HappyNurse2005

Easy like flat out give you a good grade? For real? Any accredited college should make you EARN your good grades. If you find making good grades is easy, then thats great for you. But when you said just give it to you, I hope I was misinterpreting. Good luck

PrettyWings, I don't know because I am still in school. I can say though, the work is HARD and isn't any easier than an in person class, like those I took for my RN classes. If the school is accredited, had a good reputation, and you pass the board exam, I would hope that you would be fine

I am currently a student in a distance education (aka "online" but I don't like that terminology ) . I am attending Frontier, for their CNM program, but they also have a FNP program as well. As opposed to Moogie, I feel very connected to my class mates. I attribute this to Frontier's required on campus 3 day orientation. I met everyone, and now those names on a computer screen are real people and friends. That makes the distance learning so much easier. If I dissent have them to chat, vent, celebrate, and brainstorm with, this would be much more difficult and lonely. I thjnk that it works best if you ate comfortable with computers, and if you are self motivated. While I do have due dates on assignment, I don't have someone standing over me and making sure I get it done. I don't have set classroom time to study, I have to find the time myself. It can be hard to study at home when you are thinking of all the other things you could be doing. The flexibility is great, though. I work and have kids. I can study and do classwork while they are at school or after I get off work. It's working so far-- 4.0 GPA after 2 terms. Good luck!

Frontier does require one year of nursing experience, though not necessarily L&D experience. They will consider other relevant health care experience in lieu of the one year requirement. Keep looking for jobs-anywhere! LTC, offices, etc. Work as a doula, teach childbirth classes, whatever you can. Good luck!!

I am in the same class at Frontier as the earlier poster, klone. I applied in Feb 2010 for the August 2010 Frontier Bound. Although you are finding out your acceptance 6-8 weeks before Frontier Bound (required on campus orientation), the classes don't actually start right after orientation. My orientation was August 23-26, but classes didn't start until September 27th. As far as planning goes, as soon as you send in your application, ask for those days off work. Worst that happens is you don't get in, and you can cancel those vacation days. Better than not doing it, and then when you get accepted, its too late to request off. As far as the wait list goes, I will tell you my wait list story. I applied to class 80, but there was an overflow of accepted students to class 80, so they admitted me to class 83 instead. (along with several others, and they ended up closing class 83 admissions early b/c of this---so apply early). I was on the waitlist for class 80, while definitely being admitted to 83. I found out because the day after everyone was posting on facebook that they got their acceptance emails (and I hadn't gotten one), I called the school and they told me the wait list info/admitted to the next class. This was late June. I called a few times to check on my wait list status, and was told that no one had dropped so i was still wait listed. I still had that week requested off, just in case i got off the wait list. One week before Frontier Bound, I emailed one more time to check on wait list status, reminding them I had time off, and travel was not an issue (6 hour drive, so no flights to book or anything). I got an email back saying someone had just dropped that day, so I was in! So exciting :) I am so glad I did, too, b/c I am with a great group of women. MOre advice-get on Frontier's Facebook page. They often post updates on when they are sending out the acceptance emails. For example, today they announced that Class 90 CNM acceptance emails would be going out today, while FNP would be going out later this week. Get on their discussion boards on FB, too--meet other potential classmates and yes, skype and facebook are invaluable for getting through this program

6 years ago, soon before my graduation, I was applying for jobs while also pregnant. I went to one interview while 8 months pregnant. Didn't get offered the job, even though I brought up in the interview my solid child care arrangements--my husband. My next three interviews were after the baby was born, and I got offered all three of those jobs. SO the only job interview that didn't result in an offer was the one I went on while pregnant. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. I will never know. Of course, at the time I thought it totally sucked, b/c the one I didnt get was the job I really, really wanted (NICU). I'm so glad now that I didn't get it, b/c I was able to find my real passion (L&D). It will work out

I think a young healthy patient with a 30pt drop in systolic BP warrants further investigation, more frequent VS, MD eval, etc. Of course she was feeling better--she had narcs! I think you are in the wrong just as much as she is. But, she didn't actually harm the pt. You potentially delayed her diagnosis by 30mins. It's a mistake. Things happen.

Well, you're gonna have to disclose the Xanax on the pre employment drug screen.

At Frontier, you must be a nurse to apply , with at least one year experience, but other significant healthcare experience will be considered in lieu of the one year requirement. But-- you still have to be a RN. Frontier has no program for non-nurses to become CNMs or FNPs or WHNPs

Watching "Undercover Boss" and its the CEO of Brightstar, which i've never heard of. So, apparently one of the jobs of the company is providing agency staff to nursing homes, etc. The CEO asked a CNA what the difference between a CNA and the RN is. "They give the meds, we do the care"..... Although I know this is probably a common view of what a RN is, its still frustrating to hear it!

My first job required the Kaplan 4 day course. I didn't mind. the hospital paid for the course, and paid me my hourly salary to be there. I actually liked it though. I thought the Kaplan course questions were most like the actual NCLEX questions (this was 6 years ago). I passed first try, 75 questions. Did the kaplan course have anything to do with it? Who knows? but i'd rather be over-prepared then under-prepared I"m in grad school now, studying to become a CNM. if there is a review course for those boards, you bet i'll take it. Can't hurt. might help.

My previous job used EPIC, and I was working there when they transitioned to EPIC. It was fine. It did make the doctors enter all orders into the computer, and it also strongly discouraged any nurse/secretary from entering verbal orders, except in specific situations (doc in emergency, in a procedure, can't get to cmputer, etc)--this caused some issues b/c some docs still wanted to give verbal orders anyways i liked EPIC just fine. YOu don't have a choice in it, so just roll with it. Its better than Meditech, that i use now....

i love being a nurse. i love my job, and i've had jobs that i really didn't love as a nurse, too. i don't regret becoming a nurse at all, and never have (i've been a nurse almost 6 years). I'm so glad I did it. I love it so much, that I'm in graduate school to get my masters in nursing, and become a nurse midwife

Ladies, you won't hear anything likely until June. I applied last February for the August bridge class last summer, just like you are now. Our class didn't hear anything until the end of June. When they say you don't hear until 6-8 weeks before going to the school, they aren't kidding!!! It is a great program, I have worked full time and have four kids, and I got As first term and am working on doing so again this term. Ita not easy, but it's manageable. Good luck!!!

It's not 10 days at a time. If you do the ADN -MSN program, it is 4 days before you start (Monday afternoon-Thursday morning) then, after the first year there, you do the same four day visit, then, before you start your clinicals, you go for 8 days. That's it.

maybe she was friends with him and was being nice? If you look for an ulterior motive in everything, you will find one. When I was a nursing student, I may have been scared of the doctors, but I still wouldn't have interpreted my instructor letting a doctor go ahead of our group as a subtle implication that I should always defer to the almighty doctor.....

Do you have any experience as a nurse? Some schools Require experience. Some don't. Just be mindful of that when choosing where to apply

I was just discussing this yesterday. A nurse I work with graduates from an unaccredited (by NLN) ADN program. Her ADN school lost accreditation and didn't tell the students until they were halfway through their program. Anyways, she did run into a few RN-BSN programs that wouldn't look at her since the school was not accredited, and, some grad schools with ADN-MSN programs won't accept students from unaccredited schools. So, if you're looking for an ADN school, make sure it's accredited. If you already have that ADN from an unaccredited school, the nurse I work with is going to Grand Canyon University for her RN-BSN.

Well, guess I will be te only one to say that i did miss working in a hospital. I worked in a hospital for 4.5 years. Cardiology, then labor & delivery. I got tired of the politics and such, so I left for Monday-Friday case management job. There was relief at first. The weekends were mine, no holidays, no one dying, etc etc. Much more relaxed work day. After about 8 months, though, I wanted to go back. I missed it. Of course, I missed labor and delivery and wanted to do that. So maybe it is that I missed the care area I had left and was willing to go back to the hospital to get it. I have been back for about 3 weeks now ( though in a different hospital than the one I left) and love it. So yea, I left acute care and regretted it later. Hope you are happy with your decision!!

sure, if i fell in love with one. (oh, and if i wasn't already married, which i am...so this is hypothetical) yeah, they are subjected to lawsuits more often, work long hours, etc. but, every job has its downsides..... police officers get shot at. men who work retail make poor pay. business men can have long hours. i dont think i would discriminate against a potential life partner/husband b/c of his job (well, unless he was a mob boss....or drug lord....or hit man...ya know?)

maybe the girl thought they were stickers?

I think that poor quality education adn high quality education can be found in both the online and brick and mortar environments. In my brick and mortar ADN program, i had one instructor who was horrible (yet popular). in his lectures, he would heavily emphasize stuff that was going to be on the tests, little facts, saying stuff like "make sureyou remember this"...you know, unfairly letting us know what was going to be on the tests. He also made crass remarks, etc. In his clinicals, that were supposed to start at 2pm, he'd let us sit around until 3pm, leave early, just didn't show up one day, etc. He's no longer at that school, by the way I also just fnished my first semester of distance education ADN-MSN program (two classes). we had live online classes almost every week, required message board postings, quizzes, exams, had to give a speech in our local community, had to make a powerpoint and record it for the rest of the class to see, 6 papers between the classes (one was a 7 page argumentative paper), etc. i was pleased by the quality, and didn't feel that it was in any way lacking b/c it was distance. someone asked how the exams are possibly timed..... there is a secure browswer we downloaded onto our computer, that we have to go in to take the exams/tests. it hides everything else on the computer so all you can see is the exam. can't get to teh internet, microsoft word, anything. and its timed, 1 minute per question, then it shuts down. so no looking up all the answers. not that i'd ever try to--that will swiftly get you booted from school.

Say, for ex, that you worked Labor and Delivery at one hospital. Then, you work at another hospital in Labor and Delivery.... how long was your orientation? i mean, you know your stuff, but the hospital routines, computers, way they do things, etc are different ?

A week isn't a long time. They may have had more interviews already lined up after you they have to complete. Or, where I worked previously, the boss interviewed someone she really liked. It was the first interview. They kept interviewing bc thy wanted at least two good candidates to choose from. Did you happen to request to be notified even if you were not chosen?

No, but they do have four years of residency before they are on their own, which direct entry CNM grads do not have