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    Is my textbook wrong?

    elkpark replied to mcclasl's topic in General Students

    At the risk of beating a dead horse, this is the opposite of every definition of the two words I have encountered over the years. In my experience, "empathy" is considered the ability to put yourself...
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    Would pursing a Psych NP be a suitable path to become a diatebetes educator?

    elkpark replied to chakra_'19's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Diabetes and psych have nothing to do with each other (professionally, I mean -- psych credentials would not be any kind of advantage professionally in wanting to work in diabetes education)....
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    Should drug diverters be prosecuted?

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Documentation?
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    Advice on where to move for degree

    elkpark replied to Mintezia's topic in General Students

    You posted here originally asking about nursing programs that cost $12-14k/yr, and now you're talking about looking into a for-profit school that offers, not nursing, but MA and CNA programs that cost...
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    Is my textbook wrong?

    elkpark replied to mcclasl's topic in General Students

    Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: That sounds like a pretty reasonable description to me, given that there are many different possible ways to word explanations of "empathy" vs. "sympathy" and no...
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    Do they still teach nursing history?

    elkpark replied to DiplomaNurseRN's topic in General Students

    In my experience, no,
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    Should drug diverters be prosecuted?

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I can't speak for anyone else here, but, for myself, I'm not advocating that nurses should be criminally charged and prosecuted, just that they should not be treated any differently than the general...
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    Psych NP what kind of experience?

    elkpark replied to kj954's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    There is some "overlap," but not enough to equal actual psych experience. There are plenty of people who will tell you you don't need any specialty experience, but plenty of us who have actually...
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    Management legally offering union, what does that mean?

    elkpark replied to Coumarin's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    This was my thought as well -- I'm no expert on any of this, but I would bet that the reason is because the union would provide you with representation and support through any kind of disciplinary...
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    Nursing Licensure Compact beginning in 2018. HELP

    elkpark replied to 4rty's topic in Florida Nursing

    Whoever "they" are is right. Your FL license will remain valid as long as you continue to renew it, but it will not have multi-state "compact privileges" unless you are maintaining a permanent...
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    Should drug diverters be prosecuted?

    elkpark replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm now practicing in the fifth state of my career, and I've never heard anyone in any of those states suggest that there was a problem with nurses being legitimately prescribed opioids, or any other...
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    Clinics Being Cut Short

    elkpark replied to Taiin's topic in General Students

    So, basically, your school is going to be lying to the BON about how many clinical hours you have had ... Something really stinks here. I would be complaining higher up the ladder than the dean of...
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    What are clinicals really like?

    elkpark replied to coder24's topic in General Students

    All NPs are RNs. Your basic nursing education will include developing basic competence in every aspect of the RN's role in a variety of settings, including providing personal care and treatments of...
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    Why are nurse managers jerks?

    elkpark replied to Cola89's topic in Nurse Management

    I guarantee you that all the people you started this thread to complain about also do not consider themselves jerks. Just saying
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    Uk Nurse, How Hard is To Get USA Job and Visa

    elkpark replied to Nicola kk's topic in International Nursing

    That is news to those of us who are actually practicing nurses in the US. There is no overall shortage; certainly not a "massive" shortage. Many parts of the country have surpluses. There are some...
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    Why are nurse managers jerks?

    elkpark replied to Cola89's topic in Nurse Management

    I've had a few nurse managers who were jerks. I've had more who were caring, competent, productive professionals. Not necessarily the ideal, but more than "good enough." There are jerks in any...
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    Nursing Arrogance

    elkpark replied to Flowerchild6065's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I actually did read the TOS in detail before I originally joined (I'm funny that way ... :)), and referred to them frequently back when I was a moderator for the site. That was a number of years ago....
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    elkpark replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Relatively low flat rates"? Where is this? The only practices like that I've heard of so far are the "boutique" (as you note), "concierge" practices that cater to the wealthy and charge high rates...
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    What are my options outside of a hospital setting?

    elkpark replied to Exhuasted's topic in General Students

    There are tons of professional options other than inpatient bedside nursing -- the catch is that most of them consider some significant amount of bedside nursing experience necessary in order for...
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    Nursing Arrogance

    elkpark replied to Flowerchild6065's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The more references I hear to allnurses threads turning up on Facebook, which I intentionally choose not to patronize, the less interested I become in continuing to participate here. I have no...
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    Rn in USA

    elkpark replied to Renjuninan's topic in Nurse Registration

    Welcome to allnurses! Have you checked the Virginia Board of Nursing website? All the info and forms you need to pursue licensure as an internationally educated candidate should be there. You will...
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    New RN endorsement license only good for 6 months

    elkpark replied to janisporto's topic in Maryland Nursing

    Welcome to allnurses! :balloons: AFAIK, every state does something like this. Every state has some kind of system for renewal of licenses designed to spread out license renewals more or less evenly...
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    New Grad as Charge Nurse??

    elkpark replied to RebellescumRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My first job in psych out of school, the second shift RNs routinely rotating charge responbilities. I found myself the charge nurse of a 24-bed psychiatric unit about half the shifts I worked, just a...
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    IV Chelation/Vitamins and Ozone Therapy in Integrative Clinic

    elkpark replied to nutria's topic in Holistic

    Next time you're in your local grocery store, Wal-Mart, or CVS, check out the vitamin/supplement aisle. None of those medications are FDA approved or regulated in any way, and some of them can be...
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    IV Chelation/Vitamins and Ozone Therapy in Integrative Clinic

    elkpark replied to nutria's topic in Holistic

    Sure, lots of irresponsible, unproven treatments are "legal" -- until something goes wrong. The physician in my area who was treating a child with chelation therapy for autism and killed the child...