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When I graduated in May, the hospitals were telling us to look for jobs in LTC to get experience before moving on to the hopitals. The frustrating thing is the LTC are not hiring new grads. They want at least one year of experience preferably in ac...

I am looking for an excellent online MSN-educator program. Any suggextions? and why? Thanks so much!!!

Count me in. Older (40+) and a second degree nurse. PM when you get your survey together.

I was told they were not hiring new grads at this time. Because of the start-up period, they want nurses that are trained.

I sure do understand where you are at. I graduated in May 2009, BSN with honors. I have applied for every job that comes along. I can't relocated because of family issues, but like they say it is the same everywhere. The headhunters that I talk to...

I started my prereq's at 42 and graduated with a BSN with honors in May 2009. I was 47 when I graduated. Another student and I tied for the oldest students in the program.

Sorry to hear about the bad experience. All you can do is sell yourself the best you can? There are lots of facilties out there that don't even give new grads an interview. Consider it a great learning experience. Have faith and remember there a...

I am glad I came across this post. I am also a neonurse (like that term) and I would like to go into teaching. I love teaching and would love to teach on tenure track, but am also thinking about teaching within hospitals with the neonurse to regula...

I have BSW from many years ago. I completed a second Bachelors degree in nursing. Many colleges and universities have specific programs for second degree candidates. There are also several accelerated programs that require a Bachelors in something el...

:nurse:Recently I have been bummed about all the negativity in the nursing profession. I have vented my thought through this site about lateral violence, bad attitudes and the hardship of being a new grad. One evening, several nurse friends and I w...

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I love all of your comments! Yes I have read them all:idea: and wish a could comment back to all individually but I would be up all night. I wrote what I wrote because I was bummed. I worked a long time to find a career that suited who I was inside. ...

Alison is 45 years old. She has her PhD in psychology and has been a practicing psychologist for over 20 years. As as far as nurses not being able to the basic skill set or be good critical thinkers, that falls to our nursing education. If a person...

Why do you want to become a nurse with all the bad stuff you read? You become a nurse because it is part of your soul. Deep inside you are a nurse. You take care of other people. You take care of stray animals. You put yourself out there when others ...

Bellin is good school but is private and quite costly. There prerequistes are quite specfic. It is affliated with a Bellin Health (hospital) and I hear there clinicals are great. There are several universities (UW) that are high ranked also. Have...

I guess I need to clarify my point. There are good and bad nurses, there are good and bad nursing schools, there are good and bad nurse preceptors, and there are good and bad place to work. Nursing is a hot career. Everybody is going into nursing...

What I would change about nursing is the attitude. Nurses eat there young. They most surely do. I have been eaten more than once. Nurses and CNA tattle on each other and use the protection of anomymity to vent petty greivance and get back at one a...

Hi All!! Igeuss after reading this year-ong series of posts, I needed to add my two sense worth:twocents:. So here it goes. I understand that there are many new grads that, shall I say, not the brightest light in the world. But many of us are great...

Failure rates in nursing schools depends on the type of program. Some programs admit anybody who passes minimumn requirements. Those schools have higher failure rates. Other schools, 4 year college programs, have lower rates because they are able ...

I was a second degree nursing student in a BSN. I found it hard to find the money as well. I noted that someone suggested that you presue a Associate degree in nursing. I wouldn't. If you got into a great 4 year private school, go for it. I mus...

I am new grad and have been looking into agency temp work. I don't feel qualified to do this type of work. There are many skills that I can do well solo, but many skills are just skills learned in a lab on a dummy. I eel unsure about doing them wi...

My deepest sympathy to you and your family. The loss of parent is one of the hardest events in human life.

Thanks ! I never have let people get to me. I believe also that nurses should watch each others back and supprt each other. My father was professional firefighter and my boyfriend is military. These professions know about support ing each other. ...

:twocents:I am glad that you all are speaking out on bad preceptors. I had two bad preceptors in my nursing education ( I also had four good preceptors) One preceptor was a male. He didn't want to have students working with hime and he made life he...