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yes it does include summers. Start in January graduate in May.

Word! congrats to us. Wahoo. Fun party today too. Thanks Elizabeth, Kelly and Audrey and anyone else who helped and reads this.

Look on craigslist. I have several friends who live downtown near campus so they can walk to class and clinical. None of them have ever had a scare as far as safety is concerned. If you want to live away from campus, west ashley is very convenient as is James Island and parts of Mt pleasant.

I'm a soon to be new grad who was offered a job by phone about an hour after my interview. I politely told the manager that I was thrilled and very interested. I said I would discuss it with my wife and give her an officlal answer first thing the next morning. Frankly, if a company is so unreasonable as to understand that, you probably are going to end up being unhappy with how you are treated by them in the future. That is just plain basic professional courtesy. I am new to the nursing world but not to the working world. If you have to sign a contract and they won't give you time to really read it, you definitely don't want the job. But at the same time, it is not kosher to say "gee thanks, I'm really hoping to get a job at xyz hospital. Can I let you know when I hear from them???" I'd expect a manager to hold a position over night, maybe two if you had a good reason but not beyond that. Keep in mind a manager wants a nurse who is eager to work in their unit.

You get a call if you get a small envelope telling you that you are an alternate. I graduate in May. I was an alternate and got a call a few days later telling me I was in. I don't know if they care about already having a BA or BS but in my class there is maybe 5 that don't already have a degree.

As someone said a month ago, MUSC uses ATI not HESI. They have an NCLEX predictor that you have to pass before they will endorse you but in reality, if you can't pass that do you really want to sit for NCLEX? I mean why pay the money just to fail it. If you don't pass the predictor you are placed into a remediation group and they work with you for a couple of weeks. I can't imagine anyone getting all the way through and then not being able to pass the predictor or NCLEX after a couple week review. Good luck to you all applying.

I am almost finished with the first semester at MUSC. My PA was low around a 3 ish. #.2 I think but I had all A's and only one B in the required prereq courses. I had a 34 on the ACT. I hear the test score requirement is going away bit that is just rumor. I had been an EMT for a couple years at application. I was an alternate who got offered a spot. A lot of people say the essay matters but I can't imagine that it does. It was limited to 100 words. They are heavily pushing the DNP program on us but my understanding is that part of the DNP is your MSN as a NP.

I'm an EMT and carry a jump bag I liberated from an old employer. Actually it was going away gift from my service director but it is more fun saying i took it. I only stop of EMS isn't on scene yet. If they are there they have better resources, standing orders that allow them to do more and can coordinate to get assistance as needed. I would just be in the way. Really I think the best thing you can do of not trained in scenes is to calm everyone down and maintain c-spine if the MOI warrants it.

I don't think there are any benefits other than what any other spouse of an employee would have. I have a few friends in my class who work at MUSC so I'll ask them if they know anything.

Congratulations. I am a first semester student. I think I am pretty happy overall. I think what I like most is that almost everyone in my class is very motivated and works very hard. That is big for me as I am going back to school at age 36 and was worried about everyone acting like a bunch of college kids. The staff are almost all friendly and interested in your success. There is a bunch of shuffling that goes on and parking is for the birds. Overall. I am thrilled to be here. Congratulations. I know exactly how you felt.

Point taken on taxes. But saying you think they should pay more when they are already maying a higher rate than you leaves a bad taste in my mouth. No not at all saying that about the poor. Our system is screwed up. I have never denied that. It just costs too much. But it seems that costs have risen the more government has gotten into paying for it. I don't have data here with me so if I am wrong, please point it out. As government started spending so much on health care in the 60's with medicaid and medicare, costs have risen dramatically, far outpacing inflation. Additionally, as the government spending on these programs has increased and general taxes have increased, the concept of charity care has gone by the wayside. I don't have the time to go find all the link to the reference for you but it is from the Department of Health and Human services that since 1960 when consumers paid for 50% of health care costs and government paid 25% to now when government pays around 50% and consumers pay around 12% medical costs have gone up by 300 something %. Seems to me that it is clearly simple to see how people aren't as wise a steward of other peoples money as they are of their own and that as government spending increases, so too will costs. Short version is, I don't think the government that helped create the problem can fix the problem by spending more money on it. A similar example is student loans: Federal student loans were intended to help increase access to higher education. That may have worked but at the same time the costs of higher education have skyrocketed. This requires bigger and bigger student loans which in turn results in higher and higher tuition. Your argument that I must think only rich should get health care is a chicken argument people make to appeal to emotions rather than logic. It is similar to the argument conservatives make by saying liberals are just socialists and hate capitalism.To your point, if I opposed government healthcare, I must feel only super rich people should get healthcare. Except they aren't mutually exclusive. I don't think only rich people should have cars and televisions. There is no government control there and yet most people have cars and televisions. Why does the price of so much of everything we buy go up in technology and down in cost and health care goes up? What I am saying is government is the problem, not the solution. So in simple answer to your question, yes non charity health care should be for those that can afford it and the powers that be should come up with a solution to lower costs and help all americans afford it, not to increase demand. And for anyone who wonders, I would prefer a single payer universal system to the new law.

I guess I kind of disagree with you regarding the "selfishness." First, selfishness and greed have been the motivators that have driven a large number of the innovations in health care that have kept us healthier and living richer more full lives. So by taking profit motive away from health care we would end up relying more on individual desire to come up with new ideas and pitting that against institutional inertia. That is why I support for profit health systems and insurance. As to paying taxes, having lived all over the income scale, I can tell you that I think it is crap that you feel because you would contribute more to fix healthcare if you made over $250000 that it is then ok to use the police power of the government to force everyone else to do so. Additionally, I really don't think tax increases will be limited to those making more than $250000. If I were a person that went to tanning salons, I guess I would already be paying more now???

Thanks for the replies. How many hours did you work while in school? I am having trouble keeping my 12 hour EMS shift each week.

Thank you for replying. Curious when you say work along with the RNs. Does that mean you perform the duties of a tech?

Anyone have experience with the VA's VALOR program? I do my clinicals at a VA and the program was mentioned to me.

It isn't on the topic of the thread but if a union can collect contributions from its members and donate to a campaign why can't a corporation do so from its shareholders?? I think the SCotUS got it right.

Disagree with you as do the founders of our nation. Something about "all men created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable right" comes to mind. Now nations can decide what other rights they want to afford to people but I don't believe health care can be one. My simple belief there is that for me to have a right to health care means I have a claim to another persons time, skill or money. I believe what we really should call it is a service provided by a government for citizens. Not a right.

Short term, my feeling is it will get better as more people will seek primary care and start taking better care of themselves. Long term as shortages begin to develop, I think we will see a general decline in patient care. All opinion. I could be wrong, in fact I hope that I am.

Short term, my feeling is it will get better as more people will seek primary care and start taking better care of themselves. Long term as shortages begin to develop, I think we will see a general decline in patient care. All opinion. I could be wrong, in fact I hope that I am.

I don't think only rich people should be able to get health care either. I think we are completely gutting the power of the free market to innovate and lower prices(as it has in just about every other industry it is allowed to.) I think Government has been handcuffing healthcare for so long and that is why prices are so high. I think we should have looked for solutions that would have reduced government stifling of innovation and allowed prices to fall so that everyone can get access to health care and everyone's healthcare can get better.

Are we talking about the military system or Tricare? I was fine with Tricare well. But that seemed more like private insurance to me as my wife went to private providers and such. It was paid for by the government but was a benefit to the job just like a civilian job has benefits. It was there to keep me in and compensate for the lower pay. I was talking about the treatment I got in the actual navy healthcare system which was substandard. Perhaps we are talking about different things or I just had a different experience.

i can answer this one. this violates the 10th amendment or maybe it is the 9th that sates that the federal governments powers are limited to those listed in the constitution. however that was disregarded so long ago it isn't even funny so i doubt the court will apply it in this case. the constitution has unfortunately basically become irrelevant in the us. and as to the military health system. i am a vet of 11 years. it sucks. i was given 800mg ibuprofen to treat pericarditis. people don't complain because those in the military are generally not complainers and work tirelessly for little pay because we believe in something greater than ourselves.

Career change nursing student here so very interested in long term prospects for how this will affect us as well as patients. My take, we missed an opportunity to really fix some things. From what I have read the law will mandate everyone purchase health insurance. Low income people will get some sort of subsidy to help defray the cost. Insurance policies will have a maximum out of pocket amount and no lifetime caps. Problems I see with this point is that we now have a law that requires by force of government that people purchase something from a private company approved by the federal government. That seems kind of scary to me. It has never been done before. Maybe I am overreacting but I don't like being forced to buy something (though I already have insurance I pay for so perhaps I am overreacting.) Insurance companies will no longer be able to decline coverage for pre-existing conditions. This is going to end up causing higher premiums unless the governments calculations on how the increased number of insured's premiums will make up for that difference. Maybe they are right but they have never gotten cost estimates right ever. In a few more years, those who don't have insurance will be penalized on their taxes for not having insurance. There are 16000 people being hired by the IRS to deal with this. This will mean more people covered and seeking health care which will increase demand for services which means more nurses needed. Yipee! Unfortunately, to gain the savings that they needed to get this to pass via reconciliation, they figured in cutting of planned medicare payment rate increases. That hasn't happened and it likely won't ever so the deficit is going to go way up. What that means for us is eventual higher interest rates and greater inflation so what we gets paid buys us less and we pay more for houses and stuff. There are a lot more negatives. All in all, I think the stated goal of the law was noble and I think something needs be done to stop the spiraling costs of health care but I don't think this does it. My first economics class taught supply and demand. It seems to me that very little was done to affect supply of health care but a lot was added to demand. I think this would have been a great time to expand the scope of nursing practice and reorganize how health care is delivered in this county. Lastly, in the spirit of keeping this thread friendly, please remember that those who are opposed to this law or even universal health coverage aren't heartless monsters who want people to be without health care. We all got into nursing because we are caretakers. I am or was opposed because I believe long term this will be detrimental to all of our healthcare as well as to our economy.

Our class had a guy get accepted from the alternate list on the day class began. I was an alternate and I got in so keep your chin up!

I hadn't heard they were cutting the number down. I do know that we don't have enough clinical faculty and we are having to spend two of our clinical days first semester in the simulation lab instead of in the hospital and that is based on number of faculty. Those that applied, best of luck to you. I am really enjoying it so far. A lot more time intensive than I figured it would be but it is enjoyable and I have made a lot of friends in my clinical group that are all really great people. We are definatly a team that helps each other as much as we can. I too have heard about the dropout rate at Trident. I don't think there is any evil reason. i think it is a function of their admissions policy. If you meet the quals you get in. If you don't make it, the college has plenty of people who want to take your spot.