doggal

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1. Visually impaired nurses

   doggal replied to lightspirit's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Holly-I posted a reply to you but it looks like it didn't go in as a

2. Visually impaired nurses

   doggal replied to lightspirit's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Holly- Frankly I think this would be a difficult career choice for you particularly since you are not yet finished with the clinical training. Once licensed there certainly might be options that...

3. Why is Neudexta not covered?

   doggal posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Does anyone have any idea why Neudexta is not covered in their Hospice? This is certainly a med that can provide comfort for pseudobulbar affect dysregulation especially in advanced dementia,...

4. Dogs: A nursing intervention?

   doggal replied to Angeljho's topic in Psychiatric

   Lucky you to have an enthusiastic doc... also helpful in phobias and so many other conditions.You might want to look up Partners which used to be the Delta Society. The company MARS, I believe,is...

5. Daughters of Charity Sale to Prime Healthcare

   doggal replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   I am an older nurse from the 1970's. I worked with many nurses trained at St Vincent's hospital. I understand the corporate matter, -I get it. Intellectually I totally get it, but in my heart of...

6. Timeline for endorsing RN license to CA

   doggal replied to zornzo's topic in California Nursing

   If fingerprint quality is poor and you get rejected twice, then you can have a name check done. Now, I have to have the record here... but in another discipline, I've been waiting since

7. Score Test Toefl

   doggal replied to UlisseApache's topic in Nurse Registration

   Yes, if no answer call the Ca Dept of Consumer Affairs and tell them there is no answer. Better yet, email the Dept of Consumer

8. License by Endorsement Troubles

   doggal replied to onwankwo1's topic in California Nursing

   No you are not being paranoid. Here and there ,there are glitches. I am both an RN and a psychologist. I am waiting on my CA psychologist license since 2013!!! Even my licensing analysts have been...

9. ATT time with Breeze Application

   doggal replied to shiiivers's topic in California Nursing

   Doing your fingerprints there live scan should

10. Fingerprinting for CA License endorsement

    doggal replied to reginacourtney's topic in California Nursing

    I have had major snafus with the hard cards. If at all possible go out and do a Live Scan. I am in a similar boat and just contacted the DOJ for a clerical rejection of hard card fingerprints (second...

11. Visually impaired nurses

    doggal replied to lightspirit's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I would personally consider contacting your local disabilites retraining center. In NY it is VESID. I do not mean to retrain other than as a nurse. But they may be able to point you in directions with...

12. Scared at new job in psychiatric hospital

    doggal replied to GypseyGirl's topic in Psychiatric

    I have worked at state psychiatric facilities in the late 1970's and late 1980's but not since. I have,however,worked as a consultant (RN,Psychologist,dually licensed) on TBI units, where violence can...

13. SUNY Stony Brook On-Line NP Program: NYC Preceptors?

    doggal replied to nyforlove's topic in New York Nursing

    I had been accepted to the online NP program at StonyBrook several years ago. You raise a superb question. To that end, I tried to address the issue with StonyBrook and was told that the question was...

14. PointClickCare - need help

    doggal replied to wyogypsy's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Yes, the problem here is the training. In an ideal world , clinicians would have the opportunity to have some (albeit) brief orientation to this. But this is getting into unhealthy...

15. Nurses' Caps

    doggal replied to MyraMarie's topic in Retired Nurses

    Oh yes it did have a Manhattan campus. It was on E.71st St (previously E.68th st). My classes were on East 71st.-and occasionally in the main building in the auditorium next to the library on E 68th...