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Ad for an MA program

Ok, so maybe this will get moved to a new forum...so be it.

I just saw an ad for a medical assistant program at a for profit school. A young lady talks about how great it would be to work as an MA ('cutting edge technology' and all that fun stuff that we know MAs deal with all the time). However, the part that I found funniest--and most annoying--was at the end of the ad, the young lady turns 90 degrees and say "plus, there is all the cute scrubs!"

Sorry if this post sounds rude, but I found the ad particularly hideous (and I hope this person gets a job where they make her wear a uniform of solid white scrubs!).

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    oh, my word, really lol now! asked dh about this very weird post of yours, and he laughed at me, reminding me of that long-running ad campaign for holiday inn....sigh...memory starting to slip!

    when i read your first reply, i thought my sense of humor had been surgically removed, because i just didn't get it. now i know why you said that! lol.

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    Also concerning is the fact that these for profit schools have started up BSN programs. I've gotten many a flyer or advertisment in the mail from a couple of schools and man, again with the grandiose claims! They get make some really harsh statements about Associate Degree RN's too, like super pro-BSN bandwagon propaganda. Obviously it's because people going for their associate degree RN would look for a community/tech school- which means they're not going to the for-profit school- therefore the for profit school gets no money...so why not intimidate the poor potiental students with lies- LIES I TELL YOU!! :bugeyes:

    I just fell over dead ( ok, not really) when I read ITT tech has ADN programs! For FIFTY-FOUR thousand dollars, and apparently these kids are so unprepared they're failing their exit HESI and not even getting their $54,000 diploma!

    It's so wrong and downright robbery - falsely advertising the "booming nursing market" just to take advantage of people who are desperate to make something of themselves...without putting in the time and effort to get into a "real school.". What in the world is the up and coming generation - my generation - of nurses going to look like?

    Does anyone actually work with any nurses from ITT Tech?

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    How can you possibly even sign up for $20k MA certificate for a $14/ hour job? What kind of reasoning or math makes this logical? These education institutions are doing a good job putting and suckering people in debt. Those are expensive cute scrubs to wear lol

    *** Just think of it as a special tax on the gullible.

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