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1. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   Time for the happy ending... Rode to the testing site with my best AA friend this past week - On the drive, we drank coffee while sharing stories about sobriety, life, and pretty ones who got away . Grabbed lunch and hit a noon meeting before I to...

2. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   And graduated.... wore all white - looked like a big polar bear. My mom flew in - I was pinned with her first nursing pin from 1967. Lots of happy tears. Exit exams passed... License application is done and paid for... Sitting here working on my ...

3. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   99 days till my last final.... and I celebrate 19 years the day my practicum ends :)

4. Role call!

   afbc replied to Twoyearnurse's topic in Recovery

   26 November 1995 (Gawd, I'm coming up on twenty years..) RN student working a full time job as an aide - Less then eight months of school/clinicals left NCLEX after that... Grateful but tired, burnt, and off the beam - definitely ready to finish L...

5. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   I was reading back through this thread today and I saw this hidden piece of prophetic wisdom. Just confided to a close friend last week that it's been 10 years since I've been as far off the beam spiritually as I seem to be while I'm in school. The L...

6. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   Hrmmmm 18 months since an update... Probably about time to say Hi and tell anyone here on the forums in recovery to keep on trudging! Miracles do happen - my life is a perfect example. Middle of my third semester now - sitting here procrastinating...

7. NP School Interview

   afbc replied to PavementRN's topic in Recovery

   I went through a somewhat similar situation about 3 years ago while trying to get into nursing school - I will ask you this: Would you prefer to tell the truth upfront and risk not getting in, or would you prefer to omit the truth and spend the next...

8. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   "As a representative of the Admission Committee, I am happy to inform you that you have been conditionally accepted into the Associate Degree Nursing Program for the Spring 2012 Term." ACCEPTED!!!! So incredibly grateful today, afbc

9. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

   afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

   HOLA!!! Please accept my sincerest apologies, much too much time has passed since my last update considering how often I lurk these forums while studying or doing homework. Sooo. . . Currently working on my fourth full-time semester of college and...

10. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

    afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

    Hrmmm....... I thought I had posted an update this past December after finals, apparently not... Anyway, life is absolutely spectacular, certainly more then an old drunk like me deserves. Pulled a 4.0 last semester, knocked the HESI 2 out of the bal...

11. Recovering alcoholic RN wanting to work with addicts

    afbc replied to onlytimeforme's topic in Addictions

    Innlove, Being in recovery myself, I can truly appreciate your desire to enter into addictions nursing. I have recently started back to college, hoping to someday obtain my RN and find myself an evening position at one of the local rehabs or detox's...

12. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

    afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

    Just a quick update... After several weeks of increasing anxiety over a multitude of last second financial aid issues, it is finally done. Twenty three years after being escorted off my previous campus for alcohol related incidents, I start school...

13. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

    afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

    No felonys, NOTHING in the past fifteen years. Nothing on my background check for the admissions board. Just stupid alcohol related crap I did back in the early 90's. DUI, VOP, FTA, PI, crap like that. God I don't know if pursuing this will be an ev...

14. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

    afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

    I'm not sure I will ever get past the question on the application "Have you ever been convicted of anything other then minor traffic violations?" Even though the wreckage is fifteen years old, the admissions board has to start "thinning the herd" s...

15. Sobriety and nursing school interviews

    afbc replied to afbc's topic in Recovery

    Not selected, may try again in January.