Elinor

Elinor

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  1. Nursing Boards control of Nurses

    A huge chunk of posters basically write that social media is an inappropriate” venue for voicing complaints... so therefore she deserves to be charged with professional misconduct and lose her career?? That's the implications of these posts. It was...
  2. I personally know many nurses who are in grad school, applying, or want to apply in the near future. Out of dozens, I only know two who don't want to work directly with patients. Why is it not "caring for people" when you're an NP? Believe it or not,...
  3. This question needs to be picked apart a little more. Do you want to be a clinician? Or do you want to work in public health? They are not the same thing. NPs are clinicians, first and foremost. The NP pathway is a clinical one, where you specialize...
  4. nurses who are bad patients

    Yeeaahh... This may come as a shock, but you're just another kind of bad patient. The kind that doesn't want you to look at their veins, they just want to tell you to go in this one spot and that's that. And they don't care if you tell them that, in ...
  5. Nurse Practitioner vs Physician Assistant

    I have to agree with enc123 -- this isn't really true. NPs other than psych are generalists, but divided into acute care vs. primary/chronic/non-acute care, and divided into age groups. You have your FNPs, who are the full spectrum of infants to deat...
  6. Torn Between Two Careers

    What you should choose depends on what you want to do with your career. You say you want to go back to school -- for what? For almost all paths in nursing, med surg is a plus. Office RN is only good for future outpatient or administrative work. Defin...
  7. I like it. She went out in style, and gave her coworkers cake to eat. Although Walmart cake? Really? I would have gone to a bakery. But hopefully her future employers won't be social-media savvy... As fun as it probably was in the moment, it was not ...
  8. EpiPens....who knew?

    Sorry if someone already said this, I have to leave and don't have time to read the whole thread. One of my jobs is in peds primary care. The issue is that epipen brand is not on your granddaughter's insurance formulary. Your daughter drew the short ...
  9. Psychiatric History - Can I still become a nurse?

    I don't think the BON can use it against you, because they would have to prove that you are unfit or it would just be plain old discrimination. Previous psych hospitalizations does NOT make you a criminal, and psychiatric diagnoses including MDD conf...
  10. Arg! Pre-employment personality tests

    Hi Dogen, thanks for your advice. It's reassuring to hear that the strongest answers aren't necessarily the best. I think "answer honestly" might not work out well for everyone, but I guess that's kind of the point of the tests.
  11. These tests are so nerve-wracking. Two major health systems in my area (and possibly more) are using the same personality test to screen applicants, so being able to pass is pretty high stakes. I don't know whether I'm passing or not. The answers are...
  12. I made a medication error - Now what???

    She's not rationalizing or skirting responsibility -- I think she pretty clearly feels badly about it and has been ruminating. She did point out some upstream systems issues that probably contributed to the error. Yes, you can always identify a perso...
  13. Thank you for your reply, Boomer. You might be right. I suppose whether it's seen as a plus or minus will depend on the person I'm talking to. But I probably would be really uncomfortable feeling like I was hiding something in an interview anyway... ...
  14. I just started looking for a new staff RN job. I also am in grad school, and will be done in May 2018. After that, I will look for new work as an clinical nurse specialist -- possibly with the same employer, possibly not. Ethically, I think it wou...
  15. And you can bet that they will keep having unlicensed personnel do more and more, and all of it on our license with our supposed supervision, while they stretch us over more and more patients -- although how we can be in 50 places at once supervising...