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  1. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    It's nice to know that you know so much. You are welcome to check my credentials anytime via

  2. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Yes, I am a currrent practicing NP at a large children's hospital in TX. Why the doubts? Is it because I espouse the shortcomings of the NP education? Anyone with the ability to read can compare the...

  3. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm and NP and am hostile towards the DNP degree! It's ridiculous! If it added anything to my practice that would be one thing, but it doesn't. It is full of theory, leadership, and other fluff. For a...

  4. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I also believe that knowledge is power, but the dnp curricula adds nothing to what I and most other NPs are already doing daily. The ONLY reason we have independent practice is a strong lobby, not the...

  5. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Please tell the DNP students about the “lipstick”, walk in their shoes and see if they think the course work is “lipstick”. Graduate school and the scholarly activities associated with...

  6. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    april 23, 2007 how the employee free choice act takes away workers' rights by james sherk and paul kersey backgrounder #2027 revised and updated march 4, 2009 does a ballot cast in private or a card...

  7. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You are exactly right, we don't need the unions' help. The agreements I have read about here and other sites are solely for the unions' benefit. It's absolutley ridiculous that nurses at some...

  8. What's 'Democratic' about Compulsory Unionism?

    PICUPNP posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    http://www.nilrr.org/files/Whats%20Democratic%20About%20Compuslory%20Unionism.pdf Apologists for federal and state laws that authorize the firing of employees for refusal to join or pay dues to a...

  9. DNP question

    PICUPNP replied to ksreuter's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    None that I could imagine. The NPs in the PICU here are already doing all CVLs, intubations, chest tubes, lumbar punctures,

  10. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I know its not a perfect system! Winkler county nurses are being handled by the District Attorney(as mentioned before)..do the unions have control over the criminal justice system? You're not that...

  11. What's 'Democratic' about Compulsory Unionism?

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I don't have to pay anything to work where I am now and have great pay, benefits, insurance. It's not a perfect system, but I don't have pay to work. The concept to me is ridiculous. I read a study,...

  12. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I have never said that nurses are too weak to stand up to union intimidation. I'm just saying that it exists for nurses who are being targeted for

  13. What's 'Democratic' about Compulsory Unionism?

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm sorry, but nobody should have to pay to work at any facility regardless of the unions

  14. What's 'Democratic' about Compulsory Unionism?

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    and i can't see the need for forced

  15. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    the reality is that unions do intimidate workers! the unions are able to gain access to all employee numbers and addresses during their "enslavement" drives. the unions try to block nurses attempts to...

  16. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    This isn't the thread to get started on PA vs NP education and duties. Suffice to say that I believe that NPs should be grouped in with PAs as we all do the same job. They function in all areas that...

  17. Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    PICUPNP replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    WHy shouldn't we group NPs and PAs together? We all provide the same service with different educations and are all midlevel

  18. Five Reasons Why Congress Should Enact a National Right to Work Law

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm doing nothing more than speaking out against what I feel is a problem in the field of nursing. Regardless of the fact that I'm a NP, I am still a RN. Why do you have such a problem with someone...

  19. Five Reasons Why Congress Should Enact a National Right to Work Law

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    :clpty:

  20. Five Reasons Why Congress Should Enact a National Right to Work Law

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    "Even if you are anti-union (an idea so foreign to me I won't even try to debate you) you should be glad the union is forcing the wages up higher for you." There are no nurses unionized in Texas other...

  21. Five Reasons Why Congress Should Enact a National Right to Work Law

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It's hilarious how unionizers equate RTW with everything that is wrong with nursing! This is just another union version of trying to convince nurses that they are weak and oppressed and need the...

  22. Mountainview Neutrality agreement

    PICUPNP posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    january 14th 2010 - mountain view hospital las vegas rn's lost their voice and independence today, losing to the california nurses association/nnoc in a 240 to 152 vote. months ago their management...

  23. Right to Work States Job-Growth Advantage

    PICUPNP posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    http://www.nilrr.org/files/Job-Growth%20Advantage%20--%201996-2006.pdf For many years, U.S. Labor Department data have shown that states with Right to Work laws on the books have far faster...

  24. Suggestions plz about Transition from RN to PA

    PICUPNP replied to mjcornnielies's topic in General Nursing

    As a practicing NP, I can guarnatee you that PAs have more didactic and more clinical time than NPs. Its as simple as black and white. All you need to do is compare any NP program side-by-side with a...

  25. Employee Free Choice Act

    PICUPNP replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I think nurses should learn that they can speak for themselves, negotiate for themselves, and stand up for theirselves! They also need to realize that regardless of what the unions want them to think,...