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  1. 2015 allnurses Salary Survey Results

    Buyer beware replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Medical College of Georgia/ Augusta,GA *(1988) $25.00 Nights-Weekends, No Diff, No Benefits- "Baylor Plan" 2 years RN/BSN Surgical ICU, Open Heart Recovery, Trauma Overflow $25.00 in 1988 valuation...

  2. Go for regionally accredited schools

    Buyer beware replied to Larry2016's topic in Ohio Nursing

    @Larry2016. I would just add one more caveat.. Even accredited schools can be terrible. You mentioned for-profits. Many of them are also regionally accredited so as you know this alone is far from...

  3. Is this discrimination?

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

    There is an old hospital, nursing, medical aphorism that says in the hospital setting "there's a snake around every tree." Unfortunately, very often you are dealing with patients and family members...

  4. should I go to grad school at 49 yrs old, 26 yrs of nursing?

    Buyer beware replied to dalainey's topic in General Nursing

    You are not too old but there are some things I would advise you not to do under any circumstances though: 1. Do not go to ANY for-profit school. Having been rejected by two schools already may have...

  5. Best shoes for clinicals

    Buyer beware replied to Erythropoiesis's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Steletto

  6. Anyone Applying for Prarie View A&M nursing school for Spring 2017?

    Buyer beware replied to Meganfreeman16's topic in Texas Nursing

    You sound like a competent student with competive academic credentials. PV is ranked well and is a state sponsered traditionally black college. I could not find them on collegescorecard.edu.gov. I...

  7. BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    Buyer beware replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    Diploma trained nurses are the BEST. I think those that know, know

  8. BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    Buyer beware replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    In 1965, the American Nurses Association promulgated a position paper that would require that within 10 years the BSN would be the minimun academic requirement for entry into the profession. Why...

  9. BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

    Buyer beware replied to allnurses's topic in General Students

    This comment is very bizarre. But I must say, I find your devil-be-damned approach, nonetheless, provocatively

  10. Reasons for not getting into a for profit school?

    Buyer beware replied to Tashbun's topic in General Nursing

    @futurepsychern: You have not answered the questions I ask. I suspect you may be a shill for the for-profit post secondary college industry. Do not lead others astray just to justify your poor,...

  11. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    Buyer beware replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

    I recall my first clinical rotation many years ago. Many people expressed the usual anxieties about actually doing hands-on care for the first time. The instructor adeptly sensing our collective...

  12. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    Buyer beware replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

  13. Reasons for not getting into a for profit school?

    Buyer beware replied to Tashbun's topic in General Nursing

    Just wondering. What for-profit school do you go to? What is their graduation and retention rate? I wish you success but I have found that most, not all, for-profit schools leave the majority of their...

  14. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    Buyer beware replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, you meet all kinds of unpleasant people in nursing and the same personality types over the years oddly enough keep on being spawned. It's like one step forward, two steps back. Not much changes....

  15. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    Buyer beware replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

    @ bsyrn,ASN: I don't know why some of these "professionals" "get off" on being sadists but yours is a fairly common socially inept comment I have heard down through the years and tantamount to when in...

  16. Reasons for not getting into a for profit school?

    Buyer beware replied to Tashbun's topic in General Nursing

    Many things in education have changed for the worse over the years. Unfortunately the imprimatur of accreditation is one of them. It's a thorny issue but many accrediting bodies of for-profit schools...

  17. Reasons for not getting into a for profit school?

    Buyer beware replied to Tashbun's topic in General Nursing

    OP: a few of the answers to your question are beyond comprehension. There are only 2 reasons that someone, anyone, would not be admitted into a for-profit loan mill school. 1. The person in question...

  18. Need Help!! Brightwood (Kaplan) or Concorde

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

    Please stay away from for-profit schools. They have low graduation, retention and gainful employment rates. Look-up these loan mills at collegescorecard.edu.gov. Do an internet search, talk to former...

  19. Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

    Buyer beware replied to Nash3222's topic in General Nursing

    OP: You are wise, your words speak volumes. As an older than I Vietnam vet nurse once told me, even though most often it's a nurse that stands between the patient and the Grimm Reaper, those of us...

  20. Am I supposed to hate my first nursing job??

    Buyer beware replied to StevietheRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OP, have you ever noticed that when you are candid about what you describe as having to deal with the insecurities you genuinely feel working the ICU, responders take it as an opportunity to talk...

  21. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    Buyer beware replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

    My clinical instructor once told me "there's no room in nursing for men." That was thirty years ago so quite possibly she's dead now. I sometimes wonder that if upon her demise there was room for her...

  22. Nurse practitioner or Medical Doctor

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

    Why would you like this. It was directed to Mom to 4. So "dreammmm"

  23. Unit Manager Demands I Cut My Hair

    Buyer beware replied to Nurse Cookie Swirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This young man's dreads appear well kempt. I'm not sorry but the remarks about "greasy,dirty, falling,out and nonprofessional" sound like code for racism. This surely is the very definition of...

  24. 40 yr old with GED. Is a MSN even possible?

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

    This is great advice. The online route is good for a BSN, but having ADN first is sine qua non of advice. Without the ADN first, the online experience can be confusing and daunting and in my...

  25. Nurse practitioner or Medical Doctor

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

    Your sarcasm is not artful. Your tone is palpably hostile. And your cadre of "like' minds is disturbing. But your own harsh words and assumptions further make my point far better than I ever could Mom...