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JohnRebel, I'm not sure if you are IN the field or looking to go to a college, but you are misinformed. Beckfield College is accredited. You CAN get a license in ANY state after graduating their ADN program and fulfilling the state's requirements for...

I know the feeling. I looked up the topic because I was curious if this was just a regional thing or something the country is dealing with. My search led me to your post. I'm in Kentucky and we're dealing with similar circumstances. Only there were t...

This is an old thread, but I found it searching for information on when Beckfield might be adding the bachelor's program, and if anyone else finds it, I feel like I need to say a few things too. I graduated from Beckfield's ADN program. Yes, I felt t...

NOW THAT IS SPIN! BRAVO! You only highlight what you want to pick apart in an effort to deem me ignorant. Did I not also say that we should be doling out masks?! Anyway, vaccinating HCW isn't enough to prevent a dz that will most certainly spread i...

I'm a NEW nurse and I'd leave in a second if the job were easier or less messy for the same or slightly more money. I only went into nursing because I needed a career choice, I'm married and have a young daughter, and with all that, it would have bee...

When I think about that test I am still a little puzzled. 75 questions, almost all of them on the same topic, and I passed. But I walked out feeling like there was no way they could have accurately assessed my competency with those pathetic 75 questi...

I am in no way presenting my own experience as research. However, like any other human being, I base my opinions on what I've observed. That said, I am VERY familiar with the life of the alcoholic and the life of the "pothead". There are extremes in...

I will not be getting the H1N1 shot this year or ever barring someone placing a gun to my head. And I WOULD give up my license if it were an ultimatum. I was forced to receive the Hepatitis vaccinations in the military when I was young and ignorant. ...

I wouldn't advise on debinding your books. I can't tell you how many times I've needed to look in the index for something or pulled information from a section we weren't necessarily working on at the time. Plus I think I'd pull my hair out if I were ...

I go to a private ASN school that sort of recycles its instructors (you have most instructors twice.) I had a seriously BAD experience with a clinical instructor I have had as a teacher in another semester. I never had a problem with her before, she ...

From my own experience, I found that I wasted a lot of money in trying different things when the simplest things worked the best. I wouldn't waste money on a PDA. I bought the one my school offered with the Pepid program. I found the Davis Drug guid...

A long overdue update on this post: I didn't say anything. She did try her hardest to fail me, but I was persistent. She suggested I attend more clinicals than I was required to do and though nothing was ever, EVER as dreadful as spending more time w...

I've been skipping my non-nursing classes, and getting the assignments for those non-nursng classes from other students, then turning them in via email to cut down on the time I have to be at the school. Not to mention my HORRID clinical experience t...

I knew she was in the wrong. I feel INCREDIBILY HORRIBLE for giving the patient the medication without checking the MAR because I knew I should have. If I could go back (and I know I can't) I would have refused to give the medication without looking ...

Yeah, but we do two assessments anyway on every patient we get. We have to because we do a care plan on them. 1 patient, 1 bath, 2 assessments, no meds, no skills, NINE hours. I am so bored by the end of my clinical, I can barely keep my eyes open. I...

Well, I know that my experience is not even the same as my classmates' experiences. I have a friend who carpools with me to clinical and she's assigned to an instructor on the floor below me. She's been getting 3 patients, learning delegation, giving...

It's not hard. Just time consuming. Anyone who spends sufficient time studying the material will get through it. It's when you don't have a lot of time that you struggle: moms, dads, the employed, etc.

No, I do not have you confused with Bicster. I quoted Bicster, addressed the "quip" (read: insult) that he made, and then I addressed your assumption that I am generalizing. But whatever. As a nursing student, I don't have time to waste being irrita...

For anyone putting down the original poster for being upset about this, remember: we are all humans, not robots (also remember Maslow's hierarchy of needs). That said, I've learned not to gossip, but let it be known out in the open how I really feel...

At my school, med/surg is like the turning point between easy and difficult. We all got a rude awakening when we went from nursing theory and assessment technique to medical surgical nursing. It was overwhelming. But if I had been armed with one piec...

By that same token, I can tell you I know plenty of women with that same overly confident attitude who are heterosexual. One friend, in fact, offered her naked self to a be put on a 23 year old man's amateur porn web site when she was only 16...she's...

One other thing! I have a particular instructor who never fails to remind the whole class what he earns. I assure you all, it's more than 50K. He teaches in more than 2 quarters (4 quarters to be exact). Who can put up with a whole year of reading di...

Wow. I'm glad YOU are not an instructor...especially MY instructor, because it's just SOOOO professional to talk that way to anyone. I think you take my award the same moment you proclaim to give it to me. Let me rephrase: AT MY SCHOOL professors see...

We don't go to the same school do we? lol Last quarter I had an instructor who's test questions were so hard, NO ONE got an A, and only a handful (in 80 students) got a B, and many people dropped out or failed. This woman would go on and on about her...

I may not be as well educated as my instructors (in time that will come) and I may not have the experience yet (which will also come with time). But I don't consider them to be more intelligent than I, and I am paying them...a lot. If I ask them a RE...