MetamorphRN

I just graduated from an ADN program and I as well as many people that I graduated with got hired at Washington Hospital Center in D.C. in their competitive RN residency program. Previously, the hospital had ceased hiring nurses with Associate's degrees but have found that it's easier to hire nurses with an ADN and incentivize getting a BSN rather than excluding those with an ADN. I've heard that a lot of hospitals that had previously excluded ADNs are realizing this as well. Because of this, I don't think that getting an ADN is a waste of time, particularly if you can do a fully online RN to BSN program upon completion of your ADN. Many hospitals will also pay for most or all of your BSN courses if you're hired (WHC pays $10,000/year toward college tuition) and will therefore cost you less money in the long run.

For order of operations, I learned PEMDAS or "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" to help me in high school and it's stuck with me. So it's: 1. Parentheses 2. Exponents 3. Multiply/Divide (from left to right) 4. Add/Subtract (also from left to right) As far as exponents, what is confusing you about them?