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    Hands On Experience/Preceptorship?!

    elkpark replied to heychelle's topic in General Students

    How many clinical hours are you getting if you are only going to clinicals one weekend a month? How long is the program (how many weekends)? Most nursing programs have 12 or more hours of clinical...
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    Capscare Academy anyone?

    elkpark replied to Newbeginnings2018's topic in School, College Programs

    Did you read my post above? Completely apart from any of the other concerns, the NCLEX pass rates are shockingly low. They would be out of business in most states or, at least, in serious trouble...
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    NP vs Masters in Nurse Aministration

    elkpark replied to JGB25's topic in Nurse Management

    I think klone's point was probably that what one person might consider a "pro" or a "con" might not be the same for another person. I agree that, if you don't have a clear idea of which role better...
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    CRNA programs that will accept a BSN from a nationally accredited program

    elkpark replied to ponyboy86's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You're talking apples and oranges. ACEN and CCNE accreditation are nursing specific and have nothing to do with general academic accreditation or standards. Most nursing graduate programs (the...
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    Reporting homicidal patients

    elkpark replied to DrCOVID's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The original case that established a duty to warn was Tarasoff v. Regents. That was many years (decades) ago. At this point, different states have different specific standards and requirements. You...
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    CRNA programs that will accept a BSN from a nationally accredited program

    elkpark replied to ponyboy86's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    National vs. regional academic accreditation is about the general academic standards of the school and has nothing to do with nursing. The academic standards for national academic accreditation are...
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    Wisdom Teeth Removal

    elkpark replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had all four out at once in my early 20s. It was done under local. It wasn't that big a deal. I didn't have a lot of pain afterwards. The oral surgeon prescribed me some kind of opioid for...
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    Liar, liar pants on fire!

    elkpark replied to Wuzzie's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, did the state representative believe that she was a nurse because her family had always told her that she was a nurse?? I must have missed that part of the
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    RN-BSN SCAM

    elkpark replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Hard to believe it's been almost two years and you're still here, touting the same ol' conspiracy theory. How's your plan to bring down Big Education and Big Nursing coming? You should have made...
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    Riddle me this Batman?

    elkpark replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    That goes both ways -- I used to have a vet that would write rxs for my dog, for me to take to the regular, human pharmacy to get filled (for some specific medications, not all the time) because, she...
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    Capscare Academy anyone?

    elkpark replied to Newbeginnings2018's topic in School, College Programs

    It takes only a short while poking around online to see that this is a for-profit school that has the cheesy-for-profit-school kind of accreditation that means the courses are unlikely to be...
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    Past history about care on a Saturday

    elkpark replied to Kathleen Robledo's topic in General Nursing

    No one here can answer for what might or might not have happened in a particular hospital 90 years ago. I doubt anyone here was alive then. I worked for an SDA medical center (not Loma Linda, but...
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    Does the school I choose impact my resume?

    elkpark replied to cle540's topic in Nursing Career

    It's not nearly as big a deal in nursing as it is in a lot of other fields. In general, having a school that has a particularly bad reputation, regionally or nationally, may hurt you somewhat....
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    How old is to late for medical school

    elkpark replied to Shanta813's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are MSN NP programs, as well, that don't require a BSN. Vanderbilt has, for years, had an RN to MSN program in which ADN or diploma grads (with some prerequisites completed) can complete an...
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    Clinical Program Manager?

    elkpark replied to nursingon's topic in Nurse Management

    In my experience in psych, program managers are typically non-nurses, and have administrative responsibility for a unit or program. For instance, in some of the psych units in which I've worked,...
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    How old is to late for medical school

    elkpark replied to Shanta813's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    7-8 years?? Starting from an ADN, one can complete a BSN in about another year, maybe two (where do you get "approximately 4 years"?), and there are plenty of NP programs that will take people...
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    MSN psychotherapy/mental health

    elkpark replied to sriteop's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Psych CNSs used to be intensively trained as psychotherapists, but TPTB in nursing, in their infinite wisdom, eliminated that credential. The only advanced practice psych nursing role now is the...
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    Am I wrong? Is this legal?

    elkpark replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not trying to be argumentative, but, regardless of the size of the hospital, if you're telling me the wife of the attending psychiatrist is the owner of the hospital, that sounds like a "mom 'n...
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    Am I wrong? Is this legal?

    elkpark replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience and understanding, there has to be a physician (or other provider) with admitting privileges, whether that's an attending psychiatrist or an ED doc (or another physician/provider),...
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    Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

    elkpark replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Okay ... But what on earth do various men's and women's career choices have to do with transgender
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    Partnerships will advance personalized medicine

    elkpark replied to yhl1975's topic in Advanced Practice

    Update on Theranos and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos CEO Holmes, ex-president Balwani charged with massive
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    Average School Schedule Requirements

    elkpark replied to broughden's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Also keep in mind that, whatever a particular school tells you about the general schedule, there will be additional times for lab practice, clinical prep, and other kinds of activities that don't...
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    DNP Nursing Education?

    elkpark replied to MCRNBSN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Different schools have taken different positions. However, you can't assume that a DNP will be considered the same as a PhD. There are significant differences between the two; that is important to...
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    DNP Nursing Education?

    elkpark replied to MCRNBSN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    At the last university in which I taught, DNPs were not considered equivalent to PhDs. DNP-prepared faculty were treated the same as MSN-prepared faculty -- not eligible for tenure, not allowed to...
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    Canadian physicians protesting pay raises, advocating for nurses

    elkpark posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Canadian doctors protest their own pay raises Oh, Canada! :) Can you imagine anything even vaguely like this ever happening in the