JellyDonut

Yikes! So, you sign your name for schedule II drugs on a patient that you have never seen or examined? When these questions come up I always think about how this would look under deposition. So many red flags come up. Suppose, god forbid, somethi...

I wish I had done everything at one school. Every time I apply for any program I have to pay for 6 separate set of transcripts and follow up to make sure they have been sent. Worse is having to enter every class you have ever taken to some silly on...

If in doubt check with your state BON and maybe whatever hospital you desire to work for. My FNP did not teach me critical care content or line placements. I had background in critical care and then checked off on line placement and various other p...

I personally do not feel qualified as an FNP to work solely in Psych, Peds or OB. Yikes, I would not even want to consider either as my program briefly considered each of these topics. However, I am an FNP who works in a specialty and see patients f...

FNP programs cover *Pediatric * OB/GYN *Psych and all these have specialty tracks in the NP programs. I could actually get a job where all I see are children or pregnant women, but you are saying psych would somehow be different? I agree with you,...

Amen! Specialty practice is da bomb! where else can could I work m-f with holidays and weekends off and never on-call. Yes, I have mommie hours and I do not apologize for it. I spent years working rotating shifts, missing holidays and weekends an...

I read the post and all I could think was that a guy would not complain about such stuff. Man up, take care of your own CME. Do you job and try not to get your feelings hurt so easily. If a friend is acting to one up you and you don't like it - ei...

Depends on the state.

If i had a dollar for every time I had to stop a resident from causing harm I would not be working full time. Especially military residents - they are so damn scary it amazes me there are not more reported deaths as they get turned loose with very m...

i ask physicians in my practice for suggestions on conferences and usually try to pick one related to my field and since my employer is extremely generous with CME I also pick one where I want to go. You would be surprised how many conferences are i...

A Honda Accord.

Congrats!! I remember being so stressed and wound so tight it was hard to read the questions. I can relate to the feeling when they hand your the pass/fail paper. It really took me a few days for it to sink in. Now the real work begins!!

I would not sweat the CCRN, it is a fairly easy test. I know of one nurse who failed it and she just had test anxiety. These companies make money off the testing process and is does them no benefit to make the test difficult. I think the stats the...

8 hour shifts are not very cost effective as it is way too easy for incidental OT to take place. 36 hr week still allows for a little overage.

That would drive me crazy. I am one of those who prefers emails/texts to phone calls.

If i could go back in time and have a talk with my younger doe-eyed self I would do whatever possible to prevent my younger me from becoming a nurse. I would have told myself to aim higher and follow a different path, but many of us would like to ma...

i sort of lean towards the supervision of PA/NPs and that is for two reasons. 1. The flood of NPs being mass produced my online programs where anyone who can figure out how to click a mouse will receive a degree in the mail. Do not get me wrong I a...

The ICU can be a great experience with a good team around you or horrible with a bad one. there is no real way of knowing until you speak to people or get in there and find out. Every unit seems to have a few good nurses who strive to be excellent,...

I had a friend who use to cover nursing homes one day a week and take call at nights and it drove her mad all the dumb calls at 2am from the nursing home. She would round in the place on Thursdays for less than an hours, but take call on weekends an...

Rules are a little different when considering family vs specialty practice. Family you get the run of the mill mix of everything and you do see the same things over and over during certain times of the year. Plus, you get pretty adept at the HTN, D...

I did my DEA before having a job and glad I did because it took forever.....I did not actually get the DEA number until I was in credentialing process for my position

I would not tell them until your water breaks (JK) You are not breaking any laws by not telling them. They are not allowed to ask about it and it is really none of their business until you are more along in your pregnancy. Most people I know keep ...

call 'em they should be able to provide the information. I had to provide the information from my school where we were required to have coverage.

I once caught a family member grab a patients fresh trach pull it side to side and ask Momma if she was in pain just so the dir could get angry about us not providing pain medications. I do not miss those crazy family members.

I started as an ADN nurse and thought "why get a BSN" I was a nurse and why did I need to know more about care planning. Years passed and I caved and became a BSN. Then all my co-workers were going for MSN degrees and I thought why bother, but agai...