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    On call requirement-help needed

    elkpark replied to VeraT's topic in Operating Room

    I've lived and worked in a rural area where everyone is v. spread out. People who had an on-call requirement to be 30 mins from work got a motel room or found someone in town they could stay with for...
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    Pets- and nursing overnight

    elkpark replied to FeliciaRNCPN's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked 12 hour overnight shifts, and lived nearly an hour's drive from work (which meant I was gone from home at least 14 hours, longer if I got held up at work for any reason or needed to run...
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    MSN working bedside nursing

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

    Calm down ... There are a kazillion "direct entry" MSN programs that take people with no nursing background, licensure, or experience, put them through a bare-bones basic nursing program and an MSN...
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    Sobriety and NCLEX?

    elkpark replied to gchooljian's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If you lie (or withhold information) on your licensure application, and the BON somehow finds out later on, that by itself is grounds for revoking your license. Is this how you want to start your...
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    Accomadating patients racist request?

    elkpark replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    At the places I've worked over the years, we would accommodate requests for gender of staff for client comfort/preference (as much as possible), but not race/ethnicity. There have been situations in...
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    Applying for first RN position

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

    Some employers limit the number of open applications you are allowed to have at any one time. You might want to check on that before you start "carpet-bombing" (which is frowned upon), so, if there...
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    No Call, No Show

    elkpark replied to eilonwe's topic in Nursing Career

    Seems to me it's an attendance issue, which is an employment/employer issue, not a professional, BON issue. Just deal with it and move on. It sounds like you are feeling resentful about her being...
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    How long can you work as tech after passing boards?

    elkpark replied to Tearlily's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    That's up to your employer. Some will allow it, some don't. There's no, like, law about
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    Where are the nursing discounts?

    elkpark replied to mel2234's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I don't feel I'm entitled to any special discounts for commercial goods or services by virtue of being a nurse, and I'm not concerned or envious about what discounts people in other occupations might...
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    Clinical Educator with an MPH?

    elkpark replied to marienm, RN, CCRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Interesting question. What would be the point of getting a non-nursing Master's that has nothing to do with your "ideal job" as an educator in an acute care setting? Is it just that the program is...
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    CNS: Admin > Clinical?

    elkpark replied to psych nurse in training's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    So, are you saying that CA schools still offer psych CNS degrees? Be aware that, if you go that route and get certified by the state of CA BRN, that credential will not be transferable to any other...
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    elkpark replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you need to be "anti-affirmative action" to be concerned about the proliferation of nursing schools in the US, particularly the for-profit nursing schools, which have low admission...
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

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

    I've never taken a job with a sign-on bonus; call me a cynic (many people do), but they have always "scream(ed) 'run away!'" to me from the
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    RN-BSN

    elkpark replied to rdugirl's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Have you looked at WCU? I went through their program years ago when it was B&M, and it was good program. The BSN completion program is now all online, and v. reasonably priced for NC residents....
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    CNS: Admin > Clinical?

    elkpark replied to psych nurse in training's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    How are you defining "hands-on clinical nursing"? I can't speak to any specific, individual CNS program, but I've been a psych CNS for almost 25 years, and the psych CNS has always been a direct care...
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

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

    Boy howdy, they must have some serious problems there to be willing to pay bonuses for new
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    Nursing Student Advice

    elkpark replied to babygirl3374's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You say, "I'm sorry, I don't have the extra time and I don't feel comfortable taking on that kind of responsibility." Are you prepared to find another place to
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    Detox Nursing- Abd cramps

    elkpark replied to olaureno's topic in Addictions

    Bentyl is what has been included in the opioid withdrawal protocol in the places I've worked over the years (for the abdominal
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    elkpark replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    (I believe that is a (humorous/sarcastic) reference to another current thread on the site:
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    Experience for PMHNP

    elkpark replied to RN356's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Well, you're right about one thing, you didn't say "people don't know what they don't know," that was someone else on the thread. I
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    Is this LTC facility trying to take her license?

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

    They're not trying to "take" her license, but they don't care one way or the other if she loses it. That's true anywhere you go in nursing. Again, how new an LPN is your wife? She allowed herself...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    elkpark replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Years ago (I'm sure this wouldn't happen today), on a general psychiatric unit in a small community hospital in a rural setting, we had a client who was pregnant, on the inpatient unit for treatment...
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    Experience for PMHNP

    elkpark replied to RN356's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Yes, I gave people their pills for their heart disease, kidney disease, and lung disease, etc., on the psych units on which I worked, monitored their VS as ordered, and watched for anything I might...
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    Experience for PMHNP

    elkpark replied to RN356's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    "All nurses do psych"? "All nurses" encounter psychiatric clients, but, in other settings (beside inpatient or outpatient psychiatric settings), they don't participate in treating psychiatric...
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    Failed nursing school at last sem

    elkpark replied to Angel1989's topic in General Students

    I liked nursing