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    Worried about instructors

    Following off of llg's post, I suggest you lose this attitude before you meet your
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    Worried about instructors

    Not to mention just using their unpaid free time to live their
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    NCLEX!!!!!!

    Way cool. I just scheduled the NCLEX for myself and the success stories help to pump me
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    Worried about instructors

    We didn't meet our instructors until the first day of class, just like my other degree programs. These folks have lives and they are paid to spend a certain amount of time performing their jobs. It...
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    a few basic chem q's. atoms, elements, etc.. HELP?!?

    Just to correct mark1973's typo: "If an atom has an equal number of protons and electrons, it is electrically
  6. It's hard not to be desperate when you're approaching bankruptcy because you can't earn a living. It's hard not to be desperate when you see the opportunities evaporating. It's hard not to be...
  7. And what, exactly, justifies that trust?The system runs on money and power. Just take a look at who's backing Wexler's bill. You really think the immigration lawyers are pumping this up because we...
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    Did you always want to be a nurse?

    Past dreams: Fly for the Blue Angels, pilot the space shuttle, 747 captain, flight surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, FBI agent, firefighter, Coast Guard Captain... Circumstances and choices denied me all...
  9. Which publications in Detroit should I check? On Monster there are only two jobs
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    Question about giving O2

    Of course, this wasn't an NCLEX question... just one that some instructor made up or, more likely, came out of a test bank.Many of our test-bank questions were horribly written or came with an...
  11. And therein lies the rub with the importation of non-resident workers... the employer posts the job to keep it all legal and then simply hires the non-resident worker that they were going to hire...
  12. Part-time, sporadic hours don't really count in my book.I think when most people say they need a job, they mean that they need a full-time job. Now personally, I'll take anything I can get......
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    HESI is Wrong ! Let's File Suit

    I'm prepping for our end-of-program comprehensive final: The ATI. Pretty much the same thing as the HESI. So I got to thinking: What we need is a HESI/ATI preparation program! Seriously, I'm not toooo...
  14. Uh, no... we don't.There's a 5% overall vacancy rate for nurses statewide. For new grads, nearly half are and will remain unemployed. My source is the July, 2009 report from the Calif. Institute for...
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    Stars are not lining up!!

    Heavens, no, you're not the only one. In our class we've had marriages, breakups, separations, deaths of pets, deaths of very close friends, incarceration of family members, and serious illnesses for...
  16. Do you hire new
  17. The fact that your hospital has openings and hires new grads doesn't diminish the scope of the problem at all.Our regional medical center has a vareity of openings and they, too, hire new grads. In...
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    binders

    Yep, they used them at my clinical
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    What Helped you Survive Care Plans?

    Start on them early. I didn't find them too difficult in terms of concept but the mechanics of them were a bit tedious. We were supposed to use journals rather than textbooks for references and it was...
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    Nursing Online

    Our program is largely online. Clinical rotations, of course, are in-person in the hospitals and there are several face-to-face classes at the university but most of our "class" time is online.I like...
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    Do nurses have a right to privacy?

    I believe that a police report is a matter of public record. I'm a bit surprised that the PD hasn't gotten to the point of getting rid of SSNs like many places have. In the 80s & 90s they were a...
  22. Is it?I hear the mantra repeated over and over - stated as fact - but I haven't seen the data and the assumptions that underlie the proclamation. What I see is the 5% vacancy rate statewide (I have no...
  23. It's not even a simple matter of working for less. It's also the basic tenet of supply-and-demand... as the supply is increased through importation, the price (that is, wages, benefits, etc) goes...
  24. Well, they've got a system that's churning out nurses by the thousands so they have little credibility if their claim is that they "can't find enough nurses" if they're not even utilizing the ones...
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    HELP with nursing credential order

    Good point about the MBA/MSW. In nearly 20 years of working in private industry I've never, ever seen BBA and I've worked with literally hundreds of