Polly Peptide

Polly Peptide BSN, MSN, RN, APRN

Rheumatology NP

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  1. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Lol. Fortunately I didn't quit a job making $150-$200k three years ago. Some things had happened and my income had really dwindled. I quit for personal reasons. It had to happen. So I can't...

  2. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I just spent some time looking at Indeed for job postings in the specialty I'm interested in, and there are a LOT...relative to others...starting at $90ish and going up to about $140k. I know things...

  3. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I get what you're saying but I need to revise some of your assumptions. I haven't been working now for a little over three years. I quit my job and began to take prereqs to get into that DE program I...

  4. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I appreciate this very rational reply :) I know the grass isn't always greener. BUT...sometimes it is. For me, my current field actually isn't all that palatable. There are reasons that I don't want...

  5. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would be fine taking a pay cut for a time and fortunately I would not need to take out any loans for school either. The overall cost for the BSN to MSN will be less than the DE program as well. In...

  6. Future of NP and...my future

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thanks Jules. I want to enjoy what I'm doing but I don't want to work for a pittance either. I have wanted to do this for at least 10 years and even as a kid imagined I would do something in the...

  7. Are you a nurse practitioner without any nursing experience?

    Polly Peptide replied to bethymaester's topic in Advanced Practice

    I understand now. I actually mistook your post to mean that your employer no longer hires students from direct entry programs. Thus the reason I asked those questions!

  8. Are you a nurse practitioner without any nursing experience?

    Polly Peptide replied to bethymaester's topic in Advanced Practice

    Does your program never accept direct entry candidates? Or will they accept them if they get experience elsewhere first (even though they graduated from said program)? Or if they spend some time...

  9. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you. It is Vanderbilt. They also have a Nurse Practitioner Critical Care Fellowship following graduation for ACNPs, something I will be very interested

  10. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well, you just

  11. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Interesting idea. Looks like there is some skepticism out there about online PA programs, not dissimilar to the reaction many here have to "fast track" NP programs. Not that the PA program is...

  12. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Frankly, I agree with you about the PA/NP school comparison. I've done it myself. My original desire was to go to PA school. But after evaluating my options, knowing I cannot move, I decided that I...

  13. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I just feel that going to my school's page and scouring through it in order to try to make a point about how much I'm "willing to pay" (or others) in order to supposedly be an NP faster was...

  14. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And you're being rude and sarcastic because...? I don't know where you are getting the cost of the program as that is incorrect. Perhaps you've seen some numbers regarding financial aid suggestions,...

  15. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hi Jules - I just know the MSN portion of my program, when full-time, is 40 hours per week for the didactic part, in addition to the time for clinical hours. I have heard of some people being able to...

  16. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am not ignoring the advice; I am taking everything in and will have to make a decision on the information I've gathered. The advice has come from multiple points of view. I said that the school...

  17. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    So if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it... Let me ask you this: is there not a point at which a practicing with NP with no prior RN work can feel that they, too, are...

  18. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'll be staying here, due to kids and husband, unless something crazy happens. My last post was a bit of a typo-fest. I'm sick and I can tell it,

  19. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You're right, I've never been an RN in the ICU. But I HAVE been lucky enough to shadow an ACNP in the ICU, who was also on the Rapid Response team for the hospital. So saying I've never "stepped...

  20. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I do totally understand this, and I expected the criticism when I posted here. I've reach MUCH criticism on this board of DE programs and NPs without RN experience and was beginning to question my...

  21. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    1) It actually is a business, and I plan to take advantage of that. 2) I don't know where I gave you the impression I was "cool" with an MD paying me under market value. I have no intention of...

  22. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I should expect that kind of reply. This man is a personal friend and is also encouraging his daughters to do this same thing which, I doubt, is to take advantage of them. I totally understand that...

  23. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Could some of this have to do with the fact that NPs are required to specialize and limited to practice within that scope? Whereas PAs are considered generalists? I mean, a PMHNP is not going to do...

  24. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    To be clear, I was including the clinical hours in the RN portion of the program as well. I think you have to compare the full DE program (which is all of it, not just the MSN portion) to PA...

  25. Brave or just stupid?

    Polly Peptide replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I know this question was directed at a different poster. The two year Masters PA programs I am familiar with (or just over two years) require just under 2000 clinical hours. My DE NP program of...