kcinnick

I haven't been on allnurses in a while but the email with your topic caught my attention. I am not a Democrat or Republican, they both suck. I mostly align with the Libertarian party. Let's just say I knew my views would have been looked down upon in Ethics and similar classes. I knew enough to just keep my mouth shut. Being at a religious school it had the worst of "both" political parties from a Libertarians point of view. Way too much time talking about needing more programs and more money to make sure everyone is 100% covered for 100% of the outcomes without any care of the effort they put into trying to provide for themselves. The flip side they lectured about restricting rights of women, LGBT ( I don't even know if that is the right letters these days..), etc. The thing that drove me the most crazy that I kept my mouth shut was when they brought in someone who worked at the school and hospital not with a medical background, but with a religion education, to tell us how giving a woman a total hysterectomy to treat an ectopic pregnancy was not an abortion and was ethically OK but treating the pregnancy by just removing only the non viable fertilized egg and leaving the reproductive system in tact was abortion and wrong. To take it a step further, it was morally acceptable to this person to let the woman die from the ectopic pregnancy and NOT refer her to another hospital that would treat it differently. This woman advises doctors at the hospital what is ethical or not for their procedures!! Anyway, if you are smart enough to look past the obvious BS from our school, they are very highly respected for the quality of the education given and the job rate at graduation is near 100%. I could do without the socialist agenda and human rights restrictions based on religion. I am done with the "fluff" classes so hopefully I don't run into that again.

My school is expensive, over $50k for a BSN, but they get you lots of financial aid. Next year I have over $10k of free money coming in, I am still going to have to pay about $4-5k. Look into different financial aid and scholarship offers hard. Lots of them if you just meet the minimum requirements you will get them because people are too lazy to write a crappy essay to get $500 or $1000 for free. They advertise the MSN at $35k, we will see. The employer I hope to get pays back $6k a year in student loans and will pay for your MSN. If you commit while still in school they will pay $6k per semester tuition up to 2 years worth, if you don't work for them it converts into a loan.

Well I got an ADC cuff based on the advice of someone who was a Paramedic, nurse and who is now a Nurse practitioner if anyone is looking for one in the future. I hope it works out.

Our school decided this upcoming semester we had to provide our own Sphygmomanometer. I don't know why, they have TONS of them. Anyway, looking up reviews gets some very mixed opinions. Everyone I have looked up has multiple one star reviews on Amazon, even the higher end ones from Welch Allyn and ADC. I just want something that will work for school and not hinder me with having a piece of junk. So is there a good one out there?

I went back to school at 35, also male. My overall GPA is horrible by nursing standards, luckily my school prioritized prereq GPA over overall GPA. I came from a business background and I did fine in all my science based classes, A&P 1&2 was the toughest, but that was the teacher more than the content. I am finding Patho much easier than A&P and it is WAY more involved and has a harder grading scale. I would have an A if it was on the regular grading scale, but being on the nursing grading scale it is a B. I am suppose to start clinicals this fall, hopefully things start on time.

I don't think you will be any safer from getting a virus in a teaching setting than a nursing setting. You could always go for the school nurse gig. They are always posting for openings in my area.

I am assuming you are young. If I could do life over again I would have gone med school.

I would rather go to the hospital to do clinicals than do virtual clinicals, even with this virus going around.

Just got the email, classes online via zoom, clinicals still on.

Our school is in the process of closing down their campus right now. They have not mentioned anything about the upcoming clinicals orientation (I start clinicals for my BSN this fall), graduation or for those in clinicals now if they will still go. They did stress that this was not a temporary closure, it was an "indefinite" closure and for staff to not expect to meet with students face to face again this semester.