chillnurse BSN, RN, NP

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    RN experience helpful and essential to be a NP

    chillnurse replied to apostolic4eva's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    helps some but its still totally different jobs. A lot of RN jobs consist of simply passing meds. some are more complex. just all depends. working in a nursing home doesnt help me with working in a...
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    if you hate nursing, what would you rather do instead?

    chillnurse replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is overrated. Computers is where it's
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    if you hate nursing, what would you rather do instead?

    chillnurse replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    Software engineer. Pays about the same as I make and I like comput r s. May go back done day 100k is easy to
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    skills new graduates must know?

    chillnurse replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Nursing

    You'll be okay. It's not rocket science like nursing elitists make it out to
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    Wanting to start the DNP path

    chillnurse replied to HornsRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Ads. Obviously if they are advertising they want more students. I'd never go to a school where there are more seats for a program than applicants. Means they would take anybody who applies. This is...
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    How do you learn it all?

    chillnurse replied to lecolourfiend's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Of course lol. Just takes a little time up
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    Wanting to start the DNP path

    chillnurse replied to HornsRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    If you want to know which ones not to attend. A good rule of thumb would be the ones advertised on this
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    NP curriculum isn't standardized?

    chillnurse replied to SycamoreGuy's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What do online for-profits and Wal-mart have in common? Anybody can shop there and often the product is paid for with government money. And also terrible
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    NP curriculum isn't standardized?

    chillnurse replied to SycamoreGuy's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I know what you mean. I have been jumped for accusing certain institutions with not so great track records. Usually the most defensive people are the ones that take most insult because their program...
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    NP curriculum isn't standardized?

    chillnurse replied to SycamoreGuy's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We aren't at all knocking NPs. I mean considering we are NPs we provide a less biased approach to knocking. Its not like we are PAs on here trying to ridicule our education. I have heard they upped...
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    DNP student with regrets?

    chillnurse replied to BigBluemadness's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    DNP= more money,more worthless knowledge, waste of time in many cases. Schools love it though, more money for them. Very few people will benefit from a dnp. But I bet they will all post below me just...
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    online FNP program no GRE for NC

    chillnurse replied to eneali's topic in Advanced Practice

    Hi I'm looking for a program that takes people with Ged I don't feel like spending time to get a bachelors first.. Help me
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    AANP position on NP education and post-grad training

    chillnurse replied to Corey Narry's topic in Advanced Practice

    Need more hard science. Good for critical thinking. I think a lot of aprn lack understanding due to our lack of hard science. And usually those that disagree are the ones who can't cut it. If you...
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    AANP position on NP education and post-grad training

    chillnurse replied to Corey Narry's topic in Advanced Practice

    Considering how bad our current education model is its not much a suprise. I'm all for no residencies. And less theory and
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    NP vs PA vs CNS

    chillnurse replied to OriolesMagic's topic in Advanced Practice

    at least they force people who aren't cut out for it to quit. unlike some of these for profit online FNP programs which would probably let him slide as long as he had the dough for
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    NP curriculum isn't standardized?

    chillnurse replied to SycamoreGuy's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    thats pretty crazy, since the school i went to also has a medical school and they had to go through hoops, bounds, rings, and rounds to increase their seat size by 50 students. And this was a DO...
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    NP curriculum isn't standardized?

    chillnurse replied to SycamoreGuy's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It seems nursing accreditation is a giant cluster F-word in comparison to many of accreditation bodies such as the AMA and other health professional degrees. No i am not comparing doctors to nurses,...
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    Am I really a NP if I do laser hair removal?

    chillnurse replied to wildcatarnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    if it makes bucks it makes
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    NP's in Non-academic Medical Center ICU's

    chillnurse replied to earthsalt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think I just meant for very emergent situations which if a bedside US performed by the er physician or np or pa or whatnot found something extreme in an unstable patient (insta surgery call in type...
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    Quick tips on Combating the Commoditization of the nurse practitioner degree

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

    I agree trauma but what fun would the world be if we all agreed with everything. Probably like the world in the lego movie. My avatar explains it better. l;) Feel free to ask questions. It might be...
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    How do you learn it all?

    chillnurse replied to lecolourfiend's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    and various others. Helped me drastically. Sadly I didn't start using them till my last semester of np school. Makes work so much easier also. These types of memory techniques aren't very popular in...
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    How do you learn it all?

    chillnurse replied to lecolourfiend's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    the memory book walking with Einstein.
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    RN experience helpful and essential to be a NP

    chillnurse replied to apostolic4eva's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    with physical exams, people skills, and time management yes. diagnosing and pharmacology not so
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    Adult-Gerontology NP versus Family NP

    chillnurse replied to ShannonE83's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Down to 13 isn't bad though. That's still a great degree esp if you like older folk like u all seem
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    Adult-Gerontology NP versus Family NP

    chillnurse replied to ShannonE83's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    After a year or two experience. The extra bit of adult info you gather from leaving out peds and on will be errelevent. I am also not a fan of seeing kids or ob and I don't use on much either. But I...