mrsmsh42

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1. New nurse - Bedside nursing is not for me

   mrsmsh42 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Great advice, Nurse Beth. I've been a nurse for 10 years, and I'm a second career RN, too. I was a computer geek prior, and there were things in nursing that were hard for me to adjust to. In some ways, I cast another vote to try to stick it out ...

2. Do Nursing Students Have a Life?

   mrsmsh42 replied to BellaInScrubs's topic in General Students

   (Come to think of it, don't remember a lot about the CCRN, either. Less like a grand mal seizure, more like an absence seizure, that one.)

3. Do Nursing Students Have a Life?

   mrsmsh42 replied to BellaInScrubs's topic in General Students

   p.s. That was 2006, in case you're curious. I'm an RN, BSN, CCRN now and a charge nurse in a multispecialty medicine clinic.

4. Do Nursing Students Have a Life?

   mrsmsh42 replied to BellaInScrubs's topic in General Students

   No. I think of that entire year of my life (I did an accelerated program) as one long, big grand mal seizure. I know it happened. I know I divorced that year, too. I have papers to prove it, and have faint blurry images of question number #88 and ...

5. Do you need bsn to get your msn

   mrsmsh42 replied to Miri323's topic in ADN/BSN

   Depending on how long ago you did your other bachelor's, some of those credits may transfer into a BSN program (mine did). It may be worth your while to do a few other classes to dramatically widen your choices of master's programs. Just a thought.

6. Lead Nurse Responbilities

   mrsmsh42 replied to Ann.E's topic in Ambulatory

   p.s. And it's a whole new ball of wax if you do procedures in your clinic. Any procedures. I work four days a week, and I work with another RN who works four days, too (Mondays she's without me; Fridays I'm without her.) We don't do many other pro...

7. Lead Nurse Responbilities

   mrsmsh42 replied to Ann.E's topic in Ambulatory

   I'm the Charge RN at my clinic, which is part of a large university system. That being said, there was a big gap in time with no nurses in clinic, and the charge nurse before me was present for only seven months. Basics that we are building: RN rol...

8. Non-nursing student interested in MSN

   mrsmsh42 replied to CRodriguez1990's topic in NP Students

   I'm curious (and others among this audience may also be) as to why you'd choose the NP path, as opposed to social work counseling or another equally compatible path towards working in mental health. One of my providers is a psychiatric CNS with pre...

9. Hospital vs. Clinic

   mrsmsh42 replied to FloatFNP-C's topic in New Nurse

   What a small world. I'm at the UCH pulmonology (and other specialties) clinic. I've been in my clinic for a year, after seven years of inpatient, mostly critical care...both days and nights. I re-upped my ACLS last year because "I didn't want to lo...

10. office setting nurses

    mrsmsh42 replied to littlekaneRN's topic in Ambulatory

    Oh! In that case, I typically have four to seven providers per day. I misunderstood. :)

11. office setting nurses

    mrsmsh42 replied to littlekaneRN's topic in Ambulatory

    I know this is an older post, but I'm flabberghasted. I have FIFTY-TWO providers. I have TWO medical assistants and THREE nurses. We do fine. I don't know how your docs are affording eleven nurses. Sounds like a toxic environment to me. Come work f...

12. One nurse for three busy providers. This can't be safe, right?

    mrsmsh42 replied to LTCNS's topic in Ambulatory

    I know this conversation happened in June. It just caught my attention is all..."three providers to one nurse...can this be safe?" I have fifty-two providers. And they're grown ups. And I'm very busy, but sounds like your providers need some train...

13. What School Nurses REALLY Do?

    mrsmsh42 replied to Kittery's topic in School

    WOW!, thank you for this, colleagues. I'm a clinic RN, and people don't know what I do, either. But it was really incredibly interesting to hear all of what you do. I am impressed and I salute you. Makes me think that I should write a post "What Clin...

14. main responsibilities of a floor nurse

    mrsmsh42 replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure what you mean by "floor nurse"....are you referring to Medical-Surgical Nursing? That *is* a specialty. It is a different specialty than ICU or OR or ER or peds or outpatient or ...etc etc etc. You can look into: https://www.amsn.o...

15. Assertiveness, Having an "edge". Advice needed

    mrsmsh42 replied to EMEddie's topic in MICU

    ICU nurses are frequently a tough-skinned crowd. ER nurses, too. You need a thick skin because you're surrounded by death and dying every single day. Med-surg just isn't like it. And when you as an RN are feeling that your patient is circling the...