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Go to Boston. I have worked and lived in both places and Boston is the medical meca for New England. You will be exposed to so much more current healthcare information in a great city to explore. Vermont is so rural and places are so far away that it limits your ability to grow. Best of luck to you.

We have all nursing exams given in our college Testing Center. You are on camera and the computer will not allow you to open any window but the exam. If you are caught cheating on film you are removed from the program. Our pass rate is over 90 % so it is worth the extra fuss.

Write a letter of appeal, you will need a copy of the nursing student handbook as that is how the "rules" are used for readmission policy. The letter must be factual and calm in nature. Use the chain of command at the school. Chair of the nursing program and any Dean above that rank. If the appeal fails, then go up higher in the college/school chain of command. If all that fails, then write a letter to the Board of Nursing. (BON has to regulate state schools). Do not contact ACEN as this is an issue they will not consider urgent. Good luck.

Expect only generic names of medications. The NCLEX now only uses generic names for medications.

Our admission team would return your application with a "no". No exceptions will be granted. Our clinical contracts are clear that any student with no current vaccinations or CPR will be accepted for clinical.

Our program gives you a preceptor partner for one year. This is great support for new faculty and clinical faculty transitioning to full time teaching on campus. I usually precept new nurse faculty every year I am asked. My chair of nursing tells me I am supportive without being a "mother hen". My reward is a working and supportive team of nurse faculty at our campus. This mentorship helps us decrease turn over and improves our overall teaching strengths. Our motto is we refuse to "eat our nursing young"

Faculty are expected to not share test bank data as part of your agreement with the text book publishers. I write all of my own exams because of student cheating in the past. These students have all failed or not reached the passing score of their exit HESI exams. (I know they cheated with banks as they confessed when they realized they could not pass and graduate). Realize that you are only cheating yourself. You cannot cheat and pass the NCLEX exam. The ethics of student cheating and possibly becoming a nurse frustrates me. The ethics of someone cheating in nursing school shows great lack of personal character. Our program no longer allows faculty to use test banks. Our pass rate is excellent.

Anytime a nursing student comes to be with a stress related illness I always send them to our college counselors. The students tell me the two full time and free counselor support have been very helpful. I to tell the students that they will have to be able to handle the expected stress in clinical/lab/sim. You can have these discussions with students and be supportive at the same time while holding them to the school rules and standards. I also tell my students that their personal health information is private and that they must not tell me anything specific. If they need more help I do direct them to my chair of nursing. She is also supportive but firm about the expectations. That all said, I do wish you well and hope you are successful.

Do not give up, apply to the nursing program and plan how to pass the second time. The fact that you have faculty support is great, they see your potential. I have supported students how have failed by one or two points to try again. Most of them do great the second time. Another program may not accept you with a failed nursing course on your transcript. Good luck and do try again!

None of our clinical sites allow students to don a mask. All must be immunized to enter the program. Our two main hospitals will not hire any new nurse who refuses to be immunized.

Our Director of Nursing reviews all incoming applications. Anyone who declines the mandatory vaccinations is not accepted. They get a letter why. Our clinical partners do not budge, it is part of our clinical affiliation agreements.

Four hours, plan for four 15 min breaks for everyone. I do not abuse powerpoints. Keep them short and for overview. I plan 30 min intro and basic lecture about the days concept. Go slow and support any questions. Complex concepts take longer. Then break. Break students into groups and have them explore the concept by working on a case study. This takes one hour or more. Break. Each group presents on the board and orally their case study. I plan four different case studies. Takes over an hour. Break. I then recap the concept-did they get it? Could they apply it? Again any questions. I do end with some NCLEX style questions they do on their own at end of class and we discuss them as a group. This planning takes a lot of time but makes the time block go smoothly.

I do have a small amount of points for class prep assignments, papers and quizzes. Test grades are 50 % of the course and the student does have to reach a 77% minimum for test average for all of the other grades to be counted in the final course score.

Our program allows only one rounding up for the final grade per course. It is stated in our Handbook.

I have summers off and are paid over 12 months. Love it.