willow298

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1. Will be applying for NCLEX, but have expunged misdemeanors...

   willow298 replied to willow298's topic in Criminal

   I just wanted to say that I just contacted the RI attorney general where I will be going to get my fingerprints done and who will be submitting them to the BON. They told me that if as long as the charges were expunged than they are erased and will ...

2. Will be applying for NCLEX, but have expunged misdemeanors...

   willow298 posted a topic in Criminal

   I live in Rhode Island and I am 4 weeks away from being done with nursing school. I unfortunately have 2 misdemeanors from 4 years ago that were expunged. They did not prevent me from getting into nursing school, as I had to submit a background che...

3. In need of genuine and factual resume help!

   willow298 posted a topic in General Students

   Hi everyone, for the last week I have been quite a mess about the whole resume/cover letter process. I will be graduating in May. My mom is an LPN and works upstairs from this wonderful "assisted living" type establishment that I would ADORE to wor...

4. Feeling really down in the dumps and friend-less in nursing school...advice needed

   willow298 replied to willow298's topic in General Students

   Hey I am just coming back to this post to check out responses. I have 8 weeks left! YAY!!! In response to this post, by no means was it "EVERYONE" in my class. There are like 100 students and I don't know half of them. I was referring to the peopl...

5. Cover letter help. Where/How to put my mom as a reference in my cover letter

   willow298 replied to willow298's topic in General Students

   Thank you so much. That sounds absolutely amazing. I am usually really good at writing stuff like this, but when it comes to resume time for myself, my mind goes blank and does not function properly. Also, I already knew not to put her as a refer...

6. Please review my resume...suggestions??

   willow298 posted a topic in Job Hunt

   Hi all, I will be graduating in 8 weeks with my ASN and have been trying to compile a resume. Can you please review it and make any suggestions? I did not use a template because I was getting aggravated with the tables and things not lining up. I...

7. Cover letter help. Where/How to put my mom as a reference in my cover letter

   willow298 posted a topic in General Students

   Hey everyone. I am graduating in 8 weeks from an ASN program and I am really starting to worry about trying to get a job. My mom is an LPN at a local hospital and has been affiliated (and still works) there for the past 40 years. She knows a lot of...

8. Help with a resume for a new graduate nurse

   willow298 replied to willow298's topic in General Students

   Thanks for your response. It must be so helpful to have relatives in HR! I think I am just going to make a resume from scratch using some of the points you emphasized. I feel like it will be better than trying to go strictly by a template. Good ...

9. Help with a resume for a new graduate nurse

   willow298 posted a topic in General Students

   Hey everyone. I will be graduating this May with an ASN. I am already starting to try to compose a resume so I can apply in advance and it is sooooo confusing!!!!! Cover letter or no cover letter? Objective or no objective? Fonts, size, tables, a...

10. Feeling really down in the dumps and friend-less in nursing school...advice needed

    willow298 replied to willow298's topic in General Students

    Thank you all so very much for your comments and kind encouragement. I do feel better today about it and it helped to come home after a long day of clinical and read all the responses. And one comment in particular really made me think..the commen...

11. Feeling really down in the dumps and friend-less in nursing school...advice needed

    willow298 posted a topic in General Students

    Hi. I am 1 semester away from being done with nursing school. I am a really high achiever and get fantastic grades in both the lecture and clinical portions of my program. At the beginning of the program, I felt like I met really good people tha...