Elinor

Elinor

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  1. Nursing Boards control of Nurses

    Elinor replied to Cougar1113's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    A huge chunk of posters basically write that social media is an inappropriate” venue for voicing complaints... so therefore she deserves to be charged with professional misconduct and lose her...

  2. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    Elinor replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    I personally know many nurses who are in grad school, applying, or want to apply in the near future. Out of dozens, I only know two who don't want to work directly with patients. Why is it not "caring...

  3. B.A. in Public Health - Best Path to Become NP in Public Health?

    Elinor replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    This question needs to be picked apart a little more. Do you want to be a clinician? Or do you want to work in public health? They are not the same thing. NPs are clinicians, first and foremost. The...

  4. nurses who are bad patients

    Elinor replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeeaahh... This may come as a shock, but you're just another kind of bad patient. The kind that doesn't want you to look at their veins, they just want to tell you to go in this one spot and that's...

  5. Nurse Practitioner vs Physician Assistant

    Elinor replied to nurselyfe4115's topic in General Nursing

    I have to agree with enc123 -- this isn't really true. NPs other than psych are generalists, but divided into acute care vs. primary/chronic/non-acute care, and divided into age groups. You have your...

  6. Torn Between Two Careers

    Elinor replied to Shortcake_BSn's topic in General Nursing

    What you should choose depends on what you want to do with your career. You say you want to go back to school -- for what? For almost all paths in nursing, med surg is a plus. Office RN is only good...

  7. Nurse Resigns by Sending 'I Quit' Cake to Her Employer

    Elinor replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I like it. She went out in style, and gave her coworkers cake to eat. Although Walmart cake? Really? I would have gone to a bakery. But hopefully her future employers won't be social-media savvy... As...

  8. EpiPens....who knew?

    Elinor replied to roser13's topic in Patient Medications

    Sorry if someone already said this, I have to leave and don't have time to read the whole thread. One of my jobs is in peds primary care. The issue is that epipen brand is not on your granddaughter's...

  9. Psychiatric History - Can I still become a nurse?

    Elinor replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I don't think the BON can use it against you, because they would have to prove that you are unfit or it would just be plain old discrimination. Previous psych hospitalizations does NOT make you a...

  10. Arg! Pre-employment personality tests

    Elinor replied to Elinor's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Dogen, thanks for your advice. It's reassuring to hear that the strongest answers aren't necessarily the best. I think "answer honestly" might not work out well for everyone, but I guess that's...

  11. Arg! Pre-employment personality tests

    Elinor posted a topic in General Nursing

    These tests are so nerve-wracking. Two major health systems in my area (and possibly more) are using the same personality test to screen applicants, so being able to pass is pretty high stakes. I...

  12. I made a medication error - Now what???

    Elinor replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    She's not rationalizing or skirting responsibility -- I think she pretty clearly feels badly about it and has been ruminating. She did point out some upstream systems issues that probably contributed...

  13. Tell interviewer I'm in grad school? (Or how to not...)

    Elinor replied to Elinor's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your reply, Boomer. You might be right. I suppose whether it's seen as a plus or minus will depend on the person I'm talking to. But I probably would be really uncomfortable feeling like...

  14. Tell interviewer I'm in grad school? (Or how to not...)

    Elinor posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just started looking for a new staff RN job. I also am in grad school, and will be done in May 2018. After that, I will look for new work as an clinical nurse specialist -- possibly with the same...

  15. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Elinor replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    And you can bet that they will keep having unlicensed personnel do more and more, and all of it on our license with our supposed supervision, while they stretch us over more and more patients --...

  16. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Elinor replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    This. I am in LTC. The patients get sicker and sicker every year, pushed out of hospitals while they are still unstable. And at my facility, most also have psych comorbidities. Our ratio at night is...

  17. Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    Elinor replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    OP, I can so relate to you. I just finished the first part of my education and am about to sit to get my RN license. I did not go to a school that encourages intellectual or scientific rigor. The only...

  18. How do you tell a nurse recruiter you're not interested in a specific floor

    Elinor replied to WannaBNursey's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Go positive. Rather than saying anything at all negative about this floor, express that you are also interested in the other positions. Learn everything you can about the position(s) you DO want, and...

  19. Tattoos/Piercings in the workplace?

    Elinor replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have tattoos on my upper arms and I have zero problem covering them up for clinicals. I wear a white shirt with 3/4-length sleeves under my scrubs. It helps that I'm often a little chilly. My school...

  20. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Elinor replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Isn't there a lot of variation in the number of credit hours required for degrees at different schools, and for different specialties,

  21. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Elinor replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    harmonizer, l150 just did. That was in response to her post, to

  22. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Elinor replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Now that is a huge

  23. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Elinor replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Oh, and I don't think anyone is proposing that NP's with MSN's would have to go back to school for a

  24. PMHNP programs all going from MSN to DNP?

    Elinor replied to shannarini71's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Why will an DNP be inherently more expensive and harder to attain? I'm honestly wondering. Don't master's and doctoral classes usually cost about the same per credit hour, on average* (with some...