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sorry, can't resist now...science is not learning the names of organs, drugs, and disease. it is real, actual physiology and real mechanisms of meds. again, the therapists all did, all of the above,...

just one more thought........nurses would be well off to stop the nursing diagnoses crap right now. learn science. your peers all did.

a recent nursing home employer changed "assessment" to "observations". truth is, some LPNs can out-perform some RNs, and vice versa. As a respiratory therapist, I quite frankly found many very...

not the same as those girls, and you missed my point....they appeared to be career aid takers, not their fault that they were born in the projects, which they all were, or that they learned early on...

we all see things every day that are troublesome. for me, I use my own assessment for all such things and go forward with best practice for my patient. sometimes we can only go forward for the day....

I graduated and passed nclex three weeks later. the girls' gabby fab click? none yet tested after three months.....stupid girls and we all knew it, all on every public aid they could...

I am a newly licensed 54 year old nurse. Turn downs and no call backs from interviews as a respiratory therapist were brutal. The blond new grad hottie always got the job I once got at interview. ...

wow, thank you all for the memories of the greatest gift one could give, or receive: treatment for addiction. my experience was similar to most here. injury, chronic pain, pain management, and off...

So I heard. Would you mind sharing the start date for RN program? And would you mind PM me the teachers who were canned? My experience at GCC was severely hampered by instructors who were slightly...

OK! I graduated june 26, passed NCLEX three weeks later, and the jobs are abundant. GCC now has RN, and my chair is looking mighty nice.....

check back with new admissions director, I loved that school every day and passed boards immediately, and went right to work at a previous clinical site. expensive school and worth it for me, ymmv,...

I graduated June 26, 2008, in a class of 18. On that day I applied for NCLEX, took first available slot to test, and received my license in about three weeks after the test. I am the only student...

I am 54 and took my NCLEX today, and was not the oldest in my class. The real challenge is getting the job you want, as I already learned, as a respiratory therapist, and is why I became a nurse.

I am a RT today, nurse next week, and blood gases are really pretty simple when you consider "compensated" and "base excess" and even more so when you start at PH, go to PCO2 if abnormal, to bicarb...

my hospital and local dialysis centers all reuse the filter cartridge.....lots of jobs listed for "reuse" techs.....you can imagine the training, licensure, and ceu for these low wage...

Hello Karen, I am 15 yr RRT about to graduate from lpn school.....whoa...NOW I know why.........even the RN instructors.....whoa........way too much Maslow, and no Boyle's, you do get my message...

I am fourth quarter at GCC. My class of 24 is down to 16, we have endured teachers hired yesterday, "books" made on a copy machine, and zero teacher training. We paid 17 grand. Yet the school...

I am 4th quarter at Gulf Coast, will graduate in June. It has been a wild ride, so fasten your seat belt and bring $20,000. Be ready for your instructors to be hired yesterday and confused. Be...

You do not fool around with IPN. For impaired health professionals they are a God-send. Even pharmacists regain careers. We have an excellent facility in Tampa that specializes in addicted health...

Hello all, At Gulf Coast College, an LPN school in Tampa, we are now required to put all belongings in an adjoining room and wash our desk top and hands before every test. This is a class of 18....

Hold the phone on GCC....staffing has isssues right now..as in arrogant and stupid. Just like the prez.....

I am at Gulf Coast College in Tampa. 17K. Instructors range from good to totally awful, and they have generally one year or less of teaching. Turnover is very problematic there. Cannot recommend.

Geesh, I am an RT in nursing school, and I can't WAIT for that crap to come up. I have coded a poor dude thanks to the nurse who thought she couldn't crank up that O2. She followed "what she'd...

I am a nursing student and twenty year respiratory therapist, and convinced PPS (prospective payment system, part of Medicare reform in the 90s) has cost lives. My long time trach patient died from...

Indeed, emotions run amuck in a career education program when coming from many backgrounds. My gig is middle aged and decades of Respiratory Therapy. I thought I knew it all on day one. In truth, I...