They are not as common in Canada but we have started using “agency nurses” similar to the US. A bit of a scandal in the Maritime provinces as they cost $300 an hour paid to the agency versus about $50 for a nurse employee. The agencies have also been charging for meal and accommodation costs that the nurses haven’t been using. Such a debacle.
This is also very common in the UK.
They don’t want to be permanently employed because the pay is not great so they go “locum” at much higher daily pay rates.
The whole system is broken here as you end up spending 3x for temporary nurses instead of hiring permanently at higher wages.
Its a huge waste of £££.
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The value is none if it’s a place like GCU.
“The federal government’s education agenda is punishing schools that do not conform to their progressive ideology.” … Maybe, but right now it’s about punishing schools that do not conform to their dont-be-a-lying-thieving-sack-of-shit ideology. (Seriously, the president of GCU looks like a total good-old-boy skeez.)
“It’s time we take a stand against this egregious abuse of power.” … I agree, it’s time to take a stand against you hiding behind your fake Christianity so you don’t financially abuse the students you trick into attending your worthless institution.
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And yes, I can show you where on the doll the GCU hurt me, because I’m one of the swindled (although for a masters not for a PhD but still).
“Biden shuts down Christian schools” plays much better to the outrage crowd than “Biden stops for-profit ‘college’ scam”.
in light of the Biden administration’s unprecedented attacks on our nation’s largest Christian colleges
Really can’t let a single Biden accomplishment go without disingenuous spin about how he’s flooding the nation with brown people crushing Christianity.
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Re: nursing and teaching discussion …
Mrs. Hoffman’s nephew’s wife was a nurse. Wanted to be a nurse from the time she was like 10. Got her bachelor’s, got a master’s, licensed at multiple levels and all that stuff. She ended up hating it. Like, fucking hating it. Probably had something to do with the office she was working in and that she was doing 2 1/2 jobs as assigned, had to fight for a $2 raise the last time they laid more duties on her and the practice was very do you really need time off for ____, can’t you just work half the day for us? knowing she was doing 9-10 hours in the office and then another 4-5 at home because at least half a dozen people there fucked off and didn’t do their jobs, but they knew how to suck up to the main doctor in the practice.
She’s now a 7th grade teacher. Loves it. Says it’s lower stress. Sure, it’s probably lower pay and there’s a few bitchy parents but she knows how to put up with their shit. And, she has the support of the superintendent and the principal who’ve both said “this grade level has never run this smoothly.”
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My niece is a nurse, and my son’s ex-gf is working towards becoming one.
They both absolutely love it. They both have some OCD and if I had to guess, some level of adhd. Theyre pretty bouncy and loud IRL. But when they’re working in nursing, they love it and frankly there’s nobody better. The absolute chaos of patients and stuff going on three ways at once seems to laser focus them on the specific person they’re working with. When they’re with a patient, you’d never know they’ve got 10 things going on in the hallway at the same time.
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Yeah, she loved dealing with patients. It was the administrative bullshit that drove her out, and that’s something I’ve frequently seen with nurses who throw in the towel: it’s not patient care or patients being assholes that causes it.
i know some friends in MN who have chosen to send the kids to GCU. their enrollment went crazy the last several years. their marketing seems to be that they are a haven for openly christian students who believe they can’t be their true christian selves in mainstream colleges. (despite so many of those colleges affiliated with christian denominations, but…details)
i know nothing of what they offer for rigor (real or imagined) or utility of the degree.
In my case, I had started their MA in TESOL program to get my state’s TESOL endorsement, back in my brick-and-mortar days when I thought that was a direction my teaching career was headed. (It’s evolved since then so such an endorsement is no longer relevant to me.) Of course they waited until after I was enrolled to tell me that [at the time] that program was not approved by Ohio for that endorsement. A steaming pile of shitty customer service and shittier “advisement” later, I left and didn’t look back. My TEACH grant ended up converted to a loan, for which I have a pending borrower defense claim.
So every time I see a negative headline about GCU, (NSFW punchline) blood rushes to my dick in delight.
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There should really be no such thing as for-profit educational anything, at any level.
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They made a big push on recruitment with emphasis on student loans in our area when my youngest daughter was graduating HS.
My only direct experience is the cousin of my daughters best friend. He changed majors as a freshman and had flunked out by the time he was a sophomore. He’s a bit of a screwup anyway so I don’t think this one can be laid at GCU feet as it was the likely outcome regardless of institution. But I’m not sure what that little jaunt set his folks back or if he’s saddled with student loan debt.
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Also, it is nowhere near the Grand Canyon!!
I thought maybe Williams or Flagstaff. No: effing downtown Phoenix!
Exploiting screwups is for circuses.
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I could perhaps see a for-profit school training folks in things independently certified, with disclosures around graduate success at certification exams. Maybe not for doctors, but less critical, lower level of educational intensity professions.
I would like to see that for lots of “routine” college courses.
Here in Iowa, I can see the state board of regents telling the three universities they need to get together and design a common test which provides credit for first semester calculus at any of the universities. (also, any of the community colleges)
Anybody can take the test by scheduling (and paying for) individual test times at testing centers. They can also sign up for group test sessions, which might be cheaper.
People can prepare however they like. In person college classes, online classes, self study sites, HS classes, private tutoring, …
Seems to make sense to me.
If only there were something like a “college board” who does this for the whole nation…
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I’m not sure what you mean. Are you saying that I’m describing AP tests?
I have always viewed for profit colleges like timeshares and door to door life insurance salesmen
Avoid these scams!
With that being said I had no idea that GCU was a for profit
I guess something had to fill the void left behind by ITT
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and their parent company is publicly traded
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This would be easier if there was an efficient method for using red font and you had decided not to use it.
I think I’d be more flamed if GCU was privately held by a hedge fund or or fund
Bad either way tho
And damn it looks like I missed the gravy boat