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When you are doing private duty, is it acceptable to take a nap when the patient is sleeping if their health allows for it? I love the idea of working nights but I know that I will be fighting sleep if I don't have enough physical actvity to keep me awake. If I had several patients and some company it would be a lot easier.

Ok now I feel silly for flaking out. I mean I KNOW I got SEVERAL questions wrong. But somehow I passed. It's kind of scary if you think about it... how does the test REALLY determine if you know your stuff? If you only get 85 questions (75 for RN's), ony 60 of those questions are actually scored.

I used to think I was so patient. It's only been two hours since I finished my test and I keep refreshing the Pearson Vue website to see if the results are in yet. I think I had 85 questions. All I remember is getting close to 85 and then the whole thing shut off. I thought I hit something wrong. Since I felt dumb as a brick while answering the questions, I was sure they were going to give me another 100 questions as to allow me the opportunity to prove that I did learn SOMETHING in school. I told my friend this morning that I would have a feeling of how well I did when I left. But right now the only feeling I have is butterflies.

Yeah.

Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but.... I've been coming to this website for years to get information. Some people seem to feel more than others that their opinion should be heard. I've never really had a reason to post until now. When I wanted to find about about National Academy, guess where I came. HERE. But I also like to do my own research if it's something I'm going to invest my time, money, and effort in. And as a result, I've chosen to take issue with several of the posted comments. So recently, I've become one of those people who thinks their opinion is worth blogging about.

Never seen soooooo many people take so much time to say things that either aren't true or are misleading or discouraging. Fortunately and unfortunately many people base life altering decisions on comments left by bloggers who they've never even spoken to. I just feel that people should be able to make a knowledgebale decision- one that's based on facts not opionions. Some people have been putting out plain facts, some skewed facts, and others outright lies. That's just not right or fair to anyone. I can admit that this program doesn't exactly come across as a well-oiled machine. I can't imagine why a person would publish anything representing their company with so many typographical and grammatical errors. Or why someone is not always in the office, and so on. And if that is something that is important to you as a consumer, then just don't attend. That doesn't make it a fraud. And to say so without having been defrauded is slanderous and malicious. I'm not defending the program at all- that's not my place. I could care less what people think about the program- that's their right. Unfortuanately most people don't preface their posts with " I'm not 100% sure about what I'm posting. It's just what I think is true". I just want to help out those who come to this site to get the facts. PS. The Maryland Higher Education Commission ( MHEC) issued the cease and deisist. They are only an independent agency with the responsibility of planning, supervising and coordinating Maryland's postsecondary education system. They don't enforce consumer laws. Their inital concern had little to do with fraud, but rather the notion that National Medical Academy was representing itself as a school or post-secondary institution that had not applied for their approaval. So to answer my own question on a previous post- that's why they're still in business because they are legit.

Again, National Medical Academy never professed to me to be a school, a nursing program, or a post-secondary institution. They simply told me that they could tutor me for an exam. They also wanted me to understand that thet were NOT a degree granting institution. Therefore, they were not misleading. They have not promissed anything that they couldn't deliver. Now if you can show me some law that says it is illegal to tutor someone for money, I will rest my case. And as far as falsification of documents... that is yet to be seen. With respect to the ABC news article... that is inaccurate. Hopefully everyone out there knows that you can't believe everything out there in the media. The media is a business trying to sell a story. Maryland did issue a cease and desist order based on the assumption that National Medical Academy was operating as a "school". After a response from the company's director, the state now understands the nature of the business. With respect to "paying thousands and being left holding the bag", unlike schools, National Medical Academy does not require that huge fees be paid upfront. Tutees pay as they go. Sessions didn't start until the end of July, almost exactly a month after the article- hardly enough time to collect thousands from its patrons. The board of nursing continues to "investigate" the program. But that's no biggie considering it's not a nursing program so there's not much they can do. And no one is claiming to be able to sit patrons for the Maryland board.

I think it's quite obvious that National Medical Academy (at least in MI and MD) is NOT a state approved program. Let me repeat, NOT A STATE APPROVED PROGRAM! Nor is it a school or a post-secondary institution. If they claimed to be one I'd have the most posts reporting this "scam". But I can't deny that I personally know of people here in these United States that did not attend a state-approved program and are working in their field under a valid license. As I said before, if you actually took the time to visit with an open mind, you'd understand how the process works. We live in a global society, I can attend a school in another country on-line, do my clinicals here in America, and get my nursing license. All these quotes from various regulating bodies are accurate, but they don't apply to National Medical Academy because they are obviously not state approved. AND... if this was so illegal and such a scam, why are they still in business? Surely if you all know about it so does the media and the government.

One of the beauties of being alive is that there is always something more we can learn... A "nursing school" doesn't have to be on the board of nursing's "approved list of schools" in order for a student to obtain a license. It just means that schools that are already on the list don't need any further scrutiny at the time of applying for a license. If I graduate nursing school in Oregon and decide to apply for my orginal licensure in Michigan, my school will not be on that list. Same thing if I graduate from an international program. Graduates from National Medical Academy can sit for any state board as long as they can prove that they received training comparable to an "approved" program. People who actually visit the facility tend to get a better understanding of how the process actually works. Oh yeah...does it really matter what "kind" of program a person attends as long as they can deliver competent, safe, and compassionate care? If a person has a license then theoretically they know a little something. The rest is a mystery no matter what program a nurse graduates from. There will always be good and bad health care providers no matter which school they went to or how much experience they have. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/cis_fhs_bhser_rnpkt_74438_7.pdf pay particular attention to #6 and page 2

why sit in the office on a nice summer day when there's this great invention called "call-forwarding" and "cell phone". I know for a fact that there are many schools that only meet twice a week. I personally don't have time to be in class everyday. Actually, HCC in Columbia, MD only meets 4 hours a week for lecture.