FormerLawyer

I would like to start taking my pre-req classes in the Spring of 2013. I am really torn as to whether I should go the ADN route, through Mid-Michigan Community College, or whether I should attempt a Second Degree BSN. The problem I have is that wit...

Oh, Mclennan, I love your plan, you are awesome! I am going to go to school for nursing as well. I;m starting my pre-reqs in the Spring, and I am currently working full time. I make terrible money (legal advocate at a women's shelter), but I love ...

I'd have to take all the pre-reqs at grand Valley and they are too far away from where I am living to make this feasible. I'm pretty sure at this point, I'm going the ADN route. I've done enough research on the job market where I am seeking my firs...

Maybe you should take a few years off to decide what you want to do? I wish that I had done that before I got my JD. I realized, way too late, that I should have pursued a degree in nursing, like i wanted to do my first year in college. You can ta...

Maybe she is just worried she will have to train another nurse? Has she been mean to you or anything since this occurred? I mean, she might just be worried. I know that in my jobs when my bosses would get calls about me and another job they would ...

You know everything the teacher covered in class? That's just the base for what you need to know. You also need to know all of the stuff in the books. The professors cannot teach the books again, they don't have the time. I'm sorry it was rough f...

I found that when I am busy, I get a lot more done because it forces me to prioritize. You will be okay if you get rejected again. I have two friends who failed the bar twice, and they have both lived (possibly the alcohol consumption from the depr...

Congrats on the job!

Where I live (smallish town), ADNs get hired from the local community college even before they take their exams. It's crazy, the hospital tends to hire these grads because of them do clinicals and internships in this hospital and they have a good re...

I think if you can swing it, an internship is always the way to go. If you can't get one, then you can try and volunteer somewhere? It's always good to have some experience to list on your resume. When I was in my post-grad program, i did three in...

Talk to them first. it will look better and less like you are hiding something. Second, stop fixating on the fact that you plead to something less than you were charged with. Do not mention that. At all. What is on your record, is what you plead...

I'm going the ADN route, but I have a BS and JD already, and I want to pay for the classes myself. If you are talking about 21k a semester and you mention aid, i have to ask, is this loans you refer to, or is this this grants and scholarships? beca...

85k with a scholarship could get you a law degree. The average debt for a student with a BS or BA is 25k. So that's ridiculously high. Also, is this one of those online schools? Because they have a huge default rate. It's about half. Which means...

I wore scrubs when I worked as a direct care worker because they were comfy. DCW is basically in home help, and I also PJS, short skirts and heels, basically, whatever I wanted. And if someone would have come up to me and said what you did, I would...

I think at the end of the day, you can do anything you put your mind to. Don;t be afraid to have questions and experiment until you find the perfect study methods for yourself. When i was in law school, it took me three terms to find the best study...

You can use the course eval like the other posters said. I'd like to point out that the first time whenIi was in college and I heard a professor drop an f bomb, I giggled like a schoolgirl. But after undergrad and law school and now working as a la...

if I get into a nursing program, I hope there are older students in it! I'm 28 and switching careers and I was afraid I was going to be the oldest one in the class, :)

And everything I posted depends on them having an appeals process where you are allowed to make your case. If I was in your situation, I would try to make my case BEFORE they had a chance to deny. I would go to the hospital and speak to someone. Y...

The hospital is private property. They do have the right to deny you, it does not matter whether your conviction is a felony or a misdemeanor. You may be able to APPEAL a denial, depending on their internal policies/procedures. I am not a nurse (y...

It's not Battery. There is certain touching that you impliedly consent to, and tapping someone on the shoulder to get their attention is one of those things. For it to be battery it would have to actually cause harm and the courts now, at least eve...

Congrats!

Congrats on the new jobs! I love hearing those stories!

I'm currently in this position as well. I was a lawyer, working for a relative, and I did not get paid as I was supposed to, I was working for less than minimum wage with the breakdown of hours vs. dollars. I left the job and recently got a new one...