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    Experience before PhD

    elkpark replied to Tacomaboy3's topic in Research

    What nursing program offers a PhD in nursing that doesn't require students to be
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    Is there still a nursing shortage?

    elkpark replied to Skippy97's topic in General Nursing

    There is a big difference between an overall shortage of nurses, and hospitals choosing not to employ sufficient numbers of nurses to staff the hospital generously. Is the hospital recruiting and...
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    Any tips on how to protect your self in a clinic?

    elkpark replied to Life22feb's topic in General Nursing

    ^^ That, and be good at charting. I agree that it's a lot more difficult to lose your license than many people who post here seem to think. OP, what exactly are your concerns about your license in...
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    Facility not allowing us patient contact

    elkpark replied to stockmanjr's topic in General Students

    None of the nursing programs with which I've been connected over the years have ever paid any facility to be able to use it as a clinical site. If that happens at all, it is certainly not a common...
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    confused with degree

    elkpark replied to jdlove's topic in General Nursing

    There are some nursing graduate programs that will accept RNs without a BSN. Most of them include the additional nursing courses you would take in a BSN completion program. Of course, that would...
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    Facility not allowing us patient contact

    elkpark replied to stockmanjr's topic in General Students

    With the proliferation of nursing schools all over the country, finding specialty clinical sites has become a serious challenge in many places. At the last school in which I taught, negotiating the...
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    Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners?

    elkpark replied to Pharmahaulic's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What "majority" of psych medications are you thinking of, that are schedule
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    The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    elkpark replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Umm, I wasn't making any kind of general statement about the quality of life of the chronically mentally ill then and now; I was just responding to a poster who said that, back in the "good old days,"...
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    What are the rules to traveling as an RN with an NP license?

    elkpark replied to micurn13's topic in Travel

    The rub is, though, that, if anything goes pear-shaped enough to end up in court, the courts will hold the individual to the standards of her/his highest level of education and licensure. That's the...
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    Is there still a nursing shortage?

    elkpark replied to Skippy97's topic in General Nursing

    Short answer, no. There are some issues with distribution of nurses (too many nurses in some parts of the country, too few in others), but, overall, there is no "shortage." There hasn't been for a...
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    Facility not allowing us patient contact

    elkpark replied to stockmanjr's topic in General Students

    I don't understand why a school would be using a place that won't allow students on the floors as a clinical facility in the first place. For goodness' sake, take the students someplace else,...
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    UK to US nursing

    elkpark replied to Hannahthenurse's topic in International Nursing

    They are likely to tell you that they can't tell you anything until you have a nursing degree transcript that can be evaluated for its equivalency to US nursing education, but it can't hurt to ask....
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    UK to US nursing

    elkpark replied to Hannahthenurse's topic in International Nursing

    There are a bunch of existing threads here about UK nurses getting (or failing to get) licensed in the US. Lots of info there. Have you had a
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    The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    elkpark replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessarily. A lot of the (young) chronically mentally ill used to get dumped in nursing homes because there was nowhere else for them to go. If you didn't have family willing and able to have...
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    Rejected from BSN accelerated program

    elkpark replied to s14emmy's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Be aware, though, that many nursing programs are so competitive that the minimum published GPA isn't enough to get you accepted. Lots of programs say that the minimum GPA to apply is 3.0, but that...
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    NP Programs, Preceptors and You - Get Your Voice Heard!

    elkpark replied to stickit34's topic in Advanced Practice

    Although I am a CNS, not an NP, in my graduate program (well-known B&M program), all the clinical supervision (in all the tracks) was provided by full-time or part-time faculty, in facilities that...
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    How to keep a license active in 2 states?

    elkpark replied to Haleyrenee9's topic in General Nursing

    Yes -- just renew it when it's time to renew, and meet whatever requirements (CEUs, etc.) the state has for renewal. Lots of nurses maintain licensure in more than one state. It's not a big deal....
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    Death and the Soul

    elkpark replied to dream'n's topic in General Nursing

    I thing that those sorts of experiences (feeling a "soul" "leave" a body at death, etc.) depend on what the individual's personal beliefs are to begin with. I don't think that's an objective,...
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    Endorsement

    elkpark replied to alcalhoun's topic in Nursing Career

    Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: Is there some reason why you would not just apply for initial licensure in CA, if you know you are going there at graduation, and just skip CO licensure? Why invest...
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    Majoring in nursing but I am huge germaphobe. How will this work?

    elkpark replied to KariT's topic in General Students

    Please don't think I mean this in a bad way, but you might benefit from a psychiatric evaluation. The behaviors you're describing could possibly be a treatable psychiatric disorder. Best
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    NP Programs, Preceptors and You - Get Your Voice Heard!

    elkpark replied to stickit34's topic in Advanced Practice

    "Schools keep getting paid" because students keep enrolling in them and paying tuition. Many of us have been saying here for years that, regardless of any position the CCNE may decide to take...
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    Trump's new Surgeon General . . . a nurse?

    elkpark replied to JoseQuinones's topic in General Nursing

    Well, she's not exactly the "new surgeon general" -- she's the acting surgeon general because Trump has fired the actual surgeon general for partisan reasons and she was the second in command in the...
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    Signing contract during interview?

    elkpark replied to jt47382's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    None of us can answer that without actually seeing the contract, and the TOS of this site forbid giving any legal advice, anyway. Your best bet would be to ask an attorney who can look at the actual...
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    Licensure by endorsement or go to Florida to test?

    elkpark replied to cnsrn1's topic in Nursing Career

    Please post a link to where the NCSBN website says this. What you are describing would be a dramatic change in how nursing licensure has worked for many, many years. It's hard for me to believe that...
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    Transferring an LPN License

    elkpark replied to kristenthenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: There's no such thing as "transferring" a license -- you are applying for licensure in FL, period. You'll still have your PA license. Go back to the FL BON website...