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Congratulations! I would go with a pretty scrub cap

I also suggest you watch the evening news each evening. Not Fox or CNN, just the national news on CBS, NBC or ABC

You weren't mistaken. It was getting better as people were getting vaccinated. Thanks to the awful polarization and misinformation (disinformation IMO) not enough people did to achieve herd immunity. Now there is a variant that is more transmissable....

You seem to have joined for the express purpose of trolling psych nurses

Especially because a psych discharge may not stay a psych discharge for very long

I would love to know what hospitals in or around Philly accept ADNs for their graduate nurse program. This is Main Line Health for example: Nurse Residency Program FAQs: Main Line Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2) What are the requirements to b...

Well this was back in 09 when no one was hiring new grads.our problem now is we are no longer new grads . Can you share what hospital system that is? Thanks! My cc has a great reputation for grad nurses passing the nclex

You have to take the cost of living into account though. Look at house prices there and compare to your area for similar houses.

I'm sorry I thought you WERE her arguing with me again and didn't read it closely. I appreciate your validation. I tried to delete my post but couldn't figure out how. I did change it though if you refresh

Thank you . Yes it was a very quick change here. The hospital president at our pinning had the nerve to tell us to be "encouraged" because swine flu may "improve " the job market for nursings. Didn't mention they were also boing towards magnet statu...

If I had to do it today I would go bs to bsn. That wasn't available when I started the process to changed careers around 2007. My program was ideal with evenings and weekends since I had a full time job I could not quit, although I never had a day of...

I went ADN and got through the NCLEX in 70 questions so....

When did I say I was in Chicago? I'm near Philly and you are full of it about research. What don't you get about the fact that they changed the rules in our last year? There are two hospital systems near me; main line health and Penn medicine. I am n...

Umm yes it was a community college that is accepted into all Pennsylvania state schools. What does the stock market plunge of 08 have to do with researching markets? Did you not read where I said everyone in the class before us got jobs and mostly ho...

Wow must be nice. When our local hospital went magnet they just completely cut off the new adn grads who had done clinicals in THAT hospital . Where are you?

I went to get my adn at 41 as a single mom. I had a 40 hour a week job and school was in the evenings and clinical on the weekend . My mom lives 5 miles from me so she came over to watch my daughter who was in 4-5 grade. It was a lot but I did it!

In my area "bsn preferred" means "bsn required" and that's all the hospitals

Where are you?

Exactly the class that graduated ahead of me get their dream job and we got the door slammed in our face.

They are in the northeast you cannot get a hospital job without a bsn in or around Philly. My friend even sat down with one of the hospital execs and explained our class was adn with bs in things like psych biology etc. guy didn't give a flying f tha...

Especially since my class was mostly people with prior bs degrees. Mine was I health administration for goodness sake

Were you lucky enough to have a job with tuition reimbursement though? Those of us from 09 have to get out bsn while still paying off adn loans

I am thinking of relocating to the Midwest or Florida after my daughter graduates college in three years for this very reason. I'd prefer Florida though

Where are you!? My 2009 class got completely screed over. The economy crashed and no one was hiring grad nurses in the entire Philadelphia region. A few lucky ones who had been unit secretaries had an in. The next year we all kept applying and I foun...