Lane Therrell FNP MSN, RN, NP

Thank you so much @Melissa Mills for offering these great tips. I recently interviewed a ton of nursing candidates (many of whom were new grads) for a small-but-growing start-up. Apparently, several of the candidates had never been advised in job-sea...

WOW!. That's more than the average salary of a licensed vocational nurse (according to lvnsalary.org).

This is an incredibly important gold nugget of wisdom. "What would it take for me to have peace of mind on this job, or any other?" would be a good question to explore for anyone who's second-guessing their career choice.

Coding and billing knowledge is truly specialized, so I say get all the education you can if this is an area of interest for you. I actually spent my morning today looking for continuing education opportunities for myself on billing and coding (good ...

Does anyone in this group know which CPT codes are appropriate to use when spending time working on survivorship care plans? And... if there are no billing codes specific to this activity, why not? I'm worried that cancer survivors aren't getting wha...

Thank you so much for this response. Your patients are indeed lucky to have you! I have noticed, too, that the oncologists are not as engaged as I wish they could be in survivorship concerns. Unfortunately, the "encouragement to share (survivorship p...

Balancing technology use will continue to grow as an important topic at the forefront of preventive health. My favorite way to balance tech-time is to plan for genuinely unplugged time in nature. "Genuinely unplugged" includes leaving cell phone and...

Thank you so much for pointing me toward these resources. From where I sit in primary care, I see that the needs of cancer survivors are ongoing over time, and highly variable. This means survivorship care plans would ideally be updated and revisited...

Thanks for keeping it real, Nancy. This is oh so very true.

Well said. It's true that my nursing licenses, credentials, and experiences have opened doors for me in writing, business, and academia that would have remained closed to me otherwise. If you have any doubts about whether you'll fit into a traditiona...

This is the best advice EVER.

Communication skills top my list of must-haves for aspiring nurses. Specifically face-to-face and on-the-phone interpersonal communication skills. In our time crunched, tech driven, digitally connected world it's tempting to assume we already know ev...

Absolutely. It's timeless wisdom. And so incredibly simple. Unfortunately it seems that sense is no longer common in most of the world today.

Yes. It can be this simple: If everyone, no matter what religion or professional training they have chosen, treated others the way they want to be treated the world would be a healthier, happier place.

Thank you for providing a concrete example of a rational solution that apparently meets everyone's needs.

Thank you for this reminder of what nursing really is all about at its core.

I'm not sure how illegal immigration entered the conversation, but I think there are no easy answers when it comes to illegal immigration and healthcare. I agree with you that turning people away at the ER door is not a viable option. It is equally u...

YES. Absolutely. Thank you. I'm referring to the sentiment in the founding era. As a society, we seem to be constantly pushing the boundaries of the big idea of power not residing with individuals. And why is that? It seems prudent to me to hedge aga...

Thanks for the clarification, and there's another post in this thread that has some great insight about the legal/statutory aspects of "In God We Trust," too. The point I was making (albeit anachronistically) is that the sentiment of granting authori...

Keeping copies in 2 separate physical locations is an excellent approach.

This final installment of the 3-part “What I Wish I’d Known About Continuing Education,” series addresses the value of record keeping. Part 1 of this series addressed why knowing the details of your license and credential renewal requirements is so i...

This statement sums up the whole thread to date quite nicely. It would work well on a T-shirt. And I would wear it. ?

Well said. Our beliefs must not interfere with our jobs. This is called culturally competent care. Who you are is who you are. It's never wrong. It simply is.

Do you remember those bracelets that were so popular a few years back? WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? Maybe it's time for this question to get popular again. I feel like it might be helpful for any nurse who professes to be a Christian and comes upon one...

Your question is probably best answered by a Constitutional Law scholar, which I am not. But I think you’re raising an important point that we’d all do well to ponder. The constitutional concept of separation of church and state as I understand it sp...