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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    'Excellent example of a perfect solution fallacy: if the vaccine isn't 100% effective then it is useless. No, the vaccine can't protect against millions of possible subtype and antigen groups of...
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It has nothing to do with my point or even my personal beliefs. I am not sitting on the SCOTUS; they have ruled on many things, this included, and whether I like it or not, or agree or not, that's the...
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The common influenza vaccines protect against two influenza A virus subtypes and one/two influenza B virus subtypes. It is true that we are susceptible to influenza virus, however those that are...
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yet SCOTUS has upheld that it is not illegal or unconstitutional to have mandatory
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    True you have no obligation to justify your decision, it is a choice you wanted to make. Most of us here are scientists: our practice is based on data not a choice/opinion. Don't expect people to...
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Again, this isn't "forcing", it is a condition of employment at a place you choose to work. No one is tying anyone down and injecting
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What did you learn and where did you learn it from, please share your ideas and your sources so we can all discuss. The head of every major religion has ok'd the use of vaccines. Additionally the...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    All those outcomes studies were done prior to the exponential influx of student NPs looking for the cheapest/fastest/easiest path to mediocrity. It really does aggravate me, that not only to I go...
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You do have the right to refuse, you stated so in the third sentence of your
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    Flu Shot or Mask?

    BostonFNP replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Which national committee? Cite your sources please, as we all know, the plural of anecdote in not
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It's not, in aggregate, difficult to predict what sort of nurse someone will be. If 50% of a program's students are not passing the NCLEX we can predict at least 50% of them lack the basic competency...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    First of all, if the NCLEX pass rate is less than 50% the school could not maintain accreditation. Second, I think you misunderstand our point here: we are talking about large numbers not...
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    How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    BostonFNP replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    To be honest, I'm with you on the supply and demand issue, that dangling of the "nursing shortage" carrot continues to drive nursing school admissions today. I also do think it is as simple as...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If this is truly your goal, truly what you feel all your perspective patients one day deserve, perhaps it is best to stop posting about it. It looks poorly on our profession as a whole. Yes, this...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As above, this is a major problem that is getting compounded with each rolling graduation from some of these programs. We have a local subpar NP program that most experienced NPs won't touch students...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    ​ There are some quality online program and there are some horrendous ones, just as there are for B&M programs. There are some things that need to be taught hands-on and require workshops...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    This is a joke right? It is considerably easier to be admitted to NP school now that it was 5 years ago, than it was 10 years ago, then it was 20 years ago. The standards for admissions have declined...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    This responsibility of providing support for students falls first on the school, not on the body of practicing NPs or the students themselves. Students shouldn't have to be begging for preceptorships,...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    We are supposed to? Perhaps, with some of the experience, providing good "nurture and support" means being honest with individuals for the good of the profession. A little analogy: if we were soldiers...
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    How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    BostonFNP replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse salaries are limited by the fact they are a non-billable expense. Maybe someday a nurse can change
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    What was your first NP job?

    BostonFNP replied to ENP1987's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Retail clinics are a great first job for NPs; and not a bad job for any NP. They pay and hours are good. There is good support. There is no work to take home at the end of a shift, no
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    And you base this assumption on what? The precepting experience has been demonstrated in the literature to be of vital importance to the role socialization of novice NPs. Additionally, I think most...
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    MGH IHP DE NP 2017

    BostonFNP replied to longwayup's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Depends on the program, but most good programs will look both at your overall GPA (at 3.3 you should meet the cutoff) and your core curriculum average (you need to bring your stats grade up, most...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Honestly, now doesn't sound like the right time for you to be going back to school. Having graduate school classes that are "every bit as challenging" as low tier undergraduate classes isn't a...
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    Stop the preceptor madness!

    BostonFNP replied to Rocknurse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Oh, sorry. The credits come from the school that the preceptee/student