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I don't think it's farfetched. I used to work the QC lab of a foundry that made huge heavy section cast iron parts for wind turbines, mining, rock crushing, etc. Those are cast in huge molds made of sand and resins. There was black carbon dust eve...

Why didn't they just listen to the trained medical professionals who told them the truth back in October. July has been like watching two people who've lost their marbles. They act like they are on autopilot or something, like they never listened ...

I'll preface this by saying I was in a diploma school that enrolled a cohort of 65-75 students EVERY year, if they could find that many students. But they only graduated a class of 25-35 students, at most, consistently over the recent 4 years I have...

Can you get a new-grad RN job where you live or where you intend to live, with "just" a diploma RN? Or would you need a BSN to be hired as RN? LTC facilities in TX still hire new-grad diploma RNs with no experience. Hospitals in more rural area...

Here in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, every county has a vo-tech that offers LPN that can be completed in 1 year or less. It's a trade school type degree that doesn't transfer to college credit later. We have at least one community college that o...

I don't have time to read through all of the pages of this thread. But, what women who have been nurses for decades forget is that those of us who have had less physically demanding jobs for those decades are a lot fresher in our 50s because we have...

No, they don't want find out. They are just very convinced of their power to force their values and preferences onto other people, and make other people bend to their will. That may have worked on doting parents, but it won't work on everyone and...

I think YOU are the one who missed the point of Heinz57's post, which is don't do something that you might regret later. You sound blissfully ignorant, lol. Don't do something that could handicap you. My mother told us kids "If everyone jumped...

I think that too many nursing schools have realized that this type of student is their future. If mom & dad or spouse can't pay, and there are no grants, and the reality is that MOST of the students are non-traditional older students and career...

Take a good look at the LPN program. Is it set up to be a feeder into RN or BSN degrees? I'm in Pennsylvania. There is one community college near me that offers a LPN degree, and that's a rarity here. That LPN degree is structured so that all of...

I have two friends who finished the diploma RN school in Pennsylvania that I attended but didn't finish. Both were grausated in Dec 2012 and passed NCLEX-RN soon after. One stayed in that town, got a RN job in ER, and finished her BSN while working ...

Class of 2015. This diploma school has consistently graduated a class of about 30-35 from 2012 to current, even after curriculum changes. Buyer beware. It's sink or swim there. Starting a class of 60-65 students and finishing 30-35 including tr...

It's pretty much a fallacy for many people to think that "retirement is just around the corner." Unless one has a large nestegg or is a broken down wreck at 65, there's no real reason to ever quit work that you can do competently. Remember, the re...

Religion class doesn't sound like a huge workload on the prof. Talk to the prof and see if he or she will allow an extra student in the class. You have to figure there's always one who drops out or drops at the last minute when they can't pay.

I just read something the other day (actually, several articles online) that said med schools across the board were expanding to be able to admit larger classes. It you're interested, go for it. There's always an emphasis on family practice. I k...

Rates depend on what your local cc charges. Butler BC3.EDU here is really low for Butler county residents. $141 / credit, full time $1,500 + $41 Per Credit outside Butler county $241/credit, full time ...

Gee. It sounds like there's enough steady workload there for the facility to hire a second sonographer if not a third. Then at least TWO of the graduates would have found jobs. Or, they could attach and apartment to that unit so the on-call sonogr...

And even if you didn't get a hospital R.N. job or your nursing "dream job," you'd still be a R.N. (associate or diploma, which is usually as much college as ADN plus has more actual clinical hours), making R.N. wages which will go a long way toward p...

Okay, I might not have described it quite that way, lol. But it does bring up a valid point: They have started to look unsanitary to me. I'm not sure how, when, or why I started to have that reaction to tatts. I didn't set out to develop a di...

One thing that definitely needs to be done, since new RNs need to hit the ground running, is the RN education has to be revamped to cut the crap and teach how to do the job of nursing. The days of RN programs turning out new grads who are not a fin...

Western PA has many of them, and you might want to look at the Pittsburgh area. New Castle, Jameson Hospital Sharon, Sharon Regional Hospital in conjunction with local Penn State branch (check on that one) Washington, The Washington Hospital SON P...

That's what I said in R.N. school back in 2011, and that was before ebola, even: The personnel protection available in the average hospital is not worth squat. And the mythical powers of hand-washing are highly overrated. And hospital admini...

Did the hospital even have enough grounds to detain or admit him at that first visit? Apparently not, or they would have done it or at least called the CDC for advice. Hindsight is always 20/20. I'm disturbed by just how much criticism is being ...

I used a GED math review book to re-teach myself all of the algebra that I learned in high school. I don't have any problems with English and grammar. But you might browse some of the GED English & grammar books to see if you think they'd ...

Yeah, it is dysfunctional in the extreme. And downright abusive, from an adult's perspective. Nursing school admission letters ought to come with a red rubber-stamped disclaimer on them that says "This will be the most hostile and dysfunctional ...