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My condolences to their families and May they rest in peace.

It's getting hot in here!

This is all a bit funny to me and I apologize if I offend anyone by laughing. There is only one male nurse on the day shift on my unit and basically it's the culture on my unit that us nurses work as a team. We are all around the same age and so we a...

I'm so sorry to hear this. Please don't beat up on yourself too much and definitely do not give up. You can't, you've come too far, made too many sacrifices and if other people have done it, why can't you? Why don't you try practicing questions in yo...

OMG! I am traumatized just reading this. Why wasn't there a security guard with her? Better yet, why wasn't she transferred to a Psych facility. A regular nurse is not trained to deal with demon possessed patients. After the Pepsi assault, I would ha...

Told me I reminded her of her house keeper after asking me what my ethnicity was. I was born on the island of Jamaica but grew up in NYC but because her housekeeper is Jamaican then automatically I must be a housekeeper as well. This happened a few m...

Like my colleagues already mentioned, it depends on where you work unfortunately. Some employers will give you a pay raise for the DNP degree and others won't. I work in a single physician practice, it's just me, him and two PA's and he has made it c...

I agree, I live and work in NYC also and it's the other way around I think. My unit only has 1 Caucasian nurse and he is on the day shift, there are no Caucasians on the night shift. The rest of the nurses range from Filipinos , Caribbeans, Africans ...

I work on a Med/Surg/Tele unit so our patients are very colorful. Also, let me remind you it's a kosher Jewish facility as well. I had this patient the other day who was insisting on me getting him a grilled cheese sandwich (remember, kosher). I cal...

We get 1 hour unpaid for lunch and two 30 mins breaks but we normally don't take the last 30 mins. We only take 30 mins for breakfast in the morning and the hour lunch. You can always get paid for the hour lunch break if you were too busy to take it....

I am by no means interested in Psych, OB/GYN, any of the ICUs and definitely not Home Care because I hate going into people's homes. I'll deal with them in my turf.

I love that, I think our hospitals here in the US should adopt some of those traits from the UK when it comes to "waiting on" on some of these patients. Sometimes I feel like a glorified maid and I don't remember going to school to become a maid. S...

Well said BostonFNP, you verbalized perfectly everything I had a hard time stating in another forum. Thank you.

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I guess that makes sense because the DNP program I'm in allows the Adult NP to take Peds courses in order to complete the FNP requirement and at the end, get their DNP Diploma.

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Listen, you incorporated yourself into a conversation that had nothing to do with what you were talking about. You made something that had nothing to do with you all about you. We were talking about FL and here you come starting a war where their wa...

Baby needs a nap? Do you feel validated now? You got it all off your chest? Like I said, and I'll say it again, people make their own choice on what program they would like to attend, it's not up to me to decide which is better but I will maintain my...

Riburn3, I am by no means jealous of anyone, what they have or how they chose to live their lives I continue to do what I want because I make my own decisions in this life. I make 6 figures as well and had the time, money and support to go to school ...

Hi AutomotiveRN67, I totally agree with everything you said, I personally feel a bit disgruntled about those online degree programs because I chose to go to a traditional program for all 3 of my degrees. I sat in class for 4 years for the BSN, 2.5 ye...

First of all congrats on everything and I wish you all the success in the world. I have a question, what's this DNP-FNP program everyone is talking about? Forgive me for being ignorant but I went a different route for my DNP degree and I wasn't awar...

I am just renewing my FL state ARNP license because I am moving down there by the end of 2015. I really do hope some of these restrictions are lifted soon because I would like to practice at the full scope of my training. I am going to find it real...

Anytime! :-)

I am finishing up my DNP program at Pace University in New York City. It is a 3.5 yrs program of both in class and online activities. It is very intense because of all the writing and research classes but it can be done. I have a full time RN job ...

It's kind of funny and a bit frustrating but in the practice that I am in, there are 2 PA's, 1 Physician (all 3 are males) and me a female DNP. The medical Assistants and front desk employees call the PA's and the Physician "doctor" but they call me...