betsey811

betsey811 has 20 years experience.

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1. Anyone left nursing TOTALLY...what are you doing now?

   betsey811 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, really? What I am basing this on is the law in the state of Indiana. Actually, I made a mistake, legally you must have at minimum a BSN to teach LPNs. I am basing this on the Ind. State BON's educational subcommittee meeting minutes from J...

2. Anyone left nursing TOTALLY...what are you doing now?

   betsey811 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   duplicate reply

3. Job

   betsey811 replied to beatris's topic in General Nursing

   Try jobs within the medical field where you can draw on your nursing experience but do not require any license or certification. Patient Care Technician at a kidney dialysis facility, psych. tech, some states do not require certification for pharmac...

4. Anyone left nursing TOTALLY...what are you doing now?

   betsey811 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   If you have a RN you can teach LPNs? If you have a Master's degree maybe, but nothing less than that. A RN with a AS or BS degree may be able to teach a nursing assistant course but not LPN/LVNs!!

5. dismissed from my ADN program HELP

   betsey811 replied to Laura77598's topic in General Students

   When I was in school our instructors ALWAYS picked out the most difficult of patients. How else are you going to learn? They told us that in the real world you will have difficult patients, and not just the few you have to care for in school, but a...

6. Any nurses out there hired by a hospital after a minor felony on their record?

   betsey811 replied to RN-NewGrad's topic in Criminal

   Hey HoustonTXRN the Army won't take you with a criminal record either, they quit taking 'anyone' decades ago.

7. Will you work during a Pandemic?

   betsey811 replied to Goju's topic in COVID

   The state of Indiana has a registry for people in the health care field to join (volunteer) in the event of such an emergency. "The government will take care of you"??? It depends on who's running the show....the same idiots who ran Katrina...or Oba...

8. Is there more demand for Physician's Assistants than for nurses?

   betsey811 replied to DanainOrlando's topic in General Nursing

   If you do go for the PA check around the area you wish to practice--some areas don't use PA's very much and thus it would be difficult to find a job, but other areas use them quite a bit....it just depends on where you live.

9. What TEAS score does your school require?

   betsey811 replied to %63theend's topic in Pre-Nursing

   At Ivy Tech in Indiana (ASN and LPN programs) you must have 80% in Reading, 70% in English and 60% in Math and in Science to be considered and then those scores are rank-ordered to determine who will be offered admission. You can take TEAS three tim...

10. unpaid speeding ticket = suspendended drivers license = nursing over??? please help!!

    betsey811 replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in Criminal

    You will have to explain this to your state board of nursing, but don't sweat it. I had almost the exact same thing happen to me--unpaid speeding ticket, suspended license, pulled over again and arrested. Except I was on my way to work as a LPN. I...

11. Any nurses out there hired by a hospital after a minor felony on their record?

    betsey811 replied to RN-NewGrad's topic in Criminal

    There is no such thing as a 'minor' felony. If this happened 14 yrs. ago when you were a teenager, I would definitely look into having the charge expunged from your record. If you have had no other criminal problems since then, this may very well b...

12. Do LVN's really make nothing (minimum wage)?

    betsey811 replied to hcer4507's topic in LPN/LVN

    :banghead:Are you kidding me? Really?? Really!! Who do you know who works 12 hr. shifts, 7 days a week? That's 84 hrs. a week, which means that 44 of those hours would be paid at time and a half (by law, over 40 hrs. is overtime). Your math is REA...