edcampbe

edcampbe has 1 years experience and specializes in CICU / ICU.

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1. Graduating in December 08-Info about hospitals

   edcampbe replied to kohdahbears's topic in Oregon

   I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn't expect to start out immediately in a level I trauma center in Portland. Unfortunately, there is no nursing shortage in Portland so many of the specialties in nursing are not available to new graduat...

2. I'm moving to Portland, OR. What's the salary range in the area?

   edcampbe replied to rookie_rn's topic in Oregon

   Starting in January 2008, the base pay for an RN with no experience working day shift will be just over $28 / hr at Providence Portland Medical Center. The other Providence hospitals in the Portland metro area are comparable. I believe evening differ...

3. Best/Worst Places to do Clinical in Portland

   edcampbe replied to nurseby07's topic in Oregon

   My best clinical experiences were St. V's orthopedics floor (my first rotation in nursing school - 2006) and the cardiac ICU at Providence Portland Medical Center (2007). Worst clinical experience by a long shot was my pediatrics rotation at Doernbec...

4. Best Bsn Program In Portland?

   edcampbe replied to NOINU's topic in Oregon

   I would agree that OHSU has a strong track record; however, they have not been impressive in recent years in their undergrad BSN program. In fact, look at the latest startling NCLEX pass rates for schools in the Portland area for the past year. http:...

5. What # of questions did u pass the NCLEX with?

   edcampbe replied to teresab_2000's topic in New Nurse

   My wife and I both had 265 questions and passed. We took the exam 5/10/2007 and found out this afternoon (about 24 hours later) via our state's board of nursing website were our license numbers were listed.

6. Newbie to this forum

   edcampbe replied to ready4schoolagain's topic in Oregon

   See the link above to the University of Portland's website. Each year Providence Health & Services offers a number of scholarships to the University of Portland that covers tuition for your BSN in return of a 3-year work commitment. A couple of u...

7. UP Providence Scholarship

   edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

   There are definitely a lot of students in my class who finance their education at U of P. If your choice is to attend nursing school at U of P and finance your education or not attend nursing school at all, I'd definitely recommend the former. Howeve...

8. UP Providence Scholarship

   edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

   Hey KrisPDX, It seems Providence was advertising about 75 Providence scholarships for both the May and August classes when I applied (there are about 140 combined students in these cohorts); however, I don't think we have more than 40-50 Providence s...

9. UP Providence Scholarship

   edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

   Just a quick clarification on the "tax issue" related to the Providence Scholars program. Tuition at University of Portland for two years + a summer session (nursing school at University of Portland is 5 semesters) costs over $50,000. While you're in...

10. UP Providence Scholarship

    edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

    Good luck with everything. PM me if you have any more questions regarding the Prov Scholars program of U of P in general. - Evan

11. UP Providence Scholarship

    edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

    Tofutti, Fortunately, my wife and I (both Prov Scholars) were placed in specialties we hoped to work in. Several Prov Scholars were not able to be placed in their specialties, but have the option of transferring to a different job within Providence a...

12. UP Providence Scholarship

    edcampbe replied to KrisPDX's topic in Oregon

    Hello, I'm a Providence Scholar who will be graduating from U of P in four weeks! I only applied to U of P when I was interested in nursing school and have not for a second regretted my decision. The faculty is great, the education is top notch, we h...

13. "Diploma Nurse preferable"

    edcampbe replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    snowshooz, i hear over and over again on this board that diploma nurses or adns may have more clinical experience than the run-of-the-mill bsn nurse. in response to your comment of feeling bad for some bsns i would like to propose a counter argument....

14. gpa 3.2

    edcampbe replied to garfieldrn's topic in SRNA

    I see that several of you were accepted to Anesthesia school (or at least granted an interview) with sub-3.3 GPAs. What kind of science GPA did you all have, and which courses were factored into your science GPA? Also, what is generally considered a...

15. Science Grades

    edcampbe posted a topic in SRNA

    i'm curious to hear from those who have applied or been accepted to nurse anesthesia programs on what the average applicant's science grades look like. i know that there is no single answer for this, but i'm look for a range. i have a pretty good cum...