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Addendum: I take my meds now. Needed a good combo. It helps tremendously. But I still forget a lot of stuff.

Make sure you go to the Wilkes PMHNP group on facebook and search "preceptor". You will find the info you need to make decisions. Things have not been going well for people.

Yes, when I see people with their masks off for the first time, their faces look warped! Often times I ask to see them with their mask off because it drives me crazy to not know what they look like. I remember people by face rather than name.

Depends on your track. Mine was ADN-MSN, and they start you out slow (3 credits, 7 credits), barely part time, then ramp up to full time load at the end of the program. It is all planned out for you. You can change it, but they'd rather you didn't. Course credits per semester for the graduate work is scheduled at: 6, 6, 5, 7, 9, 9, graduation. The semesters with 9 include the preceptorships.

Florida, late 2019: I asked a physician that prescribes Marijuana, and he said that as long as you don't work at a federal facility, you are good. I would hope that he would know. However, my google searches have turned up less desirable results.

Maybe psychiatry

Medication was necessary in school. I work in psych, and I really don't care to take it now, but my work does suffer. If I don't write things down immediately, I don't remember to do it / pass it on / document it. Also I must have checklists. I have a very supportive work-partner (psych often works in teams of two nurses), and that is incredibly helpful.

Oh, sorry, I meant to answer that. It’s been around $4k for 6 credit hours. This is for RN-MSN, but I believe the tuition is that same for MSN.

Maybe a year and a half full time, and I only say that because only certain classes can be taken in summer. It could possibly be less. I am definitely not attempting it full time just because I work.

No not every week. It’s totally doable with full time job.

All the time on the geri ward, and unprovoked of course. ONCE in the adult inpatient unit, but that was kinda my fault.

They set it up to be two classes at a time at first, and then three towards the end. From what I can see, it's like that because of either the difficulty of the courseload assigned, or whether or not it's offered in summer.

Agreed. I started at Wilkes. Seemed like the best option to me.

I'm going into my fourth semester there. Started out in the RN-PMHNP program, so the first two semesters were the bachelors level courses. I like it so far. The classes have all had the same format (weekly discussion post, 150+ words, 2 references other than textbook, reply the same week w/ same criteria - plus other miscellaneous papers and projects). So far the papers haven't been terribly long or burdensome. It's been rather easy, really. I got the pdf versions of my books for cheap on ebay, and don't regret it at all. For the bachelors level classes, I didn't even look at the textbooks because you can't use them as references, so the research had to come from the online library. I don't condone that necessarily, but it was the truth for me. Overall I'm pretty happy...but I still have a long way to go.

Accepted to RN-MSN PMHNP Spring 2019

Yes, accepted. But RN-MSN.

I couldn't even get an RN job at the hospital I was working at as a CNA when I graduated! I got hired at a rural hospital PRN and at a psych hospital that I worked at previously because I knew the employees. Good luck, it's rough out there.

Central Florida hospitals new RN grad $23-25 hr plus shift differentials ($1-4).

I always scored way lower on the practices (A&B) than on the actual proctors. I made level 3 on all but 1 proctor, but would score in the 50's and up on the practices. Maybe it's because I did all the practices?..... including all the learning systems, etc. I also used Lippincott NCLEX RN passpoint, and NCLEX RN Mastery. Barely cracked a textbook except to follow in lecture, skimmed through the ATI books / followed along during regular lecture, and did fine.

I have lots of information about it, directly from the admissions counselor. You can PM me.

How do I find specific salary/differential/benefit, and nurse residency program info for specific hospitals? The residency is not searchable on the internet in some instances, and I've not seen salary posted at all. I know all the information for the hospital where I am currently employed as a tech, and that is only because I have taken the time to dig and pilfer it. I graduate in two months, and have been planning to stay at my current hospital. However, I am hearing repeatedly that other local hospitals pay significantly higher per hour. I already know that my hospital pays low, but this is an $8 hr difference for some. That would make a difference in commuting. How does one find this out? Do I have to apply to every single place and ask what they offer? That seems awkward....and time consuming. Is there a place I can look? Glassdoor.com is only giving me estimates and it's not really for new grads. How did you do it?

It's true for me. That's why I went to nursing school. My original degree track was in Mental Health Counseling. After a short maternity leave from school, I decided to go ahead and shoot for that nursing degree. It's an opportunity to be more involved with the patient's care versus having a doctorate in psych (as far as medication management and understanding how physical co-morbidities and disease processes interfere with their mental status). I was having a hard time putting those pieces together as a mental health tech, and it was frustrating. So here I am. A couple months shy of ADN graduation. I really don't have the desire to remain a "bedside" nurse any longer than I have to. It's all so impersonal at the hospital...at least in the psych units. There's not enough therapy....the patients are "stabilized" and sent away with "resources", which aren't enough to really do anything remarkable for them. Unfortunately that's just the state of mental health care in America. But I digress..... My point was that I found nursing, and in particular advanced nursing practice, a more inclusive method of patient care versus another degree path. Not sure if that applies to anybody else.

I do understand how it works. However, what I meant was sometimes the wording seems tricky, and ATI seems to be worse about it than others. My question is more like "Are the questions worded clearly, so that one can understand exactly what is being asked of them?"

My classmates and I want to know, as we have heard rumors that it does not. But does the actual NCLEX have all the trick questions that nursing school exams do? Like in ATI, Wolters-Kluewer products, Cengage, etc? The questions can be rather unfair at times (Yes, I KNOW that is how the questions work, but really, sometimes they are...). So we are wondering, is it as bad?

Yes. For the first 11 months of being a PCA/CNA, I did NOT want to be a regular floor nurse. Now that I'm half-way through my nursing core, and I've seen that not all floors/specialties are as nasty as the one I'm in (a rather old medsurg unit), I have reconsidered.