RegularNurse

Think of it this way... NP training is market driven. There is a strong market for NPs, and a large pool of nurses who wish to be NPs. Schools compete based on the flexibility and ease of their programs. As long as a school maintains accreditation...

You are being paid market value for your work. Compensation isn't about being nice or fair. Employers want to pay the least amount possible in the form of raw wages and benefits for labor. As a staff nurse, you have little bargaining power. Do you...

I see OP's point, but if you are working with the general public, be prepared to be disrespected.

Well Said.

Obviously this is happening. New nurses know that all you need is some experience and few years of grad school to get a comfortable 9-5 job with no nights, holidays, and weekends. Most pay even better than bedside care. Only in nursing is there a cu...

This is your time in the trenches. Bedside nursing is about getting work done. Its not about musing on the pathophysiology, or the right drug regimen. Bedside nurses need to be smart and hard working. Aides and RNs do the medical labor, they phys...

It doesn't matter where you get your BSN. Graduate nursing school remains wide open. You will probably get accepted into every NP program you apply to. Best of Luck!

This post captures the problem perfectly. Nursing school behavior will only be policed by market forces. If employers refuse to hire inexperienced NP graduates, they will tighten up their admission standards. Regarding vernacular, why bother droppin...

You don't have to do anything. Just tell your employer that you won't work unless they have additional staff present.

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A nurse practitioner is a clinical degree. Healthcare administrators typically have advanced degrees in business or healthcare administration, in addition to years of clinical experience. If you are not already a nurse, you will need to do a BSN th...

I'm not looking up the specific rules in your state, but in my state, refusing to take a drug test does not constitute guilt. Your employer has the right to fire you over it, but your employer is not a police department, or the BON. You never HAVE t...

Try to only work nightshift or dayshift; work multiple shifts in a row; accept that the first shift will be brutal

Opportunities for in-house nurse informaticists are lacking. A hospital doesn't need many informatics nurses to run. There are a lot of opportunities to work for consulting and on-boarding firms as EHR systems are implemented. However, these jobs t...

You have a goal and stick with it! Do not become a nurse. Every nurse I know who has ever wanted to become a doctor was miserable in the nursing role. Just keep on trucking. Honestly, consider paramedic school as a way to make cash on your journey...

I think you raise a good point here. As APRNs expand their scope of practice and attain full autonomy in primary care nationwide, do similar outcomes between physicians and APRNs mean doctors are overqualified for the job? I think everyone can agree...

I think a lot of what you wrote is right on the money. However, I think nursing schools raised admission standards due to increased demand for nursing education. Schools must thin the herd of applicants to stay within their enrollment capabilities. ...

Well said and "liked" One of the overarching issues in nursing is the simple fact that nurses don't want to be bedside nurses anymore, and there is nothing wrong with that. This is the root cause of the impending surplus of APRN providers. Why is th...

The BSN bias with Magnet hospitals can be unfortunately true. I've seen it myself, but I don't know how common it is. Your graduate degree should be aligned with your career goals. Do not get some worthless fluffy MSN degree to simply not be a staf...

Here is my take on this situation: 1. Nursing school has been oversold for the last ten years to boost enrollment and make more money. Notice the sheer numbers of people flocking to nursing schools as a second career and the increase in nursing scho...

Nationwide, staff nursing is not a great job. Staff nurses making 45+ per hour is mostly in major coastal cities (SF Bay Area, Seattle, NY, Boston, Philly). Many nurses hover between 25-35 an hour. That is 50-75k for probably around 1k a month in s...

1. Yes, continue working towards becoming a nurse. 2. Buy an NCLEX book and study from that instead of text books. 3. Admin positions require at least a few years experience, so focus on becoming an RN first, then getting your BSN, then getting your ...

In your post you ask which program has less math. What is your goal with this degree? Math, statistical analysis, and MS Excel are big parts of data science. There is a huge trend in healthcare toward big data. I imagine that informaticists are ex...

You already have a plan; now execute it.

Honestly you can probably use YouTube and Wikipedia with similar results.