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1. Private companies that contract with county jails.. good or bad to work for..

   nd deb posted a topic in Correctional

   What are you thoughts are these companies... high liability for the nurses?

2. Where do you get nursing liability insurance from?

   nd deb posted a topic in Correctional

   My current insuance NSO doesn't have coverage for corrections... called Proablility and they don't have coverage for corrections any more either... Recently got hired as a corrections RN for a MN county and will be pulled to more then one county jail...

3. NDSU: LPN to BSN? Anyone know anything about it?

   nd deb replied to magn1jes's topic in LPN-RN

   I am an associate degree RN that is currently in that program to obtain a BSN and I haven't been very impressed with it. For the Lpn to Bsn it maybe a good program but for the Rn they don't seem to acknowledge you as an RN nor your past RN work and s...

4. rn to bsn programs a scam...

   nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

   lvnbsn2, the lpns are taking classes with the assoc rn for their bsn. This school has a lpn to bsn and a rn to bsn program. Alot of the rn to bsn classes are what the lpn to bsn is taking. Thus you have Assoc rns who have already taken the rn bo...

5. Associate, BSN, or Masters

   nd deb replied to khalverson's topic in Minnesota

   From what I am experiencing you might be better off to do a lpn program and then get into a bsn program from there... Perhaps a one yr lpn program and do the bsn.. I know of alot of people that have a hard time getting into a 4 yr school's bsn progra...

6. rn to bsn programs a scam...

   nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

   also wouldn't be bad if the employers were more willing to do the tutition rebursement thing..

7. rn to bsn programs a scam...

   nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

   Vic Rn, yeah.. this is how i am feeling and I haven't even started the program yet.. just hard to swallow pay for all these classes just so I have an extra edge for more possible job opportunities... now if I was guarrenteed to get a raise that woul...

8. rn to bsn programs a scam...

   nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

   It is like that alot of schools are taking advantage of the supposely nursing shortage so they popping with rn programs all over the place... some of them I question if people would even hire a person knowing they are from a business college type of ...

9. rn to bsn programs a scam...

   nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

   Ever notice too, that alot of these online programs such as Kaplan, university of phoenix ect.. that they list on this website and others don't ever just list the infor, they ask you infor.. I did that one time and got a bunch of phone calls from var...

10. rn to bsn programs a scam...

    nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

    houtx, It really makes one feel like they all in it to try to get more money off of a person.. after you start to think of the time and money that it will take to acheive the bsn, you start to think you should have went to med school instead... 5 to...

11. rn to bsn programs a scam...

    nd deb replied to nd deb's topic in Online Learning

    mn nurse, wouldn't be so bad if one hadn't already gotten an associate degree from a 2 yr lpn program and then went another yr to get an associate degree for the RN. I have a total of 3 yrs in. These 2 programs had pre req. If I had known it wo...

12. rn to bsn programs a scam...

    nd deb posted a topic in Online Learning

    Any one else feeling that rn to bsn programs are a scam.. recently have looked into 2 online rn to bsn programs from 2 state universities.. one was 20 nursing credits, the other was 27 credits.. after they went thru my transcripts it ended up being t...

13. Staff/Patient Ratio - 30 Patients per Nurse

    nd deb replied to Colima's topic in Geriatric

    When I work pm shift there is 1 nurse for 35 residents, 2 eight hr cnas and 2 cnas that go home at 730 and 9pm, unit clerk that is there something like 4 to 8. Gets to be a busy shift for I am setting up and passing meds till 5 pm or so, dinner bre...

14. Comforting Quotes, Story, Verses etc... for a Parent who Lost a Child

    nd deb replied to Asiancutie's topic in General Nursing

    There isn't really anything that you can say.. I have been there... Lost my son 4 yrs ago unexpectly and suddelnly to aml and now recently a friend of mine lost her 20 yr son to sucide. It was very hard going over to her house 2 days after it happe...

15. Are some states really laxed on their surveys?

    nd deb posted a topic in Geriatric

    I often wonder this because where I am at, I am often wonder if the state is not strict enough with the survey.