Tankweti

Tankweti specializes in LTC.

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1. Defaulted loans Nclex & license

   Tankweti replied to BRJ003's topic in General Students

   I am in NY. I do not recall Iif student loans are specifically mentioned on the app but there is a question about moral turpitude. Defaulting on student loans might fall under that category.

2. Stony Brook U Nursing Basic BSN Fall 2014 Applicants!

   Tankweti replied to frenchtoastwaffles's topic in School Programs

   I wonder how many of you understand tthere are nowhere near enough jobs for all you new grads..Most ffacilities hire a maximum of 3 new grads per year. You say you have 100 sseat Iin your class. What will happen to the other 97. In the hospital wher...

3. NYU Fall 2014 ABSN

   Tankweti replied to irinag's topic in New York

   With all due respect you are all crazy. 1000 applicants for a nursing program? They take 150. Once you graduate where will you find work? This is sheer madness. I graduated 4 years ago from a private Catholic college that is well thought of and a 3.5...

4. Pressing Charges Against a Patient

   Tankweti replied to missjustice's topic in Relations

   He ought to have been charged with manslaughter for the death of the baby. This patient will be just as dangerous when he gets out of prison and will likely injure someone else. Once on meth, 90% of people can never get away from it, just like crack....

5. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

   Tankweti replied to 0.adamantite's topic in COVID

   Early trestment?! The only treatment patients are getting is fluid resuscitation, blood transfusions to replace massive blood loss engendered by the virus and electrolyte replacement. Supportive care only. Just buying time hoping that the immune syst...

6. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

   Tankweti replied to 0.adamantite's topic in COVID

   There has already been an airborne strain which was Ebola Reston brought into the US unknowingly inside lab monkeys who were brought to a lab in Reston Virginia about 20 years ago. Fortunately it was not fatal to human caretakers ( who did sicken but...

7. Help! For Non-Science Majors...??!

   Tankweti replied to Clodoveo's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Since nursing is a science and you will be expected to know about and understand disciplines like Micro and Chemistry, I would advise you take both and not take the easier Micro. Your school may require you take the one for science majors. At a bare ...

8. Going from Med/Surg to LTC thinking is hard

   Tankweti replied to dorselm's topic in Geriatric

   If a patient has to go to the hospital, then he has to go. Obviously there was a difference of opinion between the 2 physicians - one saying send him out and the other the following day objecting to it based on readmission status. I think it would ha...

9. Nursing Shortage= Thousands of Unemployed New Grads?

   Tankweti replied to Hypnotica's topic in New Nurse

   Very true. Nurses back then had a lot more bedside experience as a result of how nursing programs were structured back then Most hospitals had their own schools of nursing. But then it became too expensive and hospitals shut down their schools of nur...

10. Your response to "there is a high demand for nurses"

    Tankweti replied to Ecl09's topic in Job Hunt

    I live near Poughkeepsie New York which is within commuting distance of New York City and North Jersey and Connecticut. I have not been able to find anything in 4 years with a bachelor's and a 3.5. Many of my colleagues got work but they were either ...

11. What eveyone should know before working in an assisted living facility.

    Tankweti replied to sandygirl123's topic in Geriatric

    In 2012, my now deceased husband engineered an interview for me at what turned out to be an ALF. He was beside himself when I was unable to even get an interview after I graduated in 2010. He was at the Liver Transplant Center of Westchester Medical ...

12. One Strike for Massachusetts!

    Tankweti replied to Esme12's topic in Activism

    Are you kidding? If the facilities won't do the morally right thing for both patients and workers then they MUST be mandated. All of this rolling the dice with patient care must stop. Of course there are always ways to work around mandated staffing l...

13. I am an RN, BSN, looking for a position in the Chicago IL suburbs area

    Tankweti replied to NatalieM22's topic in Job Hunt

    At the hospital where I work (not as an RN, was never able to get an interview in the saturated northeast where I live) they have postings that sit around for YEARS that are never filled. They are quicker to hire IT people than nurses. I asked my su...

14. New Grad needs a Job - discouraged

    Tankweti replied to Pinupnurse76's topic in Washington DC

    A week is nothing. I graduated 4 years ago with a BSN, 3.5 GPA, department and peer nominated awards and none of it did me a bit of good. Comically, in 2012 I was hired part time by a hospital where I had applied twice as a new grad and never receive...

15. might be stupid question...

    Tankweti replied to mmc51264's topic in Post Graduate

    Do you have actual nursing experience? Any college that hires you to be a clinical instructor will want you to have a minimum of several years basic nursing experience. Further, if you are teaching a specialty, like peds, you will need specialized ex...