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  1. The southwest is good for PsychNP's. I moved to Az solely for that reason. Well that and I was tired of snow and gray skies.
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    Forum: Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  2. Says who???? While DNP programs are certainly springing up these days like mushrooms after a spring rain, no one is...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  3. :) And may most of your ladies, should you rotate to L&D, not be screamers! ;)
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  4. May your interview be smooth, may your hairspray hold, may you blind your interviewers with your brilliance. It's great...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  5. Short answer -- no, you don't.
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    Forum: Nursing and Spirituality
  6. RN's don't START @ 80-100K. NP's do and then the possibilities only increase after that. Our salary quotes include "just"...
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    Forum: Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  7. There are thousands of words in the English language that are French in origin, if we gave each a French inflection you'd...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  8. Yes, it's real and it will soon be a legal substance in all states. Just like alcohol and tobacco -- two substances that are...
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    Forum: Colorado Nursing
  9. Unfortunately, this us all new so we won't know until the Colorado BON is faced with a case. It would be irrational to...
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    Forum: Colorado Nursing
  10. Tough call. On one hand, you do have your safety and that of your unborn child to worry about. Driving on hazardous...
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    Forum: Patient Care Technician / Assistants (PCT/PCA)
  11. Is there a healthcare bubble? The experts waffle, but facts are facts; between 1999 and 2011, government spending on...
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    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  12. This is one of the reasons that steered me towards PA school (I am currently a PA student). The education model seemed to...
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    Forum: Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  13. Thread closed and will not be reopened.
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  14. From what I can tell, you want us to base all concrete evidence only on your particular situation? I don't think anyone...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  15. Can you explain this? The order doesn't say to give 1.5 mg. It says to give 1.5 tabs. The tabs are 2 mg. 1 tab = 2 mg. 0.5...
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    Forum: Nursing and Patient Medications
  16. It's great that the OP is so enthusiastic about using his "critical thinking" skills, but a big piece of critical thinking...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  17. What does it matter? You have a job. As a hospital educator I can tell you that much more money was spent than in your...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  18. Just something that I didn't realize until I chatted with my nurse manager that wasn't brought up -- a lot of new grad...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  19. I must be thankful for attentive nurses like you with your long tenure of experience. You have figured out the inner fiscal...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  20. Yeah, if these many nurses can't figure out an order, especially when we're leisurely looking at it rather than under the...
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    Forum: Nursing and Patient Medications
  21. Y'all have illustrated my point beautifully. :yes: And these aren't even nurses or nursing students administering these...
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    Forum: Nursing and Patient Medications
  22. The member to whom you're responding (Multicollinearity) is a second-career nurse who worked for many years in the insurance...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  23. Not really. It falls into the same category as requiring you to get other immunizations (e.g. varicella, rubella, mumps,...
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    Forum: Pandemic Flu
  24. The old third person reference is from the days of objective news writing when the reporter was supposed to be like a fly on...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  25. Writing in 3rd person does nothing to protect you from legal issues. Accurate and complete charting, without superfluous...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  26. I tend not to use 'I' but if I need to, I do. I don't see how it's unprofessional or necessarily subjective. Personally, I...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  27. All your charting is for the Lawyers. It's proven, no one reads the chart but them...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  28. Flu vaccine is highly recommended for pregnant women. CDC Features - Pregnant Women Need a Flu Shot! It is required for...
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    Forum: Pandemic Flu
  29. The fines may be just be going into effect, but this has been coming down the pike for 3 years. Our area hospital system...
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    Forum: Nursing Activism / Healthcare Politics
  30. Write it up. Nurses write eachother up all the time. Are doctors exempt? Exempt from have to respect coworkers? No.
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  31. Your friend was mislead or the person who told him this was misinformed. NP absolutely can have prescription authority if...
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    Forum: Health / Stress Management 101
  32. In my state, where we have liberal medical marijuana laws and can obtain a card that allows us to purchase and use cannabis,...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  33. I live in a state with medical marijuana laws, and total legality is on the ballot this Nov. (unlikely to pass, but hey,...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  34. A gentle reminder. Allnurses although is an anonymous site it is viewed by the public and is indexed to search engines such...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  35. Yes, I think it's an absurd double standard that some view drinking alcohol and occasionally getting drunk is morally and...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism