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    how long does it take for the Connecticut board of nursing to post your RN license

    CT Pixie replied to TC1087271's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you look under the CT section for nurses you'll see my post asking the same thing. Here's the link --> https://allnurses.com/connecticut-nursing/wait-time-bon-837830.html It took 5 days from...
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    LPN to RN resume help

    CT Pixie posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I've been an LPN since 2008 and recently became licensed as an RN in June of this year. I'm having a hard time redoing my resume. How would one, who is a new grad/licensed RN with LPN work...
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    LPN to RN resume help

    CT Pixie replied to CT Pixie's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Where is 'here'? I'm in CT and I know of several hospitals that allow credit for LPN experience. I remember being told by one nurse manager, that it was something like 2 yrs of LPN = 1/2 yr of
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    LPN School while raising a child?

    CT Pixie replied to LacyGreen's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I went to LPN school when one daughter had just turned 15 and the other had just turned 6. I worked full time from home and had a very supportive husband It can be done but you have to learn...
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    How do people relax the day before?!!

    CT Pixie replied to Smilty's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    GrnTea just posted exactly what I did as i was typing it up
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    How do people relax the day before?!!

    CT Pixie replied to Smilty's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I took the day before the test off as a rest and relax day. The day before I went out to breakfast with a good friend and had a great time just visiting with her. It had been a long time since the...
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    What street clothes do YOU wear in nursing school?

    CT Pixie replied to bluestorm's topic in General Students

    Spring/Summer was jeans or capris and short sleeved shirt w/sneakers or flats. (never open toed b/c my labs did not allow open toed shoes) Fall/Winter, jeans and sweater/hoodie and...
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    LPN to RN resume help

    CT Pixie replied to CT Pixie's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Thank you, LYNDAA. What you suggested is how I have already updated my resume to include my new RN license number and college degree. I know that LPN experience does not equal RN experience but...
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    What are your bridge program pre-reqs?

    CT Pixie replied to HippyDippyLPN's topic in LPN to RN

    We had to complete all the first year non-nursing classes: A&P I w/lab, A&P II w/lab, Microbiology w/lab (all of these require as pre-reqs college level biology and chemistry) English Comp...
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    Patient Death Notice BOMBSHELL! HELP!

    CT Pixie replied to ricksy's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would have been notified by my shift report. Our reports go down the list of every patient. Room 101 is fine, nothing new, 102 has s/s of a URI call out to the doctor...waiting on his return call,...
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    Wait time for BON to post license numbers

    CT Pixie replied to CT Pixie's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    You lucked out then. I waited quite a while for my name to show up after my quick results were up (took 5 days), but other classmates saw their license numbers the day after the quick results came up....
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    Lpn bridge Program

    CT Pixie replied to tobesmartt's topic in LPN to RN

    I became an LPN in 2008 and an RN June 2013 While you are correct in saying it usually only takes one year after LPN to get your ADN, that really is one year (2-3 semesters) of RN nursing classes, it...
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    What is the BUN normal level for the nclex?

    CT Pixie replied to swansonplace's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The lab values will be off enough for your to recognize whether it be a higher or lower than the
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    can you do the PVT trick right after exam?

    CT Pixie replied to Lemuel_RN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Unfourtunately the cc page is almost 100% of the time a failed exam as is the good pup up being a passed exam. Of the hundred/thousands of testimonials on Allnurses (and other sites I've read) about...
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    Passion for Nursing but have disfigured fingers

    CT Pixie replied to rednotebook's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Hi Red, About gloves...my hands are very small (my fingers are of normal proportion to the size of my hands). I wear XS gloves in non-sterile gloves and the smallest sized sterile gloves that I can...
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    Opinion on your uniforms?

    CT Pixie replied to green34's topic in General Students

    Hated my LPN scrubs..ceil blue top and bottom. The bottoms ran very very large and were draw string..mine were always sliding down!. The bottoms only had one small back pocket and one useless pocket...
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    R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

    CT Pixie replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Oh I totally 100% agree with you. Someone who has no respect and no fear of their boss or any reprocussions of being disrespectful and rude would not have a second thought about doing the same to an...
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    Passion for Nursing but have disfigured fingers

    CT Pixie replied to rednotebook's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I work with a person who was born with disfigured fingers. On one hand he has 2 fingers (2 fingers fused together and the other 2 w/the thumb fused making two abnormally large/wide fingers and the...
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    R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

    CT Pixie replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Gen X's were born from early 60's-early 80's, Gen Y's (Millenia Generation) were after the X's. How old is this CNA? I was raised by a mom who missed the 'baby boomer' years by 2 years, she was born...
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    Can't get into nursing school!

    CT Pixie replied to jellybean321's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    And this is why I did the private college route. With so many people trying to get into the community college programs, it can take years (if at all) for some to get in. The community colleges here do...
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    LPN OR RN Route

    CT Pixie replied to CJ2blpn2017's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Maybe I'm reading it wrong but I'm under the impression that you might do the LPN route because of your poor grades in chem and/or A&P. Taking the LPN to RN route won't allow you to avoid taking...
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    Expiration date on RN license

    CT Pixie replied to gikg's topic in General Nursing

    CT sends out the renewal form about a month or longer before the expiration date. It can be renewed by mail or
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    Expiration date on RN license

    CT Pixie replied to gikg's topic in General Nursing

    In CT, its $100 per year for RN's and $60 per year for LPN's. (why the big difference in fees I don't
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    Expiration date on RN license

    CT Pixie replied to gikg's topic in General Nursing

    And Connecticut is still the odd ball state. Our licenses expire on the last day of your birth month and are renewed every
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    Lab coats

    CT Pixie replied to rse3's topic in General Students

    Mine was more the length of the 'nursing jacket'. We did not wear the long (doc like) white