kimmyz

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1. Taking NCLEX on the 30th of this month.... any suggestions, PLEASE

   kimmyz posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   Hello. I am taking the big test on the 30th. I am a little scared... OK alot scared. If you have any tips, knowledge about what to really focus on, any advice would be soooo much appreciated. :) Kim

2. This Site has Jaded My View of Nursing

   kimmyz replied to kimmyz's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks once again everyone. I didn't mean to start a debate about gender stereotyping. (my professors comment, not mine) But anyway the great thing about debates is it makes us look at ourselves. I am sure I have been catty on occasion. I conciously ...

3. This Site has Jaded My View of Nursing

   kimmyz replied to kimmyz's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you everyone who has commented. You have made some great points. I am usually the glass half full kind of girl. I know that every career has the ups and downs and positive and negative people. I am an idealistic person (my husband says too much...

4. This Site has Jaded My View of Nursing

   kimmyz posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello. I am just about to finish my first semester in an LPN program. I hope no one will take this the wrong way, but I never knew there was so much negativity between LPN's and RN's, and in the work place with employees and bosses. When I joined thi...

5. Clinical Outfits

   kimmyz replied to Golden_Clover's topic in General Students

   Hi. I am in my first year and our uniforms are white. We have to wear a collared shirt and it can't be the golf style. We have to have our patch on our left shoulder and our name tag stating clearly we are students. We have lab coats as well. They wa...

6. Ohhhhh your a Nurse!?!?

   kimmyz replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

   I am an LPN student and I have heard so much of the tension that exists between the RN's and the LPN's. I have also seen it with the RN students at my school when we are on break together. Before I visited this site I never even knew it existed. It h...

7. I just received my acceptance letter!

   kimmyz replied to kimmyz's topic in LPN/LVN

   Thanks everyone for your congrats and kind words.... I am going to school in Florida at Seminole Community College. I am doing LPN while I finish my prereqs for RN and hopefully will transition in about a year to the RN program.... KIM

8. I got my letter! I'm in, starting in Jan. Anyone else starting then too?

   kimmyz replied to onehusbandsevenkids's topic in LPN/LVN

   Hi. I just got my acceptance letter today. I also start in January. I am attending Seminole Community College in Florida. I am sooo excited. I have worked really hard for this. I have six kids... so like you I am very busy. Mine are ages 13, 10, 9, 7...

9. I just received my acceptance letter!

   kimmyz posted a topic in LPN/LVN

   Hello, I just received my acceptance letter to the LPN program. I start in January. I am sooo happy. I look forward to any advice or words of wisdom from all of you experienced LPN's and LPN students. Kim

10. Lots of kids, a husband, nursing school AND working as a CNA?

    kimmyz replied to onehusbandsevenkids's topic in General Students

    Hello, I have alot in common with you. I have 6 kids (13, 10, 8, 6, 21mos, 9 mos)and hope to start the LPN program in Jan. I am in school full time right now working on my prereqs to transfer to the RN program after I complete the LPN. Everyone says ...