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  1. Do You Feel "Hated on" By Trad students or grads?

    FocusRN posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    Okay this is mostly for current and grad distance learning students. For the most part, I mean those who attended schools such as Excelsior , Deaconness, or other programs for LPN to RN or RN to BSN,...

  2. "GROUP ONE" victims

    FocusRN replied to IWant2Believe's topic in General Nursing

    Well if you follow this link http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fcra.pdf and scroll to page 10, that basically tells you what you need to know. I can only see two ways of handling GroupOne and/or your...

  3. I'm Back... But... I'm Thinking About Giving Up on School

    FocusRN posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Okay it seems like I have been gone forever, I am back home with my baby boy now. I was "in labor" for about 10 hours. I said "in labor", because I mean really making progress, but if you count from...

  4. Public Breastfeeding

    FocusRN replied to MarySunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I am a mom, and now my baby prefers to take the food off of my platae rather that out of my breast (at 10 months), I do have a stance on this. I firmly believe that a woman should not be foreced...

  5. excelsior accepted in ?? states

    FocusRN replied to 1dreday's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Ohh please, RN's from around the country do want to work in Cali, as an agency nurse when ya'll go on strike so they can get paid double maybe. Hope this makes sense to every one (It didn't to me at...

  6. excelsior accepted in ?? states

    FocusRN replied to 1dreday's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Me too, well about the CPNE thing. I know that I'll plenty clinical experience when I enroll in EC but I would rather pay like $600 for a course to replace the CPNE, that pay over $1000, take it and...

  7. excelsior accepted in ?? states

    FocusRN replied to 1dreday's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Well, well, well. Acutually I live in Louisiana (from New Orleans, residing in Baton Rouge because of Katrina) But any way I am planniing on going the EC route for paramedics. I just wanted to inform...

  8. Online ASN to MSN

    FocusRN posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    Does anyone know of an online ASN to MSN program? Some of you may remeber that I am from New Orleans (currently residing in Baton Rouge), and I started my LPN program on Aug. 8th. Because my school...

  9. Working as a GN for 6 Months

    FocusRN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Has anyone done it, or anything close to it? I am asking b/c first of all I have never heard of it, and second b/c I think that I may leave my state after graduation. But I don't want to sit for the...

  10. School Starts Next Week and WITHOUT Notice !!!!....

    FocusRN posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Okay I just got a phoen call saying that school starts on the 8th and orientation is this week. Supposedly they sent out the wrong batch of letters telling us about orientation and the start of...

  11. School Starts Next Week and WITHOUT Notice !!!!....

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks, I think I will be going for the day, because after 12pm there is still alot of day left and I plan on working. My fiance will be able to take care of my son for my first week of school, but...

  12. School Starts Next Week and WITHOUT Notice !!!!....

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i have to start now, or apply again for next semester, and get put in that pool of students. and

  13. stipends for Service, is it a good idea? ... and other stuff

    FocusRN posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Okay so the end of summer in near. I am almost done with my load of summer course work, and suprise suprise I'm passing, and my son isn't in therapy, and I haven't been arrested for neglect. It's...

  14. stipends for Service, is it a good idea? ... and other stuff

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yea, I wonder what happens to the people who don't as far as the job goes. And it sounds like you scholarship is basically a stipend undercover. After all a scholarship is free money, and a stipend...

  15. stipends for Service, is it a good idea? ... and other stuff

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    26 veiws, and no replies \_--_/ {} /

  16. Please explain "per diem"?

    FocusRN replied to maggijo's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Per diem positions are positions that the employer isn't able to guarantee hours. Like when people go on vacations or take sick. For per diem when you get a call you will be working a whole shift, if...

  17. Online LPN Programs, I have two listed. Are there anymore?

    FocusRN posted a topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Hi, I am a soon to be new mom, and my plan if all else fails is to go to a nursing school that starts in June 2005 and will end in July of 2006. They only have a day program, so if I work I want be...

  18. Unfriendly RN's during clinicals

    FocusRN replied to kyliern2b's topic in General Students

    The last time I checked student nurses in clinical rotations aren't "gofers". If I wanted to learn how to fetch coffe, I would be taking a food service class. In my opinion it has nothing to do with...

  19. med-surg vs. er?

    FocusRN replied to janetrette's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well I am not even a nursing student yet, but here is my 2 cents. I was thinking about something in this area yesterday. I was watching one of those shows on discovery health; "Trauma in the ER", I...

  20. CCCOnline Increased Tuition

    FocusRN replied to MiaLyse's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I haven't got mine either. When I called Saturday morning the voicemail message said that it was sent out that morning and to check your spam/bulk mail folder because sometimes their mail goes there....

  21. What I am Taking This Summer (Is it too much?)

    FocusRN posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Human Anat & Physi 1 (CCCONLINE) Human Anat & Physi II (CCCONLINE) ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY (CCCONLINE) Microbiology (ECE) English Conp (I & II) (ECE) Life Span Psyc (ECE) General...

  22. What I am Taking This Summer (Is it too much?)

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks to everyone that had advice to give about what I asked. Now let me make this clear if I wanted to know, if anyone thought that I could juggle my course load with my son, I would have asked, "Do...

  23. What I am Taking This Summer (Is it too much?)

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks. I really need to work on number 5, that has always been a big problem. I have a photographic memory, even with things that I read, so I would always go back to my memory and them try to...

  24. What I am Taking This Summer (Is it too much?)

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks.

  25. What I am Taking This Summer (Is it too much?)

    FocusRN replied to FocusRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Wow, alot happened while I was gone, and here I will make a general reply, not to one person individually, because I don't have time. Now, because I am a God fearing christian, I won't reply to any...