I've spent several hours trying solutions, but realized I didn't fully understand the problem. Now that I think I understand the problem, I can't find a proper solution. It is possible I'm simply misunderstanding solutions I've found, so if this is a repetitive post I apologize.
My issue is my Node global install. I ran node config ls -l and saw something perplexing.
My user-agent prefix is /Users/me/.npm and my builtin prefix is /usr/local, but has been overridden (as expected).
All of my previous global installs are under /usr/local, also as expected. My new global installs are going under /Users/me/.npm/lib/node_modules, which I also expected since I set a prefix manually from another solution.
My global config is /Users/me/.npm/etc, which DOES NOT EXIST. The etc directory doesn't exist and the global config doesn't seem to exist. There is not a global config under /usr/local/etc, but /usr/local/etc does exist.
I have tried changing PATH under .bashrc and .bash_profile. When I check my files, I no longer even have a PATH=$PATH:directory in .bash_profile, and .bashrc is completely empty.
My global packages which are being executed are the ones installed under usr/local/lib/node_modules. The ones being installed are now going to /Users/me/.npm/lib/node_modules.
I want to set all of my globals back to /usr/local, so my packages install and execute from /usr/local/lib/node_modules.
