chillnurse BSN, RN, NP

You may not be able to work in your favorite specialty.Currently, work in the ER as an RN? Do you love it? Good, well your first job out of school may not be in the ER as you have lingered during your nursing career. Love the ER? Well, recruiters lov...

1. Overabundance of programs- schools are opening up left and right handing out these degrees. Why? Many of the online schools charge 40-60k + dollars for these programs. Outrageous, but with the hopes of landing a 6 figure job. People are cramming t...

What are you alls take on the online programs. Reason I ask, is it seems many people who complete online only FNP programs seem to have trouble finding jobs. As i read in a post from one of the moderators here, nurse practitioner programs are not as ...

If you are expecting an elaborate article, you won't get it here. 1. cost too much to transfer license from another state. About 220 bucks just for me to transfer my RN license since I am moving to another state. Lame. it's not like ive performed any...

I have been pondering this question for around 2 years now. I still have been unable to provide myself with a reasonable answer to this question. My stack of books was probably about 1 foot taller in undergraduate. This is an anomoly of the universe....

There are several smart FNPs on this website that could easily produce very good context driven content much better than provided by many programs out there. Get 5 or so graduated FNPs, each to cover what they believe to be their strongest systems wi...

Actually, Some chick in one of my undergrad classes pulled up a picture of the tampon in lemonade. It was some sort of picmonic I guess. Give me a few hours and I'll write a double blind peer reviewed 15 page article over the benefit of picmonics als...

yeah that article about that nursing student was pretty funny. man we would have gotten failed if we played on our phone in clinical in RN school. I got written up for basically pooping longer than 15 minutes once. They were hard on me since I was a ...

medical journals, not nursing journals. I agree that the PA education is better than many NP schools also. *GASP* I have stated this in previous posts. I still went NP though due to less restrictions on us, which I am all for of course, but still put...

I read nursing journals in school. Never will again. I'll stick to epocrates and uptodate. Where they leave out the fluff and to straight to the point. If we followed all of the stuff they put in those nursing journals, I'd admit like 1/2 of a patien...

A non partially offensive post would not have 40 responses. Success. :) works huh

Actually I like my job. Doesn't require nursing diagnoses. Medical diagnoses are more fun. Oh look his creatinine high he's got an AKI. Time to find out why. Not.... Hmm diarrhea. Increased chance of skin breakdown. How can I over complicate this. I...

Another thing I never understood. NURSING DRUG MANUALS. These things are thicker and have more elaborate over kill explanations that anything I ever used in graduate school and practice. It's just a for show thing. Just as those nursing diagnosis man...

I do I feel much better. 240 bucks is a lot

I am far from all knowing, but have been through the trenches. If this article helps one person find a job or career faster, then it was worth the time put into the article. College doesn't teach many of these things, but they are a prerequisite to b...

why limit yourself. broader scope= more marketable. simple

I only know one acnp, all the rest are fnp. Our hospitalist group employs only FNP since we see kids in the hospital also. FNP all the way. Of course I am biased though so.... I do a reputable program with a good rep. Not these 80k tuition online for...

Hospital rules. More fun than clinic. It is in our scope. Otherwide I'd be unemployed. From er to icu patients on 4 pressors. We fit it covered

i moved from TN to ky for a better job area. U from east TN? thats where i moved from. knoxville area sucks, but cleveland and chattanooga have more jobs then even where i am in KY. i moved cuz of GF though. look into working around chatt, i had a fe...

buy me beer. jk. you shoudlnt have to offer anything. Id take anybody pretty much as long as they are human and not ridiculous. I mean since when has humanity stooped so low to where we don't help each other? Oh wait its always been like that.

First off, there are many very experienced and very well educated NPs on this forum (much more than I) so feel free to add to this list. Second of all, please don't mind my tone. Don't be offended, I am actually a somewhat pleasant person in real lif...

I think as I said above. Helps with pe but the mess used in clinic are totally different than icu. Minus putting the patients home meds down their peg tube. Diagnosing which is one of the biggest parts of our job is totally not used as an rn

Beter pay 150k a year if u gotta see 40 pts a day. Otherwise I'd day no thanks banks

Probably depends on recruiter and personal experiences. That would be my guess and what I have seen in the past. HBU? Also, if i was a recruiter and looking into hiring a new grad I would probably prefer a PA over an NP. Don't worry I have my body ar...

I am probably the most FOR person for 1 year post grad residencies. pay us 50k a year, give us benefits, free food, and teach us cool stuff, and id gladly take a pay cut in half for a year. esp if it was in a giant trauma center. also, i want a free ...