KatzchenLSW

According to the Colorado Revised Statues 27-65-105 Bolding mine. Full text can be found here. So it sounds like a to invoke an involuntary hold as a nurse in the state of Colorado you would need to have additional education/training beyond a BSN.

I was a candy striper from 1996-2000 at a Catholic hospital. We didn't wear the striped jumper but we did have a red and white striped smock that we wore over khakis and a polo. I'm shocked what the hospital let us do back then. Between the ages o...

The same reason the nurse case managers and admin nurses at my hospital wear the same long white coats? I'm a social worker (psychiatric assessor) in a busy psych ER and wear per hospital policy have to wear business professional. Most of the time i...

That depends greatly based on the nursing program and area. I can think of several programs locally that do no require any prereqs beyond a high school education (and for some the 3 week STNA class) as all of the typical prereqs are included in the ...

I can only answer your question about the difference between sociology and social work. Sociology is the academic study of how people interact in groups and why. Social Work on the other hand is a professional field of study concerned with the pract...

Respectfully, I have to disagree with you on almost every point. At least here in Ohio, our unions tend to be very weak and administrator friendly. Class sizes in low income districts are horrible and as a teacher no one ever gave a hoot that we re...

At least in my neck of the woods, a newly graduated teacher with a bachelors makes about $32,000- $36,000 a year and a new grad nurse with an ADN makes anywhere from $19-$23 an hour (so, $35,000 to $43,000 a year, assuming a 36 hours work week) and B...

If you want help with cloth diapers, PM me. I've cloth diapered two little ones now on the cheap and would be more than happy to let you know what has worked for us and where to find good deals. http://www.miraclediapers.org/ is a website that loans...

Yep because $5 per meal is so reasonable for some one who qualifies for Medicaid

Unless your city has no public transport or you have no refrigerator or the bus limits you to two grocery bags... Honestly if you saw the barriers to a healthy lifestyle that most of my clients faced on a daily basis you'd be amazed that any of them ...

What an ignorant statement! Poverty can have everything to do with it. If you have a patient/ client living in a hotel without access to fridge or microwave or a car and the 7-11 is the only place to buy food, their choices regarding purchasing hea...

And when their inability to comply is due to poverty? Should we cut them off then too? I understand your frustrations, but you seem to fail to understand that there is often much more at play in these situations than ignorance and inability to chan...

Its definitely more than one person since we are hearing this on multiple floors and in areas that would not have nurses floating from floor to floor. I'm not sure where it started or why, but it sure did spread like wildfire!

...that (at least in my state) 'social worker" is a protected title just like "nurse" is. For whatever reason the nurses at the hospital I intern at have taken to calling everyone from the financial services reps to the case managers (who are LPNs) ...

I'm not a nurse, but I work with lots of them and my husband works for one of the BSN programs in Columbus. I can tell you that Central Ohio is a very tight market for new grad RNs right now as there are many, many ASN and BSN programs (there are 6 ...

Not everyone is Christian or celebrates Christmas nor does every one have a family or chose to spend time with them during the holidays. To each his own.

Clinical social work does, to some extent. It is pretty typical for an agency to require 1-2 years of service post supervision if they provided or paid for the required clinical supervision hours for independent licenseure.

In short most of the Orthodox Jewish rabbis feel that Jewish law states that you are not dead until your heart and breathing cease. So basically as long as the heart is beating, you are alive, even if you have no brain function and a ventilator is br...

Happy Chanukah! (I can't wait to start lighting candles on Sunday night!)

Wow, how culturally insensitive and ignorant. As a member of the Jewish faith (although not as observant as many) I am outraged that you believe that the medical definition of death should outweigh my beliefs and moral system. I suggest you actually...

I think that depends on area and the program. My program does assumes that we will be providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric. Many of our clinical field placements are at inpatient psychiatric facilities....

Well, many on this board will advise you to go the psychiatirc/ mental health NP route. I debated about the best path to become a psychotherapist myself and ended up deciding to pursue an Master of Social Work for the reasons below. In my area, most...

Just another former teacher here chiming in to say that teaching is not as easy as it looks from the outside. I taught high school Spanish for two years. One year in an inner city school and the next at a suburban high school. Yes- I left my classr...

To be eligible for FMLA you must have been employed by your employer for at least 12 months, have worked 1,250 hours in the 12 months immediately preceding the leave and your employer must have at least 50 employees. Here are the exact requirements f...

Those of you that got in for next fall or are currently in the program, do you mind sharing your Bachelor's Degree GPA, COMPASS and net scores and grades in the four prereq's? I'm trying to figure out what type of GPA and scores are needed to be adm...