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    Confused about BSN

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

    That is up to individual employers. Many healthcare employers will now only hire RNs with BSNs. Whether or not an individual employer considers a diploma or ADN plus a BS in another discipline...
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    What offends you (nursing related)?

    elkpark replied to milesims's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't say it's what offends me "most," but it's pretty high up on the list (and I've only encountered it on this site): Nursing students (or, even worse, would-be student nurses) who lecture...
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    Education or Leadership MSN?

    elkpark replied to Mtru's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Well, what do you want to do in your career? Are you more interested in teaching or managing?? My advice would be to figure out what you want to do professionally, and that will guide you to which...
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    Shadowing a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

    elkpark replied to luckylady5's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Most psychiatric professionals and clinics do not allow "shadowing" for reasons of confidentiality. How would you like to have some stranger sit in on your sessions with your psychiatric provider...
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    Any ideas for team building/fun games

    elkpark replied to somri's topic in Home Health

    Years ago, my employers on an inpatient psychiatric unit did a one-day (mandatory) conference for the staff to work on team-building and help morale, and they brought in a group that does this...
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    Confused about BSN

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

    OP, are you asking for your daughter, or just asking for yourself? What is the difference between a BA in English and a BA in political science? A BS in chemistry and a BS in physics? A BSN is a...
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    Confused about BSN

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

    Or an associate's degree, or a diploma, or a direct entry Master's
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    Thrown From the Tower!!

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

    Y'know, there's no evidence the OP has been on the site since 3/21. I think we're all just talking to
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    elkpark replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    We haven't noticed
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    elkpark replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    As I said 'waaaaaaayyyy back on page 6 (and in many similar threads on this site over time), the literature suggests that providing the pseudoscience crowd with proof that their beliefs are incorrect...
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    Struggling with an unmotivated clinical group

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

    I don't see any reason to compliment students for doing something that is a basic expectation of the clinical rotation. I'm an adult, nursing students are adults, and, when I've taught nursing, I've...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    elkpark replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly; just like the industry that has sprung up around (many) women's fear of breast
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    What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    elkpark replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a hospital-based diploma school in the early 1980s ('81 - '84). The school had a dorm that was attached to the hospital. Most of the students lived there, but it wasn't required. I had an...
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    What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    elkpark replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, nursing in the '80s was about the same as it is now, only the workload was less demanding. Yes, nurses questioned orders if they felt that was necessary. We advocated for clients....
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    Students Cheating

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

    In my experience, instructors do not get test questions from "a place that everybody with an internet connection has access to" -- they get them from the instructor test banks that are provided by the...
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    Struggling with an unmotivated clinical group

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

    Speaking as someone who has taught nursing clinicals in a few different schools over the years, I have a few different thoughts on this. First, I agree about positive reinforcement, and have always...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    elkpark replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    The more you post, the more difficult it is to imagine that you actually do anything in any professional capacity in healthcare. A) There is no "autism aspect of the risk/benefit analysis of...
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    UK Nurse needing SSN for Florida License

    elkpark replied to HelenaUK's topic in Nurse Registration

    Your school transcripts will have to show didactic (theory/classroom) and supervised clinical hours in adult med-surg, pediatrics, OB, and psychiatric nursing (and that is true for any US state, not...
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    FBI: Hospice Owner Told Worker to 'Make Patient Go Bye-Bye

    elkpark replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    However, even if some people manage to "hang on," conspiring to attempt to make people "go bye-bye" is a serious crime (not saying I'm sure that's what happened, but, speaking hypothetically
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    Do Antidepressants Work? Maybe Not.

    elkpark replied to Zyprexa_Ho's topic in Psychiatric

    Bottom line, nobody knows. The theory du jour upon which the current antidepressant medications are predicated is the "neurotransmitters out of whack" model, but I guarantee that, 30 years from now,...
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    Independent practice in CA?

    elkpark replied to M.I.'s topic in Nurse Registration

    Yes, those are all beautiful areas (I used to live in the Napa Valley). The problem is that everyone thinks so, half the US wants to live there, the cost of living is prohibitively high and the...
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    Advance Practice Preceptorships - Should students find their own preceptors?

    elkpark replied to husky171's topic in Advanced Practice

    Really? You're not aware that this is because Congress has, for decades, danced to the tune of the tobacco lobby and, in the face of all logic, prevented the FDA from regulating tobacco in any...
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    Inactive Temp License after taking NCLEX

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

    The temporary permit becomes invalid once you take the NCLEX regardless of the results of the
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    Registration Lapse

    elkpark replied to mh64ban's topic in General Nursing

    (I believe the NMC is the British nursing governing
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    Independent practice in CA?

    elkpark replied to M.I.'s topic in Nurse Registration

    Are you going to meet the requirements to be eligible for NCLEX? A lot of UK nurses have posted here that they applied and their educations were found insufficient. The US educates and licenses all...