skye614

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1. HELP choosing between 3 job offers, New Grad.

   skye614 replied to eelise11's topic in LPN/LVN

   i would take the one that will give you the most experience, where you feel you can learn, where the coworkers seem nice... trust me, get your experience and then you can go where you want!

2. New L.P.N. Very disappointed!

   skye614 replied to anclanton's topic in LPN/LVN

   I graduated in July 2012. I worked graveyard in assisted living, prn in skilled and finally landed a job as a staff nurse in a urology practice. Money is great, no holidays, nights, weekends. The learning experience has been invaluble, and its a grea...

3. Were you a know it all at your 1st LPN job???

   skye614 replied to NursingStudentYaya's topic in General Nursing

   I am a newer LPN, and all through school I heard the term " Nurses eat their young"...While I havent seen it often, except for one LPN who acted like she was a doctor and was never a new nurse, I will tell you that I can imagine that you will encount...

4. LPN salary questions

   skye614 replied to KimPN's topic in LPN/LVN

   I make $30.00 hr as a per diem lpn at long term care facility in bucks county, pa. But key word is per diem, that os.typically not ft or pt pay for an LPN

5. online job applications

   skye614 replied to calbast's topic in LPN/LVN

   I graduated in june and had no luck even with.getting.a.call back. Until i decided that for every app i put in online, i made a personal phone call to the facility, and left messages either on the hr depts voicemail, sometimes even the director of nu...

6. Studying RN questions ok for preparing for LVN Nclex?

   skye614 replied to jjangels's topic in NCLEX

   Do not study for nclex pn with rn questions. Simply because the.nclex is all about applied knowledge, what would you do etc....although the general knowlegde may be similar, there are two different scopes of practice which could trip you up on questi...

7. I took NCLEX on 16 July with 87 questions and FAILED it. Need encouragement.

   skye614 replied to RN status awaiting's topic in NCLEX

   I just took my NCLEX yesterday, shut off at 85, and on the BON I show an Active License. I do however know that I left feeling like I failed. My suggestions for you are to read the Kaplan Study Guide book, and do as many questions as possible.... whi...

8. Those of you in school or have finished

   skye614 replied to ejm123's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   I planned on making a lot of sacrifices when I enrolled in the LPN program. what I learned that it is one thing to talk about sacrificing and another thing to experience it. I missed out on a year of being fully available to my family, I never saw my...

9. Is the salary of an LPN even Worth the trouble of going to school??

   skye614 replied to Tony1790's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Mine is not an overbearing opinion, its a positive statement countering your somewhat disparaging remarks that you call "The truth"...... You are correct in saying that no one is right or wrong, and I do not claim to be correct, nor do I agree that y...

10. Is the salary of an LPN even Worth the trouble of going to school??

    skye614 replied to Tony1790's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    @ Baldee?? Are you an RN or an LPN? Or if not either, what is your course of study? .... I find some of your comments a bit disturbing and I find you to be very disparaging of the people that have chosen to get their LPN. Especially your statement a...

11. How do you possibly study with YOUNG kids???

    skye614 replied to TryingNot2BeScared's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    Totally get it, I have a 2 year old(also on the spectrum), I go to school 5 days a week 8-330pm. My husband works 2 full time jobs from midnight to 8 am then his other job from 8am to 430pm, basically that makes me a single mother and responsible for...

12. concerned about my LPN scores ~ kindly advise

    skye614 replied to abc12301's topic in Pennsylvania

    I go to BUCKS CCC currently. They consider passing by your composite percentile score. This year for admission, you needed to have 55 or over to get invited to the 2nd phase of admission. Plus they have really upped the criteria to get in... I heard ...

13. Is the salary of an LPN even Worth the trouble of going to school??

    skye614 replied to Tony1790's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    I live in Bucks County, PA,,, and I am halfway through LPN program at community College. The req here to bridge to RN is you must have pre req's(you get nutrition and communications while in LPN, the rest you have to get yourself before applying to A...

14. Neagtive...responses to my wanting to enter Lpn program..

    skye614 replied to wasted-enough-time's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    Im 33, and after totally screwing up in high school, I never gave school another thought, till I got out in the real world and realized how important education really is and the doors that it can open to you both professionally and personally. I was ...