Retired APRN MSN, RN, APRN

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    Online vs Traditional NP school

    Retired APRN posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Let me start by saying that I am an older, retired PMHNP and there was no online training when I was in grad school. (Shoot, there was barely an internet!) Secondly, let me say that I am putting this...
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    Preceptors for Student NPs

    Retired APRN posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I studied many years ago, so I am ignorant about some modern practices in AP education, particularly with regard to the burgeoning online option. Most (all?) online nurse practitioner programs seem to...
  3. Retired APRN

    Preceptors for Student NPs

    Retired APRN replied to Retired APRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thank you; that clears up several issues for me. I gather that these "less reputable" schools are the ones with the least demanding entrance criteria, as well? I am concerned about this because one of...
  4. Retired APRN

    Scholarship essay for nursing--Critique, please?

    Retired APRN replied to numbersoup's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, by all means, use paragraphs. The essay is representing you; it needs to be the best you can make it. You wouldn't go to an interview with your hair uncombed, right? Also, appropriate amounts of...
  5. Retired APRN

    Hospice failure

    Retired APRN replied to sr2121's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    This makes me sick. Sounds like the patient was forgotten in what as a nurse I have always considered the flagship of patient-centered care. (As a patient with breast CA with mets, it terrifies
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    Grateful but discontent

    Retired APRN replied to BigBluemadness's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I definitely would not chart "per MD Smith, no new orders at this time" if she didn't respond. There is a huge difference between no response and "no new orders". "No response", at least to my ears,...
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    Grateful but discontent

    Retired APRN replied to BigBluemadness's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There may be cases in which documenting "no response from doc" is important to the preservation of your license. There are ways to document that are tactful but honest and keep you covered. Depends on...
  8. Retired APRN

    Too late to be a nurse?

    Retired APRN replied to woodland123's topic in General Students

    If you have the physical stamina, go for it! You may have to work a little harder than your younger classmates at memorizing things, but you will have a huge advantage in terms of life experiences...
  9. Retired APRN

    Why did you become a Nurse Practitioner?

    Retired APRN replied to wildcatarnp's topic in Advanced Practice

    1. I discovered that I was a better clinician than administrator. 2. I found that I was particularly good at interventions that were more in the NP realm than the floor nurse realm. 3. I discovered a...
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    Passed out during clinical

    Retired APRN replied to HeartsAndLungsRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I passed out in the hallway after my first code. As Esme said, happens to all of us. This is not a game changer.
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    Am I too young to go straight to get my Masters degree

    Retired APRN replied to Ashstev's topic in Advanced Practice

    Why do you want to become a nurse practitioner? How do you know you want to? I am admittedly old school. After a year in med-surg, I spent a few years as a staff nurse, then charge, then head nurse in...
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    A non-psyche nurse needs advice

    Retired APRN replied to alpha omega's topic in Psychiatric

    In addition to placement/level of care issues (are these patients newly admitted?), I strongly suggest pharm reviews and ruling out physical origin in the first place. It sounds like some of the...
  13. Retired APRN

    cant decide if nursing is for me

    Retired APRN replied to lucy86's topic in Nursing Career

    Hmm. It sounds like you have some experience in the world of health care provision, which is a good place to start. You say that sometimes you feel right about it, and sometimes you are not sure. May...
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    Reduce clinical anxiety?

    Retired APRN replied to BanannaFish's topic in General Students

    Remember: this too shall pass! You're more than halfway there. Practical measures to reduce stress: eat a balanced diet in sufficient quantity and at regular intervals, even if you're busy. Get enough...
  15. Retired APRN

    Is nursing worth it?

    Retired APRN replied to 2016New's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry you're finding school so stressful! From the symptoms you are describing, I strongly suggest that you see someone at student health or your own family physician. Depression, weight loss,...
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    Charting on psych patients

    Retired APRN replied to studentnurse9806's topic in Psychiatric

    In addition, you can describe a situation or an observation and tell us how you think it should be charted. Your question is far too vague for us to help
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    Why you shouldn't become a nurse practitioner

    Retired APRN replied to chillnurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm not even going to try to be diplomatic. I worked and studied hard to become an NP. Hours and hours of classroom, personal study, research. Hours and hours of clinical work in outpatient and...
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    Hiring favorability & bias

    Retired APRN replied to fruition's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm not sure what kind of role playing game you are involved in, or whatever it is that you are describing. I'm going to assume that this thread is not research for your game script and just give you...
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    Very Unprofessional....

    Retired APRN replied to Whoatemyburger's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But surely, even with all the technology, student nurses today are taught and mentored to be caring as well as to provide
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    Very Unprofessional....

    Retired APRN replied to Whoatemyburger's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was a student nurse in the seventies in Los Angeles, I was working on a post-open heart surgery unit, when open heart surgery was still new and not done everywhere. The unit was not busy and...
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    venting time

    Retired APRN replied to dsherman's topic in Emergency

    Well
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    Need advice- this is something I've never done before!

    Retired APRN replied to clever gretel's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I've been out of the market for too long to help with the first question, but as for the second - There will probably come a time in the interview when they bring up the relocation. At that point, I...
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    How to stop crying on the job?

    Retired APRN replied to StopnSmelltheRoses's topic in Psychiatric

    I was thinking about this and wondered if you received any training on how to observe during group sessions. If you keep your professional mind busy observing the patient who is talking and the...
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    Will I be stuck as a Psych Nurse forever?

    Retired APRN replied to Peppermint_RN's topic in Psychiatric

    Psychiatric nurses do not lose skills. We gain skills that nurses in other specialties don't have, in exactly the same way that nurses in any specialty develop field-specific skills that generalists...
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    I Miss Nursing

    Retired APRN replied to Cricket183's topic in Retired Nurses

    I am so sorry, Cricket. I've had to retire for medical reasons, too, and even though I was in my fifties it's been hard. I miss it all the time. That's why I joined AN - to get back the taste of...