ready2getoutofCT

I just had a question for you, ive gone to goodwin before a couple years ago but it seems to have changed since then....since youve gone to a recent seminar can you tell me how often they do enrollment into the nursing program? is it 3 times a year or just 2? i cant call because of holiday break and im trying to figure out things bc i had last minute changes to my life plan!

I know this isn't about nursing school or drugs but I don't have health insurance so I'm trying to figure out if its worth the medical bills to go to the doctor or if i'm being paranoid. I am 26 and having been tanning on an off since i was 15, i grew up in the south so its part of the culture to be tan and ive been weaning myself off of them, i believe it is an addiction, but i have had a pretty much colorless spot growing on my back, very slowly getting bigger over years and for the past year my immune system seems to be going downhill, im sick constantly, with fevers, chronic coughs, dizzy spells, and nausea. im worried but i dont know because the bump isnt a weird shape or color. If anyone has an opinion id love to hear it. ps-besides that one bump, i dont have anything but freckles.

This is more of just a general rant about whats going on with nursing school and the nursing field lately. It absolutely drives me CRAZY that its so competitive to get into a nursing school bc of how many applicants there are. Normally I would just do my best and apply but the fact that I'm having to compete against people who didn't REALLY want to be nurses but they can't get a job in their field gets on my nerves. I have always wanted to be a nurse, since i was little...im 26 and ive had been working as a CNA since 2004...working my way up, starting from the bottom for experience until I get my RN...In all my science classes and people I meet, they all have degrees in dance or english but can't get a job or they want more money so theyre like "screw it, ill try nursing".....For someone who was born to be in this field, not just any person can be a nurse, you have to have a big heart, and a tough stomach. WHATS up with this!?! find something else to go to school for!!

i just want to correct something in case anyone reads this. PCTs and CNAs are the same thing, it just depends on the facility to what they call them, usually hospitals use the term patient care associate or patient care tech. CNAs also have to use hoyer lifts and deal with foley catheters and if you want to draw blood you have to go to school to become a phlebotomist

I just wanted to say, ive been a CNA for 6 years and Im just now going to school for my RN but you saying there is no benefit from being a CNA before becoming an LPN or RN is false. Ive talked to my bosses at the Rehab facility i work at now and they look at your history and they would take a new nurse that has worked as a cna before they would take a nurse who has no nursing history, and you also LEARN working as a CNA bc you work WITH the nurses.

just wanted to say i know 2 ladies that graduated from Goodwin recently and both said they were only able to find jobs at the rehab/LTC facility that i work. apparenlty its harder to get jobs in hospitals, im hearing you need to know people. I thankfully know people at hartford hosp. hopefully that will help me once i graduate!

I am applying to nursing school right now at CSM leonardtown campus and they do go by residency.....they say openly that in county residence get priority admissions over out of county. Lucky for me because the leonardtown campus is out in the country so not as many people as in DC or Baltimore area. :)

I had hyperemesis, just wanted to add i had a zofran pump and it didnt do much for me, i still got hospitalized and kept throwing up but i kept using it all 9 months for fear i would die without it! My daughter turned out healthy which was my biggest fear because there doesnt seem to be much study done in this area.

Hey, Im looking to enrolling at Capital to finish up my pre-reqs for the nursing program, i have left Goodwin because of cost of tuition, its just too expensive and keeps getting worse bc of new campus costs. How is Capital and does anyone know about an on-campus daycare??? Ive read online they have one but havent seen anything about it on the website. I have a newborn so I have to work around her for scheduling classes.... Any info would be appreciated!!!

porter and chester in rocky hill, well they have other branches also and there is Lincoln tech formerly New England Tech, they are both easy to get into, but both full time days, usually M-Th from about 8-3, i believe some might do night class options bc i went to lincoln tech for a couple weeks and did night classes. They arent too bad with cost and you can get finanical aide. CNAs in CT work their butts off and get paid ****. Your best bet is to work for a pooling company...I worked for Maxim in East Hartford and they paid me $12-13/hr, u can tell them what type of jobs you want, but you'll be going to different nursing homes because it is a staffing company. If you work directly at a nursing home, you'll only be able to make around $9/hr, MAYBE 10 if youre lucky. You do all the work, and the nurses push a cart and get 30/hr. Id get to Nursing school asap!! Ps-I know someone who is an LPN and works at a prison and made $100,000 last year working some overtime and weekends, so definitely worth the $20k school tuition!!

It depends if you want to get your BS or your AD. There is obviously a pay difference, although not a MAJOR one, if you get your bachelors vs associates. Central is a good school, although the nursing program is basically brand new. Ive heard good things about the Capital nursing program and there isnt a huge waiting list anymore like there used to be which is a plus. I am enrolling into the Capital nursing program but I am 25 with a child so its a different situation, I dont have the time to devote to 4 years of college now. I'd honestly say go for the BS while youre still younger, i wish i did, but i was too busy partying to care when i was 21, all of a sudden i realized im just getting older now and have to buckle down and get stuff done! Good luck!

I just withdrew from Goodwin, they are EXTREMELy expensive, taking 3 classes a semester will run u about $6,000 and it keeps going up thanks to their new building that they have to pay off or maintain. And they also work on a "point system", its their way of getting all the money out of you they can. If you want to graduate from Goodwin, you can pretty much guarantee you have to take all your classes there, bc each class gives you points and you have to have a certain amount of points at the end to get into the nursing program, the better your grades are, the more points you get, same works for when you take the state nursing test. Its all a gimick i realised. I looked into CapitalCC and their program is shorter, less classes, almost an AMAZING $1,000 cheaper a class and there isn't an extremely long wait. I was told if i enrolled for Spring 2010 that i could graduate fall 2011 or spring 2012, but I already have 20 credits in sciences and other required classes, that i took at Goodwin and have a pretty penny of debt from! If youre lucky enough to have your parents pay for your school then i'd say try goodwin, the staff is very nice.

I wanted to move back to MS, but all this pay talk is scary. I know Connecticut is a lot richer than MS but starting pay here is around $60,000 and I know some LPNs that make $100,000 a year just from working a little overtime. Why are the nurses in MS paid so low?? or are the people on this board just looking at the wrong companies??