traumaRUs MSN, APRN

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    Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I have had several pts who were citizens from another country go back to their home and pay for a transplant. Until I read this, I never thought that they could be unwilling donors. Agree - this is...
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    HUGE step forward for NP's!!!

    traumaRUs replied to MikeFNPC's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Agree that this is a step in the right
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    Saving Lives and Changing Laws: The Story of One School Nurse and Glucagon

    traumaRUs replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Just an update: EAST MOLINE — In the spring of 2018, a 7th grader with diabetes at Glenview Middle School went to the nurse’s office with dangerously low blood sugar levels. The student had...
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    Illinois Now FPA State!!!!!!

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Advanced Practice

    Full Practice Act - independent practice w/o MD oversight. Kinda misnomer in IL because while I can Rx by myself, I have to have a "supervising MD" for the DEA (federal rule) and for the IL...
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    Illinois Now FPA State!!!!!!

    traumaRUs posted a topic in Advanced Practice

    So, Illinois just passed the FPA law and here is the info and application: DFPR posted the application for Full Practice Authority this morning. You can access the application on the IDFPR website...
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    Nurse Practitioners Fired for Negligence/Opioid Abuse

    traumaRUs replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Wow - I would imagine CA has a statewide prescribing database? In IL, our prescription monitoring program lists all controlled substances by prescriber, pharmacy, and also lists out any overlapping...
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    How is Case Western's FNP Program?

    traumaRUs replied to nursegirl20's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    MOved to student NP
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    Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I have lived in several other cultures due to military service (Korea, Spain, Japan, interior of Alaska) and the articles I cited, stated that "donors" were often governmental dissidents and organs...
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    Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    Truth Daisy
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    Suicide by chronic pain sufferers after opioids reduced

    traumaRUs replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is incredibly sad. I care for sickle cell dialysis pts and I can tell you - they hurt. One of my pts had the same issue so this is becoming a huge issue. I finally took the script myself (I'm the...
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    Have you ever experienced an ethical dilemma in your practice?

    traumaRUs replied to af3669's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Thanks for your comment. What we have found over the years is that most (not all) but most CRNAs have little patience with students posting in the CRNA forum. This is why we have moved any student...
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    Social Media and Doxxing - Your Thoughts???

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Totally agree with you. When we have some degree of anonymity, we lose the filter that we might otherwise possess in real
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    Webcams in Nursing Homes?

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    What a great option for parents who can't visit too. I live near a tertiary medical center with many "feeder hospitals" in very rural areas where there is no transportation. If the parents can't be...
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    MVA, EMS didn't use a backboard!!

    traumaRUs replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently a pre-hospital RN with 20+ years experience. Its easy for us to second guess when we were not on the scene. All I can say is that people who are not trained responders might interpret...
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    Touro University - Nevada DNP Program - anyone???

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    THanks. My MSN is actually in Management and Leadership, but I did two post-MSN certificates: Adult and Peds CNS so I had 1200 hours of clinical from those
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    AG-CNS or FNP

    traumaRUs replied to jrinehart's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And always keep in mind the Consensus Model and LACE - hospitals in IL are slowly moving to not credentialing FNPs in the hospital. As to CNS, agree with above poster - whats your state practice act...
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    Would PMHNP role be welcoming to nurse in recovery?

    traumaRUs replied to SkyIsTheLimit86's topic in Advanced Practice

    Then, why not? Best
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    Full Practice Authority

    traumaRUs replied to rkealy's topic in Advanced Practice

    Our FPA in IL states you have to have 4000 hours of practice prior to being granted an APRN-FPA
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    Webcams in Nursing Homes?

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    Its actually fairly common in my area for home care pts to have webcams in their homes. My grand-daughter was supposed to come home with trach/g-tube, oxygen, etc., and when we were looking for home...
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    Webcams in Nursing Homes?

    traumaRUs replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    Agree - and I think that staffing is the root of this
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    Need some help from ILLINOIS

    traumaRUs replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there I actually travel thru DePue IL. It’s a tiny town, no hospital no college of nursing. Nearest hospital is Spring Valley IL. No nearby college of nursing at least
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    New BSN in Michigan w/ Dual-Diagnosis (pre-licensure)

    traumaRUs replied to K. Everly's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sorry you haven't rec'd answers here yet. Your post isn't too long but it is very specific to a dual diagnosis. Just give a few more
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    New NP - Balancing What I Know and What I Don't Know

    traumaRUs replied to OncRN2015's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hmmm...I'm the outlier here: I do look up things in front of the patient. I simply say that isn't part of what I deal with on a daily basis and I want to check the doseage. The caveat to this is that...
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    Asking for a Raise?

    traumaRUs replied to NPbb's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When I graduated and tentatively accepted my first job, the initial offer was barely over what I made as an experienced APRN. I countered with $10k over what the offer was and told the APRN that I was...
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    How long it took you to find your first NP job

    traumaRUs replied to singleye's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sorry you are having such a difficult time. When I graduated in 2006 I applied at the very large hospital where I had worked for 10 years. I was well known as a skilled and compassionate nurse....