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  1. Nurse Practitioner

    Grumble88 replied to AutumnEvansRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Not all advanced practice settings require crazy hours and being on-call, in fact if you find an area where your specialty is in demand you can negotiate a pretty great schedule. A few examples - in...

  2. Dual specialty

    Grumble88 replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Those are accrediting bodies, not exams. The ACNP board exam is different from the FNP board exam and would require more classes and clinical work to qualify to take

  3. DNP for professor

    Grumble88 replied to random_nurse12's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes, do it. If you want to teach at the highest levels of nursing, but don't want to be forced to slog through the grueling work of research, the DNP is the way to go. My only recommendation would...

  4. Can NPs delegate to PAs?

    Grumble88 replied to Grumble88's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm curious about independent practice states where NPs don't require delegation from a physician to prescribe. Can we in turn delegate prescriptive authority to a PA? My googling was unsuccessful...

  5. Direct Entry MSN VS DNP

    Grumble88 replied to SeattleStudent123's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Veigar points out an important difference. As a NP you will be a trained in a specialty and expected to work in that specialty area, as a PA you trained as a generalist and can work in almost any...

  6. Direct Entry MSN VS DNP

    Grumble88 replied to SeattleStudent123's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    My 2 sense on the whole DNP topic - if you want to be a nursing professor, the DNP is faster than a PhD. If you want to be a clinician, the DNP has zero return on the time and money investment vs....

  7. graduate degree woes

    Grumble88 replied to orthorn23's topic in General Nursing

    No, the DNP is not required to practice as a NP and no the DNP is in no way equivalent to an MD or

  8. NP Houston Salary/outlook/relocating

    Grumble88 replied to summerly's topic in Texas Nursing

    TX is one of the most restrictive states in terms of NP practice - mandatory face to face meetings every month with your delegating physician, mandatory monthly chart reviews, unable to prescribe any...

  9. Debating between doing Psych NP and FNP

    Grumble88 replied to danse87's topic in General Nursing

    FNPs do have a generally much broader scope of practice, but are limited in the field of psychiatry. As an FNP you can only legally treat mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and ADHD. For severe...

  10. Let's talk semantics

    Grumble88 replied to PG2018's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I often hear "hi, my name is so-and-so, I'm the psych provider" from PMHNPs introducing

  11. What are other accelerated programs like? (University of Rochester here)

    Grumble88 replied to Kiri88's topic in General Students

    Currently a masters student, I took my NCLEX in 2014 and I remember feeling the same way you're describing. Nursing school had a lot of very frustrating elements to it, lots of "hoop jumping" so to...

  12. Students Cheating

    Grumble88 replied to Conniemdaily's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Just write your own questions... More work but anytime you recycle questions they get remembered, especially test bank questions that are often extremely similar to Saunder's and other review...

  13. What are other accelerated programs like? (University of Rochester here)

    Grumble88 replied to Kiri88's topic in General Students

    When it comes time to study for/take the NCLEX you'll be grateful they tested you in that way. The NCLEX is 50% nursing knowledge and 50% knowing how to take the

  14. I took my nclex 6 weeks ago

    Grumble88 replied to Patrickstarr03's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm invested in this saga now, did either of y'all ever hear

  15. Graduate/Direct Entry NICU Experience (TX or OH)

    Grumble88 replied to awrightie's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I can give you a little info on Austin. UT has a direct entry program and the local hospitals are familiar with it and do hire direct-entry RNs. One concern though is will you have a nursing...

  16. Chemistry and Microbiology

    Grumble88 replied to hopeful_future_rn's topic in General Students

    A lot. Chemistry is big for pharmacology and understanding human physiologic homeostasis. Microbio is incredibly important in understanding the pathology behind infectious disease and the human...

  17. Locum Tenens Rates

    Grumble88 replied to PG2018's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Soon to graduate pmhnp, I'm currently exploring job opportunities and locums through Barton associates was one company I've been talking to, they only quoted me 50s-60s $/hr, but this was for...

  18. Switching specialties as a Nurse Practitioner

    Grumble88 replied to lyndsmar's topic in General Nursing

    FNP can work in most pediatric positions, but if you know peds is what you want to do you'll be more competitive in applications for pediatrics-only settings and better trained to work with kids. The...

  19. Practicing What We Preach: Patient Teaching and Cigars

    Grumble88 replied to Skittles767's topic in Patient Education

    A cigar or two a week is fine, it's when you smoke more days than not that it becomes a real health

  20. Np va pa

    Grumble88 replied to Ncgirl741's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Try to ignore the grouchy folks... In a clinic environment there isn't a huge amount of difference in job responsibilities in collaborative practice states, or states where NPs need physician...

  21. Psych np

    Grumble88 replied to RNdynamic's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Psych NP is a specialty, it requires specific coursework and clinical work to qualify for the board exam, attending an FNP program will not qualify you to take the PMHNP

  22. I thought that if you had clinicals at a hospital you had "your foot in the door"

    Grumble88 replied to ant123's topic in Texas Nursing

    If your foot is stinky you can expect them to close that

  23. Feeling Frustrated with my PMHNP Program

    Grumble88 replied to BlackBettyRN,OCN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Stick it out, like you said all the things you're learning will be fundamental to your future practice of psychiatry. Learn them and understand that they will make the future psych information more...

  24. Shadowing/observing a NP before applying to NP school

    Grumble88 replied to vitiana's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    This is highly advisable to do! But a two big problems come to mind, 1 they may voice HIPPA concerns but since you are already an LVN that may not be an issue, 2 is that NPs often either don't want a...

  25. Stress overload r/t mental abuse from ex girlfriend aeb difficulty functioning with school

    Grumble88 replied to kenken04's topic in General Students

    Borderline PD, you need to be very careful with her. I've seen incredibly dodgy situations result from scorned Borderline PD exs in two nursing friends' lives. Run for the hills, she will always...