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I'm looking into the capella masters in nursing education program now. Did you finish it? Did you like it? Is your degree as valuable as one from a traditional school? Any info would be helpful!

I'm looking into getting my masters in nursing education and my hospital has a partnership with Capella making it the hands down most affordable option. I have some concerns though because it's an online for profit school and accepts nearly everyone. They are CCNE accredited, which I would think makes the degree and program legit, but I was hoping to hear from people who graduated from there and if their degree held up to those with degrees from traditional non profit schools. The person I talked with on the phone was very nice and explained the program to me without trying any sales pitches or pressure to start right away. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks.

I'm curious how many hospitals out there are paying specialty pay differential for Labor & Delivery nurses. This has been brought up time and time again on our unit. In our hospital, the general consensus is that if you cannot float to other units and other units cannot float to you, you are considered a specialty unit. The one exception to that rule seems to be our Labor & Delivery unit. Even though we meet the above criteria, they have decided that we are not a specialty unit. Coming from an oncology/med surg unit, I can say (and I'm sure all Labor nurses can agree) that there is no way a med surg nurse could come in and do our job with no training. It would be downright dangerous. There is a mandatory 4 month training if you haven't done Labor & Delivery before and I can say that I felt like I was a new grad again going through the training because it was almost all different in every way. We are an ER, an OR, and a critical care unit. Although I am interested in hospitals everywhere, I am most curious about those in Illinois, especially in the greater Chicagoland area. Thanks friends!

I am the safety officer on our unit and was trying to do some research. I was wondering what other hospitals do for their prep prior to c-sections especially using the chloraprep. On the packaging, it says to wait 3 minutes to dry on hairless skin (which is what we do) but up to an hour on hair. My question is how do you prep the pubic area? I've heard other places use the chloraprep on the abdomen and thighs then use betadine for the pubic area. If you clip the hair, would you have to clip ALL the pubic hair to get around that 1 hour wait time? We've never had a surgical fire from the prep. Thanks for the input!