Lane Therrell FNP MSN, RN, NP

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    Six Pieces of Advice for New Nurses

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Melissa Mills's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

    WOW!. That's more than the average salary of a licensed vocational nurse (according to
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    I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Medical coding/billing for RNs

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Cgritz77's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Billing for Time Spent on Survivorship Care Plans?

    Lane Therrell FNP posted a topic in Oncology

    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?...
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    Billing for Time Spent on Survivorship Care Plans?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Lane Therrell FNP's topic in Oncology

    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....
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    How Technology Use Can Impact Our Health

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    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....
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    Billing for Time Spent on Survivorship Care Plans?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Lane Therrell FNP's topic in Oncology

    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...
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    What Advice Would You Give to Future Nurses?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Nursing Career

    Thanks for keeping it real, Nancy. This is oh so very
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    What Advice Would You Give to Future Nurses?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Nursing Career

    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...
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    What Advice Would You Give to Future Nurses?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Nursing Career

    This is the best advice
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    What Advice Would You Give to Future Nurses?

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Nursing Career

    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...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

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

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for providing a concrete example of a rational solution that apparently meets everyone's
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for this reminder of what nursing really is all about at its
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    #AMAGetOutTheWay: Nurses, Doctors, and Students United

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    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...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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....
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Keep Your Continuing Education Records Safe: What I Wish I’d Known [Part 3]

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to Lane Therrell FNP's topic in General Nursing

    Keeping copies in 2 separate physical locations is an excellent
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    Keep Your Continuing Education Records Safe: What I Wish I’d Known [Part 3]

    Lane Therrell FNP posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    This statement sums up the whole thread to date quite nicely. It would work well on a T-shirt. And I would wear it.
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Lane Therrell FNP replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    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...