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

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 require less acuity but even then it could be difficult. I think I replied in this section years ago after a very very successful cornea transplant. I had worked critical care but then stepped into developmental disabilities nursing and some aspects of psych nursing. I ultimately completed a doctorate which gave me even more options. But yes-even with Vision Rehab, it was hard given reading time necessary. I could easily have returned to critical care but I didn't. Now if the cataract eye gives you better vision ultimately-that's another story. There are plenty of nurses with vision in only one eye. I am wondering if your states disability tracing programs might help you fund, let's say, a masters in counseling degree or even a TVI degree. The TVI programs are so well suited for those who want to help kids who have visual issues. And many TVI educational students ( usually in special ED department in college) are vision ally impaired themselves. With all this said, here's hoping for better vision with the cataract eye. Be well.

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, stroke,etc..

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 having a grant on research in this area...just don't have the link.

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 hearts I cannot deal with it. I recently had to leave a facility run by the Little Sisters of the Poor as they were closing the site... and yep possibly to real estate. I work as a consultant and I tell you, I am darn near getting a job as a dog walker. I find much, not all, of the corporate climate as vicious and I can barely take it anymore. It is a matter of my identity as a professional-can't seem to shake it. There is much to the faith based communities- there is the premise that one is working for something higher than the self-sorry if that sounds trite..

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 2013!

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 Affairs.

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 frustrated and,seriously we are on a first name basis at this point. My issue is that due to my age, I can't get fingerprints...and the name check has not gone through. Now, with that said, the BON really should answer. But if they don't, call the DCA (dept of Consumer Affairs). If no answer.. write to the Dept of Consumer Affairs. I did that. But the BON SHOULD answer. You can email the Ca Dept of Consumer Affairs as well. I have had three licensing analysts and between them some of my stuff was lost too, but the chief hold up was the fingerprint issue. Can you believe I've worked for so many yrs as a nurse that my prints are barely visible... it does happen!

Doing your fingerprints there live scan should help.

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 submission). But I am flying out in October and will probably have to do a Live Scan. The bureaucracy is incredible.

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 augmented computers and the like. What comes to mind is working in a field such as counseling. It can be done. But you need a lot of support and here is where formal programs can help.

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 escalate quickly. With that said, generally the patients are more physically ill so the picture is different. I interviewed for a position recently at a state psych hospital that boasted of a no restraint policy, etc etc, -yet there have been many injuries. Certainly none of us want undue restraints, but there need to be consequences. Until that happens, we as workers need to be in the face of NIOSH and others responsible for our safety. Do not do this alone-do it with your co-workers. But as a new nurse, go to your interview, I would say- and be brief re the safety concerns and clearly note to them that this is a state psychiatric inpt facility.

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 "inappropriate". I gave my admission spot to someone else! With this said, perhaps the person was having a bad day, but I found communication to be very very difficult with the school in general. I suspect that funding is an issue, and I did not take anything personally. I just knew it would not have been a good fit for me. Again, this was about 5 yrs ago and perhaps you would have a different experience. But if they will not address this with you in some detail, spend your time at a place with preceptors set in place.

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 territory-clinicians are expected to figure this out on their own, spend hours on it, and in the end neglect the patient. Yes, there might be good training initially for the few that are there, but the rest are left hanging. This is not safe.. Please, administrators have some respect for your staff and provide some training and availabiity to tech support that will actually follow through.

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 st. That was in the main part of the hospital. I had a Bachelor's before I got my BSN. This was mandatory at that time. Clinicals were at various places including: NY Hospital per se, Lenox Hill, Memorial Sloan Kettering (limited), VNS, and a few other sites. But mainly clinicals were at The New York Hospital.

If I see the notation correctly, that unifrom above, is possibly New York Presbyterian-i.e. Columbia university, which still does have a nsg program. As you may know the two, Cornell and Columbia Medical centers merged years ago to form New York Presbyterian. Interestingly Cornell was way cheaper than Columbia.. probably because of the way the program was financed- and maybe becasue it is a land grant university. and yep-our uniforms were WAY shorter than the pic above....then we discovered the pants-suits outfits!!!

Believe it or not, when I went there it was the 1970's SO actually the uniforms were very very short. I mean short- not quite a mini but way shorter than skirts today! How odd is that. The old NYC Cornell architecture was really quite something as shown in the pic. To add to their wisdom of shutting down the nursing school, they also tore down the nurse's residence. Now where else could one get cheap housing in NYC... Well I hope my photobucket gave you the caps... that photobucket is finicky. And what was so funny was that I simultaneously put my cap all over the place on my Facebook.

Alrighty, I sent you several angles of my Cornell University- The New York Hospital Cap. You didn't think it was THIS old did you? Maybe the second oldest in the country, but I am not sure of this. Yes, vintage caps are in as are capes.

I sent you a message. Will try to grab husband's Canon to take my old Cornell-NY Hospital cap.

I rarely post here and had to reregister as its been so long (i.e. new computer,system issues). I am an OLD nurse and I consult in nursing homes. I have worked critical care for years, Psych for umpteen years, you name it. I am seeing astonishing bad things in some of the larger more corporate nsg. homes. I tend to see better working conditions in SOME of the non-profit faith based sites, though not all. I must say I am lucky to have been a nurse when there was decency and civility. I had SUPERB teaching and preceptorships at top notch places (i.e. New York/Cornell which is now NY Presbyterian). Believe me, decent places will know why you resigned,should you take that route. I am acutely aware of the job market, but should you resign you can always volunteer,lets say at the Red Cross, JUST to keep nursing on your "resume". This would indicate that you have not lost interest in the field but just would not permit exceptionally bad standards. Meanwhile, I know what you mean,-I was at Walmart tonight and surely the working conditions there are vastly better than at one of the nursing homes where I consult!