CrazyHands

CrazyHands has 2 years experience and specializes in Psychiatric.

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1. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   CrazyHands replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   I agree we all should wear a mask. I wore a mask all last year during "Flu and COLD season". And guess what? I didn't get the Flu (no vaccine here), nor a cold, nor bronchitis or whatever rhinovirus or URI that was going around from the multitude of ...

2. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   CrazyHands replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   Who ever said FOLLOW THE MONEY is absolutely right. Who benefits the most? The pharmaceutical companies who are pushing for flu vaccines - I agree if you are high risk- you should probably get it. But to force normally healthy people with adequate i...

3. RN-BSN programs in NJ/NY

   CrazyHands replied to LookForward's topic in General Nursing

   WPU has a reputation as a good program- I am awaiting a reply on an application, but cannot locate the RN-BSN curriculum sheet (it is under construction for sometime now). This would be my second bachelors. It seems nowadays an ADN is not useful in t...

4. Harder to get a job than I thought

   CrazyHands replied to lsvalliant's topic in New Nurse

   I am in Northern NJ and have had no luck. I didn't think that hospitals would be knocking down my door, but I didn't think I'd be totally ignored either. I don't think there is a nursing shortage, I think there is a shortage of HR personnel who can r...

5. Advice from Last Year Nursing Student

   CrazyHands posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hi,. Maybe I should call this "things that I wish other people told me". Anyway, I will be done with school in Dec. I am doing an evening ASN program since I work full-time plus. I have found that the pre-reqs that are required (Chem, A&P I &...

6. I'm the only guy in my nursing class now...

   CrazyHands replied to Scrubz's topic in General Students

   My associates program started out with total of 80 students, I beleive that 15 were male. At the end of N2, I think we have 50 students left, and lost 9 out of 15. I wondered why the attrition rate is so high for males ?? Any ideas? CrazyHands

7. MA saying she's "the same as an RN"

   CrazyHands replied to RedSox33RN's topic in General Students

   i'm not sure where the line is drawn as far as medical adminstration for MA's, but that were me I would call the state board of nursing and see if they can tell where to look. Anyway, according to salarty.com they define MA as: Medical Assistant Ass...

8. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

   CrazyHands replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

   Absolutely correct, business and logic do not coexist. Are employers really concerned with retention? NO. They know the costs to replace an employee, but where I work (non-medical, large corporate company), my department doesn't care that we have a h...

9. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

   CrazyHands replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think you can say that community colleges are pumping out new RNs. In NJ, for every 250 applicants, only approximately 50 will graduate every two years, this does include the 2 average years it takes to get accepted. So every 4 years, 50 new ...

10. I don't WANT to be a doctor

    CrazyHands replied to Halinja's topic in General Nursing

    It seems that family and friends really do have a misconception on what it takes to get throught nursing school. I was telling one woman at my job (corporate america) about a fellow student who needs to withdraw this semester due to medical issue and...

11. When the class average is FAILING!!!

    CrazyHands replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Students

    I agree with most points regarding exams. It seems that the instructors like to take the most obscure information from a chapter and formulate a question around it. Give me a break!! We have so much real pertinent info to know, what is the point to t...

12. Drop Out/Failure Rate in your class

    CrazyHands replied to CrazyHands's topic in General Students

    WOW!! A 78? We need a 70 to pass. I wonder who regulates this, if it is the college or if they get sign off from the state board of Nursing. My understanding is that they have to sign off on the ciriculum/program. I think other people truely don't u...

13. Drop Out/Failure Rate in your class

    CrazyHands posted a topic in General Students

    Hi, I am new here and was wondering if the 33% loss that we have in my class (AAS) is normal. We are only in the second semester of clinicals (2 more to go) and I think we may have a few more that will fail out this semester. I can understand that th...