charlestonsailing

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

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 ...

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 ne...

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 t...

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...

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 ju...

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, st...

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 wa...

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...

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. S...

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?

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 t...

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 h...

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...