kcinnick

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1. My Experience as an Non-political White Male in Nursing / NP School

   kcinnick replied to guest1149052's topic in Male Students

   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...

2. Nursing salary vs. tuition repayment

   kcinnick replied to Ngav1206's topic in General Students

   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. Lo...

3. Sphygmomanometer that doesn't suck

   kcinnick replied to kcinnick's topic in Uniform/Gear

   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.

4. Sphygmomanometer that doesn't suck

   kcinnick posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

   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 Am...

5. You're in my shoes, what would you do to become an RN?

   kcinnick replied to wknd's topic in General Students

   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 wa...

6. Hesitation to become a nurse student

   kcinnick replied to mushroomTinybear's topic in COVID

   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.

7. Medical School or Nursing School?

   kcinnick replied to CookiesOrCreme's topic in General Nursing

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

8. Is my school risking my safety?

   kcinnick replied to karmachameleon's topic in COVID

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

9. Any RN student clinicals cancelled because of COVID-19?

   kcinnick replied to llg's topic in COVID

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

10. Any program graduations delayed or cancelled due to COVID19?

    kcinnick replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in COVID

    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. ...