Re: EMT-P TO RN

[jim.kendrick@att.net]

Kuby,

I also applaude Kansas on its program to bridge both 
ways.

Jim
> 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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