are southern nurses better educated than northern educated nurse?

[smartnurse1982]

Has anyone worked in a northern and southern state? Someone made a comment to me about that during an interview but I don't know if she was being insulting or what. I know people who were patients tell me that the technology in the south is not great and care was inferior.

[smartnurse1982]

Well for starters, I am an ny educated nurse trying to find work in the south,so maybe she could have flat out said she doesn't like it when nurses from other states try to find employment in her state, esp during these times. Howvever, to someone who mentioned accents, that has absolutely nothing to do with anything, and you sound xenophobic. And if these nurses are from other countries they tend to come over with masters degrees. I could say that southern educated nurses were allowed to do a lot more during clinicals b/c my school and hospital were scared of lawsuits. My next question for another board is how come their are no fillipino nurses in the south? It Might have something to do with the going rate of $21 per hour for rns on a med surg floor.

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

dear linda....

i invite you to google uab (university of alabama at birmingham), ua (the university of alabama, auburn university, or ut (university of tennessee).

uab is nationally (if not globally) known for its medical programs, with a hospital attached. it is also quite well known for its pharmacy curriculum as well. auburn is widely known for its engineering, veterinary medicine, and agriculture programs, alabama has one of the best nursing programs in the state, and ut is known for its business, engineering, and law programs.

in fact, ut is ranked 15th in the nation for law schools, 12th in the nation for nuclear engineering, and 28th in the nation for business schools.

auburn boasts six astronaut grads, and a grad who had a piddly little job as the head of the kennedy space center.

alabama was the flagship university in the state. it is ranked in the top 50 in the nation for public universities, 30th in the nation for law schools, and 35th in the nation for business.

and uab speaks for itself. ranked among the top 15% nationally by princeton review, and among 96 public and private universities (and the only alabama university) classified as an institution of “very high research activity” by the carnegie foundation.

now, assuming your statement is true...well, they're even better than i thought, because if these schools can achieve all this recognition without money...just think what they would be capable of with money!

from one dyed-in-the-wool, redneck-and-proud-of-it southern belle.

(and yes, it was the war of northern aggression, everybody knows that! lol)

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Oh Angel,

Yaaaaall just put on that southern bullsh... I mean, charm, and all your patients no longer care if they are in pain or what happens to them, they are hypnotized into thinking they are healed!

(just kidding, you were beggin for it ) .

I have Texas cousins so "hook 'em"... I guess. :heartbeat

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

2nd, Hee hee! Although, my accent's so thick, people down here sometimes have trouble understanding me.

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

Are green nurses better educated than purple nurses? The OPs question (and some of the responses in this thread) make just about as much sense.

cheers,