Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education Puns

I'm thinking about attending nursing school, and I'm already accepted but it is one of those smaller and sort of sketchy schools. They offer a associate degree and you can take the NCLEX- RN after your graduate. They are accredited by the NJ board of Nursing, but not by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). How important is that accreditation? I am also hoping to go on and get a bachelors in nursing after. So if I get into a good school for a RN-to-BSN program with that accreditation after I become a Associate RN, will it "override" my previous credentials?

I remember I had to write a “concept analysis” essay for one of the nursing classes. The concepts had to be related to the values of nursing so from the list, I chose trust. Yes I literally had to do research on what trust means in nursing and why it is vital to our profession. A concept analysis essay would be more useful if the topics were related to pathophysiology instead of some philosophy BS. Also I had to take an entire semester on how to give a bed bath. I’m sorry but why do we need to spend 4 months to learn how to wash a body?

This did not prepare me well for the actual job. Nursing school does not teach you how to be a registered nurse; it only prepares you to pass NCLEX. But I wish that nursing school had more rigorous science classes, instead of us scrambling to Google answers at a nursing station. I think nursing school is full of fluff. God I hate these “nursing diagnoses” - heck I don’t even remember applying these concepts to my practice!

Thoughts?

Why are nurses educated in the "only need to know" fashion, without background and descriptive information of the disorder/medication/intervention being taught? I have noticed this so much during my nursing program, and it really bothers me how we are being asked to remember dry information, without the real understanding behind the actual physiological processes. Sometimes, just a little bit of background physiology or anatomical structure information can make the difference between retaining information and forgetting all of it within hours of reading. The phrase "You don't need to know that" literally makes my insides turn in rage and disappointment! Why does it have to be that way!!? Are we not smart enough to know the details? This is ridiculous!

Do I overestimate the importance of unions in the scope of nursing's history? Are unions really that controversial among nurses? From where I sit it seems like unions played a huge role in the development of nursing. They were part of what made it a solid middle class career option (perhaps only for a time), and they're a really key feature of what distinguishes us from docs. They have contemporary importance too, I think.

I brought this up to my professor who seemed bewildered at the suggestion this is something we should cover in the class. She was kind of like, "Oh. I never thought of that. I suppose that's a good point. I come from a culture where we really don't talk about the union." What the hell is that culture?

Does anyone have experience with an ACEN accreditation? The review team seemed very concerned that we were not labeling nursing materials over 5 years old as historical. I have never heard of doing this and am wondering if other librarians have any insight? I wasn't able to find any information about the 5 years or less in their guidelines.

Hi everyone, I am a 25 year old English teacher (just turned 25 yesterday).Currently, I am studying to get my master’s degree in education. Even though everyone tells me that I am doing good and my students like me I do not enjoy my job. I am not paid anything, the kids are disrespectful, planning is a constant thing and I just do not enjoy teaching.Someone suggested that I get into nursing (specifically to become a travel nurse) and eventually pursue a master’s degree to become a nurse practitioner. I have seen the curriculum from a few friends of mine in both med school and nursing. I think I would be able to take that content on. However, I wanted to get more opinions.

Would I be too old by the time I graduate? Is it worth it or should I look into other options? Should I finish my current masters or just skip right into nursing since I don’t want to continue teaching?

I’m a nursing student and I really find myself constantly researching WHY we do something or WHY something is the way it is within the body, care for a patient, medications, etc.

Nursing seems to mostly teach how to take care of a patient but doesn’t focus much on the why we are doing what we’re doing and I feel like it’s such a big component to truly understanding care of a patient.

Also the content taught isn’t hard or difficult at all. I feel like nursing school is only difficult because they thought up this difficult style of questioning where they’re allowed to put all correct answers and you have to hope to know the most correct when in reality you’d do all of them. It’s frustrating.

Hey guys, wondering if anyone could help me create a flyer. I'm a current a PGY1 resident doing a nursing education on my kidney transplant rotation. I haven't made a flyer since freshman year of high school and I'm starting to feel like an old person where I don't know how to do tech savvy things as I used to. Anyone know of any good programs to make a nice flyer?

Hey there, Canadian RN here with an expired Texas state license that I'm looking to renew. As part of the renewal process I need 20 hours of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). The catch is, with covid my licensing body here in Alberta has suspended the need for continuing competency, plus my workplaces (ER/ICU) have suspended our recertification days due to staffing needs. Needless to say, I have essentially nothing to show.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can complete these 20 hours from an accredited source that will provide proof of? I feel like we have a different process & requirement here in Canada. Or any other way around this like applying to a different compact state? Thanks

So I recently moved to Canada , I've completed my high school education in my home country that is India and I didn't take Science or Maths during grade 12. So in order pursure BSc nursing do I have to do high school again with these courses or there is some other ??? I have no idea what to do because I'm not aware of the education system here. Please help me if you have the answer

Hey everyone, first I just want to say how thankful I am I found this group. I am currently in Nursing School and even before finding this group, I’ve been absolutely shocked and dismayed at how many of my fellow students just casually mention they want to be NPs so they can have their own practice. I get asked at least once a week what NP programs I’m looking at or thinking about and I have to awkwardly explain that I’m against going into any sort of advanced practice with no real world experience. For me I feel like becoming an NP is a selfish act in what should be a selfless profession.

With that said, I love school, I love learning, and I certainly do want to continue my education in Nursing in some formal way after a few years of experience . So that’s what brings me to here. What are both the characteristics and education beyond a BSN that nurses you’ve worked with possess that you wish more Nurses had. I chose to go into nursing because I want to help take care of people. The absolute last thing I want is to be given more power than I deserve. It’s dangerous, it’s reckless, and it’s greedy. Any advice on paths other than NPs to become a better and more educated nurse would be much appreciated. I’m so tired of having this discussion with nurses and my professors who only try and push me down the NP road. So I figured it was time to ask some doctors for some help!

Hi all,

I'm a 33F RPN in Ontario. Currently am working on a 13 month contract in family practice, covering a maternity leave. The contact ends July 1, 2021.

It's not great pay- I make $26/hr. No benefits, long hours (8:15am-5pm , x 5 days/week) occasional night or weekend and long commute (1.5h each way).

The work environment is the best one I've had as a nurse and it makes me so sad that I have to leave after the contract ends,my coworkers and boss are the best.

But: I want to have kids ASAP and will be the one financially supporting the kid and myself. Bf is f/t student- pays his own expenses, I live in his house rent free in exchange for housework.

I have training in several areas, and options to go back to school, if needed (though that delays being a parent)...

If I finish this contract and remain in the relief pool ( meaning I can pick up a shift whenever I want) it keeps my nursing license intact ( have to do so many hours a year to keep it, or do a nursing related training class).

I'm also trained in sociology and gerontology ( gee whiz, so helpful, good decision 17y/o me)

And have some web development training.

I'm order to afford expenses and childcare, I basically need to increase my salary by half again at minimum, or by double...

RPN jobs here max out at $32 an hour... In a different setting...

I can upgrade to RN but that's >!5 years!< 3.5 years *more training(f/t study) + the cost of tuition, and the province is making hiring RN inconvenient and is even laying them off amid a pandemic cuz they're more costly...

Max salary for RN could be $110k...

I could leave medical field altogether and try web dev... I'd likely start at the very bottom, making $18-20/ hr, and likely on a 1 year contract.

Of course the Max salary for web dev, I feel like sky is the limit, especially if I keep doing courses to learn more... Maybe that web development job could be remote or work from home? If not, it's 1-2 hour commute to the city where those kinds of jobs are offered.

Could try teaching with socio/gerontology education or nursing... No idea if more training would be needed...

I'm torn... I am so happy at my current job I want to stay until the end of my contract and keep my foot in that door... But I am so impatient!

I'm also terrified of web dev/ changing careers.

Not even sure if I care for the work itself... I'm not particularly passionate about nursing either...

I'd love a job in construction/ building or renovating houses

I'm on an IR rotation right now and we do a morning huddle with the attendings, PA's, nursing, and anesthesia staff so that everyone is on the same page about the cases for the day.

The attending was summarizing this patient's history and mentioned she had liver mets from squamous cell cancer of the tongue. The two nurses in the room reacted like that made her the unluckiest person in the world and were asking each other how you get sunburned on your tongue.

Dawned on me they didn't really know what "squamous cell" means or that SCCA occurs places other than the skin, even though they've been doing this job for years.

Obviously a very minor thing, and I'm not trying to dunk on nurses or anything, just hit me as a very stark example of how much we learn compared to others, even before we hit residency.

Couldn't that system be widely abused?

Just to let you know! I started rambling and then kept going while writing for the diary segment, and a lot of it really is talk about depression and anxiety — I feel like I was reasonably positive about it, but it’s (imo) a bit blunt. If you skip to the final section, you can see how much I spent for the week instead. I think day one is when I talk the most about it though, but overall I’m not sure if I spoke about money as much as I did fear. Section One: Assets and Debt Use this section to explain your current financial picture at large. Backstory: I moved back to [HCOL PNW city] at the beginning of the pandemic when no one knew what was going on so that [parent] and [grandparent] could meaningfully isolate and I could take care of general necessities. I’d like to recognize that privilege, knowing that culturally, my experience of moving out and being financially independent is very non-traditional. I really am thankful for the ability to essentially “fall back” on my family and not need to continue working in 2020, but…I also moved out for a reason.

Numbers: I’m rounding numbers because of how dramatically my income can fluctuate. This is actually a concern that I’ll bring up later. My average monthly income is about $1.5k from my retail position, but I have received different types of stipends for activities related to academia that for the year hit about $2k.

Retirement Balance (and how you got there): $10756 I feel like I'm perpetually doing something wrong with my money. But: 401k: $356 (...yeah so [department store] said I was too young to join when I previously worked there, but I could immediately contribute when I started this year) IRA: $6k Roth IRA: $4.4k Both of these are at the same financial institution. Why do I have both? I have no idea. I think it’s probably better to contribute more to the Roth since I make Very Little but so far I just try to throw as close to 6k as I can towards it. Brokerage account: $2.8k This is my “I can’t explain what I’m doing I just hope it’s okay” money. I buy SPY, VOO, and VTI. Why all three? My father gave me 1k towards this account for my birthday, so I felt obligated to take his advice. Robinhood: $0.5k This is my “I can’t explain what I’m doing I can lose it all and it’s okay” money. I buy random things. I started with $500 dollars and so far the only thing that happens is that I move twenty dollars either way. Series I bond: 1k (purchased 12/2021) My banking is even more inexplicable. Checking Account