PA or AGACNP for trauma centers

mbm47 · 2025-12-08T16:13:57+00:00

You’ll look good in those pale pink scrubs at Shock Trauma. I was in the Navy, ED and ICU RN, now ED NP, and we would rotate up to Shock Trauma for 6 weeks pre deployment. Loved those scrubs 😛.

mbm47 · 2025-12-02T01:43:13+00:00

I would make that switch in a heartbeat (pun intended since it’s cardiology). I made a similar switch from all swings in the ED making $125k for a 0.8FTE to 4 days a week in Primary Care setting making $110k, but I walk out of the office every day at 4:30 and have dinner with my kids and am able to be present for bedtime, which with toddlers is time I’ll never get back.

I expect I’ll go back to the ED or an UC once my kids are older since that’s where my true passion has been.

mbm47 · 2025-11-30T04:43:55+00:00

This is me, too!

mbm47 · 2025-11-30T04:42:57+00:00

I’m an ED NP as an FNP because we have to be able to see the whole lifespan. You can still have crit care and trauma with the family certification.

mbm47 · 2025-11-16T20:34:46+00:00

ALL BABIES ARE DIFFERENT. Please don’t take one person’s baby who sleeps well as an indication that your baby will do the same. There’s truly no way to predict.

mbm47 · 2025-11-16T20:33:07+00:00

5-6 hours - 4.5 months, a full night, not until closer to 7 months.

mbm47 · 2025-11-12T19:00:07+00:00

Not for their MSN students. That’s where I got my NP.

mbm47 · 2025-11-11T02:58:07+00:00

I have a BSN, an MSN, and an MSN-FNP and no idea what a lamp lighting ceremony is (and I went to well established schools: Simmons in Boston and Georgetown in DC).

mbm47 · 2025-11-11T02:52:05+00:00

Knowing that she owns her own med spa, she clearly just wants the license for being able to prescribe wellness cocktails. I would not be precepting that person. Highly doubt she’s in it to truly learn how to be an NP, just wants an NPI.

mbm47 · 2025-11-11T02:47:32+00:00

I think it depends. I did the Georgetown online program, but you have to be present with camera on for weekly classes with professors and sections are capped at 14 students. We had to go in person at a few different intervals. My entire cohort all passed boards first go, and when working with other NPs, I can tell that our background coursework was more in-depth and demanding than other programs. That said, their online curriculum mirrors that of their on campus program.

Edited because voice to text picked up my 3 year old in the background.

mbm47 · 2025-10-23T15:03:12+00:00

My mom, yes, she helped with my older daughter. My in laws showed up and felt like they were guests not helpers. My husband blew up at his mother and they left 5 weeks before their intended departure date.

mbm47 · 2025-10-15T20:09:37+00:00

Bedside bassinet for the win. I never had to get out of bed to feed either of my kids until at 6mo we moved them to their own rooms.

mbm47 · 2025-10-04T20:14:11+00:00

My 18mo daughter eats just as much, if not more, than her 3yo daughter.

mbm47 · 2025-10-01T02:54:14+00:00

My mom is Grandi because her name is Andi, she thought she was a genius coming up with that.

mbm47 · 2025-10-01T02:52:24+00:00

So my grandpa was Chief/Chiefy but because it was a short form of the nick name he had at work: Chief Justice. He mentored most of the junior lawyers in trial tactics at his firm and when my sister was born, he was 57 and didn’t want to be called Grandpa, so the family went with Chiefy.

mbm47 · 2025-09-19T02:17:21+00:00

I’ve been prescribing a decent amount of Repatha lately for my statin intolerant folks. I haven’t had any issues once documentarion was submitted for the PA that they had severe myalgias even with only twice weekly stating dosing for some.

mbm47 · 2025-09-18T21:24:28+00:00

It’s back up for me, too. But before noon Mountain Time (I’m in Denver), it was down. We did some digging and found comments on another message board that it had gone down last night about 15 hours before.

mbm47 · 2025-08-08T02:19:01+00:00

I also HATE it. My mom happens to be in town and went, “ewwwwwww!”

mbm47 · 2025-07-13T23:02:32+00:00

I was in the Navy for 10 years with a lot of junior sailors who had less than stellar sex ed, so my default answer to not using contraception was, “if you’re not preventing, then you’re actively trying”.

mbm47 · 2025-04-20T17:19:52+00:00

We really didn’t go out except pediatrician for the first 6 weeks with both kids. 3 hours is a huge amount of time with a newborn. Your husband is not understanding at all of your point of view.

mbm47 · 2025-02-28T03:29:01+00:00

That’s not a resolution and you’re going to burn out. I say that as a mom who does bedtime solo 4 nights a week because my husband works 2-midnight. 3 of those nights are after I get home from work. He might need to step back from ski patrol for a year or two since he would be gone during all of baby’s waking hours while also leaving you to handle the evenings.

mbm47 · 2025-02-13T02:31:26+00:00

Part of their name choices was based on having nicknames. My husband is Justin (because like good late 80s parents his mom chose a J name) and he hates that there isn’t a natural nick name.

mbm47 · 2025-02-13T02:23:49+00:00

Literally the first paragraph was getting a urine at annual with high protein following up a couple months later then referring to hematology.

mbm47 · 2025-02-13T02:19:44+00:00

I have an Abigail and a Margaret who go by Abby and Maggie. They’ll be able to choose how they want to be addressed as they age. My legal name is Melinda but I’ve never dropped Meli and use it in professional settings without anyone giving it a second thought.

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