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I've been accepted at Seton Hall (Georgian Ct.) and Drexel and then my husband was laid off so I was thinking about applying to UMDNJ also, which is 25K to Drexel's 35K and SH's 55K. What are my chances at UMDNJ given the other two acceptances? At S...

I am wondering what NP schools follow the most rigorous medical model, and offer the best clinical experiences. That would really matter, in terms of your competence on coming out. Big name is secondary.

rph3664, when I read something like that, I think, dear God, we got off easy. And it has been hard taking care of a child with Asperger's, and the damage goes out in ripples, but we got off easy. There is no one thing to say to the parents of speci...

Around here LTC were asking for 6 months, now 12 month experience. I do volunteer EMS - at least my emergency assessment skills and ABCs are honed. And maybe you can find some private duty nursing? Just make sure you have your insurance.

I've never panicked at a needle myself but I can look at wounds on others that would have me all light-headed and tasting blood if they were on me. Being chased can't have helped your panic. It really doesn't make sense to force an injection or any...

Being a nurse, sure. Becoming one, hell no, not with the job market as it is for new grads.

They are not talking about nursing jobs at all but jobs for unlicensed personnel. Which would be fine if you were going to move to that state so you could get a job paying $10-12/hour while you go to nursing school and a foot in the door, but in even...

My dealings with them have been a little odd - maybe just very disorganized? I've given them all sorts of personal identification and now I'm worried.

May I ask what kind of work visa you're here on and when you got it? I sympathise with your struggles, but when so many American nurses are finding it impossible to find a job, I do not understand why the US is issuing new work visas to foreign nurse...

New Jersey

Went to a job fair today, in one of the hardest hit sections of the country. They told new grads to come later - maybe not for the benefit of the new grads, but for the recruiters so they wouldn't have to be deluged... you couldn't even park later. ...

Judging people is different from judging an action, and the OP is talking about the latter. Are you out there, OP? You know somewhere between a quarter and a third of women will have had an abortion by the end of their reproductive years. They are...

please don't slander us. a fraction of a percent of anti-abortionists are in favor of murdering abortion doctors (a terrorist abruption of the political process) and they are very largely condemned by the pro-life movement. nor do we want women to di...

A Catholic nursing school or a Catholic hospital will certainly help you avoid such situations. You are likely to find however that relatively few of the people there actually adhere strongly to the church's teaching on life issues - i.e. professors...

How long do you have to go to retire? If it is five or ten years, stay, get your pension, then think about nursing. This is no time to give up a secure job, and it is a bad time to enter nursing. New grads in many parts of the country are having an ...

The few new grads being hired where I am seem to be those who were CNAs at the hospital. Your nurse manager approves of your performance, potential and teamwork or you wouldn't have the offer - that should make it easier. A lot of the nurses there w...

I would if I could - it seems like very few new grads are being hired and those who worked as PCTs as students and are known by the NMs have a huge advantage. But the hospitals around here won't hire RNs as PCTs because of liability issues. If I ha...

Awsmfun, I lost a baby at 20 weeks. If she had been born alive, I would have gotten up to kill anyone who wanted to practice his skills at anything more than blow-by O2 and swaddling. Tubing, compressing and sticking a neonate with no chance at all ...

Hey, you've got a job. You missed the recession by one year. Me, I'm glad dh has a job (no raise) but I sure wish I had one too.

Some mothers might want to hold the baby. Some mothers might want to travel in the same ambulance with someone else holding the baby. Some mothers might want the baby taken away. THE THING TO DO IS ASK THE MOTHER, being honest with her and assumin...

After 6 months of nothing but resume flushes, I have an interview for a position at a local ER. I would LOVE to work there; it's close; it's a good hospital; ER is one of my top two choices. So it's not a "practice" interview and I haven't had a ch...

Nearly everyone who has swine flu will recover fine. In our state, 3 children have died of H1N1 but they all had other medical issues, very sad. H1N1 swept through my town - I think that's what 3 of my 4 children and I came down with, but we didn't...

There are many couples in my extended family who made it to 50, 60, even 70 plus years of marriage, some of them devoted, some of them not so - and none of them died close on following the death of their spouse.

Exercise for your back and core muscles can help prevent strains and pain once you have recovered. Stronger arms and legs will take more of the effort. I find it much easier to move patients and have less back pain since I started working out. Get...

Probably way more. It's running through my town and the majority of cases in my kids' schools that were tested were H1N1, but most people who are getting sick now are just staying home with it and dealing. Three of my kids just got over a very typica...