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There is a bridge program in Nebraska for RN to
EMT-P. Kansas is working with the Board of Nursing on bidirectional
bridging programs now.
Yet I must say that after completing the last 3.5
years of a 4 year nursing program either I had one heck of a great instructor in
Marilyn Crowley or I went to a nursing program with minimal standards. The
most of the information I found useful and not redundant education as a MICT to
RN was the immune system. I feel like there is not much difference in the
two except depth of training.
It also frustrates me to see head-hunters gloat
over the fact that now is an exciting time to be a nurse because there is a
shortage. As I walk the framed halls of the school I am attending I see
hundreds of nurses. Thinking that there are thousands of programs, I
cannot see how there is a "shortage." As I listen to nurses in the
clinical environment the same thing is said from different faces 1) They
pay better at yadda yadda or 2) This is rediculous, one nurse to eight
patients without even an aide. In critical care areas I hear similar
comments. I do not feel there is a "shortage of nurses", there is a
shortage of working nurses. When a local hospital paid twenty-five million
to build an ortho clinic with olympic size pool and computerized gym, I dont see
where there is a shortage of funds to pay the nurses. Our government would
be best served to pay nurses and not schools.
Thanks for letting me vent my 2 cents worth and
happy flying!
Kuby
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