traumaRUs MSN, APRN

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    Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

    traumaRUs replied to telee73's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    @Mommy - I don't want to derail this thread but at the present time I only see adult pts so I can not renew the peds CNS by practice hours - I must retest. So...in five years when I come up for...
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    Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

    traumaRUs replied to telee73's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Per the ANCC and the Consensus Model, Adult Health CNS and Peds CNS exams will both be phased out in December 2015. This is not advancing the CNS role but rather forcing those of us who are CNS's to...
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    FNP vs NP vs CNS

    traumaRUs replied to mills9229's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Several CNS exams are retiring in Dec 2015: Adult Health CNS Pediatric
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    POLL: Should telemetry techs need to know patient Dx?

    traumaRUs replied to mycoholic1's topic in General Nursing

    Okay - lets keep our terms of service in mind and debate the topic, not the
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    Help: Can't find a preceptor

    traumaRUs replied to StudentOnceAgain's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moving to Student NP forum. @cozmax - try the IL Society of Advanced Practice Nurses Best
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    To all the Newly graduated NPs!

    traumaRUs replied to nyc2011's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moved to Student NP
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    I failed my preemployment drug test :/ what now...?

    traumaRUs replied to Juankiters08's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Staff note - per our terms of service, to which everyone agrees to when they join, AN does not allow medical advice nor do we allow advocating for ways to pass a drug test. To this end, several...
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    Adoption

    traumaRUs replied to KcDawn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Closing this thread as the OP has gotten the answers they were looking
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    Early preparation for the FNP boards

    traumaRUs replied to serendipity_RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moved to student NP
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    Adoption

    traumaRUs replied to KcDawn's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Staff note - in the future, please CLEARLY STATE this is a homework assignment and place in Nursing Student Assistance Forum.
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    Is it worth the money to become an NP? (read this, I promise it's good)

    traumaRUs replied to hkRN83's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moved to student NP for more
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    from RN to Palliative Care NP?

    traumaRUs replied to EOLRNinED's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moved to Student NP forum for more
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    NNP Outlook

    traumaRUs replied to guest769224's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    @R1515j Here are some threads I've found: https://allnurses.com/nicu-nursing-neonatal/complete-list-of-385427.html - good list of NNP programs NANN | National Association of Neonatal Nurses - National...
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    First NP Job and unhappy...What to do?

    traumaRUs replied to TCUgirl15's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sorry for your frustrations. You have received some very sound advice. I agree that giving it another 3 months would be a good idea. When I got out of school, I went right into a specialty in which...
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    Urban ED Meets Rural ICU

    traumaRUs replied to NurseSmallHands's topic in Critical Care

    What a timely post for me. I'm interviewing in a small, community hospital. I'm coming from a 900 bed level one trauma center to an approx 120 bed hospital. I'm on the second round of interviews and...
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    working in corrections

    traumaRUs replied to payitforward's topic in Correctional

    Moved to Correctional
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    Western Governors University admission?

    traumaRUs replied to JustVicky899's topic in Western Governors University

    Moved to the WGU
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    Anybody ever heard of "kiskitis"?

    traumaRUs replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    My background is nephrology and my first thought is "discitis". Could that be
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    Military Nursing

    traumaRUs replied to Lexiock's topic in Government, Military

    Moved to Government/Military
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    Advice for psychiatric NP out of practice for 6 years

    traumaRUs replied to Barb606's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm 56 now and plan to work another 10 years. However, I don't expect (knock on wood) to have a break in employment. Personally, I have know providers who were in their 60's and still quite sharp....
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    What school to choose? Please help!

    traumaRUs replied to lk_nynurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Moved to
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    CRNA'S: Part time jobs available? Having a baby after graduation?

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

    Moved to student CRNA
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    NP scope of practice in ER (FNP, ACNP, ER subspecialty)

    traumaRUs replied to KG MSN RN CCRN CEN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Moved t student NP
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    CNL vs APRN?

    traumaRUs replied to Farawyn's topic in Advanced Practice

    @Elkpark - my thoughts exactly. One more way to push the CNS degree out the door. So glad I chose to go back to
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    Stethoscope Bling?

    traumaRUs replied to chorses4evr's topic in General Students

    Please be mindful of the terms of service. Posts that are insulting will be