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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    There's an occasional jerk wherever you go. I didn't ever encounter any sexual harassment, or hear about any of my peers experiencing it, back in the "good old days" when we worked in whites and
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    Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

    elkpark replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    Since when do we care what physicians and pharmacists think about nursing pay? You keep beating that dead horse, though -- you're doing a heck of a
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    (Thanks for the shout out to my school --
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    Way too many NP programs and grads!

    elkpark replied to momofm1998's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    True -- the difference being, none of those physicians were average or barely passing in a proprietary diploma mill school that they attended online and arranged their own clinical education
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    So is there really a nursing shortage?

    elkpark replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals used to routinely hire new grads; although they invested significant amounts of time and money in new grads before they became functioning assets to the hospital, they felt that this was a...
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    Filipino nurses emigrating to US

    elkpark replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Umm, there isn't any nursing shortage in the US (there hasn't been for some years). Plenty of US new nursing graduates have difficulty finding jobs. And it's not clear what you are saying in your...
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Back when caps were common, some schools had v. distinctive caps, and people who were knowledgeable about caps could often tell what school you attended by the cap you wore. Same with school
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    After 19 years took NCLEX-RN

    elkpark replied to onic87's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    There are states that will let people take the NCLEX 19 years after finishing school, with no requirements for even a refresher course?
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    Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

    elkpark replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    How does a refusal to agree with you that ICU nurses are clearly superior to all other nurses equal an "inferiority complex"? You are the one who seems to be, to quote the Bard, protesting too much....
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    Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

    elkpark replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    None of us dispute that. We're just not buying your fixed notion that the only nurses with "better," "advanced" training are ICU nurses, and that ICU nurses are, by definition, somehow superior to...
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    That is a red herring created by nurses who didn't want to wear caps. There haven't been any studies I've ever heard of that have supported that idea, and caps have never been any more of an...
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    Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

    elkpark replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    Besides which, the fact the med-surg is often recommended to new grads as a setting in which to get a wide variety of experience in no way means that all nurses working in med-surg settings are...
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    Nurse practitioner vs Medicine turf war?

    elkpark replied to Infofreak411's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I haven't seen a "turf war." In my facility, the physicians appear to loooooove having NPs to do most of their work for
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    Can I refuse drug test? Will I be reported?

    elkpark replied to Tessseracts's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The problem typically isn't the illness, it's the behavior related to the illness. Having a psychiatric (or any other kind of) illness isn't a defense against inappropriate or dangerous behavior at...
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    Failed preceptorship

    elkpark replied to Spurse32's topic in General Nursing

    OP, reading over the thread, one of the things that leaps out at me is that you keep harping on not having "tasks" to do, and that you are more comfortable keeping busy on a med-surg floor. Well,...
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    Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

    elkpark replied to jack1971's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It takes about a year to get to the point of starting to feel competent and comfortable. OP, everyone feels the way you describe when first coming off orientation as a new grad. I agree that it was...
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    Building the perfect BON

    elkpark replied to triple...H's topic in General Nursing

    The state BON would happily license all the people who would want to get licensed in order to come work in the state to take all those jobs
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    Horrible Professor

    elkpark replied to GRB199108's topic in School, College Programs

    Glad you feel better about sharing that. Hope nobody from your school sees it
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    Doctors without Borders refusing free Pfizer vaccines

    elkpark replied to StNeotser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I doubt anyone here would propose that profit is inherently bad. However, it is disturbing to be aware that, while we frequently see clients struggling to afford necessary medications, Big Pharma is...
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    holidays... sick call...

    elkpark replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    (I had kind of wondered about that, too
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Because you look like a professional who takes herself seriously and needs to be taken seriously by others, not someone who came to work in her
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    Have you gained sympathy for Nurse Ratched

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Funny you should ask that. When I first saw "Cuckoo's Nest" long before I went into nursing, back when I was a young hippie, I thought she was a horrible, sadistic, monster. Seeing the movie again...
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    elkpark replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I still have whites, including my cap, although I've worked in psych nearly all of my career, so I've been wearing street clothes. I've never heard anyone seriously suggest that the cap is a symbol...
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    Thinking of going into nursing and need advice

    elkpark replied to HerRoyalMomness's topic in Nursing Career

    There are no "dream jobs," especially not
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    holidays... sick call...

    elkpark replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    OR, the OP doesn't get terminated for calling off for the holiday, since it's unlikely anyone will be able to prove s/he was lying, but, much more likely, the boss starts looking hard for any other...