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>> My name is [inaudible] I graduated from
Villanova in 2007 I got my bachelors of science

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in nursing, and right now I'm working
as an acute care nurse practitioner

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at Johns Hopkins, in their neuro ICU.

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I take care of, critically ill patients, in
the hospital setting, so anyone in, in ICU,

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or anyone who has to be hospitalized.

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And what my job is, is, I pretty much, I have
my own patients, I see them in the morning,

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I come up with their plan of care for the day.

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I can prescribe tests and medications,
and follow up, and all of that,

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and I pretty much manage their
care, until they leave the ICU.

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My typical day starts at 6:30, in the morning,
we show up, and we start the day rounding

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on our patients, and I usually have anywhere
from 4 to 6 patients that I'm responsible for.

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And we go over all their labs, we go over
their assessment, we talk to the nurse,

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the bedside nurse, see if
they have any questions,

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we come up with their plan for the day.

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And then after 12, we kind of implement that
plan, so we send the patient for any tests,

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we follow up on any lab work that was ordered,
we touch base with the patients families.

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And, that usually takes up pretty
good chunk of the rest of the day.

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And then at the end of the day we do our evening
rounds, where we go, we see the patients again,

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we go over everything that kind of
happened for the day, we treat the plan.

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Because they're critical care patients,
everything's constantly changing,

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so it's constantly making a plan, implementing
it, reassessing, and then, going from there.

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And my day typically ends around 6:30,
sometimes I'm in there a little bit longer,

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but I only work 3 days a week, so it's ok.