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Quoting DarrenWright: "This isn't a link that "merely supports" my claim, but rather a link that "actually supports" a factual statement that I made." Let me begin by saying, I am borrowing my wife's account one more time. The passage that you quote ...

Quoting DarrenWright: "And Canada, like the US, is experiencing a nursing shortage. The irony is that Canada is one of the primary sources of immigrating nurses for the US. http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/2/1/3" Let me begin by apologi...

The only cap in our dept. is a yellowed old relic atop the cranium of our model anatomy class skeleton in the nursing lab. I was under the impression this accessory was over and out. I'm wrong, apparently! I definitely won't wear one. I have no c...

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Once you fill out the FAFSA, you will receive a Student Aid Report (SAR) immediately that will state your Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). This will tell you where you stand in regards to receiving a Pell Grant. I found this current table onli...

If you are eligible, a Federal PERKINS loan is a wonderful choice. You would need to confirm this with your fin aid officer, but this loan is eligible for full, 100% forgiveness for "nurses and medical technicians" after graduation. My school awarde...

As a student nurse, I have worked as a housekeeper for a few clients, and I made 20 dollars per hour cash all the while. Each of these clients had previously employed someone for the same job at a much lower rate, but had been dissatisfied with the ...

So glad Nursing School treats you well! I wish to add my emphatic ME TOO! to the list of Postive Polly's who love their nursing education experiences. I am doing research (PAID research, even) on patient identification errors this summer, and will e...

I would just keep a little journal of events in a spirit of healthy paranoia. I hope you do not have to go through any more of this mistreatment, but be prepared to draw the line with this person, telling him directly that you won't tolerate any mo...

I still bristle at the thought that the school is withholding money from individual students to protect the institution from high default rates. Perhaps I should inform the school that I will be paying my tuition and fees only after attending 4 week...

Hello, and welcome to the site! This can be a big problem throughout school, for some. I deal with annoyance often in my classes. Reasons include disruptive people talking during lecture, scary-cliquey behavior from these so-called grown-ups, and...

Great question! Anyone in MA have input on this? :) It would be wonderful if it is indeed correct. Oh, and where do New Grad nurses tend to fall on the scale? Perhaps it's too hard to pin down, but there's a huge difference between that 10th-25th-...

If a student collects financial aid money, whether the first day of classes or the post-Add/Drop, the student alone is responsible for paying it back. Before loans are disbursed, the entrance counseling materials detail the obligation to immediately...

SNAP (Student Nurse Apprentice Program) wage begins at $13 this summer. I assume this is equivalent to TA pay as the job is IDENTICAL. Hope this helps, and best wishes at STCC.

Another poster wrote: "It is obviously their legal right because most schools do that. Every school I have attended withhold your money for a few weeks until after classes have started to refund your money. " No. Most schools doing something does no...

Good for you, Danibanani. I am sorry to hear that your school is pursuing this policy, as it sounds clearly unethical and manipulative. This makes no sense... once the fed. gov't disburses the cash to you (and the school re-routes it to the booksto...

OP said, "My question is this could nursing turn men gay? or is it just gay men are turning into nurses?" No. Nursing cannot turn men gay. No. Gay men are not just "turning into nurses". OP said, "I have always heard that all male nurses are gay...

Yeah, micro was a tough class in our program, too... I'm not sure what the "best" way to grade students is, but perhaps this prof's grade distribution reflects a relative vs. an absolute grading standard (i.e. the curve). It's undeniably true that o...

Still afloat, and I am finally able to see myself functioning as an RN someday (relatively) soon! We are completing our Med/Surg (Telemetry, in our case) rotation next week, and the Home Care rotation will end this Friday. I'm keeping my average gra...

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Happens quite often. Just today in fact. It's disheartening, frustrating, and MADDENING at times. The professor then spent 20 minutes of lecture time "dialoguing" with our class about how "overstressed" we were feeling and would we like for her to...

This subject is really, seriously the most bang for your nursing buck as far as pre-reqs are concerned IMHO. The terminology, concepts, and manifestations you learn in that class will return in EVERY single nursing care class you will take thereafte...

We are losing: younger students who appear to have multiple priorities -- partying, gambling, socializing, and partying -- did I mention partying?; a few who I think had English-as-a-second language issues; a couple of young moms who realized that th...