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  1. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    You should provide a copy of the front and back of your card. The card needs to be for the Healthcare Provider. Mine is from the American Heart Association. I just turned my packet in
  2. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    I am STILL waiting to hear about my fin aid! I wonder what's taking so
  3. STILL don't have a job?? Vent here!

    I noticed that a few people have mentioned government jobs and I just want to echo that. I work for a VA hospital in a management capacity and we are always in need of nurses. We've even had to rely...
  4. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    Ok good. I have the receipt. How much was the scrub
  5. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    When you turned in your paperwork, did you just give the copy of your receipt from the fingerprint place or did you send something else with it? All I got back was the
  6. What is Fl. starting salary for new grads

    At the VA hospital-Starting pay for new grads, no experience, with ASN or ADN degree is $25/hr. Recruitment bonus and every year we get about a 2.5-3% pay increase so by the time I graduate in 2011,...
  7. I'm not sure if they buy them out, but we do contract nurses from various travel agencies. 9 out of 10 of them end up staying with us
  8. Help low GPA

    GIRL DON'T FEEL BAD! When I tell you I partied...I partied myself through four years and some. Sorority parties, fraternity parties, you threw it...I was there! I graduated with a whopping 2.9. I...
  9. Come on over! We'll be glad to have ya! The other thing I like about the VA is once you're in, you can transfer to any other state/city that has a VA anytime you want with no problem! One of our...
  10. Missed my clinical day

    Really??? Just an
  11. Missed my clinical day

    LOLOL I have sooooo done this before!!! Dancin and
  12. The VA (Veterans Affairs) hospitals have a program called VANEEP which will pay your salary and tuition/books while you go to school. In military terms you duty station and tour of duty is your...
  13. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    South Campus students: Did you guys get the email with the attached book list from Camille? Looks like they want us to buy our book from the South Campus book store rather than the other campus book...
  14. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    sent you an
  15. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    Looks like they just added that course! Sorry about that. That's great! I suppose you can take it then. It was not there a month ago when I took it! Only the 1 hour class was and I ended up taking it...
  16. Standing out as an applicant...

    Do you have to write an essay or statement of why you would be a good applicant? If you so, consider focusing on the future of nursing. Check out the American Organization of Nurse Executives and look...
  17. omg some one help meee :'( time to cry

    I agree with chuckz. I think you should focus on getting in and getting ready to study. You'll never know if you REALLY can't handle it until you try. I think I would have a hard time dealing with the...
  18. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    that really sux. I think this may be the case with me too. I KNOW I have too many credits. I went up there today and the lady just shook her head and said she didn't think I was going to get anything....
  19. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    You need to take: INFECTION CONTROL AND BARRIER PRECAUTIONS TUBERCULOSIS AND HEPATITIS C TO EQUAL BCs TB/OSHA/Hepatitis Don't take that OSHA: Occupational Exposure... one. That's the wrong one. You'll...
  20. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    when i met with elizabeth kenealy waaay back on august of 08, she manually entered my best grade out of my chemistrys on my degree audit. she actually asked me which one i wanted to use. i had taken...
  21. Becoming a Nurse Practioner by 2015

    I recently attended an nursing education fair at my job and I had an in depth conversation with one of the admission coordinators from FIU. She told me that they were in the process of retracking...
  22. Broward College applicants for Fall 2009

    Has anybody heard anything from financial aid? I'm still waiting to see if theyre going to be able to award me anything
  23. Do you know your 'stuff'?!!!

    Well if you're interested, another poster recommended Math for Nurses by Mary Jo Boyer. I bought it used on biblio.com for like $7.00. It's great for brushing up on your calculations and even goes...
  24. Laptop?

    Here's the link. It was actually on pg 8. Guess it's been a minute since I read it:
  25. Laptop?

    I think it's your preference. If you search this thread, maybe around page 3 or 4 or so theres a REAAAALLLY good thread on laptops. It has some info on Microsoft's "OneNote" application that I see a...