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I fail to see how it is any different from a 2 year BSN degree...? It's at least 4 semesters either way and you don't have the luxury of a summer break to forget your entire first year. Clinical hours are the same due to BON requirements.
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Roki B posted:A BSN in one year. OK cool that seems totally reasonable and a thing that produces high quality nurses. You're a high quality nurse.
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Bum the Sad posted:You're a high quality nurse. Your dad is a high quality nurse. Speaking of which, I've been a nurse for about 18 months now and I don't think I've heard even one joke about being a male nurse. Progress, my friends. Progress.
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Hughmoris posted:Your dad is a high quality nurse. Don't worry I even it out for the both of us. Being prior navy and a male nurse I hear enough for the both of us.
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B-Mac posted:Don't worry I even it out for the both of us. Being prior navy and a male nurse I hear enough for the both of us. I'm prior Navy too!  It could be that a lot of my coworkers are middle-aged women more intent on trash talking each other, and management, than focusing on me.
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Hughmoris posted:Your dad is a high quality nurse. I don't hear many Murse jokes (From patients, anyways. My doctor friends give me never ending poo poo). As a student nurse, I've been asked a few times if I was going to nursing school on my way to getting into medical school, which is kind of amusing.
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People just assume I'm going back for my CRNA at some point. That's about the only thing I've noticed as a male nurse.Roki B posted:A BSN in one year. OK cool that seems totally reasonable and a thing that produces high quality nurses. Could I have used more clinical? Yes. Would I have liked an ICU clinical rotation? Hell yes, but that's not standard at my undergrad either, you need to take it as an elective. Would I have liked research classes that weren't lumped in with, and catered towards, CRNAs and DNP students working on their thesis statements? gently caress yes. Maybe you disagree, and I know plenty of people who do, but you might take a look at it again before you jump straight to conclusions. edit: That came across as too defensive of my program, I think. There were definitely problems and the whole thing only worked because we had some amazing lab instructors and good clinical ones. If any of those key teachers leave, there are going to be serious problems with the program. They could have done many different things that would have made me a better nurse, no doubt. But I'd imagine that's true of all programs. Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Ravenfood posted:People just assume I'm going back for my CRNA at some point. That's about the only thing I've noticed as a male nurse. Best of luck to you in your crazy endeavor. At least you aren't doing pre-reqs in the year because that would be actually impossible. As long as you're smart whatever deficiencies you may leave the program with should be able to be fixed within a year or two of on the job learning. Still though, do you even have time for other things in life during this?
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Roki B posted:Best of luck to you in your crazy endeavor. At least you aren't doing pre-reqs in the year because that would be actually impossible. As long as you're smart whatever deficiencies you may leave the program with should be able to be fixed within a year or two of on the job learning. Still though, do you even have time for other things in life during this? But I'm done and I don't regret going through it.
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So I have a question but first a short story.. I'm a 26 year old man who's legally blind due to retinopathy of prematurity. I'm low vision, with an acuity of roughly 20/400 in both eyes and poor peripheral (non correctable because well, partially detached retinas). I wanted to pursue a career as a vet tech, and hoped to open my own animal sanctuary one day. I would still like to, but the reality is that the pay is simply not enough to support my family and myself. So flash forward, now I'm considering becoming an RN, a people nurse instead of a pet nurse if you will. I've done a little research and found out that there are nurses and students with varying degrees of different disabilities, ranging from paraplegic to deaf to various mental health issues. My question is this: does anyone have any experience with low vision students/nurses? My biggest fear is taking my prerequisites and getting accepted, only to fail or even worse, succeed and not be able to find employment because "nobody wants someone who can't see well in charge of their health, sticking them with needles, ect." I've been discouraged from a lot of things due to my vision, and I've always just accepted I wouldn't be able to pursue my dreams, that I'd have to settle so to speak. I personally have confidence in my ability to perform the daily tasks, find veins to poke, administer meds in correct doses, I just have to get close to see fine details of what I'm doing, and I might be a little slower/cautious than a fully sighted RN. So can I get some advice, or encouragement, or pearls of wisdom, or a "no you're stupid for wanting to be a legally blind nurse, go be a truck driver or pilot trollolol."
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Karmakazi posted:So I have a question but first a short story.. Most schools have accommodations for people with disabilities ask the schools you would apply to about it. I assume you can get "around" it. That it may be problematic but you won't be unable to work because you are feeling sorry for yourself.
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Karmakazi posted:So I have a question but first a short story.. One of the great things about having a nursing license is that there are literally hundreds of different roles you can perform. You might have a hard time getting a job as a floor nurse, where your vision may interfere with your ability to perform assessments in poorly lit patient rooms, but that doesn't mean you can't get into nurse education, nurse case management, nursing infomatics, etc.
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It's tough to say without knowing really what your deficits are, but I would recommend shadowing some nurses in areas of interest and maybe meeting with some representatives from the school of nursing you are considering before you jump in.
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Karmakazi posted:the reality is that the pay is simply not enough to support my family and myself. Going into nursing "for the money" is a poor idea.
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end mill facade posted:Going into nursing "for the money" is a poor idea. Shh, don't tell him how cushy this is, I mean I hardly even work!
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Nursing school question! So I'm in my second semester of nursing school and it's just going abysmally compared with my first semester. I'm not studying any differently but my test grades have gone from Bs and maybe an A every now and again to all Cs. Weirdly enough the class I am having trouble in is not pharmacology but a more basic class on nursing care. Our teachers seem to have gotten it into their head that the way to help us succeed is to test us on material that is not taught in class, not taught online, and not available in the book. We've been told that this is to help with our critical thinking skills for the NCLEX. Which I understand in theory but is this really normal for nursing school? To be asked questions you have no possible way of knowing the answer to? I know they're calling it "critical thinking" but it's really just guessing when you have absolutely no basis for comparison. My professor didn't clarify what was even ON the test until 6pm the night before (I was not home until 9:30pm and so lost any time I had to study the never before heard of material). And yet when I brought it up to her she seemed to think that we should have just magically known that we would be covering material outside of the material she told us we would be covering in the week leading up to the test. So it's like being told you will be tested on ABC on Monday, then told the night before the test that you needed to know D and E as well and getting to the test to find FGH was also required of you but no one bothered to tell you so. Is this normal? Because if so I'm well on my way to failing out of school in the second semester when I had a 3.5GPA the first semester.
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:Nursing school question! I am a guinea pig for a new curriculum that sounds like yours and it is so unfun. We have course objectives to go off of, hopefully you at least have those?
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Taking my TNCC this week. Any tips? I have the book and have flipped through it but I'm assuming they'll tell us what we need to know to pass the written and skills test. I work in the MICU and it's not required for us to have but I figure it'll look good on the resume when I try to start traveling.
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Do your teachers routinely answer you with "that's correct, but its not the most correct" when you asked why you got a question wrong on a test when you know you marked the right answer? Because that was the only bullshit I encountered. We had some strange tests, but we always knew what material we'd be tested on (even if it was sometimes "literally everything in the book or in lecture on this topic).
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TNCC is pretty straightforward, just remember to maintain c spine alignment when rolling a patient and you'll be fine. Also, the "most correct" thing is how you learn nursing because it's how the NCLEX is written. Also it applies to real life as well since it does make you think critically (even though it sucks during school). You run into it all the time in real life, there is more than one solution to a problem but one way is usually the most correct.
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Feb 5, 2014 05:53
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Screw medication lists. That is all.
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Roki B posted:Shh, don't tell him how cushy this is, I mean I hardly even work! Well I'm chillin with my feet up. Bum the Sad fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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DreamingofRoses posted:Screw medication lists. goodness, ain't this the truth. I don't see how blindly typing out information out my drug book into a chart for 30 drugs is helping. All I'm getting out of this is "gently caress nursing school and your BS busy work" and every drug causes Nausea and vomiting.
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Lava Lamp posted:goodness, ain't this the truth. I don't see how blindly typing out information out my drug book into a chart for 30 drugs is helping. All I'm getting out of this is "gently caress nursing school and your BS busy work" and every drug causes Nausea and vomiting. Seizure, Coma, Death.
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djfooboo posted:I am a guinea pig for a new curriculum that sounds like yours and it is so unfun. We have course objectives to go off of, hopefully you at least have those? Without going into too much detail to "out" my school, this is exactly what is happening to us. Our school went through changes and now we're the first students experiencing this particular curriculum. We have learning objectives sometimes and study guides sometimes. I don't understand why they don't make it consistent for all classes. The problem with the most recent test that we all failed spectacularly was that over 1/2 the information on the test was never lectured on and therefore no learning objectives were given. It's a lot of being told only one thing will be on the test and not another thing, and that other thing ends up on the test anyway. Ravenfood posted:Do your teachers routinely answer you with "that's correct, but its not the most correct" when you asked why you got a question wrong on a test when you know you marked the right answer? Because that was the only bullshit I encountered. We had some strange tests, but we always knew what material we'd be tested on (even if it was sometimes "literally everything in the book or in lecture on this topic). Because someone managed to cheat somehow last semester and this has something to do with viewing the tests they've basically stopped showing us what we got wrong on everything from simple online quizzes to all tests. We have no way of learning from our mistakes because we have no idea which questions we missed. DreamingofRoses posted:Screw medication lists.   I'm in the same boat. On the upside my medication list is getting pretty fat, on the downside it has absolutely not been helpful for my understanding of any drugs or their pharmacology.
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Koivunen posted:Also, the "most correct" thing is how you learn nursing because it's how the NCLEX is written. Also it applies to real life as well since it does make you think critically (even though it sucks during school). You run into it all the time in real life, there is more than one solution to a problem but one way is usually the most correct.
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I just took the TEAS test and I got 84% which is 92nd percentile. What are my chances of getting into nursing school with this?(test average is 64% at my school according to TEAS.
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White Chocolate posted:I just took the TEAS test and I got 84% which is 92nd percentile. What are my chances of getting into nursing school with this?(test average is 64% at my school according to TEAS. They take multiple things into account, and not just the TEAS score.
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White Chocolate posted:I just took the TEAS test and I got 84% which is 92nd percentile. What are my chances of getting into nursing school with this?(test average is 64% at my school according to TEAS. It really depends on your school. My school uses test scores and GPA to select the top 3rd or so of the applicants to interview and then use the interview as the deciding factor as to who gets into the program. Among my cohort, the guy with the highest entrance exam test score (I want to say 95%/99th) didn't get it, because he has terrible people skills. On the flip side, some programs base admission solely on grades and test scores, in which case you're looking good.
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Holy crap. Test on Fluid and Electrolytes and Respiratory disorders (Including COPD, discluding asthma tomorrow). Respiratory alkalosis here I come.
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Thursday I take the entrance HESI and throw my hat in to start in the fall at my local ADN program. Anxiety is starting to creep up. Not about the entrance exam, but about afterwards, when I have no more control over my fate.
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Any recommendations on websites / tools when looking for a job whether it be in state or out of state?
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Best to look up hospitals and then hit their own job search.
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Lava Lamp posted:Best to look up hospitals and then hit their own job search. And after that, go up there and start knocking on doors.
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And don't forget home health agencies, nursing homes, school boards, large companies, etc. etc. Nurses are employed everywhere.
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Well I was actually referring to sites like monster / craigslist / indeed (just found about this one).
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Etrips posted:Well I was actually referring to sites like monster / craigslist / indeed (just found about this one).
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You mean besides networking heavily during clinicals? That's how just about everyone I knew got employed.
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LorneReams posted:You mean besides networking heavily during clinicals? That's how just about everyone I knew got employed. I should rephrase that I am mostly looking at moving to another state once I get licensed as the cost of living in Virginia absolutely sucks and want to move to a more rural area (Tennessee/North Carolina/etc).
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Etrips posted:I should rephrase that I am mostly looking at moving to another state once I get licensed as the cost of living in Virginia absolutely sucks and want to move to a more rural area (Tennessee/North Carolina/etc). Are you a new grad nurse or do you have a few years under your belt? As alluded to in other posts, it can be very difficult for a new grad to get hired at a hospital if they don't have any connections (which are typically made during clinical rotations). It might be worth it to stick it out for a year on a med/surg floor locally to make you more attractive to other hospitals. The other option is to look into areas that have a tough time attracting nurses. The last I heard, this was mostly Texas border towns and North Dakota oilfield boom towns. Since you're concerned about cost of living, the border towns might be more up your alley. Of course, if you're an experienced nurse, ignore all that and just start firing off applications through hospital websites. Most of the hospitals in my area do almost no advertising for open positions outside of their own website. Edit: just reread the part about "once you get your license," so stick locally or try Texas.
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