bradleyshanetaylor

Well I'm 30. Pain for last 18 months. Finally went to doctor and I have avn with collapse. They are talking thr. I'm young and don't want this, but from what I have read and researched, thr is the way to go. My question for you ortho nurses is...what have you all scene? Quick recovery? I know my Crossfit days are over, or not?? Should I push it off as long as possible? About to start np school, and my ICU experience we didn't do a lot of hips. Especially on 30 yo. Just little shocked still that after losing 40 lbs over last 2 years I get hit with this. Thanks for advice in advance

I was accepted to Walden. But people either praise them or say they are a bad school. To me you need a good school, but at the graduate level, it will be how much you really want to put in it and how good a practitioner you want to be. I also have a bad taste in my mouth. It took days to get a response with any questions I have had since I applied. Then I receive the wait list email, I send a response and ask a few questions, it no response for the entire day. So we will see if I get a response on Monday. I am with you parteegirl3. For 100 bucks they could at least set a time line and go by it. Plus response to everyone request. If it is true they get over 100 apps per each class, then they take in around 100k just in application fees a year.

Nrandl1. Did you know what number on wait list you were. I am on it. I emailed them to no response all day. I did get accepted to another program today. So I have choices. But frontier was at top of list.

I was placed on wait list. No clue what number I am.

I emailed (MODERATOR EDIT OF NAME - PLEASE DO NOT POST NAMES OF THOSE IN YOUR PROGRAM PER TOS) and asked when we should hear anything since my dept. is working on our schedule that goes from Thanksgiving to Christmas. She emailed me back yesterday and informed me it could be up to 3 weeks before we hear anything. Bound date is going to fall into that time period. Thank god my boss and co-workers like me for now. We are working on 2 different schedules. One if I get accepted and have to be off for Bound, and one if i dont get accepted. Good luck everyone.

Someone posted in class 132 message that they received email that this Friday they will start to receive acceptance notices. So I say we should start to hear next week or the week after. Which is right on time frame of 6 to 8 weeks before bound.

Well that means 133 shouldn't be far behind. I was hoping 133 would find out middle of September, but looking like October. Good Luck. Once you find out I will be starting to get nervous.

Its 6-8 weeks before Bound Date. They sent me an email to confirm they received all of my application materials and informed me of this. We should start to hear soon. Hopefully end of September, but more than likely sometime in October.

I work at a VA facility. ICU is 2:1. Med/Surg is ideal 5:1 RN and 5:1 LPN/NA. That means for every 5 patients they have 1 RN and 1 LPN or NA on a team. Half the time they might have 6 pts to a team, and very rare they have 7 togther. That includes a free charge, and 2 ward clerks. They only average about 25 patients on the ward for a normal day. So thats 12-13 staff for 25 patients, CRAZY from what I was used to before coming to VA. I came from a facility on a ward of 30 patients would have 4 RNs, 2 NAs and a ward clerk. ICU you always had 2 patients and over half the time had 3. The staff was happy to have that most days. I would get floated many days with just 4 RNs and 1 aid with 1 ward clerk on a unit. You ran all day and felt like you never got anything done.

I cant find that. I have applied for that class as well as a girl I went to ADN school with. We both are curious. She has looked on FB and I have been on there website looking.

I put my app in for class 133. Hope to hear something next month. I'm sure it will be more towards October though. Fine with me, but all my eggs are in one basket. Sloppy adn grades. But knocked it out in bsn classes

Good Luck. I was hoping they would get to you all faster. You are the bridge program. I applied to the DNP program class 133. Hope you all start to hear soon, but wont happen now till probly mid to late septmber because of the new deadline. I was hoping to hear somethign in Septmeber for my class, but know I will just assume it will come in October. Praying for patience.

When I went to nursing school out of high school, my class had 30ish students. It was at a small junior college that was well known for its nursing program. Of those 30, i think less than 10 were younger than 30. I would say over half were over 35. So apply and enjoy the journey.

Have scene nurses do it all the time. Specially in my home town when residents at local nursing home passes. The facility lets nurses pick up overtime shift to cover everyone to come to funeral home to pay respect and they all wear there scrubs.

I am a nursing supervisor, NOD, at a VA. What caliboy760 stated is mostly the job details. Thats low pay. In my area some of the CBOC nurses that have BSN and a few years experience in clinic make around 30.00 hour. They are nurse II. Once you start, start looking into getting a BSN degree. Once ompleted, look at a nurse II job description that your vision has set and try to meet all those goals. Once meet, you will be looking at a very nice pay raise.

Yes, 3 months is very fast. My process took approx 5 months. I have been at the va for almost 5 years and love it. There is still the old government red tape, but taking care of our nations veterans is a great feeling day in and out.

I was same as you. Then I decided I might want to apply for NP school. So while in BSN I kicked ass and had above a 3.5 GPA. I hope that shows the committe that when I was 18-22 I didnt care about anythign but a C and nightlife.

I have been in nursing for over 12 years and I have yet to counter a messy male nurse. I think in my opinion males are cleaner. I am a clean freak, so I am always cleaning the nursing desk and work spaces. I have a bad habit of when I go assist other nurses, I will straighten and clean there patients rooms. I cant handle a messy room.

I have applied so now just a waiting game. As someone posted earlier, and per an email I have recieved back from the school, we should start to find out very end of September and into October. This is approx 6-8 weeks before bound date.

The school I attended has had a 100 percent NCLEX pass rate for the first time taking test for both LPN and RN boards for 3 years running. The down side is, when I started the LPN year we had close to 50 students. Of that around 30 or so passed and moved on to RN year. Of those 30, we had 21 that graduated. Thats less than 50 percent make it through school but everyone passed boards. They like to brag a lot about that stat, but the 50 pecent fail rate from start of LPN to ADN degree to me is awfull.

Sorry just getting back to you John. The course work is not as intense as ADN education. The hardest part is the papers you have to write. Mckendree makes them ahve a major paper in every class. You will be fine with research I took it after having statistics abour 3 years before. I have took atleast 2 classes every semester except over the summer and it is very managable. I normally can spend half to a full day during everything that I need or maybe less for class. I had martha mcdonald as a teacher for first year and she is awsome if you have something personal going on or work load you just have to talk to her about it all. If you have any more questions just send me an email at [email protected] I am able to respond sooner through email.

At lourdes we have lost 3 nurses to CRNA school in the last year. Their are currently 3 of us that are getting classes together and apps together to apply to CRNA school. We do lots of open hearts. Currently we did as many open hearts as WBH did the last year. We have only 1 heart surgeon they have 3. We are gaining one this month, he is in town but hasnt started cutting yet. Will be glad to see you when you make your way through for rounds and yes we do hire new grads.

ICU is def a fun place but very stressful too to work. glad to see you all come through one day. Only advice I like to tell people is find someone that has been a nurse for years and use them as a crutch when your having a bad day and just need to run something by them. I was fortunate and had an aunt and grandmother to call during those crappy times in school. They always seemed to find a way to talk me through whatever it was.

I am born and raised in Vienna, IL. just about 20 miles south of Carbondale. Marion, I WOULD NOT WORK THERE, that place just has an evil spirit. We had awful clinic rotations there during school. If I worked at any of them I would choose 1 Carbondale due to their sevices of more medical treatment with surg and other things, then I would choose Herrin. Herrin is building and building, they at one time were trying to find a heart surgeon. If you dont mind living in the middle of where you work and your wifes job in carbondale you then can open yourself up to another half dozen hospitals. Where i live paducah ky is 30 minutes away and has 2 awsome hospitals that offers everything except transplant services. If you live in anna, then it is a 20 min drive to carbondale and then you could drive 35 miuntes to cap which has 2 awsome hospitals as well. if you have any more questions jsut email me at [email protected] and I can give you more information, I have rounded at just about every hospital in southern ill western ky and southest mo.

Great program, I attend classes in very southern IL. Love it so far only 1 year to go and all the teachers are awsome. The online classes are pretty good too.