RunnerRN2015 ASN, RN

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1. Paying off nursing school debt

   RunnerRN2015 replied to acj108's topic in General Nursing

   I guess my boys are lucky in that we paid for their college educations. I'm 50 and went to nursing school a couple of years ago. At one point all 3 of us were in college at the same time. We managed...

2. Paying off nursing school debt

   RunnerRN2015 replied to acj108's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital system has 2 schools associated with it; both schools offer loan forgiveness. They have multiple hospitals and doctors offices; most, if not all, graduates are hired before graduation or...

3. Paying off nursing school debt

   RunnerRN2015 replied to acj108's topic in General Nursing

   My school is part of a hospital system and offers a loan forgiveness program if you work for them after graduation. I graduated in Dec 2014. I'll have $10,000 forgiven in another couple of months and...

4. Carolinas College of Health Sciences

   RunnerRN2015 replied to futurenurse/vettech's topic in North Carolina Nursing

   I think those 2 classes were the most challenging intermediates. I ended up with a 91.2% in one and a 90.8% in the other -- which would have been fine on a 10 point scale but on an 8 point scale,...

5. New Grad looking to get into endoscopy and operating Room

   RunnerRN2015 replied to falcon53192's topic in General Nursing

   My hospital hires at least 10-12 new grads for the OR twice a year. They get put through Peri Op 101 and have a very extensive orientation. I'm surprised you can't find hospitals that hire new

6. Carolinas College of Health Sciences

   RunnerRN2015 replied to futurenurse/vettech's topic in North Carolina Nursing

   Unless they've changed, all classes are during the day. The semesters are regular 16 week semesters. All of us in pre-nursing who earned our spot in the nursing program had to sit out that semester. I...

7. Carolinas College of Health Sciences

   RunnerRN2015 replied to futurenurse/vettech's topic in North Carolina Nursing

   Congratulations! As far as getting hired after graduation, if you want to work within the CHS system, you won't have a problem getting hired. Most of us had jobs lined up (including hard to get into...

8. What do other hospitals do regard to scheduling staff for weekends?

   RunnerRN2015 replied to Metalchild's topic in General Nursing

   In my 2 previous units, we did have some weekenders who only worked weekends. That being said, we had weekend requirements, depending on whether you worked days or nights. One unit required 6 weekend...

9. Worried about drug screen

   RunnerRN2015 replied to studentnurse931's topic in General Students

   At my school, they did random ones all the time. You could be called out of class or out of clinical for it. It was purely luck of the draw who got called in. You only had a couple of hours to report...

10. GN permit for a new grad

    RunnerRN2015 replied to Daking0825's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I graduated in Dec 2014. We started the interview process with HR (my school is affiliated with a large healthcare system) early on in our last semester. A large majority of my class had jobs lined up...

11. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    RunnerRN2015 replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

    In school, out of 65 people in my class, there were 8-10 guys. Only 1 was gay...but we also had 2 lesbians, so not sure how that fits into your equation. Do they cancel each other out? On my old...

12. Healthcare jobs at 18?

    RunnerRN2015 replied to Anerelism347's topic in General Nursing

    My ADN program was 2 years, start to finish -- no pre-reqs needed other than high school requirements. I had a couple of "fresh-out-of-high-school" classmates who graduated high school in June 2012,...

13. Healthcare jobs at 18?

    RunnerRN2015 replied to Anerelism347's topic in General Nursing

    Patient representative (registering patients in the ED, taking their insurance information, etc), dietary aide, patient transport, unit secretary, environmental

14. Carolinas College of Health Sciences

    RunnerRN2015 replied to futurenurse/vettech's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I graduated from CCHS in 2014 so my experiences are still fairly current. Yes, the acceptance rate is low. That's because they get hundreds and hundreds of applications but only start 60-70 students...

15. Binded with a contract and trying to see the positive side of it.

    RunnerRN2015 replied to nursejaclynxx's topic in General Nursing

    Our L&D nurses ARE the OR nurses! If a patient needs a c-section, their L&D nurse goes to the OR with them, along with a surg tech. There'e never a time when the OR sends nurses to help with...