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    Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    elkpark replied to guest723's topic in General Students

    Well, nursing school is tough for most people, there's no way around that, with a lot of content to master in a relatively short time. But many students have had the same experience you have had, of...
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    Natural Disaster Back Home When On Vacation

    elkpark replied to Nurse.K's topic in General Nursing

    You realize that "hurricane season" lasts nearly half the year, right? How practical would it be to tell employees that no one can take vacation time from the beginning of June to the end of...
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    Full Code required for surgery?

    elkpark replied to KDPatty's topic in General Nursing

    I can top that -- in the large academic healthcare system in which I currently work, anyone who comes in as a suicide attempt is automatically a full code, even if that person has had a legitimate DNR...
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    Come to work or get fired-Hurricane Irma!!!

    elkpark replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My mother is in a SNF in a coastal community in southern Florida. I certainly hope that the staff is going to show up to care for her and the other residents and, yes, I hope that, if they don't,...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    (Just for the record, members of congress don't have "free health care." They purchase the coverage of their choice for themselves and their families on the ACA exchange. It's written into the ACA....
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    Career Change into Nursing from Business

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

    What kind of research have you done that convinced you that nursing is the career for you? If you have no first-hand experience in healthcare, I would strongly encourage you to get some before making...
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    Why do we do codes?

    elkpark replied to scrubs0204's topic in General Nursing

    So the families don't sue
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    New grad, 4 day orientation

    elkpark replied to nursingstu17's topic in Rehabilitation

    LTC is notorious for minimal
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    Fountain Pens for Charting

    elkpark replied to wernicke's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for several years as a hospital surveyor (for my state and CMS) and I can assure you that no one in our agency paid any attention to the style of pen or color of ink when we were reviewing...
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    Hypertension: Worried about nursing school physical

    elkpark replied to hello77kitty's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience (FWIW), the school physicals are primarily concerned with communicable disease and your ability to meet the physical requirements of nursing school. Something like borderline HTN...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    elkpark replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    But what do you mean by "had I known"? You live in south Florida, a hurricane-prone area, and you work in healthcare. It's the middle of hurricane season, and there has been widespread reporting about...
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    It's not my job to pray with you.

    elkpark replied to kickatthedark's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer - The New York Times Prayer and healing: A medical and scientific perspective on randomized controlled trials What Do Prayer Studies Prove? |...
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    It's not my job to pray with you.

    elkpark replied to kickatthedark's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I've seen some of those studies; I've also read critiques of them that found the studies used questionable methodology, small sample sizes, and were obviously biased, and the results couldn't be...
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    Welcome to the New Doctoral Degrees Forum

    elkpark replied to traumaRUs's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Maybe a better choice for the name would be something like "doctorally-prepared nurses." Something to indicate that the purpose is for people who already have the degrees, rather than students...
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    Worried about future job search.

    elkpark replied to Tak,LMSW/RN's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked into getting a part-time job as an RN (although that's unlikely for a new grad) and doing that plus working part-time as a social worker? Have you exhausted every possibility of...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    elkpark replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    The time to be making the plan was when they initially moved to South Florida and/or started working in law enforcement and healthcare. It's not like it's a secret that there is an annual, ongoing...
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    Fountain Pens for Charting

    elkpark replied to wernicke's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a refillable girl, myself. Some of my pens are old enough that they don't have "converters," they predate the replaceable cartridges and can only be refilled from
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    Fountain Pens for Charting

    elkpark replied to wernicke's topic in General Nursing

    For heaven's sake, you don't have to use an inkpot. It's a fountain pen, not a quill pen. OP, I've known some physicians that routinely used fountain pens for charting. There is the concern about...
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    Patient Rights and POA

    elkpark replied to shannonh17's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Didn't mean to sound rude, just tired. Your response to my initial post was rather abrupt, for that
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    Worried about future job search.

    elkpark replied to Tak,LMSW/RN's topic in General Nursing

    By the time you finish your BSN, you will be, at best, a year and a half out of your prelicensure nursing program, with no nursing experience. That makes you an "old new grad," which is the least...
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    elkpark replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    Why is it (and who said it is) the responsibility of the employer to identify employees who agree to come to work and how much time they would like in order to make arrangements to do so? Why is it...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Did you by any chance read that in an email you got?? FDR's "Voluntary" Social Security - FactCheck.org Social Security Changes Social Security
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    Childcare and clinicals

    elkpark replied to Twinmagic's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    "Thanks anyway ..."? Did we not answer quick enough to suit you? Maybe no one is responding because no one has any good solutions for you. You want to go to nursing school, you're going to have a...
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    Patient Rights and POA

    elkpark replied to shannonh17's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Frankly, I've explained this so many times on this site I'm tired of doing it. There are lots of existing
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    elkpark replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    Or how you can undo the gross violation of the client's civil and legal rights after the fact? The client who, again, was apparently an innocent victim in all of this in the first