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    Racism at clinical site...what to do?

    You are a student and a guest in that facility... You are very vulnerable and you don't know whose loyalties lie where. My advice is keep your mouth shut and plan to look elsewhere for work when you...
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    Racism at clinical site...what to do?

    How? Easy... just the same way that bigoted, narrow-minded people in every other walk of life make similar dumb-@$$ comments. Were you somehow of the misguided notion that nurses are more...
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    Do We All Need To Have a BSN Now?

    Is she screening out the baccalaureate nurses because everybody keeps bailing out to become CRNAs or because they're not sufficiently prepared?I could certainly understand why they wouldn't want to...
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    What do you wear in lab?

    During lab at school everybody just wore what they wanted... lots of shorts and tees, some sun dresses, and lots of jeans.Off campus, though, it was either business casual or scrubs, depending on the...
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    H1N1 vaccine availability in your hospital/area?

    Northern CA (SF-Sac region) and H1N1 is still very hard to come by. Except for the large HMO, nobody else seems to have it, including the regional academic medical center. I finally drove 2 hours and...
  6. Just sufficiently insulting? Adequately insulting? Marginally insulting? Personally, I chose the killed virus for myself and my child over the FluMist because I consider the attenuated virus to be of...
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    Micro teacher from Hell

    From what I've observed and heard about, escalation's not likely to take you anywhere you want to go. If the department or school doesn't give a rip about the course evals then why do you suppose that...
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    100k in debt after school!?

    Talk to the financial aid office at your school.Regarding hospitals paying for you to go to school, I seriously doubt you're going to find that. There are a TON of new grads out there scrambling for...
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    Micro teacher from Hell

    Don't complain -- there's very little upside potential but a whole lot of downside. Despite the previous poster, it absolutely CAN hurt... by putting a big target on your back, perhaps being failed in...
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    All nursing floor - with no nursing assistants???

    Yikes, Jolie, that's horrifying. I seriously doubt that it was more cost-effective in practice... though I'm sure it made a beautiful Excel spreadsheet for somebody somewhere up the
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    All nursing floor - with no nursing assistants???

    Wow, where are you that CNAs are doing blood sugars? That's nurse-only duty in these
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    H1N1 -- in the NICU

    Agreed, very sad that this lady died.Why would we assume that, even if she did die of H1N1, that she contracted it at the hospital, let alone from the baby (who hasn't tested positive for the virus...
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    No One Dies Alone (NODA) Program

    Sounds awful??? Quite the contrary... you sound like a very caring and compassionate person. I'd want you as my nurse if I were critically
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    All nursing floor - with no nursing assistants???

    The local academic medical center does this... RNs only. I don't work there but the nurses that I've spoken with seem to favor
  15. JTunoi, I'm surprised that a recent degree (2006) would already be subject to stale-dating. I can assure you that that is not universal. My DEMSN had a 10-year
  16. OP's talking about a direct-entry MSN -- which are for BA/BS holders in other fields to combine the graduate courses with the core nursing curriculum in one program and graduate from nursing school...
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    Unemployed New Grad

    There's some truth to that.What I see is that it's a combination of "do you know somebody" AND the kick@$$ combo of experience, schooling, and GPA. Neither by itself is
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    The Most Vexing Robocalls Ever...

    A few days after the interview, on the day that they're supposed to decide, when you're sitting around, hoping and praying for the phone to ring and to hear "you're hired" --- not one, not two, but...
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    The Most Vexing Robocalls Ever...

    Yep, that was it.And another robocall after I posted. One was sales call and three were political ads.
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    Why do RNs get paid so similar to NPs?

    As has been stated, it just depends on location. In this area, NPs and experienced RNs pull down similar annual wages. Why? Supply and demand. There are just too many NPs for the jobs available. As...
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    Ill try this here since Im getting no replies...

    I'd wait two days after submitting and then contact the recruiter just to make sure that everything's in order. I'd wait another two days and then contact the hiring manager directly, just to be sure...
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    How important is your g.p.a

    Well yes, that's true that personal situations often adversely affect school performance... but then again, they can also adversely affect work performance. One's work life doesn't occur in a bubble,...
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    How important is your g.p.a

    Hm. You'd think that pregnancy status would fall under either "children" or "medical conditions" or
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    How important is your g.p.a

    Nursing instructors can be wrong... especially about topics outside of their area of expertise.I'd be reluctant to parrot their statement as fact without having verified it
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    Do You Wear Your Colors To Work?

    The Saints ain't the Aint's anymore.Go Niners! Go Golden