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    License by Endorsement

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to LindsayRNL's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh yeah that also. A nurse transferred from another state and she did have to start all over here. They did not make her go to rehab but everything
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    Help me please!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to olchrustyone's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah come to think of it PNAP told me where to get my evaluation
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    Tempted to Tell the Truth in Exit Interview

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Your exit interview should be about you. If this place had a 100% staff turnover in a few months they are an out-of-control dumpster fire and if they don't know it by now they won't be educated by...
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    Just a small venting session

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Still is exactly right!!! It's not yet 9AM and I have two calls and an email to my case manager. It is their job just as jumping through all the BS hoops is
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    Help me please!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to olchrustyone's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Way Good advice
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    License by Endorsement

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to LindsayRNL's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm in Pa & typically get tested 2-3X per month at a cost of between $55 and $130 per test. In addition if you transfer to PNAP (our monitoring program) you will be expected to attend weekly...
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    Trying to find work

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OhioRN1234's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, my thoughts go to both of you RN & Berdeen. As you both intimately know the hardest part of this programs are the mind games and the financial devastation that's attached to them. As other...
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    Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I think the OP describes two problems here both of which I've had some experience with. First, understaffing on a unit. Where I work this is common. Units are very often understaffed for a myriad of...
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    Just a small venting session

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rn1965's topic in Nurses Recovery

    rn1965: You are doing what you gotta do!!! Good
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    Will they require a DNP in the future to be a Nurse Practitioner?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to TAS2354's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I have no intention of using the Doctor
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    Will they require a DNP in the future to be a Nurse Practitioner?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to TAS2354's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As far as reforming NP education. I'm all for it as I've stated on many occasions but I'm not the Dictator of Nursing. This is the reality of the market and our profession as it
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    Will they require a DNP in the future to be a Nurse Practitioner?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to TAS2354's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Why? Probably because its a buyers market for NPs where I live and there are only two major hospital systems so they can set the
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    Will they require a DNP in the future to be a Nurse Practitioner?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to TAS2354's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As per usual you are completely correct Oldma. We get a ton more clinical hours but the rest of the extra curriculum is
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    Diversion

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Frina's topic in Nurses Recovery

    yep!!!!
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    RN with GI condition

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to runner502's topic in Home Health

    Suck what up??? Nurses are batty!!! You gotta go then you gotta go for gods
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    Diversion

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Frina's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah whatever was confessed to will be treated as gospel now. I have no idea what she confessed to in detail but I'd expect the BON to get involved and her life to get a lot worse
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    Will they require a DNP in the future to be a Nurse Practitioner?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to TAS2354's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I was just at a job fair at school. I wasn't too interested because I already had a job but it was a school requirement. Anyway, the two big players in my market are not hiring inexperienced MSN NPs...
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Some fool says "We are slow right now" in the ER!!! Flogging and stoning are not punishment
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    Rising above the cattiness

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to healthcare2015's topic in General Nursing

    Being outside of the whole giant gaggle of BS that nursing work environments sometimes are is a good thing. Look at your coworkers like coworkers and do yourself a favor don't gossip or share...
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    Lack of "customer service" as beneficial factor for chronic disease process?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    Tricia, I totally agree. I tell my patients all the time that "nobody will or should care more about you than you". Educational and customer service can not overcome denial and
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    Contractually Obligated - Hate my job

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to CptCari's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Write a check and fly free!!! Life's too short for misery for 2 hours much less 2
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    How has nursing changed you?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    YEP!!! BC said it
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    In five years, I see myself...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to elizabethgrad09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yep that is as fine of as Idea as I have heard in a long long time Old
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    Ask Dr. Fever

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    Dr Fever, Do recreational spankings have measurable health benefits? Will they ever be considered an Olympic
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    Work in hospital?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to RNMOM1213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I work for the VA and am lucky to do so. I'm an ER Nurse by trade and was banished from there in September of last year. In our system I was reassigned to an administrative posting. However, if I...