Made a terrible mistake...

[chold635]

Hello everyone...I am new to this site so please forgive me if I post in the wrong place. I have a dilemma I would like some advice about. I am an LPN looking to enter a LPN-RN program soon. Of course, the school I am hoping to attend wants transcripts from my LPN school. To my shame, while I was attending LPN school, I falsified a record in the clinical setting. It was a grave mistake. No patient was harmed...I put down that I checked a pulse when I did not. The reason I did this horrible mistake was because (if I remember correctly) it was my first day and I was very nervous and was to scared to ask for help. So I lied instead. I was afraid of being ridiculed..I am not trying to excuse my behavior, I am 100% to blame. I am just trying to explain my behavior..In the following events, I was suspended for a day, but I obviously still graduated and received my license. Please do not think I do not understand the severity of my actions. I do. It was a foolish thing to do. And I paid for my actions. I did nothing but work for months and I feel like I earned my diploma and license and repented my mistake. My teacher agreed, as well, or I do not think he would have graduated me. This mistake will never happen again, I can promise you...My problem now is Im afraid it will prevent my getting accepted to my mobility program if it shows up on my transcript which im sure it will....I am lost now and have no idea what to do. I would appreciate any advice...thank you.

[Lvn1973, ASN, LVN, RN]

All the applications I've completed for LVN-RN asked about probation or suspension in regards to actually working under you license not in school.