Getting a nursing degree and a Tan at the same time!

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Specializes in ICU;CCU;Telemetry;L&D;Hospice;ER/Trauma;.

Another poster here at AllNurses expressed some frustration with all the obstacles that student nurses and potential nurses go through just to get in to a nursing program....or be able to stay in a program.....

Here's an article in TIME magazine that addressses this very real and "timely" (no pun intended) problem.....

Maybe our government and some of the schools who seem to be marching out of step with the real world should read this article....

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1651518,00.html

The article shows just what happens when schools make it impossible to get a degree in this country.....

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IUON came on the radar here on allnurses early last year.

Since then, I've heard good things about it from outside sources.

They recently signed new affililiation agreements with Miami Dade Community College and Grand Canyon University. They have agreements with others.

The student does their final year of clinical at a US hospital. They get two nursing degrees. One from the US school and one from IUON, making them eligible for the NCLEX.

I thought about it, but could not go because of prior commitments. If you are stuck, stuck, stuck on a three year+ waiting list, it MIGHT be an option. INVESTIGATE.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

Wow, I wish I needed to go to nursing school! Maybe I should get my bachelors...:coollook::smokin:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.

They are going to keep pushing this bit about the sole reason for the nursing shortage being the difficulty getting into nursing school until almost everyone believes it. I only WISH they had as many articles about the conditions in hospitals today. What happens after you spend 4 years overseas and you hate it once you start working? Now that's a story.

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They are going to keep pushing this bit about the sole reason for the nursing shortage being the difficulty getting into nursing school until almost everyone believes it. I only WISH they had as many articles about the conditions in hospitals today. What happens after you spend 4 years overseas and you hate it once you start working? Now that's a story.

Then your good and screwed!

Maybe they teach, "Dealing with Nurse Management 101" and "How NOT to get 12 patients on a Med-Surg assignment" at this school?

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The University of the Virgin Islands uvi.edu, did not have a waiting list in 2006 and the cost was very reasonable. My daughter looked into this. It is a U.S. territory and grads are eligible to take N-clex and NLN accredited. Looks like a better deal if you would relocate to the Carribean. I hate to see desperate students getting ripped off!

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Um, who has time to TAN in nursing school:confused:

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Specializes in ICU;CCU;Telemetry;L&D;Hospice;ER/Trauma;.

To SharonH: I didn't get that view from the article that the SOLE reason for the nursing shortage was due to difficulty getting into nursing school....in fact, the article was clear that the reason many don't get into nursing school is the shortages in slots and teaching staff.... ie, many nursing schools in the US have a limit on how many students can get in in a given academic year....so even if you qualify....have stellar grades, if there isn't an opening, you are not eligible.....this then eventually leads to nursing shortage. The natural attrition rate and the delay in replacing those who retire or leave the profession is faster than what the schools can produce.....couple this with nursing students who are fresh out of school, and have yet to start an IV, or place a foley catheter, or an NG tube, or assist with line insertions, and you realize that hospitals are not going to have enough seasoned nurses in a few years, either to teach or to perform.....

The US government is not addressing this problem seriously enough....

their solution, according to the article was to throw a measley $500,000 to train military personnel to become nurses....whoopdedoo!

By the year 2020 there will be at least a minimum shortage of 1 million nurses. I already feel the pinching in my environment....many of my own collegues, my age, have left to either become clinicians via hospital educational staff, (not bedside nursing) or they are retiring....

the graduate nursing staff coming in behind them are running about one grad nurse for every retiree/clinician.....I shudder to think what the nurse to patient ratios will be in eight years....God help the patients!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.
To SharonH: I didn't get that view from the article that the SOLE reason for the nursing shortage was due to difficulty getting into nursing school....

Yes I know. I am referring to media coverage of the nursing shortage in general, this article being yet another example. The coverage is slanted; we hear a lot about the difficulty of getting into nursing school, a lot less about the conditions forcing nurses away from the bedside, that was my only point.

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Specializes in ICU;CCU;Telemetry;L&D;Hospice;ER/Trauma;.

Oh...okay...I understand what you are saying now....and I agree, not enough is being said about good nurses leaving the bedside....but then...hospitals have lots of money to protect their images....they don't want the public to know how life REALLY is....that is why they have PR departments and Hospital Spokesperson/s....

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