JustcallmeNurse

It's 7 semesters long, which do include summers. It starts in the Fall at the Main Campus and ends in the Fall also.

I don't know about the accreditation status because I am not there any longer. Here is their website for more info: ACHIEVE Program | Nursing I went to Neumann's website and didn't see anything that explicitly stated that they had an evening program, but I think that they used to and don't any longer. Honestly I am not really sure though.

It's 15%.

I went to La Salle for their evening and weekend program. I enjoyed it about as much as I think that you can enjoy nursing school. It certainly had its moments that I was fed up with it, but I would imagine that every program has its ups and downs. It's ~30k to attend the Achieve program (nights/weekends). All classes are on weekdays nights and clinicals are on weekends. Most are 8 hour clinicals but there is one semester when you have Peds/Psych and they are 12 hour clinicals. I know that recently their nclex pass rate has not been that great, but I can tell you in my graduating class out of about 75 of us, I was only aware of 3 people failing the first time for boards. I felt well-prepared for boards and I passed in ~90 questions without taking the Kaplan course. Hope that this helps!

Please stop perpetuating the rumor that there is a nursing shortage. There is absolutely no such shortage in Philadelphia, nor in many areas of the country. It is very hard as a new grad to get a job here. Many new grads end up in LTACs or SNFs, or wait months and months to get hired somewhere. There are too many schools in Philadelphia that have BSN programs for there to be a shortage.All of That being said, I am currently attending Penn for the AGACNP program and I love being here. The program is difficult, but the faculty is amazing and the program is worth the $60k for the MSN.

Penn doesn't offer any differential for weekends and they did away with their Weekend Only program a few years back. Keep in mind that with Penn as a Clinical Nurse I even though you start out at 27.32/hr, once you make Clinical Nurse II (within 2 years) you get ~10/hr more.

I went to La Salle for their evening and weekend program. It's called the Achieve program. It's the only program around here that does evenings/weekends (I don't know about any that aren't BSN, there may be ADN programs that do this).

1. Philadelphia, PA 2. Acute Care RN (BSN) in a large academic hospital in the city 1 1/2 years experience $40.90 base pay (Non-union) plus 10% diff for 3-11 and 15% diff for 11-7 (or 15% for straight nightshift 7p-7a) No weekend diffs. 3. COL varies greatly depending on where you live in the area. We live downtown and pay $1765 for a 2 bedroom apartment (fireplace, 2 floors) with a parking space in a locked lot. Living in the suburbs seems to be cheaper but then to have to consider traffic coming into town or the cost of taking the subway/regional rail line, which can be pretty pricey depending on where in the suburbs that you live.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything, and this DNP initiative is state by state so far. I don't think that many states have started requiring a DNP as of yet. In my area most of the schools still have a MSN program and there are many "Top" schools here. Many states that have the grandfather clause allow if you have start the NP program by "X" date then you would be "grandfathered" in to not have to have your DNP.

It is very difficult to get a job as a new nurse in Philly without knowing someone in a hospital already. When I graduated, it took the people who didn't know someone 4-8 months to find a job. A handful of people ended up at nursing homes or rehabs until they got experience and a handful ended up at other area hospitals to get experience until they could re-apply at a more desirable hospital. I wish you both luck in your search!

I see a lot of these trach patients for the same, head/neck/laryngeal cancer and I have also occasionally had problems inserting a non-disposable or disposable IC back in. I would say that maybe there was a plug in there, maybe they coughed after the IC came out and there was some mucous occluding the outer cannula, or maybe it was positioning. I've had some patients with larger/thicker necks that if they were looking down, or sometimes even straight ahead that the IC would not pass through. When that happens if the patient just extends their neck to look up, that usually "de-compresses" the area enough to pass the IC though. Hope that helps! (And that RT was un-necessarily rude.)

I work for a Penn hospital and can tell you that there is no union. What specifically did you want to know about the culture?

Congratulations!

One of my coworkers is currently at TJU for her FNP and I swear that she told me that she had to find her own preceptors. Good luck to you!

Honestly I would go ahead and take it anyhow. It probably starts ~$28 or so with a differential for night shift. If you don't like it, do your year, get your experience, and then leave. It's better than no job and there just aren't that many around the area for new grads. Good luck to you!