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  1. If There Was A Major Epidemic / Pandemic Would You Report For Duty?

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Was watching "Downton Abbey" Sunday night and it got to where the great Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 hit. Program seemed to get much of the details down right; healthy young persons were fine...

  2. Pennsylvania Nurse Charged in Deaths of 17 Patients.

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Nursing News

    Already in custody for deaths of two patients, Heather Pressdee, 41 was charged in connection with 17 other deaths that occurred at various facilities where she was previously employed....

  3. ADN Program worth it?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Julia N.'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For much if not all of NYS getting into a community college or any other ADN program is difficult as BSN schools. Even accelerated BSN programs are beating applicants back with sticks. NYS may...

  4. ADN Program worth it?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Julia N.'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    List of ACEN accredited programs in NYS: https://www.acenursing.org/search-programs?state=New+York&program-type=Associate CCNE-Accredited programs in NYS:...

  5. Pennsylvania Nurse Charged in Deaths of 17 Patients.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    As charged Ms. Pressdee faced capital murder charges. In PA that conviction carries with it death sentence on paper. However, in reality Pennsylvania has 100 inmates on death row and hasn't executed...

  6. Pennsylvania Nurse Charged in Deaths of 17 Patients.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Well, that's that. Didn't think they were going to bring back hanging just for Heather Pressdee, though it is a pity a bit of public flogging couldn't have been managed. Strong words?...

  7. Pennsylvania Nurse Charged in Deaths of 17 Patients.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Compared to former nurse Charles Cullen (confessed to killing 40 patients, charged in deaths of 29, and suspected in deaths of 100 or more), Heather Pressdee was stopped comparatively quickly....

  8. Twenty-Three PA Nursing Programs Moved to Provisional Status for NCLEX Pass Rates Below 80%

    DoGoodThenGo replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Little tidbit.... From once a high of nearly 2k diploma RN nursing programs in USA numbers have shrunk to barely 100. Only about 6% of graduate nurses sitting for NCLEX attended diploma schools....

  9. Fentanyl Crisis

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing News

    Not to be Captain Obvious here, but fentanyl crisis isn't just confined to "street" use....

  10. Twenty-Three PA Nursing Programs Moved to Provisional Status for NCLEX Pass Rates Below 80%

    DoGoodThenGo replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Great as Cornell's program was it like many other hospital-based diploma programs could not financially survive changes in healthcare financing that began in 1970's. When private insurers along...

  11. *RIP* June Olsen - College of S.I. Professor/Instructor

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in New York Nursing

    Hope won't get in trouble for cross posting, but notice appeared recently in S.I. Advance of June Olsen's passing. Professor Olsen frequently taught med dose calculations, but even if she wasn't...

  12. *RIP* June Olsen Emeritus RN MS - Authored Med Dose Calculation Books

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Nursing News

    I didn't see an "obituary" section for AN, so I am posting this in the news section. June Olsen, RN, passed away on 1 March 2023, aged 90. Mrs. Olsen was instrumental in starting and...

  13. Help!!Does anyone know of BSN programs that will accept failed nursing school students

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Kenny Rogers's topic in General Students

    This pretty much answers your queries. https://www.registerednursing.org/articles/what-if-nursing-school-isn't-accredited/...

  14. Nyc cuny nursing

    DoGoodThenGo replied to ehlisssaa's topic in New York Nursing

    Far as CUNY goes your options are basically nil. No matter where you apply as an undergraduate your transcript will follow and thus reveal previous courses including those failed. If you failed...

  15. Brooklyn, NY Nurse Beaten Into Coma Has Passed Away

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Nursing News

    This is an update of sorts to a story from six years ago. Evelyn Lynch, R.N. a nurse at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, NY was attacked and brutally beaten by a male patient. She never regained...

  16. Anyone Remember The United States Public Health Service Hospitals?

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Until Ronald Regan ordered it closed back in the 1980's we had one on Staten Island, NY, and IIRC there were at least seven others. Maybe am not looking in the proper section but don't see much talk...

  17. Patient Dies At WellSpan York Hospital ER - Left Unattended For Over An Hour

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Nursing News

    YORK, Pa. - Officials have confirmed the death of an ER patient at WellSpan York Hospital in August after the person was left unattended in the waiting room for more than an hour....

  18. Patient Dies At WellSpan York Hospital ER - Left Unattended For Over An Hour

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Oh I don't know... From above linked article: "Security camera footage showed that the patient had his oxygen discontinued when he were transferred from the ambulance stretcher to the wheelchair. And...

  19. BMCC 2020

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Knights143's topic in New York Nursing

    Since you'll already have a four year degree, it serves no purpose getting an ADN now that NYS has passed the "BSN in Ten" requirement. You are far better off just going for a second...

  20. NYP Weil-Cornell non union

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Jimpagliazzo's topic in New York Nursing

    Cannot give specific answers to your queries, but can answer at least one general. When Columbia Presbyterian and New York Hospital/Cornell merged the places that were union remained, and those that...

  21. why is an RN considered as an expense instead of an asset?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to juviasama's topic in General Nursing

    For any business, company or whatever, those who hire employees universally view them as an "expense". That is how accounting, tax laws and other things treat those hired by someone who have an...

  22. Trump's 'religious conscience'

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Hello All! Just wading in here without having read entire several pages of postings. First and foremost was born, raised and still live in NYC, and have never known nor heard of DT being particularly...

  23. Failed Fundamentals at BMCC, now what?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to guest1048062's topic in New York Nursing

    Just to be fair, CUNY nursing programs do have a method behind their madness. You can go online to the NYS website and look at historical board passing rates for various programs. Over the years many...

  24. Failed Fundamentals at BMCC, now what?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to guest1048062's topic in New York Nursing

    Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Stuff happens. Life happens. But it is important to realize when it might be best to step back rather than soldiering on. This advice is often best headed...

  25. Does the BSN in 10 apply to all nurses or just RN's and why?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LPNTORN704's topic in General Nursing

    This is probably one of the better articles on how things reached this stage: http://home.nwciowa.edu/publicdownload/Nursing%20Department%5CNUR310%5CBSN%20Required.pdf Also the famous (or infamous)...