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  1. ECPI

    I know LPNs from ECPI and while they're fine LPNs, my only real gripe is the cost of their diploma -- you're looking at over $35,000 for the program which generally runs about 1.5 years. Your local community college will probably cost 5% of that, if ...
  2. GTCC Spring 2013 Evening & Weekend

    Waitlisted myself but not too surprising.
  3. Advice for relocating RN?

    I can't say there's a better time than any other when applying for jobs. However, I will say that applying during May-July is probably the worst time, as the market becomes flooded with new RN graduates looking for jobs. There's a smaller surge in ap...
  4. Forsyth Tech Spring 2013

    Considering the accepted ranges of last semester being 158+, I don't forsee composite scores climbing 9 points in one semester but who knows. If it puts your mind at ease, retake - they take the highest of your TEAS scores.
  5. Forsyth Tech Spring 2013

    Unfortunately where I work, the LPN attitude is pretty evenly split. There's some that won't assist with personal care, at all - no matter how simple it is. There's one in particular who I've watched walk into a room to give a resident their medicine...
  6. GTCC Spring 2013 Evening & Weekend

    At the Information Session they said they had a massive spike in applications after Obama visited and mentioned them in his State of the Union address, I think he said something to the effect of Forsyth serving as the "national model" for what he wan...
  7. Forsyth Tech Spring 2013

    I'd like to get in at GTCC (I live in Greensboro but work in W-S), I assume Tiffany meant she'd begin notifying people the week of Sep. 17-21 but we'll see. I'm not sure how they'll handle letters, honestly. I know FTCC sends out denials and acceptan...
  8. GTCC Spring 2013 Evening & Weekend

    Honestly, I don't know the number GTCC gets. I asked Tiffany Bryant and all she'd say was "It changes from semester to semester," which is the same answer she gave me regarding the accepted points range. I was at the FTCC Information Session that had...
  9. LTC and loving it

    The reforms began in the 80s, yes but there are still LTCs out there that don't follow it to the T. Slowly they're being handled but they're still out there - quite a few in fact. The 80's, in my mind, wasn't that long ago -- a good number of my coll...
  10. Forsyth Tech Spring 2013

    Erin, I've taken some official practice TEAS this past week and gotten a 78 and 81. I will go in and at least retake it, officially - it can't hurt. I have an app in at GTCC as well, their due date was the 11th and Tiffany Bryant said she should have...
  11. LTC and loving it

    LTCs have long had a bad reputation, primarily because before national and state reforms things were, well...nasty (generally). You know the saying, "It takes one sour apple to spoil the bunch?" It works for nursing homes. They had a reputation of po...
  12. Forsyth Tech Spring 2013

    According to the MAR review I went to, accepted students for the Fall 2012 program had composite scores of 158-183'ish. On FTCC's system, I'm at 147 currently. I have a C in Gen Psych and a C in A&PII from nearly 8 years ago, both dragging my sco...
  13. GTCC Spring 2013 Evening & Weekend

    I doubt most applicants are aware of allnurses.com, but it's possible that most applicants are more interested in day programs and would prefer not to spend their evenings and weekends in a classroom/hospital. We'll see. Either way, I think with 60 p...
  14. anyone actually graduate and employed from Baker College

    As someone already pointed out - you shouldn't worry about nursing program losing students, but rather look at their first time NCLEX pass rate. It's common practice that if a student stands a rather high probability of failing the NCLEX, the school ...
  15. Background check

    Minnesota is one of the select few that doesn't require background checks when getting your license - that said, they have been known to do them randomly and odds are high that your potential place of employment WILL do a background check. It's just ...