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I would say that it depends on the program you are in. I am in an RN program, AND NOT ONE OF THE STUDENTS WHO TOOK OTHER science CLASSES first semester passed. Our school has a very, very high NCLEX pass rate so tends to "weed out" students fairly ...

I would say that it depends on the program you are in. I am in an RN program, AND NOT ONE OF THE STUDENTS WHO TOOK OTHER science CLASSES first semester passed. Our school has a very, very high NCLEX pass rate so tends to "weed out" students fairly ...

I am well aware of that, but this isn't one of those many areas. Where I am that is the pay for new hires. Houses aren't so expensive here (but are getting there) and since I already own and couldn't afford a house in one of those other areas there...

Starting pay at the hospital near me in California is $23 per hour. Union.

In my program, we are not allowed to push morphine or to even do anything with the PCA pumps. This may be hospital policy, or the comfort of the instructors and their licenses. However, we are dealing with these patients and these issues. We just ...

Some of the people in my class do, some don't. MY INSTRUCTORS do NOT wear makeup. I took my cue from them.

Our lab has a separate room with the computers in it. They are used to take our HESI tests. In addition, they have CD programs we do for each topic and these are listed in the syllabus. I have gone in to use them a few times, but they do not provi...

Our school doesn't require it -- the hospital where we do clinical's requires the physical and either an immunization record or titers proving immunity. If you dont' have them, you don't do clincals. I had the rubella proof from when I was pregnan...

I think you are doing the right thing by being up front with your history. Because you are providing the board with evidence of the diversion program, I don't think they will hold this against you. I have no idea how long it will take, but I heard ...

Evidence based -- key words here. If someone can get the studies done and PROVE the theories, and if you are the one to do it, then go for it! But to have a program based on unsubstantiated treatments will not work in mainstream western medicine an...

I am confused here... as a student we were required to be IV certified in our 2nd semester. We would have failed the program if we didn't pass certification. Is it really true that RN's don't have to be IV certified!?? I never even considered i...

In previous semesters we were allowed to come in the day before, but I am in my last semester so we go in just as the RN's do, not knowing. We either get 5 patients as team leader, 2 as total care, or 10 if med nurse. We do get an hour or so to org...

I made my own. Basically it has all the pertinent pt info from the chart, then a space for me to write up my assessment, then a section for labs. Below that I made boxes for the meds (time, action, sides, nursing considerations and page number in c...

Have you tried the careplan books? They have all of that in them. You can find the intervention and the rationale, then look it up in your med/surg book.

The wages depend on where you live. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU who have enough experience to want to work in the field. Take some classes at your local college, even just one every semester. Nothing is "transformable" but some may be transferable. Y...

And I have some beachfront property to sell you in Arizona if you think that California grants the RN status you are hoping for without EARNING it from what the STATE of CA determines is an accredited school! I don't care if New York says it is okay...

The LVN's I go to school with here in CA might disagree with that assumption. I don't think our program would be inundated with LVN's if they could just challenge the boards. There is a 30 unit option they can take, if they already have a degree in...

Having been Hep C positive, going through 48 weeks of HELL for therapy and coming out PCR negative, I understand how frightened you are. BUT Your coworkers are not responsible for alerting you to a patient's status. It is up to you to treat every p...

It depends on the semester. Our first semester we all met in one room. Second semester was divided into 2 separate lectures, so half would do OB and half did Med/Surg. The third semester was 3 different groups doing 3 different rotations. This la...

Then maybe you will only have to wait 1 semester if you dont' get right in. Good luck to you!

Your class size is 12!?? Are you sure? How could they run a program with only 12 students per semester? Ours has 40 - 60 per class. With all of the equipment they have to buy to train us it just seems that revenue from only 12 students would not ...

Due to illness, I have been in two different programs. The first one was lottery. The second one was first come, first served. No merit, no CNA course, no tests on either one. They were in different states. But with the amount of students wantin...

I don't know how your program works, so it is hard to advise you. I would look at how your program is structured to see if you will even be ABLE to work while in the nursing program. In our program, some people were able to pass working part-time i...

Most of us were A students coming in, prereq's and all to get into the program. REMEMBER: No one looks at grades -- they look at whether or not you pass your NCLEX! This school is hard, A's are very rare. BUT the NCLEX pass rate is in the 90th pe...

We live in the desert, with tumbleweeds and all. Many years ago this college was just a hut or two. Thus, it was nicknamed tumbleweed tech. These days, our classes are geared towards transfer and universities in the CA system accept them. Our nur...