Lamie

I LOVE picmonic! I wish I would have found about it before I took the NACE LPN-RN bridge exam. I'm starting the LPN-RN bridge progam this fall and I subscribed to their RN course to get a head start on everything. I cost me around $42 from now unt...

Yeah, I should be happy to have this job, but I'm not loving it. I still miss the hands on part. I'll stick with it for now because the money is good and I need those hours because of my kids, but eventually I want something else.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma here. I graduated from my LPN program last fall and got a job at a large clinic right away. I had spent part of my clinical rotation there and I liked it. The pay is really good, the hours are nice (no nights, no weekends...

Thank you for all your input. I think I will try to work PRN at another facility or in home health to test the waters there. My only concern is that they might not be willing to train me if I only work for them once a week (can't do more due to my ...

How about working in a clinic? Lots of jobs there.

The trick worked for me! I took the NCLEX PN on the 14th and the computer shut off after 85 questions. I felt really confident that I passed because I didn't find the test all that hard. I went home and tried to re-register on Pearson Vue's website...

I'm seriously frustrated here. I even called Pearson Vue to make sure they received everything, which they confirmed, but they couldn't tell me when I would finally get my authorization to test. It's been more than a month and I have a job waiting ...

Thank you! I did what you suggested and contacted my BON. Sure enough, they messed up my SSN and had not forwarded the info to Pearson Vue (never mind contacting ME!!). Anyways, they fixed it on the spot and I had my ATT a few hours later! So now...

I just graduated from an LPN program in August and got hired after my first interview. I have no prior health care experience, but the interviewer was more concerned about work ethic than anything else and it helped to have great references. I made ...

I am a middle-aged career-changer who was a SAHM for many years with no background in the medical field. Here are some things I did that may have helped land me the job: - I had my resume and cover letter done by a professional - For the interview, ...

Thank you!

I'm still a nursing student and was not able to find a clear answer anywhere online. Could someone let me know if it is within the scope of an LPN do perform this? Thanks!

I just graduated from an LPN program a bit more than three weeks ago and just got hired today by a clinic where I spent some time during my school rotations. It was my first interview and I have not even taken the boards yet. They will hire me as a...

I agree, and I have been on both sides of the issue. When I first started taking my pre-reqs, I had a straight 4.0 GPA in all my classes, until I got pregnant and my husband deployed. I was sicker than a dog all day and sat through chem and statist...

That is a smart move, and that's what I'm doing. I'll graduate from my LPN Program in less than four weeks and many of my classmates are going right into different LPN-RN programs with NO WAITLIST! Every single one who wanted to go on into an LPN-...

I have four more weeks till graduation! Just finished my second med surge rotation today. I have to tell you, there was a time in my second/third quarter where I seriously doubted that I wanted to be a nurse anymore. Thought about quitting - my gr...

I will be graduating from LPN school this August :yeah:if everything works as planned. I'm interested in agency work because of the flexibility (I have young children and also would like to go on with an RN program) and the chance to "check out" dif...

Or even worse, why does an LPN program only give you a "diploma" and not even an associate's degree? When I'm done with my LPN Program, I'll have 120 college credits - and that's COLLEGE LEVEL courses, such as statistics, chemistry, psychology, etc....

I just don't think it's fair. Who decides what is "only" a diploma and what is a degree? College credits are college credits, and we are not talking easy liberal arts classes here. Makes me mad after spending so much time and money.

Could it be that also matters what part of the country you live in. Like I said, the hospitals in which I did my rotations had MANY RN openings, specifically for new grads. In fact, many of the nurses who worked on the med surge floor were new grad...

I'm still in LPN school, will graduate in August, and it seems there are a lot of positions advertised around some hospitals (a large military hospital here hires LOTS of LPNs) as well as many clinics and nursing homes, agencies, state positions, etc...

Bates has recently changed their admission requs. You now have to have a CNA License before applying to their program. Also, students must have a $1 million liability insurance during clinicals. Makes me wonder if something happened during their c...

I'm currently enrolled in Clover Park's LPN program, start clinicals in April. The program is very fast-paced, we had a few people drop out just weeks into the first quarter. Seems to be true of most nursing programs. It's a lot of work, but doable...

OK, so I'm finally going to start LPN school at the end of September. I registered for classes and I nearly fainted when I looked at my schedule. There are 27 credits in the first quarter! The most I have ever taken per quarter was 10 credits, a...

indymom, thanks for your response. I don't think they schedule clinicals in the first quarter. I will have all seven classes at the same time, meaning I'll have two classes on Monday, three others on Tuesday, etc. So they knock them out over the w...