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    Can I Explain My ADN Grades to Schools I Apply to?

    elkpark replied to zoa190's topic in General Students

    What do you find "absurd"? Every nursing program I've attended or in which I've taught has had a similar grading scale. And there isn't going to be any way to "explain" your grades to another school...
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    Can I Explain My ADN Grades to Schools I Apply to?

    elkpark replied to zoa190's topic in General Students

    OP, the grading scale you describe is pretty standard for nursing
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    My question wasn't why didn't you know the answer to your own question in the first place (although, as many of us noted, it does seem fairly self-evident); it was why, if you actually did already...
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    What do you think?

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

    It's standard practice in academia and professional settings to simply advise an individual that you can't be reference for them if you feel you can't give them a good reference. Most people consider...
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    What do you think?

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

    Doesn't matter -- there's no scenario in which it's appropriate or defensible for a nurse to "walk out" because one doesn't like the way one is being spoken to or treated at work. It's generally...
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Yeah, we figured all along this was actually homework. With the three pages of pointless obtuseness and repetition from you on this thread, I'm surprised people haven't been snarkier than they have....
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    Hipaa question help

    elkpark replied to Foxlern's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Your most professional and safest course is just to not start down the road of talking about cases with family or friends. The more you do it, the easier it is to slip up and go too
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    Advance Practice Preceptorships - Should students find their own preceptors?

    elkpark replied to husky171's topic in Advanced Practice

    Did you mean to respond to me, or to BostonFNP? The schools don't care was my point, in response to Boston commenting that NPs refusing to precept students from those schools (that leave students to...
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Which, again, raises the question; then why are you making a big deal about this? Why isn't it obvious to you that the answer is, no, people can't disclose protected info to their spouses? Why the...
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    Please help (positive advice only please)

    elkpark replied to phuturenurse1988's topic in Men in Nursing

    There are only a few states that require graduation from a CCNE or ACEN accredited program for licensure. Nearly all states only require that the school by approved by the state BON, not
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Again, it's not really clear to me what you think you're looking for. Here is the summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule from the HHS site: "General Principle for Uses and Disclosures Basic Principle. A...
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    Advance Practice Preceptorships - Should students find their own preceptors?

    elkpark replied to husky171's topic in Advanced Practice

    Actually, I doubt that the schools would care about that
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I guess that, since the HHS rules are clear about under what circumstances, and with whom, providers are allowed to share information, and spouses aren't included as individuals with whom one is...
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    Can I be a DON with no nursing home experience?

    elkpark replied to femaleRN's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I'm sure there are LTCs that would hire an RN with no LTC experience or management experience to be DON, but they sure wouldn't be doing those nurses any
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    CNA to BSN programs??

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

    Yes; I've heard of some BSN (as well as ASN) programs that require people to be certified as a CNA as a condition of application, but there aren't any "special" CNA-to-BSN programs "out there," any...
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    Advance Practice Preceptorships - Should students find their own preceptors?

    elkpark replied to husky171's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm sorry to hear you had "really bad" clinical instructors in your basic nursing program. I know that they are out there, although I have been fortunate in my selection of schools to not have...
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    HIPAA and one's own spouse/partner

    elkpark replied to pmabraham's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What are you looking for, something in the HIPAA law that says, "Except that it's okay to discuss PHI with your spouse"? Or, "And, remember, this means you can't disclose PHI to your spouse"? There...
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    UK RN moving to California - HELP

    elkpark replied to LClaire's topic in International Nursing

    The California BRN won't accept an application for licensure without a Social Security
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    BSN accelerated?

    elkpark replied to nysems2117's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Accelerated BSN programs take all the nursing-specific content from a traditional BSN (approximately two years of traditional full-time study), including the minimum number of clinical hours required...
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    So nurses, what is our role now? Unity?

    elkpark replied to murphychen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And your point is ....
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    Did you choose nursing because it was your "calling"?

    elkpark replied to Corgilicious's topic in General Students

    I chose to go into nursing because it aligned neatly with my personal values and world view, but I would not consider it a "calling" in the religious sense that most people mean the term. I...
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    Don't think I can keep writing these papers!

    elkpark replied to simvee's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I would say that I have observed the exact opposite on this site; there is no end of people willing to post at length about how ridiculous they found their nursing graduate programs to be because of...
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    PMHNP - Wilkes University

    elkpark replied to Nae Nae123's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    How come the multiple duplicate posts? And how (or why) did you manage to decide to apply to the school and get far enough into the process to get accepted without having already found the answers to...
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    So what's going to happen to health care now?

    elkpark replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    Did anyone suggest that it
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    License info being sold

    elkpark replied to #wontgiveup's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, a bunch of states do this. To be fair, the info is public record, and what the BONs are selling is the convenience of a compiled, ready-to-use database. I don't like the idea, either, but I...