ohiosam2

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1. Acute Care vs FNP, advice needed please

   ohiosam2 replied to kimbalotz's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   It is highly variable on your state and your individual hospital. In Ohio, you can indeed work in the ED as an FNP. However, at some hospitals (like mine) if you only have an FNP you will find...

2. Are you happier as an NP than you were as an RN?

   ohiosam2 replied to TheRuralNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I certainly understand that fact that you feel stressed and burned out! Working as a nurse is to operate at full speed at all times. You are always short staffed and pressed for time. Am I happier...

3. Fnp

   ohiosam2 replied to Hnmoving's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Run, run, run, run!! Why do nurses and NP's feel they have to put up with this? You are not receiving the respect that is due you. Don't tolerate it. I am lucky because I am in a position where the...

4. I messed up today.

   ohiosam2 replied to Crorns's topic in General Nursing

   You are pretty much new to the floor! Give yourself a break. The floors can get rough. It is really tough to learn how to organize yourself and get a routine down so that you think of things like...

5. Nurse practitioner vs Medicine turf war?

   ohiosam2 replied to Infofreak411's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   There is a turf war. No doubt about it. Look what happened in Ohio when NP's lobbied for independent practice last year. The AMA threw up their heads and howled. Here's the fact: I am not a doctor....

6. TNCC?

   ohiosam2 replied to m0lasses's topic in Emergency

   TNCC is nice, but not necessary. I would not take it unless the place you are working for pays for the course. I would not spend my own money on it. I echo the other comment though, ATCN is totally...

7. NP's answering to Nursing Management?

   ohiosam2 replied to ohiosam2's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Nursing managers do not practice medicine. Our manager now is a physician who offers us a resource and recommendations on how we practice and how best to practice Emergency Medicine. He reviews our...

8. Training for ER; Didn't do so hot

   ohiosam2 replied to RNEulogy's topic in Emergency

   You are being far, FAR to hard on yourself. I was ED nurse for 20 years and now I am an NP in the ED. I have oriented more people that I can possibly remember. Now I orient NP's to the ED. I've done...

9. NP's answering to Nursing Management?

   ohiosam2 posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this. I have been an NP in my area for a few years now and I am very familiar with practice at other hospitals. I currently work in an ER. There are...