jimikata:
@ frank, is the hospital a psychiatric home? or why would a resident want to set it on fire.?

sassysure:

One of the highest paying places to work in the health-care system nut at the end of the day u will start questioning your sanity.

achilex:
Greetings to all the great members of this forum. I'll be as straight forward as possible. I graduated with a Bachelor's in 2017 and applied for my masters in environmental policy this year 2018, in Canada. I was awarded a full tuition waiver, living stipend and money for accommodation. But my study permit application was refused, for so many reasons a 22 year old cannot comprehend.

I have decided to let God take the glory and move on seeking similar opportunities in U.S.A for my masters in environment related field.

please I implore the benevolent contributors in this group to give me some ideas.

in conclusion, I need to know how to apply for a tuition waiver when applying for my master's program in USA. when I applied to Canada, I was asked to contact a faculty supervisor willing to supervise my research. The total applicable funding was quoted on the program website, but for the USA I learnt this process is for PhD applications.

should I just go ahead and search for programs with my course of interest, apply, and pray I get a similar opportunity? (the USA student visa process is easier I guess) or I still need to identity a faculty supervisor prior to my application? (I am going for thesis route)

Thank you. your warm contributions are highly anticipated.�

sassysure:

One of the highest paying places to work in the health-care system nut at the end of the day u will start questioning your sanity.

vizkiz:


Lol... This is so true.

FrankNetter, was the resident (who started the fire) dismissed to another (Psych) floor?

FrankNetter:

Nah bro. She was totally evicted from the facility.

Best decision.

I wonder what the deal is with white women and tears in situations like this. They break down and start crying.

Holocene:


Hey Frankie, your page needs new content. Gist us the latest gossip in Chiraq

FrankNetter:

Update



You see, the place I work is a psychiatric facility (like I've said a million times) so na craze people full here. The place has 7 floors. Each floor has two general shower rooms, a dining area (with tv and dvd), a nursing station and some other rooms like the linen room (where they keep clothes), janitor closet (where they keep cleaning equipment) etc.
Floors 2, 3, and 4 tagged the "skilled floors"; 5, 6 and 7 are tagged the psych floors. The skilled floors require more work cos the residents on these floors pretty much cannot do anything for themselves, so you bath, clean, feed them. The psych floors are much more easier (for me) cos most times, all you have to do is supervise the floor and make sure they don't fight and kill each other, you pass linen, make sure the shower rooms are locked after use (a resident tried to drown herself sometime ago), check the rooms to make sure no one is smoking or doing funny stuff, pretty basic stuff.
The facility is also divided into different departments, Nursing (Nurses and Nursing assistants), cleaners (we call them housekeeping), cooks and food servers, security guards and the rest.

The nursing station is equipped with computers (for documenting the residents' day to day activities), a land-line telephone and a public address system which is connected to speakers on all floors (amongst other things). So if attention is needed on any of the floors, you speak into the public address system so as to alert all the floors.
The facility has different "codes" for different emergencies. Code blue for medical emergencies (cardiac arrest, choking etc), code yellow for staff attention on the floor when the residents are fighting, code red for fire outbreak and the rest. So instead of yelling "Mr James is having a heart attack!" into the public address system, you yell "code blue" so you would not cause panic amongst the residents. For the 6months + I've worked here, we've had countless code blues, code yellows but never a code red.

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Picture one: food cart where the food trays are sent up in. The food trays come with the name, room number and type of diet each resident is supposed to eat. The diets for each resident differs, they range from puréed, regular, mechanical soft. You CANNOT give a resident that’s on puréed diet something else.

Picture two and three: soap and towels for the residents to take their showers

kylexy61:


Sorry to hear about this. This is surprising. Canadian visa applicants with full tuition waiver and stipend hardly ever get rejected. I also had a full tuition waiver and stipend and was approved.

I can see someone has given you the link to the USA visa thread. Study the thread religiously and write the GRE.

I wish you the best of luck in all your academic endeavors.

Cheers

Hadampson:
Can i send you PM bro??

kylexy61:


Sure

FrankNetter:
Regarding my previous post about my tuition being paid by UPS, I’ve completed the application, been invited for an interview and I’m currently awaiting my start date. I have also put in my two weeks notice at my current CNA job.

FrankNetter:
Regarding my previous post about my tuition being paid by UPS, I’ve completed the application, been invited for an interview and I’m currently awaiting my start date. I have also put in my two weeks notice at my current CNA job.

FrankNetter:
So like I was saying, some days back, I was scheduled to work a double shift 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm, then 11:00pm to 7:00 am.

Towards the end of the 3-11 shift, I went to do my rounds (to make sure the residents are in their rooms). The fire alarm started going off, it wasn't much of a big deal because most times, the residents mess with the alarm out of boredom.
Next thing I heard over the public address system was "CODE RED!! CODE RED on the fourth floor"!! In my mind, I said "Is this person joking? code red?

I continued doing my rounds. The public address system boomed again "ALL STAFF PLEASE REPORT TO THE FOURTH FLOOR!! CODE RED ON THE FOURTH FLOOR!!"

Mind you, this floor is filled with residents who can't even get move or get out of bed by themselves. I stopped what I was doing and ran to the stairs. I got to the fourth floor, opened it up and tried to rush in. Thick black smoke pushed me back. i fell back coughing. Another staff member ran up the stairs and met me there, we both rushed to the third floor, grabbed some towels, soaked it in water so as to cover our nostrils from the smoke and ran back upstairs. We met other staff members strategizing on what to do, we knew if we let don't pull the residents from the floor, they would die from c02 poisoning and/or fire.

Honestly, everything happened so fvcking fast. Someone came with a fire extinguisher, another person was grabbing pitchers of water and towels, someone else was yelling, someone was crying. It was chaos. with each second that passed, the chances of the residents coming out alive diminished. We decided to do what we can, one guy covered his nose with the wet towel and rushed in, I followed him with a wheelchair. Thick black smoke was everywhere, we couldn't see, we couldn't breathe. We were basically groping in the dark, once you feel a human hand or leg, pull the person into the hallway and towards the stairs; that was the plan. I managed to pull two people when I ran out of steam, I sat on the staircase catching my breath when I heard the welcome blare of sirens which meant fire service, police and ambulance were close by.

In no time, they pulled up and took over. The fire was contained and put out, nobody died. But a lot of people were sent out to the hospital for medical evaluation..

The story later filtered around that the fire was started by a female resident who was angry with another resident. S
She threatened to fvck him up, so she waited till he was in bed, took a knife, cut open his mattress (foam) and set it on fire from the inside.

Psychopath .. Damn!

Thank God for your life Bro

Originalsly:


I do hope you move to this new job or any other job as fast as possible.....history has it that when you remain working too long with psych patients...you all soon see eye to eye and become just like them!

I live opposite the psych section of a hospital....high fence keeping them in.... see them strolling in the large neat compound from time to time...one man conversations...one man arguments etc. There is a basketball court and I always wondered why. One day..just one day..I saw an attendant going to the court with a group of patients..I had to...had to stop and see how he would organize this game or what! He didn't. ..he just let them in...and threw the ball on the court...it rolled to a stop..no one noticed...then I guess one not so mad again...took it up...held it for like forever...then dashed it towards the backboard and walked away ..not waiting to see if his shot was good... or get the ball again...and no one else even noticed him shooting nor the ball...each in his own world.
I salute you guys that work with such people!

Originalsly:


I do hope you move to this new job or any other job as fast as possible.....history has it that when you remain working too long with psych patients...you all soon see eye to eye and become just like them!

I live opposite the psych section of a hospital....high fence keeping them in.... see them strolling in the large neat compound from time to time...one man conversations...one man arguments etc. There is a basketball court and I always wondered why. One day..just one day..I saw an attendant going to the court with a group of patients..I had to...had to stop and see how he would organize this game or what! He didn't. ..he just let them in...and threw the ball on the court...it rolled to a stop..no one noticed...then I guess one not so mad again...took it up...held it for like forever...then dashed it towards the backboard and walked away ..not waiting to see if his shot was good... or get the ball again...and no one else even noticed him shooting nor the ball...each in his own world.
I salute you guys that work with such people!

Originalsly:


I do hope you move to this new job or any other job as fast as possible.....history has it that when you remain working too long with psych patients...you all soon see eye to eye and become just like them!

I live opposite the psych section of a hospital....high fence keeping them in.... see them strolling in the large neat compound from time to time...one man conversations...one man arguments etc. There is a basketball court and I always wondered why. One day..just one day..I saw an attendant going to the court with a group of patients..I had to...had to stop and see how he would organize this game or what! He didn't. ..he just let them in...and threw the ball on the court...it rolled to a stop..no one noticed...then I guess one not so mad again...took it up...held it for like forever...then dashed it towards the backboard and walked away ..not waiting to see if his shot was good... or get the ball again...and no one else even noticed him shooting nor the ball...each in his own world.
I salute you guys that work with such people!

I felt like I was reading a novel.

FrankNetter:
Regarding my previous post about my tuition being paid by UPS, I’ve completed the application, been invited for an interview and I’m currently awaiting my start date. I have also put in my two weeks notice at my current CNA job.

FrankNetter:
Update



You see, the place I work is a psychiatric facility (like I've said a million times) so na craze people full here. The place has 7 floors. Each floor has two general shower rooms, a dining area (with tv and dvd), a nursing station and some other rooms like the linen room (where they keep clothes), janitor closet (where they keep cleaning equipment) etc.
Floors 2, 3, and 4 tagged the "skilled floors"; 5, 6 and 7 are tagged the psych floors. The skilled floors require more work cos the residents on these floors pretty much cannot do anything for themselves, so you bath, clean, feed them. The psych floors are much more easier (for me) cos most times, all you have to do is supervise the floor and make sure they don't fight and kill each other, you pass linen, make sure the shower rooms are locked after use (a resident tried to drown herself sometime ago), check the rooms to make sure no one is smoking or doing funny stuff, pretty basic stuff.
The facility is also divided into different departments, Nursing (Nurses and Nursing assistants), cleaners (we call them housekeeping), cooks and food servers, security guards and the rest.

The nursing station is equipped with computers (for documenting the residents' day to day activities), a land-line telephone and a public address system which is connected to speakers on all floors (amongst other things). So if attention is needed on any of the floors, you speak into the public address system so as to alert all the floors.
The facility has different "codes" for different emergencies. Code blue for medical emergencies (cardiac arrest, choking etc), code yellow for staff attention on the floor when the residents are fighting, code red for fire outbreak and the rest. So instead of yelling "Mr James is having a heart attack!" into the public address system, you yell "code blue" so you would not cause panic amongst the residents. For the 6months + I've worked here, we've had countless code blues, code yellows but never a code red.

************

Picture one: food cart where the food trays are sent up in. The food trays come with the name, room number and type of diet each resident is supposed to eat. The diets for each resident differs, they range from puréed, regular, mechanical soft. You CANNOT give a resident that’s on puréed diet something else.

Picture two and three: soap and towels for the residents to take their showers

Originalsly:


I do hope you move to this new job or any other job as fast as possible.....history has it that when you remain working too long with psych patients...you all soon see eye to eye and become just like them!

I live opposite the psych section of a hospital....high fence keeping them in.... see them strolling in the large neat compound from time to time...one man conversations...one man arguments etc. There is a basketball court and I always wondered why. One day..just one day..I saw an attendant going to the court with a group of patients..I had to...had to stop and see how he would organize this game or what! He didn't. ..he just let them in...and threw the ball on the court...it rolled to a stop..no one noticed...then I guess one not so mad again...took it up...held it for like forever...then dashed it towards the backboard and walked away ..not waiting to see if his shot was good... or get the ball again...and no one else even noticed him shooting nor the ball...each in his own world.
I salute you guys that work with such people!

Austine567:
am flabbergasted with the different between yankee and home especially in dating,most of em would prefer hooking up once in a while or one night stand after that everybody goes home happy no strings attach,most of them i came across dont want anything long term .

Austine567:
am flabbergasted with the different between yankee and home especially in dating,most of em would prefer hooking up once in a while or one night stand after that everybody goes home happy no strings attach,most of them i came across dont want anything long term .

tall2ce:
Franknetter

Pls answer this question

Please if someone is listed under his/her parents America Visa Lottery application.

Is that child eligible to travel to USA anytime before he/she gets married?

And are they exemptions?