AnxiousRNtobe

A friend just declined admission today so who ever is #1 on the list will be getting in before orientation.

I haven't heard of any nursing program having thousands of applicants for 40 - 60 slots but it is competitive. The incoming second career BSN program at Univ Michigan had 355 applicants for 42 slots in 2010 (about 20% acceptance rate) (2010 Second Ca...

I'm relying on the anonymity of the great big internet and the general size of the universe, I'm nervous to go "out there" with myself. Here's my situation: I started a PA program (master's degree) last year and have not liked it in any way. I have s...

I'm afraid that I've done too much damage to my GPA. I feel like I started out badly and am having trouble recovering my confidence, let alone my interest. And even though I always thought NP training was pretty much the same as PA. I always read abo...

Wow, you have all given me a lot to think about. In my mind, you were going to describe the lush green valley of nursing school (that's how my NP colleagues remember it from years back), where instructors have practical experience (and not dementia),...

Perpetual Student (I guess I am one too): your theory that I'm suffering a bad case of "the grass is greener on the BSN side of the fence" might be an element of what's going on. I imagine nursing school to not have the things that are driving me cra...

a few pages ago i posted several links to scholarly articles and the cdc discussing flu vaccine effectiveness, here is more: article showing that flu vaccine resulted in less severe pneumonia and lower long-term mortality: http://journals.lww.com/cli...

I agree, law school is not a bad choice {stirring pot} but the job market for new JDs is about what it is for new nurses. Yep, it's all about individual rights, not at all about those pesky sick patients!

Here are some studies I found with a quick Google search for reputable scientific sources: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/effectivenessqa.htm, extensive information on flu vaccine, history, historical and current morbidity and morta...

Sorry, te sarcasm in my post did not come across well. I don't know that Canadians or Mexicans or any other country has as much drama over vaccines as we do every year. I completely agree that a healthcare worker who is making a conscious (and "info...

As an American, I believe it is my God given right to refuse any intervention that "The Man" tries to force on me - whether it's the vaccine against influenza or a vaccine against old timey diseases like pertussis or seatbelts or helmets when I'm on ...

that's like saying once nurses pass the nclex they can practice anywhere. true, but so what? any beginner at a low level can do that. pas are lower-level practitioners, not remotely comparable to advanced nurse practitioners. again, do not conflate (...

I should add that PAs can practice in emergency rooms, family practice, surgery, hospitalist, psychiatry, pediatrics, geriatrics, pretty much anywhere except labor & delivery and neonatal where it's really NPs. Nurse practitioners have to pick a ...

as a clarification, do not think that because you observed them to do many of the same tasks that they had the same responsibilities. they are certainly not "equals." a pa is not a "mid-level provider." s/he is a "physician assistant." most (not a...

These are my facts, for which I will not apologize nor retract: There certainly are good and bad nurses everywhere. I don't buy the crap about UM being "Michigan Difference", that's PR propaganda that most of us locals don't believe, only out-of-town...

Warning about Pageburst: it looks like a great idea and it downloaded to my laptop fine but then when I went to put the books I bought (Mosby's Drug Reference and Mosby's Lab Manual) on my 4th generation 32 GB iPod touch, they didn't work. There's a ...

I appreciate what you said, linearthinker, we were all beginning students at one time or another and learning is a life-long process. To make fun of someone because we think we know more then they do is highly unprofessional.

I have an MSW and am going back to school to be a PA. I'd say that the answer to your question depends on your goal: do you want to do therapy (which could be done with MSW or PsyD/PhD as Nohika suggested)? Do you want to work on a psychiatric unit (...

In my state, you can't call yourself a "social worker" unless you are licensed as one (just as not just anyone can refer to themselves as a "nurse" unless properly licensed). And you can't get a license to be a social worker unless you have a degree ...

I wish it was a myth that people die in the US for lack of health insurance. I see a patients at least a few times a week whose disease is diagnosed so late that they can't be treated, or they decide not to take Tarceva/Nexxevar/TPN/stereotactic radi...

I'm a social worker in Michigan. Medicaid has nothing to do with illnesses people may (or may not) have. Medicaid is for people with very low income and assets. In Michigan, that means an income of under $13,000 or so a year (I think) for a single pe...

I know this thread is a little old but I have the same questions... After taking two prereqs at a community college (A&P and organic chemistry), I will be applying to EMUs second bachelors program. How hard is it to get accepted (I have a bachelo...