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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
: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...