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  1. Which would you choose, IRU or Med/Surg?

    nichefinder replied to MsConstrued's topic in Nursing Career

    work medsurg nights. stay clear from ltac, rehab, etc i will not work those. medsurg day is usually very busy, but night is little

  2. Anyone ever been in this situation

    nichefinder replied to jaznia15's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    for someone who always believed that anything below 80 is a C, this comes to a shock for

  3. I want to be in FNP program but GPA is not that great!

    nichefinder replied to iwantmymasters's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I know Walden has GPA requirement of 2.5 according to one of my friends going through her final few months at Walden NP program... UT arlington has 3.0 gpa requirement, but if you check out their...

  4. Ohio or Texas

    nichefinder replied to cecej435's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I live in Dallas, and I do think that as one of the most conservative states, I am sure the physicians will not look kindly at the "nurses" daring to come close to their medical authority. But then...

  5. The 1st hell year the same for men?

    nichefinder replied to PapaBearRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    after my first 6 months, one thing I absolutely learned was NEVER trust anyone too soon and don't talk anything that will give the females to talk about. I am no sexist, but even the females of my age...

  6. Charity Patients

    nichefinder replied to sammiesmom's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    welcome to america, where individual responsibilities are long forgotten as a society and other hard working people must carry the burden. i think it all stems from lack of education in the family. i...

  7. Has anyone attended/ing NP program in Dallas/Texas?

    nichefinder posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Hello dear respectable colleagues, first, I give you my respect for pursuing greater autonomy and schooling. I am recent BSN graduate, and working in hospital has greatly made me desire to go back to...

  8. Has anyone attended/ing NP program in Dallas/Texas?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    yes, I have heard and seen people with families, kids, and work ft and go to NP school ft (or pt sometimes), and the word incredible is probably an understatement. I am 24 yrs, single, no kids, no...

  9. Has anyone attended/ing NP program in Dallas/Texas?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I heard from a coworker that UTA requires 2 yrs of RN experience, probably TWU as well. I do not want to wait that long to start NP program. Therefore, I am leaning high towards UT Tyler since it is...

  10. University of Texas at Tyler's Pre-Nursing classes tough?

    nichefinder replied to prhodes92's topic in Texas Nursing

    @prhodes: she meant tegrity... lol terrify lol. Well, I thought she meant terrifying, because UT Tyler nursing school was... TERRIFYINGLY hard. Not impossible, but Jesus it was hell of life I had...

  11. Learning from my mistakes

    nichefinder replied to dorselm's topic in General Nursing

    question as relatively new nurse, so when sbp is >190 and pt is very symptomatic, did the doctor still give you orders for betablockers WHILE they KNEW that the pt couldn't get the bp med anyways?...

  12. Critical Thinking Development

    nichefinder replied to Loving-and-Learning's topic in General Nursing

    I am relatively a new grad too, but it did take me maybe a month or two to kind of feel that "comfort" in nursing work. Of course it wasn't 100% comfort, and I still went to seek advices from my...

  13. Nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital to strike Tuesday

    nichefinder replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Reading this made me truly sad and once again, I feel like future for nurses is even more uncertain... had I known these much about nursing I do now, I would have never became one, and one of primary...

  14. Surgical NPs, how did you become?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    @nursetim I am pretty good talker in my opinion. But that's as far as interview for RN position, for which the interview questions are pretty simple. I am not too sure exactly how I would need to...

  15. Nursing Safe Harbor Rule

    nichefinder replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing Career

    in the first organization i worked at, my unit was almost assigned to 1:8 in critically busy M/S floor... thank god we had float from somewhere else. I asked some experienced nurses about invoking...

  16. Stop the drama already...

    nichefinder replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    where there are women... DRAMA and fabrication. Tell someone you don't want to be a pediatric nurse because you can't deal with kids... then someone will make up lies about you being a axe murderer...

  17. Surgical NPs, how did you become?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    oh okay gotcha. I am not really an ICU kind of person, although no doubt it is an excellent gig for learning and etcetra. Again,

  18. Surgical NPs, how did you become?

    nichefinder replied to nichefinder's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    @nomadcrna thank you for the input, I appreciate it. Since I am into emergency nursing, I was more headed towards ACNP, but if what I want to do eventually requires FNP, then by all means I will go...