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I have a full tear of a rotator cuff. I have been working through the pain for about 6 months, but it is getting harder to tough through and I am planning to get it repaired in January. I am a floor RN on a med surge tele floor. Does anyone have any firsthand knowledge in how long I will be out of work? Thank you in advance for sharing

I work in an acute care hospital on a med surge floor that has been caring for COVID-19 patients since March. We have three hallways with 12 beds in each hall. There are no routine COVID testing of staff. We have our temperature screened when arriving for each shift, and our standard PPE when working with COVID 19 patients is N95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves. Originally we we were all COVID, but as the census got low, the converted two of the hallways back to med surge, and only one hall was COVID. Now with the increase in COVID patients we are mixing COVID and non COVID patients in the same hall. I would appreciate comments from others if this is a common practice in other hospitals and if it sounds responsible.

I made a career change from engineering to nursing. I would like to get into travel nursing beginning in 2021. By that time I will have two years experience on a busy Med Tele floor at a level 1 trauma hospital. I have my ACLS and plan to have med-surg certification prior to applying for a travel position. I am a male (not that that should matter), I am physically fit riding my bicycle over 100 miles each week and getting to the gym a couple of times a week. I want to travel because during my time as a field service engineer and director of technical services in my previous career I traveled extensively and enjoyed it. I also think it would be a great way to check out places that I am considering retiring. I would appreciate comments from experienced travelers if they believe I am tilting at windmills and suggestions on what professional organizations or other certifications I should pursue over the next year to help me land a job.

From personal experience, I think it will be tough and you should really think about if the bang is worth the buck. My story is I started nursing school prerequisites when I was 58. Because I had another degree I was able to move directly into an accelerated BSN program. I got my BSN degree 6 weeks before my 61st birthday and passed the NCLEX 2 weeks prior to turning 61. I did't find nursing school that hard, I managed to earn my BSN with a 3.6 GPA. While in school I worked as a PCT then nurse extern on a med tele floor at a level 1 critical care hospital 1-2 shifts per week. I was offered a position as a staff nurse there and have been doing it for 9 months now. Like another person I have been physically fit all my life. Running sub 3 hour marathons until I had a hip replacement at 50 YOA then switching to bicycling where I still ride 7,000 - 9,000 miles per year. The floor where I work is busy, I have 5-6 patients, I can keep up with the younger nurses, but am still struggling to get my charting done on time which frequently extends my work day by another hour. I am so tired at the end of the end of my 12 hour shift that the days I work all I do is work eat and sleep. I can feel my fitness declining. I sometimes wonder why I left a career that pays more than my current salary, spent 3 years paying money to get a BSN while not earning very much. If it is fulfilling a life long dream then go for it. If it is to make money until you reach full retirement age, then do the math on opportunity cost. I think you will find that you can do volunteer work at the hospital and work at Home Depot and come out ahead financially. And BTW ageism is alive and well in nursing. More than once I have heard younger nurses say something to the effect of "I can't believe that crazy old man thinks he can make it as a nurse." It does not bother me, with my personality it just makes me want to succeed more!

Not sure if this is relevant, but I got an e-mail from my adviser today asking how pharmacology was going, reminding me that if I failed to get a C or better that I would not be eligible to start in the fall even if I took it again during the summer. She said she was specifically asking so that she could pull me off the list if I was not going to pass. This seemed strange since the pharmacology grades are already posted in MyMav, but I replied that I had made a B in the course. Anyway, it "sounds like" they have made the list of accepted students and now are checking it twice. Good luck to all on the wait list.

I don't know if this helps, I was accepted and had to send an acceptance of the acceptance message back to them. Today I received an e-mail acknowledging that I had accepted the position. I would guess that now that the deadline to accept the offer has passed, they will start calling people from the wait list.

I only applied to the AO program and got an acceptance e-mail today! My stats are Science GPA 3.75 Prereq GPA 3.65 Considerations, 3 science at UTA, over 30 hours at UTA and partnered with HCA One of the nurses on my floor graduated form the program in May 2016, he told me he was wait listed and cleared in less than 2 weeks. Another nurse on my floor told me she was wait listed and cleared in about 4 weeks, but she had already accepted another program. April 5 is the acceptance deadline, so I would expect them to accept more people after that. Congratulations to those that got in and good luck to those on the wait list.

Sounds like your advisers are more forthcoming. All my adviser would tell me is to look in my confirmation mail that my application was complete for notification dates. In that e-mail all it said was confirmation letters would be sent by the end of April. I hope that your information is correct and we know before then. Good luck to us all.

I completed the online UTA course a week ago and medical terminology during the first 8 week period. I found Patho to be both challenging and time consuming, but if you put in the effort all the information is available, I also found the class very interesting which made it easier to put in the time. (I made a very low A, but an A non the less). Medical terminology was a bore and there was not much help other than reading information and answering hundreds of questions on smart book for each chapter. (I made a high B in the course, I simply could not muster the energy to do the work for such a boring class where I felt the professor was mailing it in. I am taking pharm starting in January, my advisor suggested I not try to take Pharm and Patho at the same time. Good luck

Once I have the grades from this semester I plan to submit my application for the Fall 2017 start of the AO BSN program at UTA. I have read that this is very competitive. I am willing to share what my application status will be and hope that others will as well so we can all get a feel for where we stand. Overall GPA on prerequisite courses 3.62 Science GPA 3.75 HESI complete, overall score 92 Considerations: 3 of the 4 science taken at UTA More than 39 hours of prerequisite courses taken at URA I will be starting a job at a partnered hospital on December 12, so I I believe that I will have that consideration as well. Please share, and Good luck to us all

I took this online with Goodwin. It has been a terrible experience, It felt more like a writing course than a history course I learned more about how to write a thesis statement, organize a paper and proper footnoting than I did about history. I agree with the others that your time and money would be better served at a community college.