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I graduated this past august taking one class at a time. Get comfortable with APA formatting. Discussion posts every week in Italy post by midnight on Wednesday and 2 responses and assignments quizzes exams are usually due by midnight Saturday. I didn't think it was that challenging I worked night shift throughout the program.

We can talk about shortage all day give an opinion but the data is there. It's there many variables that make that difference yes. During my BSN I did many papers and research that stuck with me. With baby boomers retiring soon there will be an influx of positions. Also people living longer with more chronic conditions will create more issues of a shortage. There will not be enough care facilities to support these numbers for patients. So there are buildings not ever existing for the shortage they expect. There is a high burn out with in first year and many don't stay in nursing or move to something other than the labor, stress induced, low staffing conditions that we are dealt. By 2030 projection is 960,000 shortage and home health will grow the most. Geographical location makes a huge difference, some are more picky with magnet status and experience. Cost reduction to and it costs alot more to keep training than retaining staff because it's ever evolving. Also if California nursing schools could fill all positions each year and they all passed NCLEX and received a job they still are only putting out 60% of quota of the entire state. So there are nursing jobs everywhere and will be a shortage and administrators will expect us to do more with less which pushes many out. We need need to form together with legislation to put laws protecting us and our patients. Also I work full time at a medical surgical unit my average ratio is 6:1 sometimes going up to 7:1. We are required to even start out with 5 in a shift so they staff accordingly. Also prn at a care center at night they have 109 beds and 3 nurse and 6 CNAS at night. Don't remember numbers during day. But average 40 pts per nurse and 2 CNAS. I'm working on my FNP to get away from bed side nursing because it is grueling mentally and physically on body.

You bet pearlyapple. You can always apply for the RN to MSN if you dont think the quality of the program is enough for you. You can always just finish the BSN route (once in the RN to MSN) and find another school that provides more value.

Burnout: Impact on Nursing and Quality of Care

Hardest to Easiest Nursing: Research B Holistic Health Assessment B Holistic care of older adults.A Care of Vulnerable Populations A Nursing Management A Professional Nursing A/B ..A Health promotion Medical term ---->most time consuming class over sucked. A I would rate my classes this way Overall pretty easy made my classes for my first bachelor's in business administration in comparison my business classes were way harder.

jlmarsh7 im taking the course now. I have done ok on past 2 quizzes they give a study guide with what pages to read. This seems to help.

What else is she doing that your not seeing? I would bring it up on chain of command. Talk to her document it. Bring it to charge or if your charge write her up. I know you have alot of work to already do. But she is working under your licenses. Hell I would do like stated above Ill take care of my own patients or better yet an incident report will be written every day I worked with her. They cant just ignore incident reports. Theres a reason for them. Patient safety is ultimately number one. Also your licenses.

Every RN needs to pass the NCLEX and RN school. I have a friend whom teaches at a 2 year technical college (Information Security). In there criteria is that C is average, B is above average, A is excellent. Most program I would generalize require you to make at minimum a 80% which is a B to pass their program. Still as a first year nurse, I learn things everyday, life is rough at times good day and bad days. I am challenge and take whatever comes my way. But I am doing the best I can with what I have. So I say you want a grade for floor nurses then how about this? Did my patients die on my shift? Its either pass or fail. There is no in between. Keep on nursing and stay positive.

I have three classes left. Just took research. Im wondering what to expect from Capstone since it is 7 weeks long compared to 5 like all the other classes.

It amazing that some things are so obvious but people tend to not see them as obvious. Thinking outside the box is something that is about as rare as common sense these days.

Did it come in an email or mail?

So we should know sometime next week right?

Those that applied to UT Tyler for this Fall 2012. Those that were accepted and not accepted care to share what your points were and if you were accepted or not. Thanks.