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    NCLEX Pass Rates vs. Graduation Rates

    elkpark replied to NavyVetNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Many of us here advise people who are "shopping" for nursing programs to identify and consider the graduation rate of schools in conjection with the NCLEX pass rates. NCLEX pass rates by themselves...
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    Psychiatric emergency nursing

    elkpark replied to Ladysin21's topic in Emergency

    OP, I notice you're posting in the CNS forum. Are you a CNS? If so, in what specialty? Or are you a generalist or another advanced practice specialty? Is the position for which you've been hired an...
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    Although Women Dominate the Nursing Profession, Do Men Make More Money?

    elkpark replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Wow ... I don't think I've ever heard of
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    Although Women Dominate the Nursing Profession, Do Men Make More Money?

    elkpark replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    The fact that the studies that were referenced in the reports I posted are general rather than nursing specific doesn't automatically mean they don't apply to nurses. My employer (a large academic...
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    RN with a different BS degree?

    elkpark replied to NerdyKnitter's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    If your plan is to stay in nursing, there is no other baccalaureate degree that will benefit you professionally as much as a
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    Entitled Nurses?

    elkpark replied to SheriffLauren's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, that's happened to me once in a while over my many years in psych. Who cares? It doesn't bother me. It reflects poorly on them, not on
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    Although Women Dominate the Nursing Profession, Do Men Make More Money?

    elkpark replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Every time this topic comes up, people make these same arguments, but there have been repeated studies that have found that, even when you control for all these kinds of variables, women are still...
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    Too many choices

    elkpark replied to feelix's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If your long-term goal is a career in academia, take the full-time position in the BSN program, and figure out how to make it work (assuming everything else is comparable -- e.g, it isn't a choice...
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    Nursing abroad

    elkpark replied to cspb's topic in International Nursing

    Different countries have different models of nursing education and practice, and nursing education in one country does not necessarily meet the licensure requirements of other countries. It's always...
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    imminent risk

    elkpark replied to lottieloo's topic in Psychiatric

    Welcome to allnurses! Whether or not property damage "counts" as acute danger for which someone can be involuntarily medicated, restrained, or secluded is a controversial issue within the psychiatric...
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    Equal work for Equal Pay

    elkpark replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Your statement completely disregards the large numbers of NPs who are coming out of direct entry MSN programs with 2-3 years of nursing education, often with no prior healthcare background whatsoever....
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    elkpark replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How would it not? Everyone would have insurance, and, in the countries that have single-payer systems, or something similar now, individuals do not have "high out of pocket expenses." One of the...
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    Becoming an FNP after graduating as an AGNP?

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

    You would need to go back to school and complete a post-Master's certificate with an FNP concentration (basically, all of another MSN except the "core courses" that are common to all the MSN...
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    Autism Nursing?

    elkpark replied to akcw1981's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Yes, that has been going on for decades, but minors and adults with DD and ASD disorders still sometimes require acute psychiatric hospitalization. I would imagine that that is what pixiestudent2 is...
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    Is FNP alway post-MSN?

    elkpark replied to fluffi77's topic in General Students

    Lots of schools offer MSN FNP programs (initial MSNs, not post-Master's). If you want to be an FNP, there's no need to do a different MSN
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    Too sick to leave AMA?

    elkpark replied to Rexie's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, these situations are the most gut-wrenching for all the professionals involved. I remember vividly one case in which I was involved, almost 20 years ago, when I was a member of the...
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    Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

    elkpark replied to Nash3222's topic in General Nursing

    Citations, please
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    Too sick to leave AMA?

    elkpark replied to Rexie's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in PA for several years now, and I've never heard of a "medical commitment." A 302 petition is to detain people with psychiatric conditions for psychiatric evaluation in a psychiatric...
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    What to do while awaiting license endorsement?!

    elkpark replied to sunnyrose16's topic in California Nursing

    In the past, I've always been able to get work through temporary secretarial agencies -- I did secretarial work before I went into nursing. If you can type decently, that's an option for quick,...
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    Tips for really strict clinical instructor?

    elkpark replied to Kiki<3's topic in General Students

    Yes -- meet or exceed her/his
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    Too sick to leave AMA?

    elkpark replied to Rexie's topic in General Nursing

    Who said she was "definitely competent to sign"? Was that the opinion of the entire treatment team, or was that just your own opinion? In the first place, we don't deal with "competency" in the...
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    Too sick to leave AMA?

    elkpark replied to Rexie's topic in General Nursing

    People can be held and treated against their will if it is the opinion of the attending physician that the individual lacks the mental capacity to make an informed decision to leave. In that case,...
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    HIPAA violation

    elkpark replied to NovaNala's topic in General Students

    Most respectable nursing programs are v. reluctant to take students who previously failed out of a nursing program, and they thoroughly investigate before they take a chance on someone in those...
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    How true this is

    elkpark replied to Mandychelle79's topic in Psychiatric

    But that's really punishing the client, not the facility. None of the facilities for which I've worked over the years have been willing to mistreat clients in order to "teach a hospital a
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    Reasons for not getting into a for profit school?

    elkpark replied to Tashbun's topic in General Nursing

    The proprietary schools are businesses that are looking to make big profits and they do that by having warm bodies in the seats. It's hard to imagine they would turn away anyone as long as they have...