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    NCLEX a factor in the nursing shortage

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

    Nursing knowledge and practice are continuously changing and developing; the licensure exam is updated on a regular basis to reflect
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    elkpark replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't even say it about the general AN
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    elkpark replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    Supervised injection sites are not condoning and supporting drug use rather than treatment, part of the point is to provide a pathway to
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    elkpark replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    For a lot of us, I'm afraid so. America was built on "rugged individualism," y'know, AKA "I got mine, screw you, Jack." Lots of people here are (unfortunately) proud of
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    elkpark replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    Well, that's that "American exceptionalism" you hear so much about. We're special
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    gender "issues"

    elkpark replied to rac1's topic in Psychiatric

    Also, "doctor" is a concrete, objective characteristic that can be measured. One either is a physician, or isn't. There are defining characteristics of a physician (med school graduate, license) on...
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    NP or Physician for men?

    elkpark replied to ImTheCuteBoyNursesLove's topic in Men in Nursing

    What does your gender have to do with the
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    Do Hospital pursue broken nurse contracts?

    elkpark replied to walkerrn2015's topic in General Nursing

    Also, regardless of any money involved, if you leave prior to fulfilling the obligations of your contract, you're likely to be flagged as "do not rehire" and that will follow you going forward when...
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    Leaving Residency Program?

    elkpark replied to MoriahGriesbach's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    "Life happens"? Did you not know you were planning a May wedding when you accepted the year commitment? You can't manage to stay an extra couple months to fulfill your obligation to your current...
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    Suicide screening for all is not needed

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I didn't write the screening questions, and my sharing them doesn't indicate any sort of endorsement -- I was just responding to the other poster who asked what the protocol was at my facility....
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    Suicide screening for all is not needed

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    My only point in referring to the full psychiatric evaluations I do in the hospital is that even experienced psychiatric professionals can not always, reliably, anticipate who is going to endorse...
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    What kind of lawyer can answer my questions?

    elkpark replied to 1blueheron's topic in General Nursing

    Be aware that, if you withhold information they are asking for and it later comes out at some point that you withheld the information, that by itself is grounds for them to take your license. The...
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    Suicide screening for all is not needed

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Maybe not a 4 mo old, but plenty of older children are
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    Suicide screening for all is not needed

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Really? Because I work on the psych C&L service of a community hospital, we're the service that gets called for the consults when someone screens positive in the ED, and the experience here is...
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    Jahi McMath "What does it mean to die?"

    elkpark replied to Christy1019's topic in Nursing News

    But does the reaction of the hospital staff change the outcome in any
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    Working nights w/ barking/needy dogs that probably wouldn't let me sleep during the day

    elkpark replied to lmb93's topic in General Nursing

    It's not at all "silly" to be worried that you won't be able to sleep during the day if you take a night shift job. Any chance they will just sleep with you during the day if you're home, sleeping?...
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    How Working the Night Shift Can Be A Death Sentence

    elkpark replied to Carol Ebert's topic in Health, Stress Management

    "Death sentence" seems rather melodramatic to me. People engage (voluntarily) in all kinds of activities that risk shortening their life spans, and no one refers to those activities as "death...
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    Walden University BEWARE

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

    And you know "that's the truth" how??? You personally know everyone who criticizes Walden and the other for-profit diploma mills, and their objection is that Walden turned them down? And you are...
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    Stay away from Walden University

    elkpark replied to BLACK HAWK's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    (That was my immediate thought, as
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    Homelessness

    elkpark replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement | The New Yorker Just saw this since I've been following this thread (yes, I'm wayyyyyy behind on my issues of
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    Students Cheating

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

    If you're accessing test banks illicitly, material that is not intended for students for studying purposes, you're cheating. It doesn't matter if that's not your intention -- that's like saying, "I...
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    How to confront a disrespectful professor

    elkpark replied to MamaNanii's topic in General Students

    Yes, and I said "I don't read anything in the original post that I consider particularly unprofessional or inappropriate." We can agree to
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    Homelessness

    elkpark replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    Not only is the obvious answer to simply rent a PO box, UPS and some other private companies will rent you a mailbox that is a street address, in case it's important to have a street address. As long...
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    NY Times article: loss of license

    elkpark replied to missmollie's topic in Nursing News

    There's something preventing people who were bright and capable enough to get a professional license in the first place and function in that role from getting a job doing something else (something...
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    What is the afterlife like?

    elkpark replied to EGspirit's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Well, that's the understatement of the year