IShallWearPurple

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1. Are you willing to pay more taxes to ensure health coverage for all?

   IShallWearPurple replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Quoting DarrenWright: "This isn't a link that "merely supports" my claim, but rather a link that "actually supports" a factual statement that I made." Let me begin by saying, I am borrowing my wife's account one more time. The passage that you quote ...

2. Are you willing to pay more taxes to ensure health coverage for all?

   IShallWearPurple replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Quoting DarrenWright: "And Canada, like the US, is experiencing a nursing shortage. The irony is that Canada is one of the primary sources of immigrating nurses for the US. http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/2/1/3" Let me begin by apologi...

3. Do nursing students still wear caps?

   IShallWearPurple replied to carilyn's topic in General Students

   The only cap in our dept. is a yellowed old relic atop the cranium of our model anatomy class skeleton in the nursing lab. I was under the impression this accessory was over and out. I'm wrong, apparently! I definitely won't wear one. I have no c...

4. Stumbled Across

   IShallWearPurple replied to HeiressOfGod's topic in General Nursing

   Greetings!

5. Question about Pell Grants

   IShallWearPurple replied to AprilW3's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Once you fill out the FAFSA, you will receive a Student Aid Report (SAR) immediately that will state your Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). This will tell you where you stand in regards to receiving a Pell Grant. I found this current table onli...

6. Nursing Loans?

   IShallWearPurple replied to summersent's topic in General Nursing

   If you are eligible, a Federal PERKINS loan is a wonderful choice. You would need to confirm this with your fin aid officer, but this loan is eligible for full, 100% forgiveness for "nurses and medical technicians" after graduation. My school awarde...

7. We make as much as maids

   IShallWearPurple replied to TRN's topic in General Nursing

   As a student nurse, I have worked as a housekeeper for a few clients, and I made 20 dollars per hour cash all the while. Each of these clients had previously employed someone for the same job at a much lower rate, but had been dissatisfied with the ...

8. This semester...

   IShallWearPurple replied to apnea's topic in Pre-Nursing

   So glad Nursing School treats you well! I wish to add my emphatic ME TOO! to the list of Postive Polly's who love their nursing education experiences. I am doing research (PAID research, even) on patient identification errors this summer, and will e...

9. Student blatently sexually harrassed me...

   IShallWearPurple replied to Thedreamer's topic in Male Students

   I would just keep a little journal of events in a spirit of healthy paranoia. I hope you do not have to go through any more of this mistreatment, but be prepared to draw the line with this person, telling him directly that you won't tolerate any mo...

10. Infuriated and need feedback.

    IShallWearPurple replied to Eirene's topic in General Students

    I still bristle at the thought that the school is withholding money from individual students to protect the institution from high default rates. Perhaps I should inform the school that I will be paying my tuition and fees only after attending 4 week...

11. What do you do with DISRUPTIVE classmates?

    IShallWearPurple replied to 2bLPNLilPrettyNewyorkr's topic in LPN/LVN

    Hello, and welcome to the site! This can be a big problem throughout school, for some. I deal with annoyance often in my classes. Reasons include disruptive people talking during lecture, scary-cliquey behavior from these so-called grown-ups, and...

12. is salary.com accurate?

    IShallWearPurple replied to hushpupgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Great question! Anyone in MA have input on this? :) It would be wonderful if it is indeed correct. Oh, and where do New Grad nurses tend to fall on the scale? Perhaps it's too hard to pin down, but there's a huge difference between that 10th-25th-...

13. Infuriated and need feedback.

    IShallWearPurple replied to Eirene's topic in General Students

    If a student collects financial aid money, whether the first day of classes or the post-Add/Drop, the student alone is responsible for paying it back. Before loans are disbursed, the entrance counseling materials detail the obligation to immediately...

14. CNA's in Western MA

    IShallWearPurple replied to CNA2424's topic in Massachusetts

    SNAP (Student Nurse Apprentice Program) wage begins at $13 this summer. I assume this is equivalent to TA pay as the job is IDENTICAL. Hope this helps, and best wishes at STCC.

15. Infuriated and need feedback.

    IShallWearPurple replied to Eirene's topic in General Students

    Another poster wrote: "It is obviously their legal right because most schools do that. Every school I have attended withhold your money for a few weeks until after classes have started to refund your money. " No. Most schools doing something does no...