Jo Dirt

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  1. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Here we go again. I can see this conversation with you is not going to change its course...you STILL don't get the point I give

  2. EC grads...need your input to finalize my decision to enroll

    Jo Dirt replied to copnlpn2's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Distance learning won't be cheaper if you sign a contract with College Network. This would be a big mistake, because you can get their materials for a fraction of the cost off eBay and without being...

  3. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Oh yea? How rational is it to drop out within a few weeks of taking the clinical? 70% fail? That isn't what I heard. I have no doubts I will pass, it just isn't that big of a feat as some people try...

  4. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    DYates, by your response I am seeing you still do not understand the point of what I am saying. You seem to see it as a I-made-it-by-the-deadline-how responsible-I-am thing when it has nothing to do...

  5. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Hey, in case some people haven't heard by now, DYates made it before the deadline! I didn't decide to enroll in Excelsior until November of 2004. And I don't feel like I should be put on the spot and...

  6. What about your license when you travel?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Travel

    I'm so bummed out over this...and everywhere I look I keep seeing Excelsior pop-ups, my Excelsior CPNE guide in my bookcase, I am seeing Excelsior everywhere I look...like some kind of thing following...

  7. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Look up at the top of the page at their advertisement, glowing tackier than some neon tarot card reading sign in a store front window! My husband told me my Excelsior diploma would be something I...

  8. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    They need to be shut down. A whole group of Excelsior graduates needs to congregate at the steps of Excelsior. Like you said...life changes when you least expect it. So thank you for not preaching....

  9. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You didn't understand what I was saying. A license from Excelsior *is* branded. It's branded so you can't get a license in California...see what I mean? I stand by what I say. If Excelsior isn't good...

  10. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    This really bites. I wasn't wanting to move to California permanently but I'd like to work there a few months out of the year as a travel nurse. I have no idea if I would be allowed to work in...

  11. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    How about this....say you graduate from Excelsior AFTER the deadline, so you can't be licensed, but you go through a BSN program (whether online or in person). Will the state let you get a license if...

  12. Am I just being overly sensitive?

    Jo Dirt posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work home health and while I was at the home of one of my patients I noticed some leftovers on the table that were going bad so I thought I would help get rid of them by putting them in a pan and...

  13. Am I just being overly sensitive?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at this one case where the woman had the day nurses washing windows and scrubbing floors. One nurse complained that the old lady instructed her that when she was finished scrubbing the...

  14. Am I just being overly sensitive?

    Jo Dirt replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    The man and his son live in a very old (kind of dirty) trailer. Not that this means they should be eating out of dog pans...The son loves his father and took care of him before the nurses came. His...

  15. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I'm going to have to do the 30 unit deal, meanwhile you'll find me down at the VA working with those tough old codgers. I'm looking forward to it.

  16. When do you graduate?

    Jo Dirt replied to opalmRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Graduate from Excelsior College with an ASN November 18,

  17. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Thank you for that info, sympmat. I'm checking it out. Dyates, I'm in the same predicament. I am wondering if I was to get a BSN degree online if the state would recognize that and allow me to be...

  18. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Jo Dirt replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    If I was witness to that I wouldn't be alive now. I would have literally $h*t myself to death. My sphincter blown right out my behind, giving one last merry toot as it blew in the wind. That has to be...

  19. Excelsior college - moving to California

    Jo Dirt replied to sunflowerrn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    It is ironic that California will not accept an Excelsior license that is accepted in most other states but they will honor a license that their state will accept but no other state will..... I've...

  20. Any former med surg nurses who switched to other specialities like L&D

    Jo Dirt replied to supergirl's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would like to work in a specialty area but I hear specialty areas won't hire you without experience. How do you get the experience when they won't hire you without

  21. I'm the nosy lady in walmart. Woopsie.

    Jo Dirt replied to Indy's topic in General Nursing

    How could you be so diplomatic towards this foolish woman, Indy? I would have lost my cool, and I would have called the police. She would have realized she had cut off her nose to spite her face,...

  22. What was the cost of your LPN school

    Jo Dirt replied to mrscableman's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    My program in Tennessee was app. $2700 total from the vo-tech in 1999-2000. In terms of return on your money, it was well worth it. Not many schools offer a year of school for that price and can turn...

  23. Nurse Not Doing Her Job

    Jo Dirt replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know a nurse who admits in her years of nursing she has fudged vital sign records (not just once or twice, but she makes a practice of it) as well as chem sticks and MARS. I can't say I haven't been...

  24. I got a date!!!!

    Jo Dirt replied to Laurie888's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I'm scheduled for September 23-25 in Amarillo. I'm really excited, but not feeling that scared yet, so when the reality of it finally hits I'm afraid I'll really go over the edge. Good luck to

  25. need even more exams for ec..ugh *vent*

    Jo Dirt replied to rehab nurse's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I took English comp. I and II from a local university. The only pre. req's I needed from Excelsior were A&P, microbiology, lifespan and information literacy. I started with the intent of finishing...