emstobsn2017

Today was my fourth day of clinical's in nursing school. The facility is a LTC and it is a **** hole. The residents sit in their feces and urine all day, there are mice running around in patients rooms and overall just dirty! The beds are soaked with urine and they don't have wipes to clean people up after a change so they use wash cloths and run through the sink and use them on the next patient. There are multiple cases of elder abuse. They are suppose to have 4 CNA per unit and they only had 3 CNA for the entire building with 10 units. There are 20 patient per nurse. The nurses don't even know where the crash cart is either, and when we finally found it and it was covered in dirty sheets and linens with old rotten food on top. The suction was broken and the equipment had old pieces of food on it. Worst one was one of the nurses was stealing Ativan and Oxycodone and was dealing it...long short is that cops were called on the nurse who was stealing. I really just don't feel safe being there. The school knows, and our clinical instructor has our back and also is amazing but the facility is a joke and should be burned to the ground. I know that not every place is like this but it just very difficult to see people and want to help, the treatment these individuals are getting are horrible and it is just frustrating.

Hey, I have also applied for the October cohort 2015, I sent my application in the first week. As far as financial assistance and paying for it goes, is that they go through that after the interview process. I also have heard that they do have a loan but it's 28,000 is the highest amount. With the process, I'm not really familiar with Regis of CU Denver, but I do know that DSN contacts people 6 weeks after the application closes. We would be hearing from them around May 15th-ish to find out if we have an interview. After the interview and depending on how it goes you take the HESI exam if you don't already have a Bachelors. The individual who have a bachelors do not take the test and go sign enrollment papers, usually same time as the interview is also the meetings with financing for school. Good luck to you!!!