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  1. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

    PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Agree. I think it is pretentious - the white coat is also pretentious and designed to show who is boss. I don't like it. It's a status thing. The patients KNOW you are a provider - but you are also...

  2. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

    PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You found jobs as a new grad? Wow! In the state where I live, there were no jobs then, and there are no jobs now. They pay NPs about the same as RNs but PAs make over $120,000. Worst decision of my...

  3. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

    PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It depends where you work, whether or not you can or do wear a suit. In outpatient, certainly. In hospital, some hospitals everyone - EVERYONE - wears a kind of scrub, then white coat. Bigger issue:...

  4. Is this true? Salary Question

    PMHNP-1 replied to MexicanFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The salary surveys, provided annually in NP/PA magazine typically show that PAs, who must work with a physician (while NPs don't have to except in Mississippi and Michigan) under supervision, get more...

  5. Is this true? Salary Question

    PMHNP-1 replied to MexicanFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I do know quite a few NPs who went BACK to work as RNs. I'm pretty sure it is this state - it is notorious for being a very bad practice environment for NPs, there are NO unions for nurses and so...

  6. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I wish it were meant to be fun. The fact that so many nurses have seen this behavior in their workplaces - and that many nurses are serious about it - means it isn't really

  7. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, several validated retrospective studies show that full moons are NOT the worst. However - the behavior of nurses who "feel" (thinking not in evidence in this case) that this is true CAN...

  8. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Hope it is all in fun, since that kind of behavior can also be the sign of an anti-science bias, or show the way to a group of nurses who cannot introduce new evidence-based practices into their

  9. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Horrible. Rather than encouraging this superstitious anti-science worldview, we should be fighting against it. Nurses who "feel" (thinking doesn't come into it at all) that these superstitions are...

  10. Accusing Hospice

    PMHNP-1 replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I do hope it was the family who introduced religion or religious viewpoint into this. If any of my relatives were to encounter someone talking about "gods plan" or any of that, they would have to go...

  11. Need advice please!

    PMHNP-1 replied to TSimpson730's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Good for you - you call the state agency in charge of investigating elder abuse, you call CMS also - since CMS certs these places. You should just QUIT. It sounds bad enough that your license could...

  12. Help please in naming actual issue- I am terrible at this

    PMHNP-1 replied to amychisom's topic in Research

    Please don't call that "research" - use of that term for describing non-research activities is diluting the meaning. You're reviewing the literature, not doing "research". You'll be looking at the...

  13. I HATE Nurse Practitioners

    PMHNP-1 replied to Angeljho's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Crazynut, that isn't the problem. There is a shortage of psychiatrists who will go into the HOSPITAL to see patients. they don't earn enough to do that, typically: private practice pays

  14. I HATE Nurse Practitioners

    PMHNP-1 replied to Angeljho's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Newsboy, doesn't sound like any PMHNPs would want to work there. Similar situation in a local beh. health inpatient unit here. A colleague went in...........lasted less than a month. Treated like dirt...

  15. Patient rights to refuse?

    PMHNP-1 replied to wezzie, RN's topic in Psychiatric

    There are probably many more problems in this unit than this punative illegal treatment of patients who won't go to group. Let me guess. According to this "nurse", most patients are "entitled", or "on...

  16. Patient rights to refuse?

    PMHNP-1 replied to wezzie, RN's topic in Psychiatric

    Based on what you just wrote, it's time for 2 things: write up a report on the violation of patient rights, and file that with the rights coordinator. Two, call the state board and report. This is...

  17. Any Psych NP's with advice???

    PMHNP-1 replied to elbumphis02's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Sounds like you'll be able to do it all...........OR, you could actually do the PMHNP, get a job in that for experience while sorting out where you want your practice, what sub-specialty...

  18. Any Psych NP's with advice???

    PMHNP-1 replied to elbumphis02's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    don't know if "happy" or "sad" or whatever figures into this. I bought a service: education opportunity for PMHNP. What I got was substandard, and lied to, to boot. Dissatisfied, and wanting others to...

  19. Any Psych NP's with advice???

    PMHNP-1 replied to elbumphis02's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If you're a PMHNP, and you work for a psychiatrist OP or for a hospital In or out, you won't BE doing psychotherapy. You won't be allowed - your time is too valuable, so instead, the SW with NO...

  20. Any Psych NP's with advice???

    PMHNP-1 replied to elbumphis02's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thanks Jules! You did write that post- during a psychogenic fugue state I think. Yes - people don't usually like it when others tell it like it really was. I think we're supposed to find something...

  21. Any Psych NP's with advice???

    PMHNP-1 replied to elbumphis02's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Elbumphis02, if the program is offering psychopharm - and across the lifespan, even better! - it'll be great. You'll be ready, for the boards, and for entry level. I went to Wayne State. Also U-M....

  22. PMHNP Psych NP Questions

    PMHNP-1 replied to hakunamatata's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Hey TheOldGuy - I sure did. And the two schools I went to were "the best" in the area where I live.I switched schools after 1 year at the first, because the courses were so useless. Also because I...

  23. PMHNP Psych NP Questions

    PMHNP-1 replied to hakunamatata's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I've taken training that is for clinicians, through various universities. sometimes it's "boot camp" style, i.e., a weekend of 12 hour days, other times, a lot of online followed by going to the site...

  24. Independent Contract NP and Billing

    PMHNP-1 replied to BeautynBrains_RN's topic in Advanced Practice

    No. If you own a corporation and you work within the corporation, you cannot be sued personally for work that the corporate employee did. The corporation and its assets are at stake. Not you, not your...

  25. Non-psych nurses as CRNP-PMH

    PMHNP-1 replied to Jules A's topic in Psychiatric

    I hadn't really thought about the fast track programs much, because the reverse is true, too: PMHNPs going for the FNP or other specialty, via the post-MSN cert programs. The only classes that...