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    LPN to RN bridge program

    CT Pixie replied to iCamy904's topic in LPN to RN

    Congrats! I totally get your excitement and nervousness! I was an LPN for 3 years and then went back to school to start taking my pre-reqs for the bridge program. Tomorrow starts my last semester and...
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    Feline Dissection

    CT Pixie replied to Glycerine82's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The littly furry guy won't be 'wasted'. He's packed full of 'lovely' chemicals. He'll be used by someone else in the next A&P class. I do understand your reservations. If these poor cats are...
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    LPN first, then RN later

    CT Pixie replied to kpzdol511's topic in Nursing Career

    I am currently an LPN in an LPN to RN bridge program and will graduate in May. My LPN schooling was 15 months long at a private tech school. Monday-Friday 730a-330pm. We went straight through without...
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    Signing RN behind my name

    CT Pixie replied to copelald's topic in General Nursing

    As the others have said, once you start writing RN after your name for official work related papers, you will soon realize it's habit and you'll sign EVERYTHING with RN. I am forever having to redo...
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    The Truth to the Pearson Vue Trick & My Results Timeline

    CT Pixie replied to KER5050's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Try to remember, it might not be 48 hrs to the second that you took your exam. I took my exam at 8am, 48 hrs later at 8am, no quick results, 48 1/2 hrs later no results, 48 3/4 hrs no results, at 49...
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    Guys, do you take this personally?

    CT Pixie replied to bethannie's topic in Men in Nursing

    Guaranteed? Really? The two hospitals I delivered my daughters at (one a well known major teaching hospital the other a Catholic based hospital) both had L&D wards as well as mammo depts and at...
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    Questioned on what field i will be going into

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

    Could be.
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    Questioned on what field i will be going into

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

    I think you may be thinking of LPN's. Most LPN's work in LTC and offices. All my friends who are RN's with their ADN work in hospitals. While many hospitals are now pushing to have BSN's they are...
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    Feline Dissection

    CT Pixie replied to Glycerine82's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm so thankful that my A&P had no
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    LPN to ADN? 6 months, 6,000 bucks, all you gotta do is move to Alaska :)

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

    I really don't see that the program is any faster than any of the LPN to RN programs around here. Techinally yes my LPN to RN program runs over a calander year from Sept to May, but my program for...
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    I can't go to the ICU!

    CT Pixie replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    While in LPN schooling the majority of our clinicals were done at nursing homes. However even in that LPN program we were mandated (by the guidelines and rules of the CT BON) to do clinicals in...
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    LPN to ADN? 6 months, 6,000 bucks, all you gotta do is move to Alaska :)

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

    You can take your NCLEX in any State you chose. where you have your license paperwork sent prior to taking the NCLEX is where you'll be licensed. I live in CT, my school was in CT, a fellow classmate...
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    How much training did you get?

    CT Pixie replied to sue1000's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    As a new grad, I received 6 weeks (M-F) total. The first 4 weeks were on the day shift, the last 2 weeks were on the shift I was hired
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    I can't use sick time I've earned??

    CT Pixie replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    I've never had an employer pay (non-medical or medical settings) for time off for calling in sick prior to the 90 day mark. At the 90 day mark all benefits were in effect (PTO, vacation time,...
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    Authorization to Test

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

    When I graduated in 2008 from LPN school we needed our ATT before could register with PearsonVue, we had to hand in all our payments and paperwork the last week of class. I officially graduated June...
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    Starting the LPN-RN program tomorrow and I'm sooo stressed out!

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

    I am going to start my last semester of my LPN to RN program next Tuesday (graduate in May!). I found that the RN program to be less stressful than my LPN program. I think its because my LPN program...
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    Object that Represents Nursing?

    CT Pixie replied to Illmatic's topic in General Students

    Hands. We lay healing hands on our patients. The power of
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    Any Other Mid-Life Students?

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

    I graduated LPN school 2 months after turning 39. I started back on the LPN to RN program when I was 42. I'll graduate this May at the age of 44 and will start right back again to do the RN to BSN...
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    Microbiology Scare

    CT Pixie replied to Keeka_Prenurse13's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I take ratemyprofessor with a grain of salt. Many times the student giving a bad review didn't do well in the class. Who's to say why they didn't do well (maybe the teacher really isn't one of the...
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    Who started studying yet?

    CT Pixie replied to ImDaMan11's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Funny you should post this, I was just going to go to my classes web page to write down the chapters we will be going over in the first week of class. I've flipped/skimmed through the power points...
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    Hospital Name Badge, Silly Question

    CT Pixie replied to thelittledoe's topic in General Students

    Both my school and the hospital we are affliated with require that the name badge be worn at eye level (ie:neckline). I wear mine on the neckline of my scrub top. We have no pockets on our tops so...
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    How many nursing schools to apply to?

    CT Pixie replied to lyn92's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I applied to one. It's a private Catholic college nursing program. I was limited to the schools I could apply to as I'm doing the LPN to RN bridge program and the State of CT only has a handful of...
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    St. Vincent's College....

    CT Pixie replied to Denisse3's topic in LPN to RN

    Most students do get put into the extended program. LPN's tend to be accepted pretty easily since we are entering the nursing classes at the 2nd year and a lot of empty seats are there after the first...
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    St. Vincent's College....

    CT Pixie replied to Denisse3's topic in LPN to RN

    Well if you have accepted the seat at St. V's you can always take all the non-nursing classes needed to graduate. Then when you start the nursing classes, you'll only have those to deal with. Are you...
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    St. Vincent's College....

    CT Pixie replied to Denisse3's topic in LPN to RN

    I'm currently in the LPN to RN program. I graduate in May! Were you looking for general info or just to see if anyone was starting in the Spring. If you have any questions about the bridge program...