I interviewed NewFNP via email and am working on it as we speak. Stay tuned! It will be in written format this time. Please leave a comment and let me know if you are enjoying these interviews because you are the ones who asked for them via my poll on the site.
Also, if there is anything that you can't find on the site that you would like to read about, please leave me a comment.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Barbara Phillips FNP Interview Part 2
Here's the second part of the interview. Please enjoy! If you would like to visit her site to learn about being a nurse practitioner business owner, click on the link on my upper right corner of the site!
Change of Shift Is Up!
Change of Shift is up again over at Emily's blog. What a great compilation once again.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Nurse Practitioner Interview With Barbara C. Phillips
Drum roll please! I finally finished my first audio nurse practitioner interview and was lucky enough to have Barbara C. Phillips from NP Business Owner.com as my guest. I have been following her on the net for a long time now and really enjoyed our conversation! She is a nurse practitioner who works in Washington state and has a totally independent practice. So sit back and enjoy the interview.
Part one for your enjoyment now.. sorry the video screen goes black. Still learning
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Part one for your enjoyment now.. sorry the video screen goes black. Still learning
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
The Nurse Practitioner's Place's New Year Resolutions
For this Change Of Shift, New Year's Resolutions is the theme so I decided to sit down and think of the ones that I needed to work on.
1. Be a better listener to my husband. Sometimes I don't pay enough attention when he talks because I am thinking about other things. We all do it. But it's not nice. I also tend to hear Charlie Brown's teacher when he starts talking all things Sports which I could really care less about. It's only fair to be more interested in what he's talking about because he has absorbed enough "medical crap" to have his own degree.
2. Call my family more often. Good lord! It's not that hard to pick up the phone and say hello. I have all of those free minutes in the evening and on weekends. I am the "Big Sis" after all.
3. Attract More Readers. I have had a poll up for a few weeks and you all want more NP interviews. The first has been done as am working on posting it!
4. Less computer usage when the family needs "mommy time". We are all bad about this. Blogging tends to take up way too much time but it's kind of addicting!
5. Learn to play one of my son's favorite video games. If I can save people's lives, I CAN learn to play video games with button controls. Even if I hate them!
6. Try to become more organized. My desk at work and my house in general is in utter chaos. It's the sign of genius but it drives my husband and nurse nuts! I know where everything is, I swear!
7. Pick up after myself more. A little expansion on number 6. My husband is a freaking saint! He always picks up after my whirlwind of clutter and hasn't had an aneurysm yet. I think he's really close though.
8. I will lose more weight. After I finish eating all of the goodies lying around the house in result of the holidays. The kids are doing a great job but there are still a few things tempting me. I have lost about 8 pounds already but am ready to lose more. I will try to walk more during my lunch break instead of doing paperwork.
9. Finish paperwork during the visit so I don't have to bring in home. I try to listen to my patients instead of writing but I am finding that I have to bring charts home to finish "the bits" of. It's getting annoying to my family. "Don't you ever get done with paperwork?" No, but I can control the amount a little better. Some day we will have electronic charting.... Some day...
10. I will be proactive when I have my yearly review. I am doing a great job at work and my patients really like me. I will be more verbal during the review process and push for more pay. I really need to pay off these stupid student loans. The principal isn't even being scratched. I will try to avoid talking about them on the blog though. I think my readers are tired of hearing about it. You know how to help out though and thanks to those who do each time you come to the site. I do the same in return.
11. I will take more pictures for pleasure.
I got a new camera for Christmas and I will use it more often instead of sitting on the couch. This will help me in my endeavor to lose weight.
12. I will learn some new stitches for my crocheting projects. I only know a few but have found a great site on You tube for tutorials.
13. I will read more journals. I have gotten lazy about reading nursing and medical journals. I need to catch up!
14. I will visit the blogs who link to me more often. Hey! I will even leave a real comment too.
I could keep writing but I need to wrap this up and send it to Emily before it's too late.
15. Oh yeah! I will stop procrastinating! Enough said there!
Hope your New Year is a safe, healthy, and prosperous one!
1. Be a better listener to my husband. Sometimes I don't pay enough attention when he talks because I am thinking about other things. We all do it. But it's not nice. I also tend to hear Charlie Brown's teacher when he starts talking all things Sports which I could really care less about. It's only fair to be more interested in what he's talking about because he has absorbed enough "medical crap" to have his own degree.
2. Call my family more often. Good lord! It's not that hard to pick up the phone and say hello. I have all of those free minutes in the evening and on weekends. I am the "Big Sis" after all.
3. Attract More Readers. I have had a poll up for a few weeks and you all want more NP interviews. The first has been done as am working on posting it!
4. Less computer usage when the family needs "mommy time". We are all bad about this. Blogging tends to take up way too much time but it's kind of addicting!
5. Learn to play one of my son's favorite video games. If I can save people's lives, I CAN learn to play video games with button controls. Even if I hate them!
6. Try to become more organized. My desk at work and my house in general is in utter chaos. It's the sign of genius but it drives my husband and nurse nuts! I know where everything is, I swear!
7. Pick up after myself more. A little expansion on number 6. My husband is a freaking saint! He always picks up after my whirlwind of clutter and hasn't had an aneurysm yet. I think he's really close though.
8. I will lose more weight. After I finish eating all of the goodies lying around the house in result of the holidays. The kids are doing a great job but there are still a few things tempting me. I have lost about 8 pounds already but am ready to lose more. I will try to walk more during my lunch break instead of doing paperwork.
9. Finish paperwork during the visit so I don't have to bring in home. I try to listen to my patients instead of writing but I am finding that I have to bring charts home to finish "the bits" of. It's getting annoying to my family. "Don't you ever get done with paperwork?" No, but I can control the amount a little better. Some day we will have electronic charting.... Some day...
10. I will be proactive when I have my yearly review. I am doing a great job at work and my patients really like me. I will be more verbal during the review process and push for more pay. I really need to pay off these stupid student loans. The principal isn't even being scratched. I will try to avoid talking about them on the blog though. I think my readers are tired of hearing about it. You know how to help out though and thanks to those who do each time you come to the site. I do the same in return.
11. I will take more pictures for pleasure.
I got a new camera for Christmas and I will use it more often instead of sitting on the couch. This will help me in my endeavor to lose weight.
12. I will learn some new stitches for my crocheting projects. I only know a few but have found a great site on You tube for tutorials.
13. I will read more journals. I have gotten lazy about reading nursing and medical journals. I need to catch up!
14. I will visit the blogs who link to me more often. Hey! I will even leave a real comment too.
I could keep writing but I need to wrap this up and send it to Emily before it's too late.
15. Oh yeah! I will stop procrastinating! Enough said there!
Hope your New Year is a safe, healthy, and prosperous one!
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Can You Say Malpractice?
My mother had a quad bypass surgery a few years ago and has done pretty well since. Over the last year, she has become more fatigued and started having anginal pains. After her last check up, her cardiologist told her that two of the four are collapsing and she isn't a surgical candidate.
The last time I had talked to her was Christmas Day and she told me that she was having more chest pains and wasn't feeling well but didn't want to worry my sister. One has to understand my sister (affectionately known as "the freaker") who would fall down and scream her head off at the slightest hint of blood and threw temper tantrums on the drop of a hat. She always calls me and tells me that Mom doesn't look good and she's sure that she's on her last legs.
I usually call Mom and she tells me that she's doing as well as can be expected. We've talked about some of the important stuff like funeral arrangements, which she has pre-paid for, and we joked about visitation rights for her ashes between the four girls. I asked her to make a list of which items that she wanted given to each of the daughters, grandkids, etc. in order to make things easier. Nothing is worse than having to figure out what someone wanted done.
Up to today's events.... Mom's blood pressure dropped for some reason and she decided that to go into the hospital for a little tune up. The only problem is that it's the weekend and we all know what happens if you are unlucky enough to be in the hospital when your own MD is out of town. The covering doc decided to put my Mom through a stress test.
WHAT THE *&^%! Why would you put someone who's bypasses are failing through a DIAGNOSTIC test? We ALREADY know that her heart isn't working properly. She's not a surgical candidate according to her cardiac surgeon. What in the hell is a stress test going to tell us? HMMMMM????? Besides the increased risk on inducing a heart attack?? I guess if you gotta rack up some dough for the hospital, go ahead, but not at the expense of potentially killing someone?
Luckily for the hospital, she survived the episode and will be discharged soon. I hope that her cardiologist reams his associate a new one when he returns to the country from Israel. She should have been discharged after she was stabilized if her regular doc wasn't there to call the shots.
I know that she is scared of dying. I think that everyone is. I hope that when she does, it's a very fast event that doesn't hurt too much. It's all we can hope for.
The last time I had talked to her was Christmas Day and she told me that she was having more chest pains and wasn't feeling well but didn't want to worry my sister. One has to understand my sister (affectionately known as "the freaker") who would fall down and scream her head off at the slightest hint of blood and threw temper tantrums on the drop of a hat. She always calls me and tells me that Mom doesn't look good and she's sure that she's on her last legs.
I usually call Mom and she tells me that she's doing as well as can be expected. We've talked about some of the important stuff like funeral arrangements, which she has pre-paid for, and we joked about visitation rights for her ashes between the four girls. I asked her to make a list of which items that she wanted given to each of the daughters, grandkids, etc. in order to make things easier. Nothing is worse than having to figure out what someone wanted done.
Up to today's events.... Mom's blood pressure dropped for some reason and she decided that to go into the hospital for a little tune up. The only problem is that it's the weekend and we all know what happens if you are unlucky enough to be in the hospital when your own MD is out of town. The covering doc decided to put my Mom through a stress test.
WHAT THE *&^%! Why would you put someone who's bypasses are failing through a DIAGNOSTIC test? We ALREADY know that her heart isn't working properly. She's not a surgical candidate according to her cardiac surgeon. What in the hell is a stress test going to tell us? HMMMMM????? Besides the increased risk on inducing a heart attack?? I guess if you gotta rack up some dough for the hospital, go ahead, but not at the expense of potentially killing someone?
Luckily for the hospital, she survived the episode and will be discharged soon. I hope that her cardiologist reams his associate a new one when he returns to the country from Israel. She should have been discharged after she was stabilized if her regular doc wasn't there to call the shots.
I know that she is scared of dying. I think that everyone is. I hope that when she does, it's a very fast event that doesn't hurt too much. It's all we can hope for.
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