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Hi Michelle, I am in the same situation. Can you tell me about the process and did you contact the hospital attorney that reached out to you or did you hire a lawyer first to do that for you? How did it go?

I'm a nursing student and my professor was performing a bed bath, linen change, and wound care with our class on a patient who was unresponsive and obese. It was difficult cleaning and moving the patient, and the patient wasn't alert. It took 6 of us because of the patient's size. Problems with this patient: when lifting a flap of the patient's fat to clean, a bug jumped out which surprised us, and the professor immediately put us into PPE. The patient also had impaired skin integrity of the backside because of her size, inability to reposition on her own, and incontinence. The patient's hair was supposedly extremely matted and dirty and uncombable, and the professor got a bandage roll scissor and started cutting the patient's hair off, without consent of the nurses or the patient. The patient had near shoulder length hair and it ended up chopped up to about three inches in length. I did not personally see the condition of the patient's hair because there were 6 of us and I was at the end of the bed. I proceeded to ask the professor why she was cutting the patient's hair, and another student shushed me. I was confused and waited until post-conference to ask the professor. Another student said that I shouldn't say out loud next time because the patient would hear me. I felt frustrated because isn't it the right of the patient to know any treatment, regardless medical or cosmetic done to her? Isn't going behind her back violating her autonomy, despite her lack of alertness? This was a med-surg unit.

My prereq GPA is a 3.5, my overall GPA is a 3.6. I have applied to about 8 California State Universities. ALL of them rejected me.

Science GPA: 3.45 Overall GPA: 3.6 TEAS score: 92.7% Transferring with an A.S. in Allied Health I have been rejected from every single nursing program of California State Universities I have applied to (BSN), including College of San Mateo (ADN). What BSN programs in Washington, Oregon, New York (and nearby states), or anywhere really that I am competitive in?

I have a low GPA. My community college GPA is a 3.56 and my GPA at a university (did not complete degree) is a 2.79. Together it is about a 3.0. Most of my prereqs are Bs along with some As (no Cs at all). My TEAS score is a 92.7% but even so I don't have any references or volunteer work to add. I have applied to about 7 of the CSUs (FALL 2015) and honestly I don't think I'll get into any of them. I don't plan on reapplying for next Spring if I don't get in because my GPA, TEAS, will still be the same so what's the point right? Any advice on other routes? Easier to get into schools? I'm pretty set on nursing. If worse comes to worse I might consider out of state (is it easier outside California?) Also, is there a priority for applicants with an ADN? I might apply to an ADN program at a community college if it will speed things along. Do hospitals even hire nurses with ADN?