My girlfriend’s nursing program has just changed their requirements. They’ve doubled the required amount of clinicals, so hospitals will get a lot more free labor (the students actually have to pay more for clinicals and get no compensation). They’re also letting incoming students go straight into clinicals from high school without any coursework, as long as they pass a math test.
It appears her program requirements will be unchanged, so that’s good.
They are also trying to speed up graduation timelines, too, which may apply to her. So she may get done a semester early, which would be good for her personally.
Seems like the USA#1 healthcare system is doing great! You could apparently end up in an ER being taken care of by someone straight out of high school with no training.
They also used to require students to maintain a 3.5 GPA to stay in the program, now it’s 2.75. They used to kick people out if they failed courses and make them re-apply, now they can just repeat the course.
More clinical hours is good imo, and students aren’t free labor at any hospital I’ve been to. They can’t do any patient care without their preceptor looking over their shoulder. The nurse supervising students typically takes lighter patient loads and care takes waaay longer.
It sucks that broke kids have to pay more for it than their classes, and word on the street here is that the supervising nurses are too stressed to teach them much at all and the students are being pressed into duty. Maybe that’s hyperbole, but the fact that they’re increasing the amount of clinicals when there’s a nursing labor shortage seems like it adds up to using them as labor.
That seems like a weird pay structure that school has. The nurse and RT schools around here charge the same per credit rate for clinicals as every other class. It’s a very desperate or shitty hospital that would allow students to provide nursing care unsupervised. I don’t recommend being a patient there.
Ultimately comes up with a wild-ass conservative estimate of 0.2% risk of serious persistent symptoms from any infection in a booster person (whether or not symptomatic), and clearly believes the risk is significantly lower.
I’m actually feeling a little better today (THANKS SCIENCE) but still have a bit of a cough, but MrsWookie is more exhausted. Girls still just fine, so that’s the most reassuring thing.
Not seeing a lot of new info on this BA2 variant. Eric Feigl-Ding is losing his mind on Twitter, but that’s nothing new.
Thx. tbh, I worry sometimes that “cargo cult” may be a problematic metaphor. It’s an extremely useful concept but I worry about stigmatizing indigenous cultures.