jhoonk

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1. NAI descent: Roll Call

   jhoonk replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   I should have said 'millions of years ago' when there was just one continent on the planet Earth... My point was and is that even to a person like me, new to the abused history of a community, it seems odd there are so many tribes and nations ...

2. NAI descent: Roll Call

   jhoonk replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I can't believe this thread is two years old and people are still doing this! I am not an NAI. But as a nursing student, I learned the most abusive and discriminating treatment done to NAIs. And I want to work for NAIs in the future in some c...

3. Direct Entry MSN program 2

   jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

   wow, amazing thread, more than 3 years now? Gen, you are a trooper! I haven't checked this thread for a while so I assume you are an MSN, RN, now? Ortho doing what? What happened to other old timers? Did they graduate? Jess and ... Five more month...

4. Anybody CNL-UVA?

   jhoonk replied to Minty80's topic in Virginia

   Minty80 et. al, This thread explains the CNL role most accurately. Other threads have people, not being aware of CNL's, complaining about it even before they graduate! CNL is completely different concept than CNS or NP. Yes, CNLs need to be ...

5. Case Managing the Homeless and the Role of Community Health Workers

   jhoonk posted a topic in General Nursing

   Poverty and shortage of affordable rental housing are two major reasons for homelessness in the United States. When limited resources have to cover housing, food, childcare, health care, and education, often it is paid for housing that must be droppe...

6. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

   jhoonk replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral

   Difference is one more year of study and either MSN or DNP. (MSN getting 1 year certificate FNP, total 3 years vs. MSN getting FNP through DNP, total 4 years) I don't know why people are so fussy about this. Is there any field that you can get ...

7. NP w/no desire for RN?

   jhoonk replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in NP

   Even many RNs in the ER I work do not do 'nurs-ings' as I see it. There are quite a few who only want to be a charge nurse and rarely does direct patient care. ER might be different from other unit but would it be that all the people who hated nur...

8. Direct Entry MSN program 2

   jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

   so, rchamp59, congrats! and others who got into all those hard programs and even with cash, i admire you. rchamp59, if you are that old as you say you are, are you single or married? Are you looking for housing near Hopkins? I'm a bit younger t...

9. NP w/no desire for RN?

   jhoonk replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in NP

   [...read everything I could get my hands on...even outside my scope of practice, such as interpretation of xrays, etc.. I'd try to second guess what was going to be done on every patient and why. Couple of my friends did the same thing and the trauma...

10. NP w/no desire for RN?

    jhoonk replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in NP

    Buttons, I didn't mean to be rude and I don't think that obesity has anything to do with this thread. I wanted to tell the initiator of this thread my experience as an ER tech who is planning to attend direct entry MSN program (2 yr) and anot...

11. NP w/no desire for RN?

    jhoonk replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in NP

    well, I have to say something, I think it relates to this thread because the RN experience before NP program is influenced by those obese old abusive nurses too. I work 3-12 hr shifts as ER tech and get all kinds of s*** from nasty nurses. It's ok, i...

12. Direct-entry MSN programs

    jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

    jen, if i remember correctly, you are at dePaul? may i ask for the newsgroup info? amitai.

13. Direct-entry MSN programs

    jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

    Hi, Helper, I applied to Jan 2006 MENP at DePaul. Got much info from Genn here but still not sure what the attrition rate was for the first year of your class. And how many male students do you have in your class? Are they doing just fine as ...

14. Direct-entry MSN programs

    jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

    Yes, I quote here a paragraph from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/pdf/DNP.pdf No wonder the current CNSs are against this whole thing. They would have to go back to school for Doctorate! :-o :-o :-o :-o Concurrently and with input from the Task Fo...

15. Direct-entry MSN programs

    jhoonk replied to elizabells's topic in Post Graduate

    Genn, Thank you again for responding to my old question. Regarding the 'resistance' from old timers to CNL role of Master's Entry RNs, I found this http://www.nacns.org/positionstatement.pdf So, within the Nursing community itself, there ...