Sue Demonas replied to Sara Anderson's topic in General Nursing
The multi state license is predicated upon the fact that you have a permanent address in a compact state, which is considered your "home" state, for licensing, fees, and discipline, if needed. What is not clear until you read the fine print is that i...
AACN's revised Essentials (April 2021) document reflects competencies that will allow us to "bridge the gap between education and practice" (AACN, p.1). Furthermore, Stakeholders expect all nursing graduates to exit their education programs with defi...
Clearly you did not read the 75 page document file that was attached to my post. Competencies are pretty specific to content. However, schools can teach/present/cover this content how they wish, as long as students achieve the competency outcome. IMH...
Accrediting bodies have guidelines, more recently known as "competencies" for nursing education. Nursing schools have to show that their students have attained these competencies by the time they graduate. So, yes, accrediting bodies kinda do "dictat...
I think this thread might benefit from some consideration of why any hospital offers a contract like the one that is the topic of this thread. The answer is the hospital needs staff, and the contract offers some incentive to get new grads and possibl...
Older editions of a textbook can make it difficult to follow the class reading assignments and have accurate information to use when studying for your exams. Make every effort to get the required edition of the book.
Page numbers will be differe...
Sue Demonas replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing
When someone asks a nosy question that I don't wish to answer, I have two standard responses: 1. "Why do you ask?" -or- 2. "Why do you want to know?" It puts the "asker" immediately on the defensive and usually shuts them down. Once someone hears tha...
Sue Demonas replied to seedanurse's topic in School
Are you named in the lawsuit as a defendant, or are you simply a witness that they are asking for information from? No biggie if you are just being asked for info, but if you are a defendant, get an attorney. I'm puzzled why the school is not interes...
Can you clarify something here.. did the patient say the line about being "insubordinate"? What did the CN do and how did she respond? I can't tell from what you wrote if the CN did or said something that she should not have. Thanks for the clarifica...
Had a colleague in the past bring two children to work on night shift pretty regularly. The #$%^& hit the fan when one of the kids came down with chicken pox about a day or so after being on the unit overnight. (The unit had some heme/onc patient...
Just be aware that the hospital will expect you to work during inclement weather, so you may need to drive in a day earlier or just several hours earlier to cover your scheduled shift. Watch the weather reports carefully, they usually predict pretty ...
Sue Demonas replied to wilderness47's topic in NCLEX
Hmmm, computer adaptive testing only begin in 93 or 94-ish. (Can't remember exact year, but around then.) Anyone taking NCLEX before that time, took it on paper, over two days. And there were way more than 75 questions.
There are some things that a supervisor/owner cannot distance themselves from, by nature of the position, legally. Tell him to review the legal ramifications of respondeat superior. And honestly, lawyers know that the pockets of nurses are small, bu...