SummitRN BSN, RN

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    CCNE Accreditation Comments

    SummitRN replied to Jules A's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Indeed... it's a not too subtle way of saying, "Walden grads need not
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    Nursing Schools declined 56,000 qualified applicants in 2017

    SummitRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Great way to get people who are on the tenure track off of it and replace them with cheap
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    Nursing Schools declined 56,000 qualified applicants in 2017

    SummitRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    "Waaaah RNs don't want to work in brutal work environments with crappy workloads and bad ratios for crap pay" -Most hospitals "Waaaah MSN/DNPs don't want to teach for pathetic pay and no benefits...
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    PA curriculum

    SummitRN replied to Jules A's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    WTF is is this deceitfulness
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    What To Know Before Signing a New Grad RN Contract

    SummitRN replied to mursingmma's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    It stinks you didn't get an advertised bonus. Most new nurses need to worry about how much training they will get vs how long they are bound by contract to work for the hospital, and what the...
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    Why NANDA-NIC-NOC are not open source?

    SummitRN replied to jesusignazio's topic in General Nursing

    You can up with any number of schema and and approaches to help think about patient physiology and care. Look at CPR! C-A-B Look at emergency care: ABCDE and that is pretty universal whether you are...
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    Why NANDA-NIC-NOC are not open source?

    SummitRN replied to jesusignazio's topic in General Nursing

    NANDA is a pathetic case of, "Look! Nursing is so different we came up with our own redundant proprietary language different from the rest of healthcare!" It was created by an ivory tower academic...
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    Understanding Herd Immunity from Vaccination - How much is enough?

    SummitRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Herd immunity, or community immunity, is a great term we hear bandied about lately. Herd Immunity means lowering a population's susceptibility to a disease to the point where a disease cannot remain...
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    Understanding Herd Immunity from Vaccination - How much is enough?

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you could magically vaccinate everyone against flu with a vaccine that was only 50% effective each year, there would be community immunity against the flu for the
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    Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    SummitRN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked two places where the bathroom in the tiny lounge had a sign like this: Because the odor would fill the lounge where people were eating... As long as it is not too far to the other...
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    Male Nurse Disgusted by Female Nurses

    SummitRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent article Beth! Two points: 1. The traditional societal gender attributes you describe as holding back nursing simply scream for nursing to capitalize on its increasing gender diversity and...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I wonder if this as anything to do with the false missile attack alarm in Hawaii over the
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Politics of Duck and Cover I hate to say it, but it was political. A powerful ideological faction believed that doing anything to prepare to survive a nuclear war was a legitimization of nuclear...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I never served in the military. I agree that Ballaistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems are potentially destabilizing, but it depends. BMD in a massive deployment is destabilizing because it offers...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The Day After is entertainment, not a educational piece. Other movies in this genre are Testament (1983), Threads (1984), and the best of the genre: By Dawns Early Light (1990) with Powers Boothe,...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    One more thing, the concept of a "limited nuclear war" is not what you described. Limited nuclear war is if two nuclear powers have a nuclear exchange short massive. Such a limited nuclear war is hard...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @areensee You haven't studied this subject very thoroughly. It is both complex and amazing simple. Your assumptions are deeply flawed. TLDR; A NK nuclear attack would mean the end of NK. China would...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Once more thing: RADIATION Radiation from nuclear bombs comes in two forms: prompt and delayed (including fallout). Prompt radiation is released during the nuclear explosion and can injure/kill those...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No no no Wrong Incorrect Nothing you said matches reality, not even at the peak of the unfounded nuclear winter hysteria when orificenals were 10s of thousands of multimegaton weapons on each side of...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The purpose of the Zombie Apocalypse example was as a lighthearted case model that offered lessons and planning applicable to real outbreaks and public health emergencies. It was not meant to be...
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    Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

    SummitRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It will be interesting to see the direction they take. Scenarios for nuclear attack generally involve single detonations (terrorism or accident) or multiple detonations (strategic exchanges between...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    SummitRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    July 31 2017, guy fleeing police crosses median and slams into truck and dies. The truck catches fire severely burning the innocent driver, Mr. Gray, who was taken to SLC University. Police later...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    You are arguing that if the nurse slightly disturbs some patients with noise while suffering unwarranted abuse in the line of protecting one patient from battery (which is the proper term for having a...
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    Maryville v USA v Regis (PMHNP)

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I think they are all about the same price but honestly haven't looked at the comparison
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    Maryville v USA v Regis (PMHNP)

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It depends on you re working. I had to cut back from being a workaholic a little. I plan to drop down much further when clinicals start (I intend to do clinicals full time). I think Regis was the...