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For generations, we’ve been told that higher education is the surest path to a better life. But too many students don’t feel that way, and often with good reason: They are graduating with mountains of debt and few career prospects. Last summer, Congress wisely ushered in a new era of accountability in higher education when […] The post OPINION: Congress needs to face the ugly truth about cosmetology schools that don’t pay off appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
As young sisters growing up in Las Vegas, we didn’t have the language to define our fascination with science. For Angel, it was an early obsession with questions about health and fairness: Why do some people get sick and others don’t? Why do some communities struggle more than others? Why isn’t there always a solution? […] The post STUDENT VOICES: We were STEM-obsessed siblings as children. It shaped our pathway to Princeton and careers appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
This story was published by The 19th and reprinted with permission. Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country. The center, called The Little Apple, is a pilot program […] The post Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Artificial intelligence is often promoted as a way to make teachers more effective by helping them write lesson plans, generate classroom materials and provide feedback to students in seconds. But one of the first randomized trials testing AI in real classrooms found that it can also undermine learning. Students whose teachers were given access to […] The post Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Confidence in higher education is declining across the United States. Fewer Americans say a college degree is very important: A growing share believe the system is headed in the wrong direction, particularly when it comes to preparing students for employment. Not surprisingly, college enrollment has fallen in recent years. And nowhere are the stakes of […] The post OPINION: Poor Southern states have a brain drain problem. Public universities can and should be doing more to help appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
School purchasing can seem like an administrative backwater, far removed from the heart of teaching and learning. But the way schools buy products and services like educational software or tutoring programs can influence whether students actually learn, some policymakers argue. Instead of paying vendors simply for delivering these tools, school districts are experimenting with a […] The post Paying vendors for student results appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Listen to the whole series TRANSCRIPT Justice Stephen Breyer, a Harvard Law alum with judicial roots in the Boston area, including helping create this federal court. Bella Ramirez is a high-achieving student who hustles. As an undergrad at Boston University, she worked as a resident assistant on campus. Boston has very high costs of living, […] The post College Uncovered: Who should hold power over higher education? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
How do kids learn how to kick a ball? If you think that’s a silly question — kids just kick things, don’t they? — you are thinking like me: Old school. Recently Ginny Yurich, host of the “1000 Hours Outside” podcast, sent me some pages from a pre-K curriculum she’d seen at a conference last […] The post OPINION: It’s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their way appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, educators quickly asked whether students would use artificial intelligence to cheat, learn or simply get through homework more efficiently. Evidence is beginning to point toward a troubling answer: Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest […] The post Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ask parent Janina Matuszeski what she has valued most about her twins’ experience in the Cambridge Public Schools to this point, and she is quick to cite the diversity and teacher quality. If there is one area in which the schools have performed less well in serving her children, who just completed […] The post Can this city succeed in having all eighth graders take algebra where others have failed? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
As a former teacher and now school leader, I know nothing is worse than missing the mark with your students. It is both disillusioning and frustrating to know that you are failing to provide them with the necessary tools to drive their own learning. It was this realization that convinced me that something needed to […] The post PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Pssst — wanna buy a college campus? There’s a sudden market in abandoned campuses, an outgrowth of the accelerating rate of colleges closing in the face of falling enrollment, rising debt and other problems. More than 440 of the nation’s private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities are now at risk, based on enrollment trends, debt […] The post Pace of college closings picks up, with more projected appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
When I was an assistant principal in Chicago, I would post a job opening for a physics teacher and get 20 applications. A call for an English teacher might yield 150. That was the late 1990s. By the time I left the district, the same postings were lucky to bring in one or two qualified […] The post OPINION: America’s teacher shortage is worse than you think. But there’s a way to fix it appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first grade class at Sand Creek Elementary in suburban Denver, and students were furiously jotting down details about their summer plans, the first step in composing a paragraph on the topic. Except for 6-year-old Dean, who was already done. “This […] The post The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
LOVELAND, Colo. — Just beyond the front doors of Namaqua Elementary School, past a banner that reads “attendance matters — every school day counts,” a stuffed wildcat in sunglasses sits in the lobby, observing the comings and goings of students. The school mascot is called Wyatt, and the students are told that he monitors attendance. […] The post Why are so many kindergartners chronically absent? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Mikiah Roberson expected to receive her federal $6,700 student loan disbursement sometime between May 27 and June 3, just in time to make her rent and car payments. Instead, June 3 came and went. Days, weeks and finally over a month passed. Roberson, a graduate student in University of Maryland Global Campus’s digital forensics and […] The post Colleges are scrambling to figure out new student loan rules. Students are paying the price appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
This is fresh, so I apologize for rambling. I work as a nurse in an ER, obviously working with all different specialities. Over the past year my partner has been having some health problems that we have found out recently is cancer that has metastasized to his lungs. Now two doctors, a sx specialty and internal medicine, saw him in clinic and were incredibly dismissive. Told him it was stress, and one even said I could be the cause because I dared to advocate for him. I feel like going off on both of them when I see them at work but obviously I will not. I am just so frustrated. submitted by /u/celestialbomb [link] [comments]
So, not long after I posted this, Student Loan repayments were paused and defaults were suspended. I may havr already had some debts, but I saw opportunity and I took it & ran. Decided to go LPN first, because of my suboptimal GPA from College Attempt #1. That got me in the door. I graduated with my LPN in December of 2024, and was class valedictorian. I immediately bridged into an Advanced Standing RN program, and graduated that with flying colors in March of this year. Sat for my NCLEX, passed, and ugly cried when I saw RN next to my name in Nursys. I say all this with immense gratitude for this community, because without advice from r/nursing and r/StudentNurse , I don't think I would have stayed as motivated. Now I'm six months in, working on a fantastic cardiac medicine unit, and I'm right where I want to be. Thank you. submitted by /u/queen_frostine [link] [comments]
I want to move to Idaho from CA because I have family residing over there and want to be closer to them! And because I want to move out of living with my weird family. I am a new grad ADN with 0 experience, but have a strong passion for nursing <3 Is there anywhere anyone suggests that is good for new grads? I am interested in MedSurg! Is there anything I should do before I start to apply? Should I get my Idaho license before applying to anywhere? submitted by /u/Dull_Flatworm7326 [link] [comments]
My first try, I felt under prepared and was so nervous. I felt like I was possibly failing during the test and was so relieved to pass. I scored 94/125. Not amazing but good enough! I’m curious what other’s scores were? I did nicole kupchick’s review which was decent. And then I mostly focused on the aacn test bank! submitted by /u/Dear-Menu1264 [link] [comments]
I’m moving from Dallas Texas to Chicago (I know, the cold will kill me) I’m an ICU nurse of 2 years at an amazing university/teaching hospital here in Dallas and was looking to find something similar to that in Chicago too. I already have my eyes on some hospitals and applied to the ones mentioned in the title. My questions to you guys: did you need to be referred? What was the hiring process like? Is it hard to get a job there since these hospitals are some of the best in chi? Please let me know thank you!! 🙏 submitted by /u/Nurseynurse2426 [link] [comments]
Hi there- friendly neighborhood burned out nurse manager here. I’m seriously considering going back to bedside and would love to hear from other folks who did it. I’m nervous— my skills are rusty at best but thinking about going back to patient care makes me feel hopeful about work again. Any words of wisdom? Am I crazy? I want to feel like I can actually make a difference again and get back to why I became a nurse in the first place. submitted by /u/orange-blossom89 [link] [comments]
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So our unit based council (UBC) has locked suggestion boxes on our unit where nurses can write suggestions on what can be done for nurses for improvement. I vented a suggestion and wrote “ the greediness of BSW leaders is why our PTO accrual is only 6.0957 hours per 2 week pay period and PTO cash out is only at 75%. We should have more PTO accrual and be able to cash out our PTO at 100%. “ I wrote my name on the suggestion, thinking only other nurses would see it, and put it into the sealed UBC suggestion box. Our supervisor, unbeknownst to me, snuck into the box, read my suggestion, and brought it up to our new director, and withheld my suggestion from the UPC meeting. I’m a hard worker, work extra shifts, take extra call, and I get compliments from patients on how satisfied they are about my care. I was even employee of the month a few months ago. I’m a good employee. Today I was called into a meeting with my supervisor and our new director. I was thinking that this meeting was gonna
I watched a video of a doctor using a little fiber optic scope and some scrapers and clean some ears. Then I Google, can nurses do said activity, and low and behold, Google says yeah, some nurses can do that in certain facilities with some training yada yada yada. What kind of nurses are out there cleaning and scraping shit out of ears. What job title does it. Do they clean ears all day every day or is it a side duty, like me slipping in a post pyloric sbft, just once in a while. Its gotta be super satisfying. I wonder if any nurses moonlight with it as a service like doing home IV rejuvination/hangover services. submitted by /u/IrishThree [link] [comments]
Guess who’s hospital got hacked! All electronic systems are down: epic, our timekeeping system, our monitoring system, the phones, the tube station, all of it. We’re back to paper charting and, for me and my friends on L&D, sitting in our patients’ rooms for 12hr listening to the FHR and staring right at them 🙃. So far I’ve heard 2 weeks, 30 days, 60 days, and 6 months for how long this will last. Allegedly, we’re getting paid next week and they’re allegedly just issuing us the same paycheck we got last week. I’ll believe it when I see it. And in case you were wondering, everything is the nurse’s fault! Doctor doesn’t like how you organized the chart? Pharmacy can’t read the doctor’s handwriting? So-and-so didn’t get called at the right time? That’s on you babe. Anyway, I’ll be spending the next unknown amount of time fearing for my sanity and license as we continue to just add patients and override meds in the Pyxis willy-nilly. Can’t wait to talk about this in court some day. submitt
Tell me what patient population you work with! I wanna hear it allllll. FILL ME IN ON A FRIDAY 😇😇 i work on a med surg/ hem-onc floor. If someone goes to the ER and needs admitted for whatever (like bowel obstruction, gall bladder, severe UTI, renal failure, etc) but has a history of, or active, cancer, they're admitted on my floor. The other half of patients are med-surg type patients... Like the issues listed above, but without having cancer as a comorbidity... Post-op, kidney stone, small bowel obstruction, TURBT, severe anemia that requires blood transfusion, thrombocytopenia, DVT, etc. Fill me in on this Friday, tell me about your patient population. Xoxo submitted by /u/One-Raspberry-786 [link] [comments]
Rejected my experience I graduated in May, passed the NCLEX in July and applied to over 500 jobs and I landed 1 interview for the ER last week. I was excited for this interview maybe I got my hopes too high. I prepared for this interview for a week prepping how to answer interview questions nursing related. I came in with a positive mind set like I was ready. I wanted this job badly because it was 15 min from my house being in the ER where I had my capstone and to finally land something after so many rejections. Overall I didn’t think the interview went well it was just a vibe I got from the director and the manager. It was nothing what I prepped for. The director did all the talking while the manager sat and listened only asked me one question. The director kept asking me about the last hospital I worked out and praising how good it was with ratios etc.. asked me if there was something to change about that hospital like a problem what I would do. I was a PCA there and I interviewed wi
We had a pt check in for low bp and im not really too sure what all he has going on because he wasn’t mine but i do know he was quite mottled and had an internal defibrillator which shocked him 5x before he came to see us in the ED. Once the code happened i ran in with my nurse as im on orientation and just started less than 2 months ago. I usually hide in the shadows because i still feel like a student and im so scared still. I ended up throwing myself on the chest when it was time to switch because i figured the best way to learn is to just do. I got thrown epi which id never touched outside of a simulation and ended up giving 3 rounds. I was very proud of myself for going in and just doing it as it kind of felt like second nature even though id never done the real thing outside of a sim lab. The patients family watched it all. Wife and son. They refused to leave. I watched him grow pale and cold with all this chaos going on. Family was crying and in shock. I saw a lifeless body layi
So i’m in my first week as a new grad RN in the OR and there’s one scrub tech who has been insanely rude to me for literally no reason. The first time, they were opening for a case and the garbage got super full, so I took it out. I thought they were done opening and I forgot to bring a new garbage can back in. She comes in and goes, “Where’s my fucking garbage?” I said I’d go grab one, and then she goes, “What even are you?” I told her I’m a nurse and she goes, “Oh my god, what’s up with these fucking new grad nurses?” I left to get the garbage and when I came back she was STILL talking shit about me to the other scrub tech, asking if I was going to be staying in “her fucking room.” Then today I had her again as a relief scrub. I was tying her gown and when I grabbed the tab/tie she yanked it so fucking hard that it slipped out of my hand and went back onto her gown. She immediately goes, “You have to fucking hold it.” Like girl??? I have tied plenty of people’s gowns this week and no
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I used to work at a hospital that was just miserable. Constantly understaffed, management acted like every problem was somehow our fault, schedules were awful, and the way nurses were spoken to was honestly worse than some of the patient abuse we dealt with. I kept telling myself I was going to leave but never felt like I had enough money saved to actually make a move without immediately stressing about rent and everything else. Cos I didn't lol. Over the last year I saved basically everything I could. I also got lucky and cashed out a decent win from stake on the knicks, which was only a small part of the money, but it was enough to finally make me feel comfortable pulling the trigger. Thank u brunson. So I quit, moved, and started over somewhere else. I knew the old job was affecting me but I didn't realize HOW much until I left. I'm sleeping better, I'm not angry before every shift, and I don't spend my days off dreading going back. The new place isn't perfect obviously, but being t
My #1 pet peeve is an aide going out of their way to tell a patient//family what they think is clinically going on. ITS NOT YOUR SCOPE! Now I’m having to undo the fear you’ve caused!!! It’s happened twice now. First the patient family was sent into a frenzy because they were told by the aide that it was c diff. No diarrhea, no horrid smell.. just one soft stool and they were terrified. Now today, she’s telling patients they’re impacted and it’s a UTI!!! submitted by /u/consideredtaken [link] [comments]
Found out a while back that my medical records were breeched by my coworkers while I was inpatient on a different unit. I posted back then and many told me to report this, which I did. Unfortunately, it seems that the health organization of which it occurred, are covering it up and saying that the accesses were all authorized which goes against everything I’ve learned about privacy laws. What could my next steps be? submitted by /u/LividCut4595 [link] [comments]
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There is someone I know who is claiming that they have an RN, BSN on both personal and professional social media. I can confirm that they do not have a nursing license. They also claim that they are in a graduate nursing program. Are there any immediate legal issues with simply claiming a nursing license? Unfortunately, I do not know if they are actively trying to impersonate a nurse or if they are just claiming it on social media for other reasons. submitted by /u/Master-Beginning5512 [link] [comments]
So I used to be a pct before I transitioned roles a few months ago (WOOHOO) and while there’s been of changes to get used to, one of the things I wasn’t expecting since I figured I would have noticed when interacting with patients before But omg guys- people have abnormal pupils SOO often. And 99.99% of the time it’s normal for THEM(so not acute), but still, make sure you’re fully doing pupil assessments with your head to toe. I always have since I started, but I never did as a tech or course, and I’m surprised how many people have abnormalities that I figured I would have noticed prior. Genuinely like every week, one of my shifts will have a patient with non equal pupils, or a torn iris, etc. Just a little note to other new grads as that’s one of the things I was personally surprised on being frequently abnormal on otherwise normal seeming parents. And if you hadn’t 1- had experience seeing how often this occurs on NON stroke patients as their baseline, and not known it was normal for
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TL;DR: new grad ED nurse who keeps breaking down in front of coworkers when I become overwhelmed, not because I’m sad, but because I’m overstimulated and frustrated. My coworkers are supportive, but I’m embarrassed and want to learn how to control it. For context, I’m a new nurse with less than a year of experience working in a busy ED. I’m a nontraditional new grad, this is my second career, and I’m in my early 30s. I’m not an overly emotional person. Before becoming a nurse, I cried maybe a few times a year. But since starting this job, I’ve probably broken down close to ten times, and not privately on the drive home. It has happened in front of coworkers, which is so embarrassing. It’s never because of a patient coding or anything particularly sad. It comes from pure overwhelm. Usually, shit is hitting the fan, I’m running my ass off, and when I try to explain everything that’s happening to a coworker, I suddenly start crying. I’m not sobbing, but I get tearful and need a few minute
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My old hospital use to have RSI kits that we could pull from the Pyxis that contained all or most of the intubation meds. Do you guys have that your hospital and if so how do you guys deal with ordering/charting on it? I’m hoping to have something similar for my new hospital but don’t really know the logistics around it. submitted by /u/bromato1 [link] [comments]
So today I called a parent bc her daughter ran off at the assembly crying. The student informed me she was being bullied so I got her to fill out a witness statement and had her report it to my admin (can’t teach and investigate all day at the same time) long story short everything was handled the situation was resolved and when I called mom to inform her she said “I don’t appreciate you putting my daughter in a situation where she has to face confrontation in the office next time don’t make her report it.” Umm? Damned if I do damned if I don’t 😂 submitted by /u/Mysterious_Pace9459 [link] [comments]
i am helping set up a small mobile nursing team offering home infusion services, and figuring out the waste disposal side has been way more frustrating than expected. traditional waste haulers keep trying to lock us into multi year contracts with expensive monthly minimums, which does not make financial sense for a small startup team doing home visits where waste volume fluctuates week to week. a nurse practitioner i spoke with suggested using a sharps mail back program so we can just ship out containers on a pay as you go basis without any recurring retainers. for those running small independent home health or infusion setups, have you found mail in programs to be reliable for compliance, or is there another flexible option i should look into? submitted by /u/Yarshon-Antonello [link] [comments]
I’m an RN with a little over 3 years of experience. My background is mainly Med-Surg/IMU/step-down and currently have experience in cath lab post recovery for a year now. I’m considering making the jump into the actual Cath Lab, but the biggest thing holding me back honestly isn’t the clinical side ..it’s the schedule and CALL 😭. I really value having my days off actually be my days off and I’m worried about getting burned out from being on call, getting called in overnight, weekends, staying late for cases, etc. For anyone who works Cath Lab, especially at Houston Methodist locations (Baytown would be even better) any feedback? I’m also considering Cardiac Diagnostics because that seems like it may give me the cardiac/procedural environment I like without as much of the call lifestyle. For anyone familiar with Cardiac Diagnostics ..feedback too? I’m trying to figure out if going into Cath Lab or cardiac diagnostics is worth sacrificing the predictable schedule I really want. 😭 submitt
My boyfriend was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in May. He was set to graduate in January from his LVN program at Galen (Houston), but due to the accident had to take a quarter off. Long story short, even though he withdrew correctly and explained his circumstances (and was in good standing), he will not be able to attend next quarter. This is even after the readmissions team said to resend his application through after they realized they had marked him as purposefully missing class (even though he got into a car accident and withdrew the day he was discharged from the hospital). I know Galen doesn't have a great reputation, but it's insane to me given the circumstances that it's so difficult to return. After everything he's been through in the last few months, I want nothing more for him than to go back to normal life. Any programs that anybody knows that he could look into? TIA submitted by /u/Signal_Physics8636 [link] [comments]
Hey everyone! The copy machine is down. We called Susan, and she said it won't be fixed until next week. Anyway, since it's Friday... What were some challenges that you faced recently? Anything that irked you? Maybe a co-worker is getting on your nerve? Class caught on fire because little Billy shoved a crayon into your pencil sharpener? Share all the vents and stories below! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]
I swear it’s always something new with these people. I never received the classroom supplies I ordered through the school, and when I asked about it, I was told “Don’t ask about the supplies. We will discuss it at a later date.” It’s been weeks and still no supplies. To be fair, I’m not a homeroom teacher, but I still definitely need basic supplies to do my job efficiently. And yet, when I ask for simple things like paper clips and staples from the office (that I should’ve gotten with my supplies) they look at me like I’m stupid. I just want my rubber bands and manila folders. submitted by /u/JackfruitGlad1666 [link] [comments]
I’m currently teaching at a charter in Los Angeles. Our school has had massive budget cuts due to low enrollment etc. I’ve been at this school my entire teaching career (4 years) and it’s been great but I just feel like it’s my time to move on. However, I’m worried that if I leave, I’m leaving behind that tiny bit of seniority at my current school. Whatever new school I go to I would be the newest one and first on the chopping block if that district/school needs to let go of teachers. What do y’all think? Stay because my job is secure (for now) or move on? submitted by /u/whoisthis0022 [link] [comments]
I am fucked. I started at a new school this year and it has been about a month. I was in my last school for 10 years. I was told today that I have to turn things around in the next week or two. I am super stressed. It is in a new district and a different curriculum and a different batch of kids. I am worried and pissed and want to cry (or worse) and I am just frustrated. I wanted a fresh start at a new school and a new district. OMG. fuck my life. I get advice from my colleagues in my department and the instructional coach is also giving me bad advice. I am just speechless. If it doesn't work out at this school, I think I am going to be done with teaching. submitted by /u/IneligibleLand [link] [comments]
This year is a big anniversary of 9/11. As a Canadian teacher at the elementary level we don’t reference it. It impacted me greatly as an adult and witnessing it all unfold was horrific. That said, I am aware that I am almost fifty and was a full adult when it happened. My own teen children know what happened but don’t really grasp the magnitude as they are removed from it. What happens at elementary schools in the states around remembering this tragedy? Will different things or more happen this year? Edit: I am very surprised to learn nothing happens. What do you do for Remembrance Day/Veterans Day? Are historical major events not honoured or recognized? submitted by /u/GenXMom14 [link] [comments]