to find an NP school that had a partnership with a medical school. Some of my classes are taught by NP faculty and some (like my psychopharmacology course) were taught by MD faculty. Not one person failed out of the courses ru...

You know, If I could have gone to school to "just be a nurse" that would have been awesome. I enjoyed taking care of patients, talking to them, learning about medications and treatments as well as working with tons of different disciplines. Prior to ...