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    Foreign RN with BSN degree from US - endorsing license?

    elkpark replied to crx971's topic in Nurse Registration

    CA and any other US state will always need the documentation of your Ukrainian education. Licensure decisions are made on the basis of your original, basic nursing education that first made you...
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    Got chewed out by my clinical instructor

    elkpark replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Students

    Sounds like your professor does know how to handle "giggly" nursing students. The group was unprofessional and inappropriate (of course, so were the professors who shared the "joke" with students),...
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    Critical Thinking

    elkpark replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Why should we? We're not the one(s) wondering what it
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    BSW/BSN then PMHNP

    elkpark replied to psychnurse2b400's topic in Psychiatric

    A BSW won't teach you anything about doing psychotherapy. All a BSW does is prepare you for an MSW
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    Decided on private LVN school!

    elkpark replied to moma8gma1's topic in General Students

    Of course they're "welcoming" and "accommodating" and responsive to your interest -- they're salespeople. Have you talked to area healthcare employers about their opinions and impressions of graduates...
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    Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    elkpark replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    If this is a beef from "back then" when physicians weren't expected to clean up after themselves (which was many years ago, anywhere I've been), what's the point of starting a thread about it
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    Combative Patients/Body cams/Walkie talkies

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

    I would imagine that others here, like me, assumed you were referring to holding the syringe yourself because there is little to no chance (unless someone made a serious error) that a demented client...
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    Abortion care

    elkpark replied to cayenne06's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What "post-abortive trauma"? Are you referring to the idea that women frequently suffer emotional difficulties after an abortion? That's largely a fiction invented by the anti-choice crowd in their...
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    Shame on you ANCC : Psych CNS: Don't precept Psych NP's

    elkpark replied to dmarie82's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    I don't know about your experience, but my psych CNS program really was entirely different from an NP program. And I gave up on the ANCC a long time ago. If my job didn't require that I maintain my...
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    Phasing out CNS

    elkpark replied to marigoldey's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    The psych CNS credentials have already been eliminated. I don't know what's happening with the med-surg CNSs. I think this is a big loss for nursing. Once we're all gone, y'all will miss
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    Hobbies off duty as a Nurse?

    elkpark replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    Who could forget it?? Or the various cam girl threads??
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    Chamberlain college of nursing

    elkpark replied to Jfighty's topic in Chamberlain College

    Or is just misinformed ...
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    MD to NP

    elkpark replied to Malenurse1235954's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The nutrition course in my nursing program was excellent (and I'm a tough audience, academically), and I learned a lot that continues to be useful in my practice as well as my personal
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    Chamberlain college of nursing

    elkpark replied to Jfighty's topic in Chamberlain College

    I never understand why people come here all the time and ask, "Is XYZ School accredited?" Do people really take the word of strangers on the Internet instead of just doing the 30 seconds of research...
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    Critical Thinking

    elkpark replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Of course it can be taught. Nursing school faculty spend a significant amount of time figuring out how to incorporate teaching critical thinking into their curricula. Perhaps your "ticked off boss"...
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    Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    elkpark replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, GM, do tell. "Forced" how, exactly? I know a number of healthcare employers that have made it a mandatory condition of employment, but people who feel that strongly about the issue are able to...
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    Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    elkpark replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    I understand being tactful around friends, but I hope you at least point out that The Lancet eventually retracted and completely disavowed the Wakefield article and Wakefield lost his medical license...
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    How do I stop coming off as nervous to patients?

    elkpark replied to WavyGravy's topic in General Nursing

    One thing that I have recommended to people over the years is almost silly, but it works for getting "over the hump" of becoming comfortable in a new role -- picture a nurse you know and admire...
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    Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    elkpark replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    Again, since people who haven't had the flu vaccine develop GBS at about the same rate as people who have gotten the flu vaccine, it's hard to make the case that any particular individual "got GBS...
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    Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    elkpark replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, some people who had had the flu shot have developed GBS. So have people who haven't gotten the flu shot. The fact that people who develop GBS after receiving the flu shot do so at about the...
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    Am I wrong for thinking that this APRN was wrong?...

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

    That may well be -- my real point was that, when your superior asks you a question, "I don't know, I didn't bother (doing (fill in the blank))" is rarely a good
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    ITT Tech closing ALL schools nationwide

    elkpark replied to klone's topic in Nursing News

    Unlike the rest of what ITT Tech offered, nursing programs are worth a lot of money. I wonder if they are negotiating with someone (probably some other for-profit diploma-mill operation) to sell off...
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    Am I wrong for thinking that this APRN was wrong?...

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

    So, let's see: You went to your charge nurse, asking for meds, she asked didn't you have those in your cart, and your response was, "I don't know, I didn't bother looking." Your charge nurse gave...
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    Nurse selling to patient

    elkpark replied to broosevader's topic in General Nursing

    I've never worked in home care, but anywhere I have worked over the years, that would be a firing offense. No
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    Forced to get flu shot or wear a mask

    elkpark replied to nurse0614's topic in General Nursing

    And the rate is no higher among those who have received the flu vaccine than it is among those who haven't had the vaccine. There was one year, 1976, that there actually was a problem with the flu...