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Hello Everyone. My husband and I will be moving to the Triangle area for my husbands job; he just got hired at UNC Hospital. My question is about whether the three big hospitals (UNC, Duke, or Wake) will hire someone who graduated from a non-NLN accredited school. My ADN school where I graduated from lost its accreditation because it failed to turned paperwork in a timely manner that documented that they had a certain ratio of clinical preceptors with masters degrees. The school lost the accreditation the Fall I was supposed to graduate. I have been working as a RN in a long-term/transitional care facility for a year in Vermont. I was able to get into a RN-BSN program through Washington State University that is CCNE accredited through distance learning. I am scheduled to complete the degree Fall 2011. It is my dream to work in hospital in critical care nursing speciality. UNC Hospitals says that they require applicants to have graduated from a state accredited school. I don't know if that has changed since UNC became a Magnate hospital. Duke and WakeMed do not look like they hire nurses from non-NLN schools. Another hospital I was looking at was North Carolina Speciality Hospital in Durham. I have thought of the possibility of doing travel nursing at one of those hospitals so I can get more experience and my foot in the door. By the time I graduate in December, my degree will be a non-issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am a 4th quarter nursing student. I'm in a situation where I am one point short of passing the course and the instructor, who is the chair of the nursing department, is being a stickler. English is not my first language. I am from the Philippines and have been here in the US only for 4 years. During the summer, the time is condensed (only 8 weeks) and there is an exam every week. I did really bad on the first exam, only scoring 53%. However, I did not give up and have improved steadily exam by exam. I was able to achieve a 93% on the last exam, 6 percent above the class average. However, that left me at a 77.1%. All I needed to pass was a 77.5%, which the department would round it to a 78%, a passing score. I tried to approach the chair over an issue on a previous exam. It was over a simple IV problem. The question was asking for ml/hr given 1000ml over 6 hours. Because it was so easy, I just divided the two numbers and put my answer on the scantron without showing my work (the problem did ask for the work but I was crunched with time and did not think of showing my work for an easy question.) The teacher who graded the exam gave me the point for that question. But the nursing chair looked over the exams and docked me a week later after the results were posted. If I would have gotten that point, I would be moving on to the. I have 180.5/234 and that one point would make it 181.5/234, which is 77.5%. It hurts because I tried so hard but came one point short. If I would have got 75% or lower, I could accept it. I have always spend hours reading the whole chapter and going over the NCLEX review books. I offered to show her right in front of her face that I know how to do those types of problems. But, she does not want to here any of it. With my limited English, I was not able to effectively argue it in front of the Dean of the Health Sciences Department. I cried for several hours and am emotionally distressed. :cry::cry: Any advice on how to deal with this situation, Decelyn