kubivern replied to bogus2001's topic in NP Students
I do not believe that where you get your BSN will matter - as long as you have it, you should be good. Just make sure the BSN program is accredited by either the ACEN or the CCNE - the Grand Canyon website says it is accredited by CCNE. I do not bel...
kubivern replied to BirkieGirl's topic in NP Students
Have you tried nursingcas.org? I don't have anything to do with the website - I used it for my Post Master's Certificate and DNP as it does list a lot of programs. I believe it does not cost anything to search.
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (2nd Edition), p. 7 states: "Whether practicing under the title of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) or NP, Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurses share the s...
kubivern replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Doctoral
Don't ever sell yourself short. If you put in the effort, you are "smart enough" to take on any DNP program. You got your MSN - many DNP programs are BSN to DNP. So you are halfway there. And I don't think that GPA is a great indicator of how smar...
kubivern replied to hellfirecat's topic in ADN/BSN
I have educated in both ADN and BSN classes for a number of years. The ADN path is an excellent path for an individual who wants to become a nurse. Yes, there is a large push to get RNs with an ADN to continue forward to get his or her BSN. Like a...
kubivern replied to ExploringNurse's topic in Advanced
Like many of the other posters, I am also a CNS. I think that it all depends on where you want to work and what you want to do - that is the way all careers should be chosen. But I would be cautious on going into the CNS role - I just don't see a ...
I would definitely look around - I am a recent Adult CNS and I am attending Rush University to get my PMHNP. Rush took many of my CNS classes towards my PMHNP. I went through nursingcas.org (I think that is the correct URL) and looked at the program...
kubivern replied to CNAstudent2411's topic in Psychiatric
I teach in Practical Nursing and Associate Degree Registered Nursing programs in Idaho and we highly encourage individuals wanting to become nurses but are still in high school to take dual credit classes (you receive both high school and college cr...
I did not participate in a "consensus" program per se, but I did share a number of courses with the NPs. Specifically all non-clinical and introductory classes were shared - for example, health assessment, patho, pharm, research, roles, etc. were sha...
I took my test yesterday and passed. As the previous poster mentioned, you will probably take the Adult Gerontological CNS exam if you are just starting - I took the Adult CNS exam so our exams will be slightly different. I went overboard on studying...
Blackfoot is the smaller of the three locations you listed. I know friends with children requiring specialized education and both Idaho Falls and Pocatello do have schools that provide that education - I imagine Blackfoot does as well but Idaho Falls...
I teach at Idaho State University on the southeastern side of Idaho, but we have several students who come from the Boise area each year to participate in our ADRN program. Those students have nothing but good things to say about the Boise area - it ...
kubivern replied to studentnurserachel's topic in Educators
"According to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the average salary of a nurse practitioner, across settings and specialties, is $ $91,310. By contrast, AACN reported in March 2011 that master's prepared faculty earned an annual average sal...
Searching at Clinical Nurse Specialist Programs | Find Accredited CNS Degrees showed several Pediatric CNS programs, including Post-Masters Programs. I know when I was searching for online programs it was critical to make sure that the Post-Masters p...
kubivern replied to eharrison's topic in Educators
I will certainly confirm what several others have stated - don't do it for the money. I work at a state unversity in an Associate Degree Registered Nursing Program. Often my student graduates start at a higher wage than I earn. And on average we work...
I just started working on my CNS Post-MS Certificate at Idaho State University. My MS was in Nursing Education - if you think the NP students growl at CNS students you should see the NP students growl at students in an education option. We were lower...
kubivern replied to bookwormom's topic in Educators
I do not know of any schools that do not use some form of standardized testing in order to provide a baseline for both past and current academic performance and knowledge. Our school for example has used both ATI and Kaplan as a portion of the entran...
kubivern replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Educators
A reminder is certainly in order - as mentioned above, an email reminder is effective and is not considered (by at least all the instructors I work with) as intrusive.
Thank you for your post. I received my LPN at EITC and went to ISU for my LPN to ADRN - at the time, several of my EITC classes did not transfer due to the difference in the number of credits and hours, but it is good to see that has been worked out....
As many others have stated - no show and no call is a failed grade for that clinical and an educational warning. Our students do not, though, fail the course unless they have two no show and no calls (resulting in two educational warnings total). Th...
kubivern replied to lifeasanewgrad's topic in New Nurse
Like others, I encourage people to "rant and rave" when appropriate - it is therapeutic and it reduces stress. But of course you can't please everyone. I work in education right now, and we recently were visited by our State's Board of Nursing. One o...
As I understand it, right now the area is somewhat saturated with nurses due to the recession; the number of nursing programs in the area; corporate philosophies; and the reduced workload as people postpone non-critical surgery and procedures until t...
Certainly. What questions do you have? The website (Associate of Science Registered Nurse (ADN) - College of Technology) is very complete, but I can answer other questions you may have. It is not totally online - there are typically one to two days a...
kubivern replied to nursechick182's topic in Educators
I am currently working on my MSN in Education (3 more courses to go). Although I agree completely with the other posters that if you absolutely want to teach, it is the way to go, I also feel somewhat limited. The university I attend provides 5 diffe...
We have several labs that have video coverage - all images are stored digitally in a password protected computer system that only instructors can access. However, we only use advanced simulation manikins, so there is no privacy issues. We use the vi...