aliyarn

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1. What is the Registered Nurse Patient Ratio at your hospital?

   aliyarn replied to LinenP's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in Philadelphia, PA. Acute care urban hospital. Med-surg 5:1 ICU 2:1 Oncology 4:1 (new, used to be 5:1) ER 3:1 everyone can go up by 1 if short staffed, have seen Med-surg as high as 7:1 in staffing emergency, until they can get a nurse in from ...

2. Philadelphia area job market?

   aliyarn replied to PhillyQuaker's topic in Pennsylvania

   I finished Drexel's ACE program in September, have a 2.5 year-old, a husband, and a lot of family support. My first degree was in Bio, and I did a postbac way back in 2001 with the goal of going to med school, so the clinical and pathophys aspects of...

3. Survivng Drexel ACE - advice pls!

   aliyarn replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Pennsylvania

   The RW Johnson Fdn scholarship is for nursing minorities in accelerated (2nd-degree programs); both ethnic and gender (males). The school provided us with the application materials - an essay about your ambition in nursing, several demographic forms,...

4. Survivng Drexel ACE - advice pls!

   aliyarn replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Pennsylvania

   In response to the OP, Drexel does not offer any direct scholarships for the ACE program. The financial aid info I got from open houses before applying were very clear, but I still made the mistake of not securing complete funding before starting. D...