Goldenfox

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  1. Is Becoming A NP Worth It?

    Goldenfox replied to 8mpg's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Several years ago when this thread was started the market for FNPs and NPs in general was good. It isn't so good today, and in some areas it's actually pretty bad. You have to get busy networking and...

  2. New Grad RN with bad back. Is APN a safer option?

    Goldenfox replied to BWright81188's topic in Advanced Practice

    As an NP you shouldn't be lifting, pulling, or pushing anyone---at all. If you want to work in a rural area you will find more employment

  3. Integrative Medicine for Nurse Practitioner

    Goldenfox replied to momrn5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A reasonable argument. Everybody is trying to sell something. There is also some truth to the placebo argument. The mind is a very powerful thing. It can will a person who wants to live to survive...

  4. Tampa family Health info PLEASE

    Goldenfox replied to doodledome's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    As a general rule, most places that have plenty of openings (unless they just opened), offer a big bonus to come there, or penalize you with a big fine if you leave early aren't usually places where...

  5. Would you recommend going strait to DNP after BSN program

    Goldenfox replied to Socal_EMT's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    My take is that you should get some good RN experience first. At least 2 years, preferably with a mix of med surg/tele or a bit of ICU. You want to actually see the interventions and outcomes in...

  6. Moving Florida ARNP

    Goldenfox replied to doodledome's topic in Advanced Practice

    Perhaps you are not an NP or you have never worked in Florida as an NP. Or, perhaps you are just trolling the forum. That is the only way your statement would make any

  7. APRN co-own business - Texas

    Goldenfox replied to buck14587's topic in Advanced Practice

    THIS^ Even if state law permits it, not a good idea to go into a principal split share type of business partnership with a physician. Get another NP to partner with and pay the MD/DO the monthly dowry...

  8. I need a JOB

    Goldenfox replied to RNnowFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Easy. If you really want to know, all that you have to do is ask a friend to call them pretending to be your prospective employer and ask for a recommendation. Then you'll find out if they are saying...

  9. I need a JOB

    Goldenfox replied to RNnowFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    THIS^. I don't think that it is that stuff from your RN background long ago. Whether you were fired or not, leaving a job is not that big a deal as long as the BON doesn't have a big negative on your...

  10. 85% the reimbursement of Physicians

    Goldenfox replied to smd2521's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Because the physicians are better at manipulating the political games that determine these things than nurses. The docs understand their playing field and they guard it jealously. Their boards of...

  11. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Goldenfox replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You missed the irony of my post. Its not so much about existing demand, but about creating demand for NP education---which ultimately further diminishes the NP profession in terms of opportunities and...

  12. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Goldenfox replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    All NP schools are gradually phasing out the master's degree or planning to do so eventually, not (in most cases) because of a mandate but because, strategically as well as financially, it makes sense...

  13. Graduated 7 months ago FL- still no job!

    Goldenfox replied to Agriffin2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I've said this in the past also. Very true. Least progressive of all the states when it comes to NP practice. But some people are stuck there for family and other reasons. I have friends who I went to...

  14. How do you explain the DNP?

    Goldenfox replied to FreudianSlip's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    This is exactly the point of my question. A doctoral degree in any discipline consumes a vast amount of resources; even if one is doing it for love of academia, it's not the most efficient way to...

  15. How do you explain the DNP?

    Goldenfox replied to FreudianSlip's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Then why are you still pursuing

  16. I passed my test...now what?

    Goldenfox replied to dotson1983's topic in Advanced Practice

    Your school should have gone over these things with you during the last semester of your program? As a new NP your should get Buppert's book. Another good book for new NPs is Role Development for the...

  17. How do you explain the DNP?

    Goldenfox replied to FreudianSlip's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I wouldn't bother explaining it at all. If people really want to know they can look it up on Wikipedia themselves as they do everything else. There are many, many different types of doctoral degrees...

  18. NP v. PA

    Goldenfox replied to eacu's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You are talking about two surgeons who have a particular opinion about nurses. Its a BIG old world of opportunities out here with many other surgeons who would disagree with those two. I say this from...

  19. Failed FNP AANP again (4th time) seriously I give up!

    Goldenfox replied to Wakes's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Giving up should not be an option for you. Not so easily. Not even after trying four times. That test is not that hard. You're not passing because you're over-thinking the questions. Perhaps it's all...

  20. Finding a FNP/APRN job in Houston, Tx (May 2015 GRAD)

    Goldenfox replied to TheFuture09's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    For the most part, yes. The ads, and articles, and NP schools keep painting this rosy picture of the NP career...all promising plenty of jobs and plenty of money. That used to be true years ago. Not...

  21. AANP Cert Exam Dec 2015 Advice

    Goldenfox replied to FNPRCPR's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    ANCC doesn't really ask anything about nursing theory. The question are mostly clinical, and the non-clinical questions are more about ethics and culture

  22. Hate my FNP job

    Goldenfox replied to FNPCA's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The whole point of having a collaborating is so that you have a backup resource if something presents (including your telemedicine cases) and you need help with determining what to do. What would you...

  23. Hate my FNP job

    Goldenfox replied to FNPCA's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You are a provider, you are not there to organize furniture and put equipment together. When you say that you are not comfortable seeing patients are you saying that you need some type of orientation...

  24. Can you decline a job if not started but Contract signed?

    Goldenfox replied to Gdschild's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Are you saying that the physician told you that you must work all holidays after you signed the contract? Or was this stated in the contract and you only noticed it after you had already signed it?...

  25. 1 month new ICU job. I want to run

    Goldenfox replied to RNMeagz's topic in Critical Care

    I agree with the post that your preceptor should not be precepting if she's so easily exasperated, or rolling her eyes and snapping at you. As others have said, the ICU is a different world compared...