doggal

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1. Why is Neudexta not covered?

   doggal posted a topic in Hospice

   Does anyone have any idea why Neudexta is not covered in their Hospice? This is certainly a med that can provide comfort for pseudobulbar affect dysregulation especially in advanced dementia, stroke,etc..

2. Dogs: A nursing intervention?

   doggal replied to Angeljho's topic in Psychiatric

   Lucky you to have an enthusiastic doc... also helpful in phobias and so many other conditions.You might want to look up Partners which used to be the Delta Society. The company MARS, I believe,is having a grant on research in this area...just don't h...

3. Daughters of Charity Sale to Prime Healthcare

   doggal replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism

   I am an older nurse from the 1970's. I worked with many nurses trained at St Vincent's hospital. I understand the corporate matter, -I get it. Intellectually I totally get it, but in my heart of hearts I cannot deal with it. I recently had to leave ...

4. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   doggal replied to zornzo's topic in California

   If fingerprint quality is poor and you get rejected twice, then you can have a name check done. Now, I have to have the record here... but in another discipline, I've been waiting since 2013!

5. Score Test Toefl

   doggal replied to UlisseApache's topic in Registration

   Yes, if no answer call the Ca Dept of Consumer Affairs and tell them there is no answer. Better yet, email the Dept of Consumer Affairs.

6. License by Endorsement Troubles

   doggal replied to onwankwo1's topic in California

   No you are not being paranoid. Here and there ,there are glitches. I am both an RN and a psychologist. I am waiting on my CA psychologist license since 2013!!! Even my licensing analysts have been frustrated and,seriously we are on a first name basis...

7. ATT time with Breeze Application

   doggal replied to shiiivers's topic in California

   Doing your fingerprints there live scan should help.

8. Fingerprinting for CA License endorsement

   doggal replied to reginacourtney's topic in California

   I have had major snafus with the hard cards. If at all possible go out and do a Live Scan. I am in a similar boat and just contacted the DOJ for a clerical rejection of hard card fingerprints (second submission). But I am flying out in October and wi...

9. Visually impaired nurses

   doggal replied to lightspirit's topic in Disabilities

   I would personally consider contacting your local disabilites retraining center. In NY it is VESID. I do not mean to retrain other than as a nurse. But they may be able to point you in directions with augmented computers and the like. What comes to m...

10. Scared at new job in psychiatric hospital

    doggal replied to GypseyGirl's topic in Psychiatric

    I have worked at state psychiatric facilities in the late 1970's and late 1980's but not since. I have,however,worked as a consultant (RN,Psychologist,dually licensed) on TBI units, where violence can escalate quickly. With that said, generally the p...

11. SUNY Stony Brook On-Line NP Program: NYC Preceptors?

    doggal replied to nyforlove's topic in New York

    I had been accepted to the online NP program at StonyBrook several years ago. You raise a superb question. To that end, I tried to address the issue with StonyBrook and was told that the question was "inappropriate". I gave my admission spot to someo...

12. PointClickCare - need help

    doggal replied to wyogypsy's topic in MDS

    Yes, the problem here is the training. In an ideal world , clinicians would have the opportunity to have some (albeit) brief orientation to this. But this is getting into unhealthy territory-clinicians are expected to figure this out on their own, sp...

13. Nurses' Caps

    doggal replied to MyraMarie's topic in Retired

    Oh yes it did have a Manhattan campus. It was on E.71st St (previously E.68th st). My classes were on East 71st.-and occasionally in the main building in the auditorium next to the library on E 68th st. That was in the main part of the hospital. I h...

14. Nurses' Caps

    doggal replied to MyraMarie's topic in Retired

    If I see the notation correctly, that unifrom above, is possibly New York Presbyterian-i.e. Columbia university, which still does have a nsg program. As you may know the two, Cornell and Columbia Medical centers merged years ago to form New York Pre...

15. Nurses' Caps

    doggal replied to MyraMarie's topic in Retired

    Believe it or not, when I went there it was the 1970's SO actually the uniforms were very very short. I mean short- not quite a mini but way shorter than skirts today! How odd is that. The old NYC Cornell architecture was really quite something as s...