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    Support Planned Parenthood Today!

    Again, whether the point of viability is when a fetus becomes a "person" deserving of the legal protections afforded to actual people is an individual moral, philosophical position, not some kind of...
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    Weighted blanket "to prevent contractures"?!?!?

    I worked for several years as a surveyor/regulator for my state and CMS (for acute care hospitals, not LTC), so I look at the issues around regulation from a different perspective. Everyone complains...
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    Support Planned Parenthood Today!

    And your believing those statements, likewise, does not make them
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    Support Planned Parenthood Today!

    Again, that is your belief, based on a book that you consider to be true, which is a far cry from a
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    Georgia to Florida compact license?

    It's not "some" compact states. The compact rules specify that you can only be licensed in one compact state at a time, and it must be your "home" state, the state in which you reside. When you move...
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    Support Planned Parenthood Today!

    Our Attorney General just recently quoted the Bible to defend the government kidnapping children from their families and claimed the Bible said the rest of us shouldn't object or demonstrate against...
  7. How many programs are you personally familiar with? Perhaps you are right, perhaps many of the programs also award a BSN, but certainly not all of them, and one is not "hard pressed" to name schools...
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    BSN with PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences .

    I'm not really seeing any logical or useful connection or career pathway between RN licensure and a PhD in pharmacology. Nurses don't need to know that much (graduate-degree-in-pharmacology much)...
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    Weighted blanket "to prevent contractures"?!?!?

    You or I or anyone else may believe that, but the OP has stated that the state licensing/regulating agency has already determined that it is a restraint, and that's who the facility has to answer to....
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    Is this really that controversial?

    Why would anyone be disclosing personal information like what s/he is studying in school (or even that one is a student) to strangers at
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    Weighted blanket "to prevent contractures"?!?!?

    I agree that this needs to be dealt with at a higher level than individual staff nurses. The meeting between family and the facility administrator and medical director sounds like the best way to...
  12. Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: You should expect nursing school to be at least the equivalent of a full-time job, whatever school you end up attending. It is v. challenging to work full-time while...
  13. I wonder if there's an alumni association that might negotiate the
  14. Good Lord, the opening bid is $3,500!
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    Can you have a dual specialty as an NP?

    You can hold as many specialty certifications as you are willing to pay for and put the effort into. However, whether you will make enough use of them to justify the cost and effort is another...
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    ABSN vs ADN

    Not only would the ADN +BSN later probably be significantly less expensive, it's possible to work part-time during the ADN to help cover the costs, which would not be recommended or likely during an...
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    Nursing

    I've been in nursing over 30 years, and alive a lot longer than that, and I've never heard the middle finger referred to as the index finger (which has always been the finger next to the thumb), in...
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    People who think becoming a nurse is so easy

    Lots of people don't understand how difficult or complicated lots of jobs are. I don't see why it's a big deal. If he decides to pursue nursing, he'll figure it out pretty quickly. If it were me, I...
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    Best bra for nurses

    How was I
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    Child/adolescent psych: Questions from a student nurse

    Working child psych can be a lot tougher emotionally than working in adult psych. When asked to compare the two, I've always said that, with kids, "The highs are higher, but the lows are lower." You...
  21. This is not true (and I'm always surprised so many people here keep saying it). As the OP notes, there are plenty of "direct entry" MSN programs for people with no nursing background but a BA/BS in...
  22. I have noticed for years that most of my cisgender clients have depression, anxiety, PTSD, or some other kind of psychiatric diagnosis in their history. Do you think there's some connection
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    ABSN Adequately prepared?

    And how many hours within those three
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    ABSN Adequately prepared?

    Well, you know what they say about assuming ... :) My service, in a large academic medical center affiliated with a university that has a well-known and well-regarded nursing program, takes nursing...
  25. We're not saying you "can't learn in them" -- we're just saying that none of us, and no school, can guarantee that you can. That will be up to each individual facility. You might be fine, you might...