C.Love MSN, NP

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    Burnout or Boredom?

    C.Love replied to NurseLil13's topic in Private Duty

    Time to move on. You're barely using your RN skills. If you don't like the hospital, how about trying home health nursing where you see a variety of patients while learning and using your
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    what area are you talking about, that needs
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    These are all good
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    True, but if the person keeps trying to warm the room and every time they try to get to the heater there is yet the same obstacle that keeps getting in the way and they keep trying and trying while...
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We had a good assessment class and very strict on passing. University of Phoenix at the time was live classroom, but they were terrible at the clinical portion, our assessment class was good. Actually...
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This harshness is the last thing any NP needs to be hearing in this climate. We need to be more encouraging. Yes, this market is very difficult especially if you've been an RN for 30plus years. Im not...
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This helps to hear, as I was starting to get a complex of low self esteem and feeling defeated. It sounds like it's a common problem. Coming home on the weekends is a good idea. Did you have any kind...
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I wish I lived close to LA, I'm a few hours away. I'm still curious about the program though. My friends in the LA area found better job
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    How do we prevent Nurse Practitioners from undervaluing themselves?

    C.Love replied to MentalKlarity's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It is nearly impossible to find an NP job in Southern California for a new grad starting out. I've been out of school for 3 years now, worked 1 year perdiem in an Urgent care where I was the only...
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    Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    C.Love replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Not all Americans are greedy and jealous. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to own a place to live, but looking down on the idea of a condo is sad. I agree that is is good to work in missions...
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    Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    C.Love replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see anything wrong with owning a townhouse or condo. Who cares what other people think. It's better to own a place than pay some else's mortgage. My first place was a cute one bedroom condo....
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    Temporary Disability

    C.Love replied to newmom17's topic in General Nursing

    It would be ideal to get light duty, which is hard to find. I'm on state disabily now while recovering from surgery. I don't think you can be on medical leave from one place of employment and work at...
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    How much do you owe in student loans?

    C.Love replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    I think an NP with years of psych. experience will be the perfect teacher for the psyc. portion of nursing programs BSN and
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    How much do you owe in student loans?

    C.Love replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    londonflo Specializes in oncology. Has 44 years experience. Monday 14 hours ago, myoglobin said: I had two job offers paying around 80K per year to teach online NP and RN content...
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    Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    C.Love replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard to answer your question when I don't know what are you live in, your age and financial situation. The good thing is that the interest rates are the lowest I've ever seen them. When I bought...
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    Looking for thoughts/opinions of experienced nurses

    C.Love replied to FashionablyL8's topic in General Nursing

    Her heart rate was only 29? Holy smokes. She needed to go to the ED and get checked out. I can't believe places like this don't have an RN overseeing things to make decisions on when to send a patient...
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    Should I get my PMHNP at 54 yrs old?

    C.Love replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I was your age when I started my FNP program, graduated 3 years ago, and am having a very difficult time finding a job, because most employers want experience as an NP and want you to work solo. I'm...
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    Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    C.Love replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    When I first started on the med/sug floor there was a mix of very sick patients and healthy patients who stayed the night for minor surgeries. Although the work was challenging and tiring, it was...
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    Why do nurses cringe when I say I want to be a OR nurse?

    C.Love replied to mariawong's topic in General Nursing

    Every discipline has it's pluses and minuses, and in each one it's good to have respect and compassion for the
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    Why do nurses cringe when I say I want to be a OR nurse?

    C.Love replied to mariawong's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in the OR for 10 years and found it very hard at first due to an unstructured preceptor-ship in the beginning. Once I learned the job, it was very interesting once they taught me to scrub and...
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    Manager Seeking Revenge on New Nurse

    C.Love replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I think the HR department needs to know in case other people have problems with her abuse. She may be this way toward other people who don't have another job lined