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    ADON having sex with CNA

    elkpark replied to AWorley80's topic in General Nursing

    True, but I still maintain that nothing good can come of being the individual who informs
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    How do you deal with the conflict in nursing school?

    elkpark replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Students

    Letting her behavior get to you is simply giving her power over you. Ignore
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    Welcome to the New Doctoral Degrees Forum

    elkpark replied to traumaRUs's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    So, is the description of the existing Post-graduate student forum, which has included discussion of issues related to doctoral degrees all this time, going to be changed to indicate that it no longer...
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    Patient Rights and POA

    elkpark replied to shannonh17's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The client has the right to make her/his own decisions unless/until s/he is unable to, at which point the POA authority kicks in. However, whether or not the client is "able" to make decisions is a...
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    U.K. Registered midwife in Tennessee.

    elkpark replied to Darsilameh's topic in General Students

    (Per the website I linked, the state of TN apparently licenses and regulates CPMs. The OP wouldn't have to become a nurse midwife unless she wanted to. Part of the challenge for UK midwives who come...
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    It's not my job to pray with you.

    elkpark replied to kickatthedark's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Sources, please ... You can't just make a sweeping generalization like that and expect anyone to take it
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    True -- the US pharmaceutical companies have gotten lazy, and are much busier patenting the "'me, too' drugs" and reformulations of existing drugs in order to extend their patent lives than actually...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, many of us here would say that "hypocrite" is continuing to benefit from a system that you decry as immoral. If you had the courage of your convictions, you'd move to someplace that would permit...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, the argument isn't that Canadians aren't allowed to critique the Canadian system -- the argument is that it's incredibly hypocrital to blather on about how immoral the system is while choosing to...
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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

    From all the reporting I've seen on this incident, they had "a sensible policy worked out," one that the hospital, local police, and local courts had all agreed on, but this officer refused to abide...
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    ADON having sex with CNA

    elkpark replied to AWorley80's topic in General Nursing

    Just to clarify, assuming that the CNA reports to this ADON, it is a remarkably inappropriate relationship, and the ADON is, by definition, exploiting the CNA subordinate. I don't want to leave the...
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    ASL Interpeters allowed at clinicals per the ADA?

    elkpark replied to Natiel's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Yeah, I wondered if you realized you were likely to have to pursue a long, complicated court case to get hired as an RN. And, even if that works, you'll have a target on your back every day at work...
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    Challenging exam then switching to license to different state?

    elkpark replied to asmw1997's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I would check with the GA board and see if that's acceptable to them. Often, states hold people applying for licensure or certification by endorsement to the state's standards for initial licensure...
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    U.K. Registered midwife in Tennessee.

    elkpark replied to Darsilameh's topic in General Students

    Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: There are a bunch of older threads here about UK midwives wanting to practice in the US. You can use the "search" feature in the upper right corner of your screen to...
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    Not sure if it's the career for me

    elkpark replied to Ashleighk's topic in General Students

    Tons of people are going into nursing just to become CNMs. There are plenty of direct-entry MSN programs around the country that offer midwifery concentrations (the graduate program I attended (for a...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yeah, I recognized this guy when he started this thread
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Stating "healthcare is not a right" and "taxation is theft" are also "truth claims." Or is something automatically true because you believe it, but that's not true of anyone who disagrees with
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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

    That was probably the case at the Utah hospital, too, until the day it all changed. Might change tomorrow at your hospital. There seem to be an awful lot of "bad apples" in police forces around the...
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    ASL Interpeters allowed at clinicals per the ADA?

    elkpark replied to Natiel's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Good luck with that. While state and Federal education law basically require schools to do whatever is necessary to get people with disabilities through school, employers are only required to make...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We're talking about philosophical positions here, not objective truths -- no one can "prove" to you that health care is a right, or taxation isn't theft, since you don't believe it. Just as you can't...
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    Nursing refresher course vs. retesting out of state?

    elkpark replied to LhetzP's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you live in a compact state and want to apply for licensure in another state, you will have to apply to a non-compact state. The rules of the NLC state that you can only be licensed in one compact...
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    To advance or not to advance

    elkpark replied to MollyRN319's topic in Nursing Career

    My position on grad school is the same as my position on getting married -- it's not something you do just because "everyone is doing it" and it's what you're "supposed" to do; it's something you do...
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No, my point is that I am being forced to pay taxes for police and firefighting services I don't use (have never used), that other people do. I am not "opting to pay." If I don't pay my taxes, the...
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    ADON having sex with CNA

    elkpark replied to AWorley80's topic in General Nursing

    I would mind my own business. Their bad behavior will eventually catch up with them. You have absolutely nothing to gain by getting
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    Health Care is Not a Right

    elkpark replied to Tetra's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Explain to me again how universal healthcare is different from other public services, like police and fire? Because I've never used the police or fire department services in my life (other than being...