How do you feel about the nursing shortage being relieved by "fast track" nursing programs?
A program that only takes 12 months. Read this article:
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College grads take fast-track to nursing
Shortage of registered nurses in Michigan will reach about 7,000 by 2010
Seven Michigan schools offer programs for people who have degrees in other fields and want to get a nursing degreee.
Source: Detroit News research
More people are scrapping established careers to become nurses, enticed by programs designed to draw professionals from other industries to the under-served field.
And you also don't see MD's going back through medical school when they want a second specialization. They just go back for the part reguarding the specialization. I am not skipping any class that any other nurse has to take. I took them all plus an additional 130 credits of courses most of which were biology courses. YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ON ARGUMENT BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT THERE ARE NO PREREQS WHICH IS INVALID THEREFORE YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID. its logic.. I must have learned logic in one of those courses I took but you didn't.
Pretty illogical to discount opinions of experienced folks in the field, who would have a much better idea of the real world than you. I don't think you have to take a class in logic to understand that.
Let's here from some graduates of these programs who have been out in the field for a while (ie. at least out of orientation)...haven't seen any yet on this thread. Or some people who have trained some of these accelerated grads.
I agree but we mustn't forget to do this in an unbiased way, and really the only way to do that is to get someone who has trained a good deal of both traditional and accellerated grad (not just one or two), and not just get someone who is angry or biased in either direcetion as we've have already heard from them.
Pretty illogical to discount opinions of experienced folks in the field, who would have a much better idea of the real world than you. I don't think you have to take a class in logic to understand that.
You think I don't know anything about the real world? Are you so sure of that? I've worked on a receptor involved in new drugs for asthmatics at a major pharmaceutical company doing in vitro assays from cells that I cultured, and then electrophoresed to create cells that were transiently transfected with that receptor, not to mention finding and culturing the monoclonal antibody. In addition I do neurosurgery to implant an electrodes into the lateral hypothalmus of a rat to manipulate his dopamine pathway through an electrical current so I can study the changes of this pathway in response to cocaine. Oh yeah I also worked in clinical researcher in endocrinology, I was doing research on a project at harvard that was lost when the challenger exploded among other research. Oh yeah and I also worked in a treatment program with women with borderline personality disorder including someone who's maladaptive behavior was to gut herself until her intestines came out and she would shove them back in. and then of course I was a counselor for victims of domestic violence. So maybe you should get all the facts before you make such a broad statement.
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Pretty illogical to discount opinions of experienced folks in the field, who would have a much better idea of the real world than you. I don't think you have to take a class in logic to understand that.