kitkat260 MSN

Congratulations! I started May 1st and am hoping to be done in six months. This definitely inspired me that it can be done.

Carla from Scrubs. She always advocated for her patients no matter what she had to do or who she made angry by doing so and she demanded (and received) respect from the doctors for herself as a nurse.

Just had to share a little bit of frustration that I've had today with the process of trying to get readmitted to WGU. Sorry in advance for my rant. I had began my RN to BSN nearly 4 years ago at WGU, just shortly after I had finished my earning my...

I would be interested in reading the replies to this also. I am interested in Nursing Education but I am wondering if it would be better to get a MSN in Clinical Leadership so that I can have more career opportunities because from what I can see, you...

Thank you everyone for the encouragement. I appreciate it. I did a lot of thinking since I received that email to make sure that I was still dedicated to getting my BSN and I decided to accept readmission through WGU under their terms. It will be wor...

I was approved for financial aid already for this next term so I think that it is just WGU's policy, though I noticed today when I logged in to my WGU portal that it says that I am in good standing for financial aid. I am going to contact the bursar'...

"The candidate has previously passed this exam. A new appointment cannot be scheduled" I can't wait to see my license number post to the BON website :clpty:

Indiana State University has a distance learning program for LPN to BSN. This might be one step more than you were wanting but it might be worth it to have the extra education.

I think that I am most irritated to see fellow nurses put that we have "recieved" medication for a resident. Um, it's "i" before "e" except after c. Received! You have a college education people, let's act like it!

I try not to introduce myself as a nurse b/c I realize that just because I'm a nurse, it doesn't mean that I know everything about the medical situation (there's a reason that nurses specialize!) and I'm afraid that the doctor or other nurses will ju...

Pegasus65, I'm glad to hear that your new job is working out so well. I, too, seem to have made it into a facility that is willing to train and answer questions. And yes, the med cart is so much more organized than the one at the last job. I am absol...

I have the same issue. I used clear nail polish to cover the part of the metal on the watch that touches my skin. This seems to have helped. I've also worn a long sleeved shirt under my scrub shirt and placed the watch on the shirt material so that t...

Thank you kocheli, positive postings from members is one of the main reasons that I keep coming back to this website! It really helps to have someone else share their experiences with you to let you know that we're not the only ones out there that st...

Yes, never a good sign when an employee is "out of there" at the first opportunity! I was just offered a job today at another nursing home. At first I didn't want to accept it but I had just had a conversation with another former classmate a few hour...

Thank you Pegasus65. It really helps to know that I am not alone in this experience. I have been feeling so bad about this experience and it doesn't help that my former classmate is still working there and I'm not. My husband has pointed out to me th...

I obtained my LPN in September and started a new job in LTC in October. I was so excited to get a new job so quickly. The excitement quickly turned to dread. I was supposed to get 5 days of orientation before working on my own. The first night the nu...

I went to Ivy Tech for my LPN. It seemed to me that they tried to cram too much info into too short of a time. A lot of our material was "self-study" that was tested on in class along with the material that the instructors "lectured" on (mostly it wa...

Has anyone else on here taken Chemistry or Lifespan Development online through Ivy Tech South Bend? I am just wondering how the lab in Chemistry is done online? I am also curious of what papers, quizzes, etc. are involved in Lifespan Development? Als...

My ATI Mock NCLEX Exam was 180 questions, 30 of these questions were "research" questions that didn't apply to my results, and I think that it took me just over an hour to complete, though I am a fast tester. Most of my fellownstudents completed it i...

I have had instructors throw out questions in the past because they felt that if the majority of the class missed it, then it was a poorly written question (most of our exam questions come from a test bank through the textbook publisher). I have also...

A lot of information in the nursing program at Ivy Tech Fort Wayne is self study-like dosage calculations and medical terminology-but you are still tested on it in class and it counts against your grade if you fail it. I wish that I had known this b...

We won't be allowed to pass meds until we have checked off on this in lab, which will be in the next 3-4 weeks. I don't know how they can allow us to pass meds this early in our training. We are apparently expected to do everything else for this pati...

You get a nurse? How lucky are you! We were assigned a pt. on the first day of clinical and were told that the best way to learn was to jump right in. We were left trying to figure out what we were supposed to do with this patient (by ourselves!) I t...

I start my LPN classes on August 25.

I'm 33, and math and science were never my strong subjects. I was surprised that I did as well as I did in these sections on my TEAS test. I also did very well in my ANP 101 & 102 classes, so there must be hope for me yet. Good Luck!