Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Johns Hopkins Hospital

>> My name is [inaudible] I graduated from Villanova in 2007 I got my bachelors of science in nursing, and right now I'm working as an acute care nurse practitioner at Johns Hopkins, in their neuro ICU. I take care of, critically ill patients, in the hospital setting, so anyone in, in ICU, or anyone who has to be hospitalized. And what my job is, is, I pretty much, I have my own patients, I see them in the morning, I come up with their plan of care for the day. I can prescribe tests and medications, and follow up, and all of that, and I pretty much manage their care, until they leave the ICU. My typical day starts at 6:30, in the morning, we show up, and we start the day rounding on our patients, and I usually have anywhere from 4 to 6 patients that I'm responsible for. And we go over all their labs, we go over their assessment, we talk to the nurse, the bedside nurse, see if they have any questions, we come up with their plan for the day. And then after 12, we kind of implement that plan, so we send the patient for any tests, we follow up on any lab work that was ordered, we touch base with the patients families. And, that usually takes up pretty good chunk of the rest of the day. And then at the end of the day we do our evening rounds, where we go, we see the patients again, we go over everything that kind of happened for the day, we treat the plan. Because they're critical care patients, everything's constantly changing, so it's constantly making a plan, implementing it, reassessing, and then, going from there. And my day typically ends around 6:30, sometimes I'm in there a little bit longer, but I only work 3 days a week, so it's ok.