Joe NightingMale MSN, RN

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    Anyone out there with student loan issues?

    Joe NightingMale posted a topic in General Nursing

    I posted this first over at the male nursing section, but I figure there's a bigger audience here. Anyway, I wondered if anyone else here had student loans worries. I'm about to start a direct-entry...
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    Hey guys....How do you all support yourselves?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Brian 77's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Loans, loans, and more loans... I'm in a grad program, so I get the grad PLUS loan to cover any cost-of-attendance items not satisfied by the Staffords. Anything unexpected comes up and I could get...
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    Getting a MSN without a BSN

    Joe NightingMale replied to tracie0305's topic in Post Graduate Students

    You can go directly into MSN programs, as long as you have the prerequisites---which you probably do, if you qualify to apply for ABSN programs. These direct-entry programs vary...some offer a generic...
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    Rethinking FNP- perhaps BSN to PhD?

    Joe NightingMale replied to ICRN2008's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I'm a bit curious---where do you see yourself teaching, in a classroom with students or in a hospital with nurses? I'm similar--my first degree was in molecular biology and I spent years in the labs....
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    Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare

    Joe NightingMale replied to mahkev2000's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I had a 3.0 as an undergrad and a 3.5 as a grad. Did good on the GRE, applied to two direct-entry MSNs, got rejected by the more competitive one and accepted by the less competitive one. Not sure if...
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    Is a generic direct entry MSN program worth it?

    Joe NightingMale replied to MemphisTiger's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I'm pretty much the same: MS in another field, wanted to become an RN quickly. With graduate programs you qualify for the PLUS loan (which used to be only for parents of students). PLUS loans cover...
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    Did anyone hate nursing school?

    Joe NightingMale replied to FNPhopeful's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've had some problems with instructors, but many more with my classmates, whose attitudes strike me as distinctly "unprofessional" (rude, disorganized, whiny, etc.). I wonder how they'll make it in...
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    Question guys...what field of nursing are you going into?

    Joe NightingMale replied to kgh31386's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Anything that'll help me pay off my student loans. No, seriously, I thought about becoming a CNS because I thought I liked differential diagnosis. Now that I'm in my second semester I'm not so keen...
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    Hey guys....How do you all support yourselves?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Brian 77's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Loans, loans, and more loans. I don't work, which helps given the intensity of my program. Stafford Loans (subsidized and unsubsidized) to cover tuition, graduate PLUS loans to cover living expenses...
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    Anyone here plan on a PhD,DNP, etc...?

    Joe NightingMale posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Kind of curious...I'm thinking of going that route, and I wonder how common it is. Most of my classmates plan to go on to get their NP or CRNA. I'm kind of the oddball in that I'm looking at a DNP,...
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    Anyone here plan on a PhD,DNP, etc...?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Yeah, I think people hear "DNP" and think it's the same thing as an FNP or ANP, not realizing it's a research degree. Like the CNL, it's not yet that well
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    Anyone here plan on a PhD,DNP, etc...?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Looking at the AACN site, it looks like that the traditional NP will remain. Which makes sense...I had always heard that the DNP shared much more in common with the PhD rather than the NP degree,...
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    Anyone here plan on a PhD,DNP, etc...?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Post Graduate Students

    The NP will be obsolete? Replaced by the DNP? Hadn't heard that. I assume we're both talking about the Doctor of Nursing Practice, which is replacing the
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    Why did you pick the nursing school you did?

    Joe NightingMale replied to Mnstn's topic in General Students

    I got a couple of reasons for choosing which NS I did: 1. Recommendation from a retired NS professor. She told me which programs were good and which path would probably be best. 2. Location, as I...
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    Financing the whole thing

    Joe NightingMale replied to jc13's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Stafford loans are available to everyone and can cover I think 20K per year. Grad students are now eligible for the PLUS loan to cover whatever remaining school/living expenses your school figures...
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    What nursing "invention" would make you famous?

    Joe NightingMale replied to juscallmegrace's topic in General Nursing

    Sedatives for patient family
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    Nursing shortage: A myth?

    Joe NightingMale replied to blacksea pebble's topic in General Nursing

    Check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to them there is still a shortage, and will be until the foreseeable future. However, it does vary geographically; around Boston there are few...
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    I'm getting a student!

    Joe NightingMale replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say it's important to be patient (no pun intended ) I start a brief clinical experience next week, and I'm hoping the RNs will be helpful...I know their reactions can be mixed. You might want to...
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    Congrats Bakpakr On Passing Your Cna Course !

    Joe NightingMale replied to muffie's topic in General Nursing

    Hurray!
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    Anyone studying for/working as a DNP?

    Joe NightingMale posted a topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Hope this gets more responses than my CNL thread. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone out there is presently working as a Doctor of Nursing Practice, or is studying for that role. It's something...
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    Ways to Know you're Addicted to Allnurses

    Joe NightingMale replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    LOL! I do those last
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    Are any of you working as a CNL?

    Joe NightingMale posted a topic in General Nursing

    That's a Clinical Nurse Leader, a topic I know that has been discussed here before. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the AACN web site. I really can't decide between the CNS and...
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    Second degree BSN, Direst entry MSN, Nurse Practitioner! Help!

    Joe NightingMale replied to lulu123's topic in General Nursing

    Not completely true; you won't get an NP from an MSN program, but it will allow you to get many of the prerequisites. Many of my classmates are going to become NPs after getting their generic MSN,...
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    Second degree BSN, Direst entry MSN, Nurse Practitioner! Help!

    Joe NightingMale replied to lulu123's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: And I'd ask why it is you want to become an NP...or if you've considered other options. You might be able to do what you want with a BSN, or an MSN, or as a CNS, etc.... For second-degree...
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    Thinking about leaving nursing school....what should I do?

    Joe NightingMale replied to ALMH85's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: Though to me, it sounds like you really don't like nursing...unless this is a familiar pattern for you (get excited, then get bored). It also sounds like you've been giving the...