Tankweti

I am in NY. I do not recall Iif student loans are specifically mentioned on the app but there is a question about moral turpitude. Defaulting on student loans might fall under that category.

I wonder how many of you understand tthere are nowhere near enough jobs for all you new grads..Most ffacilities hire a maximum of 3 new grads per year. You say you have 100 sseat Iin your class. What will happen to the other 97. In the hospital where I wor 90% of the nurses are downright elderly and have no plans to retire any time soon. Think long and hard about this choice before you make it.

With all due respect you are all crazy. 1000 applicants for a nursing program? They take 150. Once you graduate where will you find work? This is sheer madness. I graduated 4 years ago from a private Catholic college that is well thought of and a 3.5 grade point average. I am now doing secretarial work in a hospital I applied to twice who never answered me for nursing but immediately hired me for secretarial as I had experience. The new grad nurse they recently hired? She is the wife of one of our doctors.I can tell you from experience that no one in the hiring world cares about your grades. Most of them want you to have nurse aide experience in their facility so they can watch how you work, do you come to work on time, how do you get along with coworkers. Students have now realized that this is the way to get their foot in the door and as a result there is now a big struggle for the few aide positions that are svailable. Some hospitals like where I work are requiring new grad to sign a contract to stay for 1-2 years and if they leave they are required to pay the hospital about $10,000 to compensate for time wasted in their training. And the hospital will sue people for this money if they break their contract. None of this is being publicized. Hospitals are not routinely hiring nurses except for certain hard to find specialties like OR, OB, Emergency and all of these require experience A rare grad may get ICU but it is not the norm.Patient care is being pushed out of the hospital nto out patient settings as much as pissible. If a patient is admitted they will be discharged very rapidly. Many hospitals including where I work have shut down entire nursing units. They shut down one that had 30 beds So now it always looks full up there because they have less beds. Closed down units means less need for nurses. Because nurse salaries are 50% of a hospital budget administration is happy to do this. Recently they laid off our nurse educator so now there simply isn't education like there used to be.They laid off the nurse manager who ran the OR and went without for a while and now are trying to hire a non nurse for the spot as she will be cheaper. Would you care to know how many new grads they hired this year? Three out of hundreds of job applicants. This is not to mention experienced nurses who have been laid off or whose facilities have closed. They are having good an awful time trying to get work. Just think twice r before you rack up the enormous debt that it will take to graduate from NYU.

He ought to have been charged with manslaughter for the death of the baby. This patient will be just as dangerous when he gets out of prison and will likely injure someone else. Once on meth, 90% of people can never get away from it, just like crack. This man is a danger to everyone but I can guarantee you that he received a relatively short sentence. Unfortunately, I know a lot about this firsthand. My husband, who is now deceased, was a crack addict.

Early trestment?! The only treatment patients are getting is fluid resuscitation, blood transfusions to replace massive blood loss engendered by the virus and electrolyte replacement. Supportive care only. Just buying time hoping that the immune system can beat the virus back.

There has already been an airborne strain which was Ebola Reston brought into the US unknowingly inside lab monkeys who were brought to a lab in Reston Virginia about 20 years ago. Fortunately it was not fatal to human caretakers ( who did sicken but not die ). The monkeys did die however. No one knows what the triggers are for such mutations to occur. As far as doctors contracting it, they may have had a tiny tear on a spacesuit that went unnoticed. One thing that really scared me a few days ago. I overhears a conversation in the hallway between our resident infectious disease specialist and another doctor. The former was telling the latter not to worry as the virus was only bloodborne. This is blatantly incorrect as it is known to be present even on sweat on corpses. If our experts don' the know the facts we are all in deep trouble.

Since nursing is a science and you will be expected to know about and understand disciplines like Micro and Chemistry, I would advise you take both and not take the easier Micro. Your school may require you take the one for science majors. At a bare minimum, you will need a basic understanding of bacteria, viruses and the like. Chemistry will help when you reach pharmacology. It is never a good idea to look for the easiest route, especially in nursing. Patients' lives will be in your hands.

If a patient has to go to the hospital, then he has to go. Obviously there was a difference of opinion between the 2 physicians - one saying send him out and the other the following day objecting to it based on readmission status. I think it would have been a good idea to call the family but in the end you will have to live with yourself as to how you would have felt if you had not sent the patient out and he suffered terribly in the interim. All I know is that if it were me in that man's place, I would want to be comfortable and having urinary retention, an infection and probable sepsis ain't comfortable.

Very true. Nurses back then had a lot more bedside experience as a result of how nursing programs were structured back then Most hospitals had their own schools of nursing. But then it became too expensive and hospitals shut down their schools of nursing and handed education over to colleges and universities to get it off their balance sheet. Now they complain we aren't properly trained, can't hit ground running. But in all of this, I have yet to hear of even 1 hospital who sat down with a nursing program to be an active partner in structuring curriculums to produce the kind of nurses th r u want. Communication is so heavily emphasized in nursing school. Where is the communication between schools and future nursing employers?

I live near Poughkeepsie New York which is within commuting distance of New York City and North Jersey and Connecticut. I have not been able to find anything in 4 years with a bachelor's and a 3.5. Many of my colleagues got work but they were either already employed as aides or had a relative working at the hospital. I made the fatal mistake of not getting an aide job while in school. It is all about the hospital and the unit getting to know your work habits and work ethic. I thought that knowing the material, meds, signs and symptoms was more important. Silly Rabbit! No one has ever asked about my grades. In regards to Labor Statistics, they are all fudged. If you don't believe it the look at the unemployment rate which is reported as way lower than it really is. People fall off the unemployment benefit rolls as they run out of benefits and Congress has not renewed them. This makes it look like thing are improving while in reality people are giving up looking. As far as projected nursing shortage I would bet that these numbers are coming from someone who stands to gain from stating these wrong facts. Do these numbers take into account that many hospitals are going belly up? Do they take into account that entire unit are being shut down and that experienced nurses are being laid off because they cost too much? Do they take into account that in New York and possibly other states there is a move to deregulate those with professional licenses, like nurses and respiratory therapists. If this happens it means unlicensed people who are paid $10 an hour can then legally perform many nursing tasks. The New York State Nurses Association is currently lobbying against this.

In 2012, my now deceased husband engineered an interview for me at what turned out to be an ALF. He was beside himself when I was unable to even get an interview after I graduated in 2010. He was at the Liver Transplant Center of Westchester Medical in New York and struck up a conversation with an LN who had accompanied a patient there. Long story short, he got me an interview. When I got there I was interviewed by 4 different people, the last 2 coming in together and looking extremely bored about the whole process. It was obvious to me that they either already had someone in mind or maybe the position was not even real. Anyhow, at the end, they told me that they had 100 residents but we're only licensed by the state for 40. Now after reading this, I understand. I am glad they did not hire me. I had no idea such crazy and dangerous practices were going on in ALF land. I do know that they are surveyed infrequently like once every 5 years. Question is, when surveyors do show up where do they hide the extra 60 people?

Are you kidding? If the facilities won't do the morally right thing for both patients and workers then they MUST be mandated. All of this rolling the dice with patient care must stop. Of course there are always ways to work around mandated staffing levels but at least it's a start.

At the hospital where I work (not as an RN, was never able to get an interview in the saturated northeast where I live) they have postings that sit around for YEARS that are never filled. They are quicker to hire IT people than nurses. I asked my supervisor why they do this and she said that she thought the job postings were like a wish list. In other words, you would like to buy a new dress but you know you can't afford it but put it on your list anyhow. (She has been working there for 30 years, so I guess she understands their mentality). I would assume that if they found a nurse who appeared to be a perfect fit, then they would jump to hire her but otherwise they can wait forever. It is no skin off their nose that nurses, both new grads and experienced, need jobs, it is not their problem. Their general attitude to employees is "Be thankful u on have a job in this economy.- " have actually heard supervisors say this to very good, committed employees.

A week is nothing. I graduated 4 years ago with a BSN, 3.5 GPA, department and peer nominated awards and none of it did me a bit of good. Comically, in 2012 I was hired part time by a hospital where I had applied twice as a new grad and never received a response - but was immediately contacted when I applied for a medical transcription job there and was hired - why? Because I had 25 years experience as a transcriber. I had bills to pay and I finally gave up on nursing. Just to show you how it goes - my hospital last year hired 3 new grads out of all the hundreds who applied because it was all they could afford. Interestingly, 1 if those new grads was the wife of one of the doctors I work for. She only had an associates. She was fast tracked and hired on the spot, I guess because they believed she would stay, unlike most new grads. Right from the beginning, she was being mandated to stay frequently after the end of her shift as they were always short staffed. She worked nights and wasn't getting out of there til 10 or 11 in the morning. I don't believe she is working there now. It appears that she quit and now stays at home. Meanwhile, the hospital has now turned to forcing new grads to sign legally binding contracts to force them to stay and keep them from walking out, a more and more common practice these days. I wish you good luck. I hope you find what you seek.

Do you have actual nursing experience? Any college that hires you to be a clinical instructor will want you to have a minimum of several years basic nursing experience. Further, if you are teaching a specialty, like peds, you will need specialized experience in that as well. Without experience, how will you answer a student question about time management skills?