The Coler Godwater hospital has a LPN program that is run by the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education Office of Adult and Continuing Education. The program offers a scholarships that are awarded based on income of community residents provided they meet the minimum requirements eligibility.

You need to:

• Take the TABE ( Adults Basic Education Exam) and scorre an 11.0 in redaing and 10.5 in math or higher.
• Pass the Center for Nursing Education and Testing (CNET) entrance exam
• Attend an information seminar
• Possess a High School diploma or equivalency

Meet the following income requirments:

Family Size – Maximum Household Income

1. $14,079
2. $18,241
3. $23,803
4. $28,665
5. $33,527
6. $38,389
7. $43,251
8. $48,113

More info:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/careers/ceo-nurse-training.shtml

The Los Angles Job Corp has numerous training programs to educate low income students  at a no cost to them of their families. One of the programs offered trains LVN’s ( referred to LPN’s in most other states ). This program is in high demand and the wait time is up to a year to attend school. If you wish to use this we recommend you sign up as early as possible.

Some of the benefits of training with the Los Angeles Job Corps LPN Program

Training with the job corp affords you the opportunity to earn money, free housing, free basic medical, and meals all provided to you while you attend school. Students are paid twice monthly. Also upon exiting you recieve help finding work and a small stipend to help you transition to your new life.

What the job corp does

The Job Corp is a no cost education and vocational training program that is run by the Department of Labor. They program is offered to young men and women between the ages of 16 and 24. The Los Angeles Job Corp is operated by the YWCA of Los Angeles.

Contact Information:

Los Angeles Job Corps Center
1106 South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: (213) 748-0135
Fax: (213) 741-5359

Melissa Scott, an LPN, recieved the local Frist Humanitarian Award for being an exceptional nurse. The awards are given to personable who are recognized for showing concern for their patients above and beyond the call of duty.

Scott has been working at Terre Haute Regional Hospital for over 30 years. SHe not  only takes extra care for the patients but also volunteers her off time to the community. In her volunteer roles she works with local churches and Christian music groups. Further more Scott started a program called “Angel Closet,”  which provides clothing to patients during emergencies. Scott also brings a highlight to many of the patients days by running a patient karaoke sessions in the behavioral health unit.

She will be considered for a national award next!

BRAVO Melissa! Your doing LPN’s proud!

Sorry I had to do it with the headline lol..

Holy crap what the heck is going on in Ohio? Miami-Jacobs Career College is on the cusp of losing their license to teach because its students weren’t passing the NCLEX. On top of that they seem to have been cooking the books some to.

You really need to make sure you check with the nursing board in your state when choosing a nursing school. If you don’t you might end up at a crap school like that. Most of the boards have pass rates listed for the individual schools so you can see what schools are doing well and which ones you need to avoid.

Interesting that robot babies are being used to teach new nursing students how to care for babies.  They cry and perform all the other functions that you might imagine a baby does. Using technology like this is going to make it easier for the nurses to get some hands one with out killing anyone. In my day we just used orphans since they were cheap and no one complained.

South Carolina is facing a huge shortage of nurses and its only going to get worse over the next few years.  In the rural areas its gotten to be an emergency. Who could say they didn’t see this coming years ago? Despite warnings of the problem for years and year no one has made a serious effort to glamorize the nursing profession. The closest thing that we have is medical shows.

Thankfully this has made an enviroment where no matter what the economy does if you’rr a nurse you’ll have work. Nursing is the original recession proof career.

Mercy Health Partners lpn layoffs in Michigan amounted to 31 LPN’s being cut in an effort to “save money” and improve the level of care. WTF are they thinking? While registered nurses are essential to patient care they are not the end all be all in nursing. Nursing staffs are short handed already and they think having less nurses on the floors is going to make things better for their patients?

They said they wll be hiring more RN’s but we’ll see how that plays out. RN’s are in even shorter supply than LPN’s and waymore expensive.

FIle this decision under WTF. Use your imagination as to what the stands for.

From John…

The worst experience I ever had was before I was a nurse. I was working the ambulances and sometimes we had to go check on the elderly.

We were dispatched to a scene to check on this elderly man who had been acting strangely. When we arrived the police were already there and told us to be careful as it was nasty in the house. How bad could it be though? SO I opted to not wear any PPE’s.

So we enter this very dark house and the stench was awful. We were sourounded by decades old newspapers, rotting cat food, and yes… you guessed it at cats. There were at least a hundred of the furry little guys runnng around. It looked like they had been using the house as a huge cat box. The place was covered in cat shit and urine.. it was awful!

So my partner and I get o the man and try to sitpic him to the gurney and exit the house. But as I went to get the man I slipped.. landing head first in cat shit and urine. I instantly puked and had to go outside. My poor partner had to get one of the cops to help him carry the old guy as I was busy barfing.

A friend of mine on a forum mentioned that she thought someone needed to have a deep faith in God to be a good nurse. Her argument was that with out a strong spiritual foundation someone won’t be able to be able to meet their patients spiritual needs. Is that even a nurses job?

I mean if you could provide that it wouldn’t hurt things but there are specialists in the field. Beyond that what if your  religion or lack there of makes the patient find you repugnant? Certainly an attempt to meet their spiritual needs could degrade the patients car in that case.

I dunno, as an atheist, I find the whole idea curious…

What do you think?

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people I’d like to tag with this question….

Small Town RN, May, Geena, Beth, REBIRTH, Jaxia, Nurse K, Keith, kim

Are you thinking about nursing? You should read a few nursing blogs to get an idea of what nursing is all about. While LPN Career.com is a great resource be sure to check some reports from nurses in the feild to. Here are some of my recommendations.

Crass-Pollination: An ER blog

Nurse K is just funny… I mean check thi sout from the other day.

Female patient with pain: Uh! Uh! Oh my God! Uh! Uh! God! Uh! Uh hhhhh Ohhhhh Uh!!!

Nurse: [Exiting room] God, it sounds like a bad porno in room 5, doesn’t it?

How could you not want to read a blog like that?

Digital Doorway

Keith writes in depth stuff as well as touching which is why I like it so much. He provides a good insight into nursing and I recommend it for any nursing student.

Emergiblog

Kims been a nurse for 30 years now and writes often, which is refreshing for nursing blogs. Personally like the recent post about the bs paper chase nurses have to do.