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The school performs a cost of attendance analysis factoring in living costs for 1 person, not for multiple. The government bases the unsubsidized loan levels permitted from this. You can go out and get extra loans from banks and other private lende...

Sorry I really don't know. It's just the reputation. I know of a hospital in Texas that for instance won't take students from Florida schools....presumably wouldn't hire either. Not trying to start an argument or debate just saying it's something I w...

There are a few good ones but for some reason Florida schools have a poor reputation.

You're welcome. I was in nursing school many years ago when I discovered that there was such a thing as CRNAs. Keep your eye on the prize and try to enjoy the journey!

Yeah, join any hospital committees you can get your hands on. Join your local AACN when you get into an ICU and go to the meetings. Oftentimes the hospital will have everyone do refresher training on equipment twice a year or so, so try to get in t...

Just work on taking more science classes and doing well in nursing school. It's a very long journey. Do well in your nursing courses, try to be flexible and move to an area where you can get into ICU nursing right away, and start taking science cla...

They're not going to go digging, they're gonna be looking at your resume and the info you or your references provide.

Plenty of applicants without waiving any requirements as it is.

Nobody wants to be delayed in graduating. Some parts of the country are being hit harder than others, to make a such a blanket call as to shut down all clinical for all programs is ridiculous. Students are experienced ICU nurses at the very least. ...

Yes. I am not sure how the topic got on OSHA/Fire Marshal and other federal mandates. If you have a hospital wide policy allowing drinks at the nurses station, I would bet money you would be found in violation by TJC during a survey. Someone above ...

Any bottle of paralytic I've handled was bright red with the words paralytic stamped all over it.

I don't know. I suppose if the disaster was completely unpredictable, then yeah it would be fairly separate. In the southeast with hurricanes...there is at least a fair amount of predictability to them. Increase the pay or find other incentives and...

If it was decent enough there wouldn't be a need to threaten people's licenses or fire people over it...they'd be able to sustain the minimal staff requirement as needed through market forces. Capitalism, right? They'd have plenty of travelers willi...

What I don't get is all these teams of disaster relief folks that come in from all over the country...law enforcement, linemen, other state agents...all receiving massive financial incentives to go and do this. Then you have the hospital staff who ha...

Sounds like you're doing great. And I do not mean that sarcastically. Don't beat yourself up over this.

I think you need to genuinely ask yourself what you'd rather be doing with your life - career wise. A lot of folks are running off getting various degrees with absolutely no market for them. Today, you really cannot afford to be goofing around gett...

Does it matter? Community college is dog cheap bordering on about 1-2k a year in tuition even for those who pay full price. Isn't New York also free for most?

I'm really surprised at the amount of comments putting the blame on the physician. I can't really see how the physician is to blame for someone who isn't involved in the patient's care failing to communicate, administering an overdose, failing to do...

It's often why a lot of folks earn money in these types of areas, retire early, then move to the LCOL areas. You can make and save ton if you live with a few roommates in SF making 150-200k (not working overtime) in SF. Then proceed to another area...

What excellent leadership material

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One aspect of the affordable housing crisis in California, which contributes tremendously to the increased COL, is that a lot of the home owners and builders don't really want more affordable housing. Having to buy a $2 million near beachfront house...

I think part of the problem is we now have a system-blaming tendency that is transitioning back to people-blaming. That kind of mentality is on the way out. The nurse at Vanderbilt is being charged with homicide and will need to have a defense team...

I brought up San Antonio and other cities as a metric of crime. The poster above was implying Sacramento was crime-ridden. That isn't the case when compared to other cities. Lets say the cost of living is higher. You spend lets say, 20% more livin...

I also want to mention, crime statistics per capita for Sacramento is literally the EXACT same compared to places like Omaha. Per capita places like Minneapolis and San Antonio have more crime including violent events.