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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    elkpark replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    It's true that the ANCC doesn't have any requirement for hiring BSN-prepared RNs (other than in management positions), but they do have a requirement that hospitals provide evidence of their support...
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    Beyond Bedside? Advanced Practice? Really?

    elkpark replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    (Just a minor historical correction, the NP role was initially developed in the mid-1960s. Plenty of folks here have been around a lot longer than
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    Beyond Bedside? Advanced Practice? Really?

    elkpark replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Someone else first brought up Flo, not the OP. The OP's original point was to criticize nurses "running away from the bedside" and criticize the current conception of "advanced practice" in nursing....
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    Beyond Bedside? Advanced Practice? Really?

    elkpark replied to EGspirit's topic in General Nursing

    FWIW, Florence Nightingale did very little hands-on nursing over her lifetime. She was, as you noted, an educator and social reformer. Her great contribution to nursing was the creation of a...
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    Would this be a big mistake?

    elkpark replied to angielove926's topic in General Nursing

    It is really hard to work nights full-time and go to school during the day. If you have any other options, and don't absolutely need to do this for financial reasons, I would say don't do
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    Taxes For Nurses? Pay or Get Paid?

    elkpark replied to HannBann's topic in General Nursing

    ITA. I've been itemizing on my returns (because that benefited me financially -- I give a lot to church and charitable organizations) for over 30 years, and I did my own taxes, with a legal pad,...
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    Policy contradicts State Law

    elkpark replied to Nishstar1's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I would contact the state BON, describe the situation, and ask their advice about what you can and can't do in those circumstances. I would ask them to provide me with a written statement (on the...
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    Is a level of behavioral health nursing missing?

    elkpark replied to Tommyd2's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't even work with lots of people who don't have any kind of psychiatric illness -- many, many people just don't have the ability to think far enough into the future to make choices now based...
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    Chances for the green card sponsorship

    elkpark replied to Agnieshka's topic in Immigration Advice

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    What Do You Think? Can You Be A Nurse If You Can't Do Bedside Care?

    elkpark replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    I've known a number of physically disabled physicians -- and they all got through medical school and residency meeting the same educational standards and requirements as anyone else. Shoot, I used to...
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    Flu - Missing Class

    elkpark replied to Phlebotomist21's topic in General Students

    Yes, they can. That is a common attendance policy for nursing programs. I taught as adjunct clinical faculty in an ADN program that only allowed students to miss 8 hours (one standard clinical day)...
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    Converse sneakers at clinicals

    elkpark replied to BlueBoxSearcher's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Yes, there's a big difference between shoes being comfortable for typical daily activities, or even short intervals of active sports activities, and being comfortable while you're on your feet,...
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    Being a Cop and a Nurse??

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

    Most people find one or the other more than enough to deal with, without attempting to do both. IMO, that would be asking for at least a major case of burnout, if not something more
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    Psych NPs and COPD/CHF/CKD/etc clinics

    elkpark replied to LouBean's topic in Advanced Practice

    My city has two separate (one operated by each of the two major healthcare systems in the city) primary care clinics specifically for the chronically mentally ill, that are not intended to replace...
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    Psych NPs and COPD/CHF/CKD/etc clinics

    elkpark replied to LouBean's topic in Advanced Practice

    Try Googling "PCMH," or "patient-centered medical
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    Custodial Staff & Biohazards

    elkpark replied to blackboxwarning's topic in General Nursing

    That is what I'm used to, also. Nursing staff does the actual cleaning up of "material" (whatever it may be), housekeeping comes along and mops with disinfectant after the coast is
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    What would you do

    elkpark replied to iwannabeanursee's topic in General Students

    That's quite a dramatic statement -- do you have any evidence to support
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    Addressing the Predicted Nursing Shortage

    elkpark replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    A few thoughts -- I, too, am unconvinced that there is going to be anything like a real nursing "shortage" in the forseeable future. Hospitals should consider paying nurses to attend classes for a...
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    Would you give up your dream job for a relationship?

    elkpark replied to Alexxoxox's topic in Nursing Career

    That depends on the relationship. A long-term, functioning marriage (or other long-term, functioning, committed relationship)? Sure. No question. Someone I've been dating for a while and it's not...
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    What would you do

    elkpark replied to iwannabeanursee's topic in General Students

    These are concerns that should be addressed with the individual who is actually prescribing medications for this client, as well as documenting her level of sedation and any safety concerns in the...
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    Does gnm allows to sit for nclex rn without experience?

    elkpark replied to Heena2648's topic in Nurse Registration

    Work experience has nothing to do with it. Whether or not you'll be eligible for licensure in a US state will depend on whether your educational program in India is determined to meet the standards...
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    Accreditation for CEUs

    elkpark replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    FWIW, the ANCC is the ANA. It's the credentialing organization that is owned and operated by the
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    Doctors vs NP's?

    elkpark replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    No, of course not. Neither should they be handed out like M&Ms. That's kinda the point of them being schedule
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    Doctors vs NP's?

    elkpark replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    What part of "I didn't mean to suggest that it was a good thing -- I'm a psych CNS and think it's a horrible idea" suggested that I thought it was okay? As I said, my point was not that it's "ok,"...
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    Graduate school?

    elkpark replied to kcollins45's topic in General Nursing

    Work for a few years