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nbaker04
8 Posts
Good Evening to all the Future LPN/RN Nursing students. I was scrolling through the feed because I have two friends who have applied to both the LPN and Generic programs for Fall. They were trying to find out when they would hear if they had been accepted or not. I knew about this site and decided to look on here to see if i could find out any information for them. As all of you are, they are both very anxious. After reading all the comments on the threads here, I couldn't help but make an account so I could share with you all some information that you all may find helpful. I'm sure you are all probably thinking at this point, what does she know? and how does she know? Well... Around this time last year, I spent most of my time obsessing over the possible chance of acceptance in to Nursing school. I stalked my mailbox every single day, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the acceptance letter that determined whether all the hard work i had done up to this point will have paid off, and always finding someway to figure out how to convince myself that i wouldn't get in because, My teas score wasn't high enough, my GPA wasn't high enough, and so on. I even had a backup plan in place and had already done everything I needed to do to start at Rasmussen, because i did not want to be discouraged or wait any longer to get in. I stalked the mailbox, called my friends everyday to stalk their mailboxes, daily routine of checking allnurses.com for anyone else's acceptance in to nursing school, making myself crazy. The mere thought of not getting in to the program devastated me. That is all i thought about from the time i dropped off my application until one Friday in June 2013. It is probably one of the most nerve racking feeling ever. I know you all know this feeling I am speaking of. I can still feel it like it was just yesterday. I was an LPN applying for the RN transition program. TEAS score 76, GPA 3.5 and Resident of Pasco County. My friend's also LPN to RN transition, Residents of Hernando County one with TEAS of 69 and GPA 3.8 and the other with TEAS of 70 and GPA 3.4. Now with all that said, Give the school a break, i know it is hard but they actually do not have a very large group of people allocated to the applicant approval process because they are still teaching health related programs and classes during this time and maintaining their current job descriptions on top of going through the several hundred applications per campus and entering all the information into the computer and reviewing each application for accuracy and also realize that they are choosing 36 people for each program for The West and North campuses and less than that for East Campus. The Porter campus is now teaching as well but i am unsure how many students will be able to attend. With that said the application process is lengthy and there are only so many seats. I do understand how your feeling because i felt the very same way. However try to remember that, they do have to capability to hold up the letters until last minute if they want to do so, and if they really wanted to make you wait, they have the ability to hold those letters until the deadline. so be careful about calling them everyday, they are doing the best they can. It was about 1 pm on Friday June 21st 2013, About 1 month after turning in my application for admission. The longest month of my life, it felt like. I called home to my boyfriend and asked him to please go check the mailbox, He knew the routine, if he was home and i was at work, he was my mailbox runner. I waited for him to open the mailbox for what seemed like the millionth time in complete silence, hoping for my letter/envelope/package. He was quiet and said well..."I don't think" and i was crushed, another day no letter and then he began to speak again and said " you will have to wait anymore." You have a large envelope from PHCC. Do you want me to open it?" I said " Is that a rhetorical question, Yes, Hurry up open it." It was hectic at work that day but all of a sudden my Pulse was racing, i was sweating, and the only thing i could hear at that very moment was pure silence, and for just the ten seconds it took to open the big envelope and read the words i have been awaiting for so long, it felt like a lifetime. He started to speak and at that moment, I heard him say Congratulations baby, You did it, you are PHCC's newest nursing student. I inhaled for the first time in about 60 seconds and it was a feeling of so many emotions. I cried, laughed, pinched my self to make sure i was not dreaming. It was actually real, I got in. I hug up with him and ran down the hall to tell my friend that i got in and to call her dad to go check her mail, he lived down the street from her and " She said oh no what if hes not home" but just her luck he was there. She waited in the same suspense i endured and her daddy opened her mail and her burst of emotions told me just what we wanted to hear..a few hours later my other friend got home to finally check her mail and can u believe it she got accepted too. I honestly didn't thing there could have been a better feeling, but i was wrong. There was no better feeling than knowing that i was not only a nursing student, but that i had 2 amazing girls to do it with me and support each other. I have to tell you though, when you get that letter and you feel like the month of insane emotions and craziness you endured is finally over, you are so very very wrong. The feeling you are feeling right now will be with you all the way through school, probably on a weekly basis. You will have meltdowns, you will cry, you will have no life, no parties, minimal time with family. Your new family will exist of books, kitchen table, laptop, and bipolar disorder. If you have OCD give it up...you can not maintain that clean house and be a nursing student, I know from experience. If you can your superman. Your new middle name will be flexibility, Change and patience. Get used to the feelings you are having right now, i promise they will haunt you. You will have these feelings right up until graduation and with a slight reprieve from these feelings right after graduation, You will then Prepare for the Test that will put your emotions into full blast bipolar disorder again, from the few days prior to taking it to the the less than 24 hour turnover time to find out if you passed the NCLEX. The feeling you are having right now is the very same feeling x 10. However, I wouldn't trade those emotions for the world. I Graduated May 7th 2014 and Passed NCLEX June 10th, 2014 and I am Now a RN and working as one. The teachers are amazing, they are there to help you, keep them on your good side, do what they say and always try your best. If you have a problem of any kind they are there to help you. Utilize your resources, the best advice i can give you though is to make a friend and work together as a class. it will benefit you in the long run, You will not always like everyone, but you are the ones that are going to need each other, don't try to do it alone. It is an experience i wouldn't trade for the entire world. Make it as fun as you can. You can not switch campuses in the middle of the program. If you know you are moving then you will want to notify the school of that, and ask for a seat at the other campus. sometimes there are student who are willing to trade but, once you start classes you can not move. Our people requested it at the first orientation and they announced it and several people were able to switch at that point. Most importantly, You can make it through, you will make it through. So far 30 out 36 of my classmates have taken NCLEX and all 30 have passed. I wish you all well. If you have any questions, I will be happy to help you, if i have an answer. Just make sure you all keep your eyes open. It will not be a small letter envelope and it will be either this Friday or next. Maybe sooner than next Friday since it is a holiday. I cant wait to read all your posts.
Sincerely,
The girl who once felt the same way :)