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doune, I am not. quite a few of us in the program weren't in diabetes education (i.e. in a clinic) during the program. dunno what they're doing now. I'm still working inpatient, but I'm looking for opportunities around where I live. right now, i'm working towards preparing for my CDE as I do a lot of diabetes educating with my inpatients (since the education they receive from our educators is a little....suboptimal). so yes and no, I suppose. I provide diabetes education to my patients in the inpatient setting when able, but not to a degree that that is my official job title/role, though I am looking for it to be soon.

Hello, gracielaleiva. I actually just graduated with my MSN in Diabetes Nursing last month. Aside from the school you listed, Capella University is the only other school I'm aware of that offers such a degree. Here is the link to their MSN in Diabetes part of their site: Masters in Diabetes Nursing Degree Online - Capella University This is the school I attended. It wasn't super difficult, just a lot of paper writing like pretty much any other MSN program would be. Definitely learn a good bit in the diabetes specialization courses. Also, if finances are a concern (as it was with me), Capella is more affordable than Columbia (i.e. one credit hour of a Columbia course is about the cost of a single Capella course (4 credit hours)). If you have any other questions, let me know.

Hi, I am currently nearing the completion of the MSN - Diabetes program at Capella University and just wanted to see if anyone could answer me two questions: 1. What all does the capstone course entail? 2. I was told by a student advisor (and not solicited information), that I could only take Capstone or Immersion course separately, not together. However, there is no documentation in the University Course Catalog nor anywhere in the program description that reports this statement to be true, factual, or part of the program structure. So would anyone be able to tell me why the advisor would be saying such? 3. I guess I have a third question, if anyone on these boards has completed this program at this school, have you, or anyone you know of, taken both the Capstone and Immersion courses together? I look forward to any information anyone may have. Thanks.

Congrats to you guys who got accepted. Myself, as well as about 400+ others, were e-mailed a rejection notice en masse. Personally, I don't care that I wasn't accepted, but the fact that all rejected applicants' e-mail addresses are visible for all to see in a rejection e-mail is a bit unprofessional in my opinion. Good luck, guys!

I am currently intending on at least trying working full-time at first to see how it goes. Where I work, we don't have scheduled OT, so we only work 3 days a week so that's nice...but this is, of course, assuming I receive an acceptance, haha. My scheduling also leaves wiggle room for "extended" time off. I'm off every other weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun) work Monday, off Tues-Thurs and I have maxed out PTO time so I intend on using PTO on those Mondays to effectively have a week or so off every month. Will be interesting to see how that works out.

They should just go on and accept all of us simply d/t emotional distress and inability to adhere to explicitly stated timeframes on their own website thus delaying the decision-making of those of us considering fall-back avenues of educational advancement. That, or greatly reduce tuition for the initial semester d/t the aforementioned reasons and tacking on the reason of acceptance/denial notices being issued essentially weeks before the semester begins....

Any word yet on anything? Its pretty much the end of the month, haha.

Thanks, tweety1023. I just looked it up, but it looks as though NursingCAS is just figuring everything up as it is entered. I'm assuming U.S.A. will do any necessary adjusting as per their stated admission requirements which would have my GPA different than what NursingCAS has listed. I dunno. Is what it is.

Hey guys, I've seen on other posts in other threads about this school how they saw what GPA was calculated by NursingCAS. I was just curious if anyone around here knows how to look that info up or was it something that was just being mentioned in other students' decision letters?

Just got my mail as well. Still nothing....I can't help but have this thought "If a school says they'll send out info during a specific time and doesn't notify you of a delay in mailing off said information (I'm just saying 'cause I haven't received any e-mails notifying me of such) then is this an indicator of how correspondence in the program might be???" but I'm sure this is just the impatience talking....

Hi all, I just recently found this thread. I wanted to input that I also applied for the MSN Dual Role (ER/FNP) program for this fall and have not yet received anything in the mail (either yea or nay). Glad to see I'm not alone in my personal limbo of waiting. I have a co-worker who was recently accepted into their BSN-DNP program (same track) and she said she didn't receive her acceptance later until about 3 months after the application deadline. Kinda makes me wonder why they're so behind on sending out letters? Is it unorganization? High volume of applicants to sift through? Acceptance of high volumes of students into the programs and not wanting to stagger out letters? Educational sadism??? Haha, good luck to everyone who applied.

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone here has any first hand experience working at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas or their Louis, Peaches and Owen Heart Hospital? I've lately begun researching their facility and services and am considering applying for a job there to work in a focused cardiac setting which is where my growing interest is being found. If anyone has any information regarding this place, I'd be most appreciative. I'm wondering things like, 1. What is it like to work for them? 2. What is the work environment like (i.e. staff, administration, etc.), 3. General feel of the health system there as compared to other hospitals (i.e. is it a hospital that fosters an atmosphere of camaraderie and teamwork vs. clique-laden, high school drama, alpha-nurse dominance issues), 4. Is the experience accrued there something that would have left you feeling as if you gained something positive vs. experienced something negative? and 5. (although this isn't really a huge factor, but is a factor nonetheless) was pay scale satisfactory given the specialty in question and at the institution of topic? I don't know anyone who has worked there or is currently working there. I live about a 1.5 hours outside of Tyler, TX and am just looking at options. Any advice would be helpful, thanks to all in advance!

Hi. I just recently became PCCN certified (about 2 weeks ago). All I did to study for it was I borrowed some CCRN Review DVDs by Gasparis-Vonfrolio and headed over to www.ed4nurses.com and got some of the downloads from David Woodruff (Fluid/Electrolyte Balances, ABGs, Cardiac Assessments, etc). Either one of them are good to learn from, in my opinion. The test didn't seem super difficult to me. I honestly didn't feel like the 2 hours it took me to finish the test was actually 2 hours, felt like half that hah. Good luck to ya.

Same thing happened to me but I'm not too worried about it. I've actually had some interviews having left my experience of those 3 months on my resume, but I'm still looking, . Just a matter of time. You're probably not meant to be in that environment and about to find yourself somewhere more suited to you. Good luck!

Do you have to have 1 year of nursing experience to become an agency nurse or is it possible to do that straight out the chute?

Oh cool. I was at North, hah. Which ICU?

Which one you gonna be at? And what kinda nursing?

Cool. I don't have anything against the system itself, just the situation and those involved with it. Can be a nice place to work but I've heard all kinds of "horror stories" from various people but also just as many "they've been really good to me" stories. I've even thought about leaving them off the resume considering I've spent such little time there and I've seen so many people state that less than 6 months spent a job, usually, is something not worth putting on a resume for a variety of reasons (unless it was intended to be short term) any thoughts?

It happened at WK

I did not give a 2 weeks notice because she called me into the meeting one week before my orientation was to be over and she straight out said to me "your choices are to resign or attempt to finish out your orientation where I'll most likely terminate you as an employee" so being given such an ultimatum with one week of orientation left (and her cancelling out 3 of those days) a 2 weeks notice was not given. I had called her the following week asking her what was needed for my resignation and she said "I need a letter of resignation or something in writing stating your resignation and your badge" and I said ok then she said "Well, I hope everything works out for you. I think they will". That statement implies, to me at least, that future attendance was not expected and I handed in my letter/badge and that was that. After that I had spoken to someone else at another facility who was going to hire me but by the time I'd spoken to her I had other interviews already lined up. When I called her back she said they had me as terminated and that she no longer had a position available *click*. My whole thing at this point is that I was given the choice, I called her about my choice which she accepted, gave her what she said she needed and still put me as terminated regardless.

I did leave a signed resignation letter. I had asked her what all she needed from me for my resignation and I gave her what she asked for. I do still have a copy of the letter too. All I was told by her was "Well, I hope everything works out for you. I think they will." Then just the other day I was talking to a potential employer within the same system and she informed me that when she spoke to the other hospital, they had me down as terminated because I "never called her back and just stopped showing up to work" which is not true. She told me she "was taking me off the schedule and didn't want me coming to work" that weekend (Fri-Sun) so I could "think about what I'm gonna do". So I did call. And for the comment about school, she hired 3 other classmates of mine on that same unit. 1 of them did have a long history of working as a RT, 1 of them recently just quit after I did and another guy. She never made that statement to any of them in their interviews.

Hey guys, got a little scenario to run by you guys, so here goes: I was hired on to a relatively fun nursing unit earlier this year. During my initial interview my interviewer (hiring manager) made the following statement, "I don't normally like hiring new grads from your school because I've had bad experiences in the past but I'm gonna offer you the job". Almost 3 months go by for orientation until a week before my final day of orientation was scheduled I was called into a meeting with the manager. The manager brought up a lot of things I don't remember happening, made accusations that I corrected but didn't seem to care and then brought up things I was never told about by any of my preceptors (I had probably 8 or so by the end of it all) which I believe was used to justify the decision (she said I had two patients (out of all 3 months) that requested I not be their nurse and she followed up that statement by saying I was great with my patients...make any sense?) in telling me to resign or attempt to finish out my last week of orientation where I'd "most likely be terminated" so I asked what all was needed for my resignation and I provided them. I called another potential employer within the same system and she told me that my previous employer had me down as having been terminated and the reason being that I just stopped showing up to work and never contacted them with my decision (which is a lie). So my questions to you guys are 1)what are your thoughts on this situation and 2)is it acceptable for an interviewer to make such a statement about an applicant's school? I also spoke to a friend of mine who intereviewed for the same position before me and he told me in his interview, the manager asked him a question then back tracked and said legally that question couldn't be asked. Sound off!

Hey, I just found this post. I also found myself in a similar situation as the OP. Short story made long: I was scheduled to finish orientation within the next couple weeks. First meeting after I originally started the educator asked how it was going, I replied "a little slow but I think I'm getting it." she says "well, slow is ok so long as you're getting it". A month later she bites my head off for some odd reason (even my precept said she shouldn't have been that rough). 2 weeks later her tune changes and I move on through orienation up until last week. Called in for a meeting and am told of all of these things I was never aware of (one patient requesting I not be her nurse) and things from over a month ago that I do not recall doing or not doing. After sitting and listening to them yelling at me I'm met with "You're options are basically to resign or you can try to finish out your orientation where I'm more than likely going to terminate your status as an employee on this unit. It would look better on your resume if you just resign." So, for me, being spoken to like that made my decision easy. However, during my initial interview (which she offered me the position at the end of) she made this statement, "I normally don't like hiring new grads from the school you went to. I've had bad experiences with them in the past" and that was the thought that immediately came to my mind during the end of this meeting. I guess my question to any of you is, 1) what is the general opinion of an interviewer making such a statement about where you went to school, and 2) what are you're thoughts on the situation? (Yes, I am a male RN. Yes, I've had a few instances where I've been late on meds but never given wrong meds to wrong patient or wrong route. And they had complained about time management though from EVERY working nurse I was with they say that always comes with time AFTER you figure out what works for you). Oh, and yes this was my first job but I'm not disheartened or anything, I just have my opinions of certain individuals, . Any thoughts?

Hey all. I'm sure this has probably been coverd a bazillion and one times already but I didn't see it so I'll just ask it: I recently started my new job in a cardiac stepdown unit and have been looking into future career options 2+ years down the road as I'm working on getting my BSN. Well, I was just curious to know what might be some of the major differences between working a cardiac stepdown unit vs. CCU. I'm just wondering since I'm already learning cardiac nursing with these patients how much of this experience would lead to an easier transition into the CCU and what other tasks/treatments/etc. are done in the CCU that aren't done in the stepdown unit? I figure cardiac - to - cardiac unit might be the logical path. Any suggestions/opinions/advice/clarifications?? :)

Hey everybody, whats up? I was just interested in knowing if anyone around these boards might work at either WK or LSU in the Shreveport-Bossier area and if you could prolly spot me a little info on the average pay scale vs. benefits at these places. I know I can see more info on benefits listed on LSUHSC's site but as far as WK I haven't been able to locate anything, not even estimated pay range (and LSU puts some type of pay range on their job descriptions). Just was wondering what the general experience in the real world has been versus what is advertised (or not advertised). New grad looking for more info on options before I focus my intentions one way or the other. Thanks guys!