JellyDonut

JellyDonut

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  1. New Grad NP hourly wage in Bay Area

    JellyDonut replied to Dermnp33's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    RN experience will help you get that first job as an NP but it is not a factor in starting salary. In a specialty you really do not know squat when you walk in the door and in my experience it takes...

  2. Hospitalist --- FNP or AGACNP?

    JellyDonut replied to WestCoastSunRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    It all depends on where you live and practice. Anyone who tells you it should only be this or that cannot speak for all areas. Check with your BON and hospitals in your area. However, the dual...

  3. Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    JellyDonut replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was embarrassed for how she screamed and cried. Man up! He was not taking you out back to execute

  4. Everyone is in NP school !

    JellyDonut replied to Atl-Murse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    i was a bedside nurse for more years than I can wrap my he'd around. It wore me down and made me hate going to work. Horrible families, obese patients, rude physicians and ignorant mid-levels....

  5. Writing the Prescription to Fix Broken Nurse Practitioner (NP) Education (Pt. I)

    JellyDonut replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in Advanced Practice

    Anecdotal or otherwise experience with practitioners is more relevant to me than a study of 10 years ago that does not address performance in practice. There are exception to all rules and some...

  6. Writing the Prescription to Fix Broken Nurse Practitioner (NP) Education (Pt. I)

    JellyDonut replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in Advanced Practice

    As someone who has worked with NPs from all different backgrounds I can see a difference in the backgrounds when it comes to practice. A nurse with 10 years experience who becomes an NP is a safer...

  7. New Grad About to Start Working in the ICU - Any Tips?

    JellyDonut replied to pearlbubbles's topic in Critical Care

    Wear clean underwear, deodorant and pack a lunch. Most important have plenty of pens and while you are orientating get up in everything that is going on. Ask questions and ask physicians why they...

  8. Debating to start NP school

    JellyDonut replied to catica1124's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Only you can answer those questions... I miss the things you mention like 12 hr shifts with many days off during the week and travel nursing....the thing is you always seems to miss something about...

  9. negotiating as a new grad NP

    JellyDonut replied to espress099's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You cannot blame the practice for offering as low as they think they can get away with paying. Do your research and know your bottom line and ask for more than you are willing to accept. You get a...

  10. Favorite part of being a Nurse Practitioner?

    JellyDonut replied to Alexxoxox's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In an exam room with a patient and his overbearing wife. She demands that he needs antibiotics and I tell her. "it ain't happening!" I get a rush every

  11. NGT/Intubation

    JellyDonut replied to gonzo1's topic in Critical Care

    Meds and feeding...the gut is preferred delivery of nutrition and it is nice to have a route to give medications. I am sure there are instances where you may not place a NG/OGT (surgery or...

  12. Advice?? Having trouble finding NP job.

    JellyDonut replied to seibeb2012's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The first thing we look at in deciding to interview an applicant is where they earned their NP then their RN experience. If you send me a resume of an applicant who graduated from a for profit online...

  13. DNP changing perscribing authority

    JellyDonut replied to Secel's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I am not following. the NP scope of practice is identical for MS trained NPs as it is for DNPs. DNP is just additional research and has little to do with the actual practice of

  14. Antagonistic NP Article

    JellyDonut replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The article has a slant to it and a lay person reading it would be concerned with the issues it brings up. However, everything they bring up about NPs also happens with MDs. Physicians miss...

  15. Nurse practitioner specialties

    JellyDonut replied to direw0lf's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My experience has been the opposite as they usually take FNPs due to being able to treat

  16. B&M vs Online

    JellyDonut replied to Owlgal's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I know a girl who was a med/surg for two years and went to an online for profit school with a less than impressive GPA that was a bit south of 3.0. Her online program had open book quizzes and no...

  17. What do you prefer to be called?

    JellyDonut replied to Alexxoxox's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    If you teach Dr is appropriate in the school setting or if you want to make a reservation and you feel like being a bit full of yourself. However, in patient care settings the Dr designation should...

  18. Are you a nurse practitioner without any nursing experience?

    JellyDonut replied to bethymaester's topic in Advanced Practice

    The troubles we are seeing now and will continue to see are these for profit online programs. They do not have standards for entry that are beyond your check clearing. Do not get me wrong, I am sure...

  19. NP Scope of Practice - alternative medicine?

    JellyDonut replied to MegRyanGirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I remember I think it was in a Fitzgerald review where she prescribed a medication for an off label use but noted or included the EB article to justify the decision. I always remembered that just in...

  20. Lied to by new employer

    JellyDonut replied to Mrod11411's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think instead of resigning immediately I would have a new position lined up. Why miss a paycheck because they lied to you. Also, do not tell them you are actively

  21. Direct entry NP, switch to bedside RN?

    JellyDonut replied to LSNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That may be the difference from direct entry vs years of bedside nursing. I spent ages at the bedside and honestly do not see anything that I could gain from ever returning to the bedside. It was...

  22. Hospital NPs & Lounge Access

    JellyDonut replied to wyld~heart's topic in Advanced Practice

    I think I was a bit juiced when I finally started working in the hospital as an NP and told I could visit the doctor's lounge. However, I work at a Catholic owned hospital so the freebies are kinda...

  23. lying about clinical hours

    JellyDonut replied to astrn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My actions were approved by my preceptor who signed off it and following clarification from my instructor. Tweaking the patient time to match the hours spent in the clinical site. If I spent 9 hours...

  24. HELP!?! New in a SICU... already cried... totally terrified

    JellyDonut replied to jlv613's topic in Critical Care

    SICU moves fast and taking it easy on you will not do you any favors. granted maybe a day or two of shadowing may have been helpful, but 13 weeks will go fast. I do think it is a good idea to write...

  25. lying about clinical hours

    JellyDonut replied to astrn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    People tweaked their clinical hours?? GASP! Say it isn't so? Next you will be telling me that urban legend of how a student placed a fake reference in a bibliography. I tweaked my hours and...