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I would argue that it was Rittenhouse who "went after others," when he made the decision to take his gun and drive to Kenosha in order to take part in the situation that had nothing whatsoever to do with him.

He's lucky they exercised better judgment than him, and didn't shoot him dead on the spot. According to him and his defense team, they would have been justified in doing so.

I doubt very much whether you would be able to sit for the ANCC psych nurse certification exam, unless you are working in a psych-specific unit in a correctional facility or have some other experience that meets the requirement for 2000 hours of working in psychiatric nursing. Sure, you see lots of psych in corrections, but that's true in any clinical setting these days and it's not the same as working in psychiatric nursing. Have you asked the ANCC? They would be able to give you a definitive answer. There are organizations that offer a specialty certification in corrections nursing, that you would be able to pursue. Have you looked into that? I have no idea what colleges would think about your background; it would likely depend on the specific college. Are you asking because you want to get into a graduate program in psychiatric nursing? There are some (plenty) of schools that will take people into psych NP programs without any psych experience.

The Texas bill is not about "babies with beating hearts," nor are any of the other so-called "heartbeat bills" around the country. There is no "beating heart" at six weeks. What these bills are calling a "heartbeat" is is the first stirring of electrical activity in cells that will at some point in the future be a heart. The bill and the motivation of the Texas legislators who passed it are anything but "moral." If they are so sure they are taking the right stand, doing the right thing, why did they go to such trouble to construct this novel enforcement mechanism that avoids the state and encourages individual vigilantism in an attempt to avoid judicial review

That's not necessarily true in every US state (what categories of health professionals can commit someone involuntarily), the specific requirements vary from state to state. But it is true that every US state has some mechanism for forcing people into psychiatric facilities if they are an acute danger to themselves or others.

I also am a long-time psych nurse (child psych CNS), and I also vote "no" on disclosing. Furthermore, I would not disclose anything about my own past once I was working in the setting, especially to clients. Work is work and your personal life is your personal life, and, IMO, it's much healthier if you don't loosen those boundaries.

"Lame duck" child psych CNS here. I'm no expert, but the rationale we were given at the time that our certifications were being "retired" was that it was part of the overall general restructuring of advanced practice nursing, part of the "LACE" or "Consensus" model developed by TPTB in nursing (every time I heard it referred to as the "consensus model," I would snort and think to myself, "What !@#$ consensus?? Nobody asked me ...") It certainly was not something that the psych population proposed or supported. It was imposed on us from above.

Not only that, but organized Christianity has gone for long periods of time without having any particular position on or objection to it. The vehement objections by some (certainly not all) Christians nowadays is a comparatively (historically speaking) recent phenomenon.

Food for thought: The People vs. Donald Trump – Verdict: Guilty of Negligent Homicide – Trusted Legal Advice for Technology Companies (kelmanlaw.com) (Fiction, obviously, but an interesting read). Nonfiction: Glenn Kirschner, a retired Federal prosecutor, has been saying since early in the pandemic that Trump's behavior and decisions regarding the coronavirus pandemic more than meet the necessary standards to charge, try, and convict him for negligent homicide/involuntary manslaughter (different states use different terms). Also an interesting read (or listen): Deconstructed Podcast: Is Trump Criminally Responsible for Coronavirus Deaths? (theintercept.com)

Not only that, but, at the same time, the perpetrators didn't bother to also take the majority in the Senate and increase the Democratic majority in the House -- pretty smooth! I guess that was to throw everyone off the scent ... MTG is the Q-Anon kook just elected to congress.

Nah, they were crazy long before COVID came along.

If she's that worried about her safety in DC, maybe she shouldn't have gone to all that trouble to get a job there ...

"What graduate degree should I get?" "Should I leave my boyfriend/husband?" "Should I go into nursing?"

Lots of threads in which the new member seagulls, and lots in which the new member comes back to complain bitterly and snark at long-time members about getting responses and advice that weren't what s/he was hoping to hear.

Do the schools not even explain the basics of how licensure and certification work anymore? What else are they not covering?