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  1. Hondros College of Nursing LPN Program

    Buyer beware replied to cheygilley's topic in School, College Programs

    OP: I'm not sure of what the devil this Hondros is, sounds like a cross between a John Wayne movie and an island in the Bahamas, but really just it's name gives me a creepy feeling. But listen to...

  2. Do grades mean much?

    Buyer beware replied to Zooey72's topic in General Students

    Yes. Thanks to the sheep herders, apparently grades are now used to sort the wheat from the chaff. But heretofore it meant little in the workplace as often cronyism coupled with competent performance...

  3. Searching for FNP Preceptor in DALLAS!

    Buyer beware replied to WANT2NURSE's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    OP: you should ask Walden to help you with this. For the tuition you're paying certainly they should know someone who would be willing to teach you for

  4. Writing Your Own Letter of Recommendation?!

    Buyer beware replied to DomoniqueH's topic in General Students

    Yes he can sign multiple letters. Your instructor sounds like a real go-getter asking the students to draft their own recommendation letters. What an efficient way to defer this mundane task so as...

  5. NPs- USI or EKU for PMHNP??

    Buyer beware replied to BirkieGirl's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    These stats speak volumes as to why it is so important to self-fund as much as possible. Title IV graduate student loans are too expensive. If you elect to use them exclusively, you need to know that...

  6. ADN to NP program with other BS degree?

    Buyer beware replied to coneal783's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Frontier CC

  7. Global Health college

    Buyer beware replied to anna7hanna's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Although you would want any nursing school that anyone would attend to be accredited, it is important to know that these days it is hardly an imprimatur of quality, excellence or anything else. Case...

  8. Dallas hospitals that offer loan forgiveness?

    Buyer beware replied to TexBSN2016's topic in Nursing Career

    Yes, Deck the halls. If this is true or a burgeoning trend my faith in corporate America will be partially restored. I lied, not

  9. Online options for PMHNP programs

    Buyer beware replied to BirkieGirl's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    OP: Isn't preceptors "probably" not a major issue a lot like not "probably"

  10. Help! I have multiple W's and an F in my science prereqs!

    Buyer beware replied to Beatriz429's topic in General Students

    OP: The one-way ticket to hell for you is to go to a for-profit loan mill. Education Management Corporation owner of South University or University of Phoenix will gladly enroll you. They go through...

  11. Anyone graduate from Kaplan (Brightwood) ADN program

    Buyer beware replied to kevonneo's topic in General Students

    OP: With the sort of open ended question like this one, mainly dealing with your marketability post graduation from this school, it may be more helpful to those who are inclinded to offer sound...

  12. most cost-effective strategy for absn

    Buyer beware replied to Ennemkay's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    OP: (the peeps are on to you) (35-40k-ha, ha, ha!). This is a plant post most likely from some so-called academic advisor working for a for-profit post secondary loan mill looking for the unsuspecting...

  13. Is Medicare reimbursement for DME becoming much more difficult?

    Buyer beware replied to jm_emt's topic in Home Health

    Yes Libby1987, Here in South Florida it's a virtual honey pot for fraudsters. All kinds, from DME to Moe, Larry and Curly schools of CNAery, and LPNery as well as the for-profit colleges that prey...

  14. Overwhelmed by all the choices

    Buyer beware replied to tmcoleman's topic in General Nursing

    OP: There really aren't too many choices. There are just too many bad choices. So what RN program? What BSN program? What informatics program? You don't identify the school you're attending and this...

  15. Male: CNA, Should I go into Nursing or Electroneurodiagnostic Technology

    Buyer beware replied to garbenja's topic in Nursing Career

    OP: In most instances, and not being very familiar with all the diagnostic and therapeutic as well as the commercial applications as they relate to actually being gainfully employed in this field,...

  16. Problem with co-worker - called racist?

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse071094's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Better yet! Report these encounters to the warden

  17. Problem with co-worker - called racist?

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse071094's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OP: I read your narrative from front to back twice and have but one question. What the hell is an (EVS) worker? Environmental Services Worker or Evil Vicious Sinister Worker? Maybe mind your own...

  18. Loneliness and the First-Year Nontraditional Student

    Buyer beware replied to bookgirl667's topic in General Students

    OP: I wouldn't worry about your fellow professional nursing classmates not having the ability to put aside their maturity deficits in attempting to relate to you as a human being albeit an older...

  19. Bullying in the workplace

    Buyer beware replied to PrincessAlexiss's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That may be valid but it's just one POV and has the crowd mass effect of dismissing the honest complaints of those, granted few, who may feel they have no one to turn to with legitimate

  20. Why I'm leaving nursing

    Buyer beware replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. I go to work each day and it's like floation on a column of compassion air. Being an optimist and the most compassionate human being that ever lived, I can tell you that despite the HIV stick,...

  21. New to Case Management-Any Advice?

    Buyer beware replied to Marie32's topic in Case Management

    OP: Always follow-up with your faxes and orders that you send to the home healthcare company. Find out: Did they receive them? (get names) Are the orders complete?* Is the case assigned to someone?...

  22. Kicked off unit when Joint Commission arrives

    Buyer beware replied to Skittles767's topic in General Students

    Joint Commission: (phone rings) "Hello. We'll be there in a couple of weeks. Make sure you have all the dirty medical equipment cleared from the hallways...and anything else that may be tiresome and...

  23. Need help. Not seeing eye to eye with instructor

    Buyer beware replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    OP: Thirty years and not much changes. My nursing class started with a cohort of 44 students of which 6 were men/boys. Out of those 6, 3 went on to graduation. A minority attrition rate of 50%. One...

  24. New Grad RN Programs in Northern CA accepting less than 6 months experience?

    Buyer beware replied to newgradrn2016's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, OP. When the hospital corporations need new meat for the grinder it's not surprising that they recind the "experience" requirement. At which point it becomes a virtual newbie RN love fest. So...

  25. AGPCNP student desperately needs a preceptor in NJ

    Buyer beware replied to RNBBB's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    OP: Ask the program director to help you with this. You will need many other preceptors, also, going forward. Lot's of 'em. I'm sure your school and the program would not take your substantial tuition...