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What are your thoughts on this statement? I read through it after hearing that my hospital is planning to increase the number of surgeries in as little as two weeks. I feel this is waaay too soon considering we still have increasing positive cases in our state and city, and have had a steady number of positive cases in our hospital. After reading the AORN statement I was dismayed to see how vague it was and I’m now afraid our hospital and many others will use it as a blanket approval to start up the ORs again. I am well aware we are the revenue driver for this “non-profit” hospital which ties directly to paying staff, but I truly don’t feel like staff safety is a consideration at all. The AORN statement doesn’t include defined statements for testing all surgical patients and documentation of a recent (again, how do we define recent?) negative test prior to elective surgery. It’s completely left up to individual facilities which is a recipe for cutting corners. The most concrete statement is regarding the 14 day period of “sustained reduction” of Covid cases. That is so vague! How is “sustained reduction” defined? One fewer case each day for 14 days? Depending on how many cases you have at the start, that could be a large decrease or a drop in the bucket. Our administration says we have not done any cases on PUIs that have been found to later be confirmed positive, but I feel that’s pure luck at this point NOT an endorsement to start doing more cases. We have done Covid positive cases and I think we are taking as much precaution as possible with those. But I think it’s irresponsible to simply start increasing cases in 2 weeks and not treat every case with the assumption that it has the potential to later test positive. As a country I feel we have been under-testing and do not have a good sense of how widespread this virus truly is, given the rates of asymptomatic carriers and those transmitting it prior to showing symptoms. Has anyone else’s facility been discussing resuming elective cases? What is the Covid outbreak like in your area? What do you think about the AORN statement?

Our system “says” they are canceling elective surgeries, but they are making excuses for surgeries that can’t wait more than a month. Basically allowing docs to argue in why they “need” to do elective cases now. It makes me so angry that they are not taking the warnings seriously, and that we are using resources on that when we should be conserving in preparation for more Covid-19 patients. There are a handful in the state, but that is only going to rise since we do not have an effective quarantine and shutdown in this country.

There are quite a few nurses where I work that have gone back to school for NP. I agree with Rose_Queen, anyone who tells you OR nursing isn’t “real” is a waste of space. Everyone who goes back to grad school is going there to learn new things; you’re all there in the same boat. The nurses who are in NP programs now where I work tend to say the hardest part of going back hasn’t been the actual nursing classes (Patho, Assessment, clinical, etc) but the non-clinical courses heavy on paper-writing (ethics, legal issues, systems, etc). And returning to the routine of writing multiple long papers for school is going to happen to everyone, no matter where they got their RN experience.

Where were those when I graduated 4 months ago? Lol All the Winchester postings back then said "no new grads!" Best of luck to you OP. I am working outpatient so I don't have any helpful advice for you, sorry.

I'm in the accelerated program and our clinical sites have been: Adult health: BMC, Beth Israel-Needham, BIDMC, Psych: VA-Brockton, McLean, Emerson Maternity: BIDMC, St Elizabeths, south shore hospital, good samaritan, Cambridge hospital Community: VA-JP, Norwell VNA Peds: BMC, Boston childrens, Newton-Wellesley Our preceptorship sites are supposed to also include MGH and Brigham & Women's. I've heard some of the traditional students clinical sites to include the above plus MGH, Brigham, Cambridge public schools, Boston-area community health centers (so many to list!). The only big hospital I haven't heard of any UMB student being at is Tufts...but again I don't know where past students may have been out if that's anther option for traditional students. Hope this helps!

For lexielou22 and anyone else who may be reading/lurking here is the response I got from financial aid, with my comments in parentheses: "[COLOR=#1f497d]We will not be awarding summer students until the first or second week of May. Since you are a second BA student, you will only be eligible to receive federal loans. (duh, I already know this but I still want to know how much!) You will not be able to see your bill until you register for classes during orientation, (they've already had us register for summer and fall) therefore you won’t know whether or not you will need additional funding until then. (I'm sure this will be a valid reason to any outside loan when I ask them to expedite so I don't get dropped from classes!) Ughhh this still makes me so nervous, knowing there will be just a few weeks to pull all the financial aid stuff together. Guess we don't have much of a choice though! Forward march :)

So I tried emailing a few of my questions to the person who has sent out all the info so far. She was nice and helpful to a point. But my financial aid and health insurance questions have to go to those respective departments. I'll keep posting when I hear more.

BS in Economics

So they sent an email today with a ton of helpful info, but still not much in the way of financial aid. I think I'm going to try calling next week. I'm glad to have the textbook info finally though. Also the system wouldn't let me register for classes yet, even though all the instructions said to do that ASAP. Anyone else have any luck, with registering or aid?

Same here lexielou22.

I know this thread's been a little quiet lately, but has anyone heard anything from UMass about financial aid at this point? The usual disclaimer applies: I know there's less aid available, second bachelor's and all. But I'm still anxious to get something from the school so I can figure out what loans I need to apply for.

I believe that NU considers you a graduate student from day 1 of the entire program, so you'll apply for the FAFSA as a graduate student. I would double-check with the financial aid office to be sure. I finally got my call back yesterday. Accepted into FNP :) Such a relief! Still sending out good vibes for those who are still waiting to hear.

Alright....anyone else interview in the last two weeks and not get an acceptance notification yet? Starting to worry over here....

So my interview turned into a phone interview due to the weather yesterday. I think it went pretty well, similar to everyone else it was pretty conversational. I just dislike phone interviews in general, I always feel like I'm not saying enough to really "wow" the other person. I'm also nervous now seeing that other people heard back for acceptance so soon after their interview. The email I received today said I would hear back around the beginning of March. I feel like this is the most stressful part yet...ughh. :***:Fingers crossed for everyone else who has interviews coming up

@faith2014 I'm going to my interview this Thursday. I hope they don't cancel due to the "wintry mix" that's in the forecast. I just want to get this done