i am graduating from tcu and i have not heard anything about the dallas hospitals because we are in the ft. worth bubble! i am applying to dallas hospitals and have to accept one soon....ah! so, what do you know? do you have any information about medical city dallas, medical center of plano, baylor plano, baylor grapevine, and presbyterian dallas??? i need any information you can send my way to help me choose one!!!!!!!
To the post "I want an easy nursing school program" Nursing school is not going to ever be easy.. and it shouldn't be. You are dealing with human life and you need to know what you are doing. Nursing school should give you a great foundation and it can be very difficult at times. You have to change your ways of studying and know that you won't have too much of a social life for a while. Good luck to you but don't try to go the easy route because it will make it more difficult when you transition into your job as an RN. Hope this advice helps.
I hope for the sake of every patient in Texas that you don't find what you are looking for. I don't think there are any easy nursing schools. To think someone out there wants an easy nursing school is a scary thought and to think that there might be one that actually exists is even scarier.
Look for a hospital that has the nurse friendly certification from the Texas Nurses Association. Among them are Wise Memorial in Decator,Texas. There will never be unions in Texas for public hospitals. Nurses are too fearful to speak up on issues or get together on anything so it will never happen. Another parameter is to look for Magnet certification.
Look for a hospital that has the nurse friendly certification from the Texas Nurses Association. Among them are Wise Memorial in Decator,Texas. There will never be unions in Texas for public hospitals. Nurses are too fearful to speak up on issues or get together on anything so it will never happen. Another parameter is to look for Magnet certification.
I had to LOL at your "nurses are too fearful" statement. My lack of love for unions has to do with the fact that I think unions are not for professionals with degrees and a host of other issues. I am soooooooooo not fearful.
Carachel - I am in agreement with you. We always have the option of working elsewhere, going independant or working for an agency - most of us won't do it but we CAN! It isn't fear - for most people it's just plain apathy.
It boils down to do you want what an employer has to offer? Benefits? Pay? Hours? Location? Staffing Ratios? Don't like what they have? Go someplace else - nothing keeping you there - in Texas you can leave any time you want, and you don't have to be a union member to go to work anyplace else! We vote with our feet about what we want here. Employers will dish out what we are willing to put up with. We don't need a union for that - we just need a lack of apathy among nurses and nurses who feel empowered to change a bad situation and walk away from it when the employer won't change it.
If there is a Group One for Employers - why not one for nurses? Why not a "Rate your Professor" of sorts for Employers of Nurses? Ratings of hospitals and Units done by nurses for nurses, so that nurses can see what they are getting into when they consider applying for a position somewhere.
Unions were organized for people who were too uneducated and ignorant to protect themselves. They have their place in some industries, but we are not uneducated or ignorant. We may be naive, and trusting and caring and we may be taken advantage of because of it, but we have brains.
Carachel - I am in agreement with you. We always have the option of working elsewhere, going independant or working for an agency - most of us won't do it but we CAN! It isn't fear - for most people it's just plain apathy.
It boils down to do you want what an employer has to offer? Benefits? Pay? Hours? Location? Staffing Ratios? Don't like what they have? Go someplace else - nothing keeping you there - in Texas you can leave any time you want, and you don't have to be a union member to go to work anyplace else! We vote with our feet about what we want here. Employers will dish out what we are willing to put up with. We don't need a union for that - we just need a lack of apathy among nurses and nurses who feel empowered to change a bad situation and walk away from it when the employer won't change it.
If there is a Group One for Employers - why not one for nurses? Why not a "Rate your Professor" of sorts for Employers of Nurses? Ratings of hospitals and Units done by nurses for nurses, so that nurses can see what they are getting into when they consider applying for a position somewhere.
Unions were organized for people who were too uneducated and ignorant to protect themselves. They have their place in some industries, but we are not uneducated or ignorant. We may be naive, and trusting and caring and we may be taken advantage of because of it, but we have brains.
"I ain't afeared" either!
Glad someone else feels the same way. My Dh is a midlevel engineering manager and the unions drive him NUTS. On the one hand, I *do* understand their place for these workers. They have little to no education and their choices are very limited. OTOH, the unions prevent the flow of ideas and ownership and responsibility and initiative in the workplace that is very much needed in the hospitals.
If I don't like it at my hospital, I can literally walk across the street and do whatever I want. Nurses have much better avenues to pursue change than unions.
I've never felt the "fear" that whatsis name (Medicmike ?) posted about. Give me a break !
In one job I worked at - I dealt with union workers all day long. The sense of entitlement in exchange for little else that many of these folks had was absolutely horrifying. If that's what nursing becomes as a profession then count me OUT! I can't imagine that ever being good for nurses - much less patients.
On the surface, unions may sound like a good idea to some people - but waht you say about the loss of "flow of ideas and ownership and responsibility and initiative in the workplace" is very much what I experienced. The union frowned on anyone stepping outside of it to achieve anything. It was absolutely detrimental to the work environment.
in case ya'll were wondering what hospital system i ended up choosing.... i chose baylor! yay! it has been wonderful so far! now i just gotta pass the nclex in a couple weeks. yikes! pray for me on the 27th of june at 8 am!!!!!
i am thinking of relocating to the keller district in dallas-forthworth areas with my family. so far, north richland hills and baylor regional hospital in grapevine had interviewed me.... which one do i choose? can anyone tell me about the work experience in these hospitals? north richland's starting rate is bigger that what was offered by baylor. but reading your mails made me want to reconsider....any comments would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP
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Not to discourage but ALL nursing schools are going to be hard.