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Great question Freckled, I too have an interview for a PHN position and was worried about what to expect. Thank you Mariebailey for the info and the link. It sounds like interviewing for a PHN position is a lot different than interviewing for an ac...

CaSD, Thanks for the info! That's awesome that Grossmont has a clinical portion for the re-entry/refresher course. When I searched for courses back in February, they hadn't updated their website to include the clinical hours. I think the 196 clini...

Hi Guys! I'm sorry for the delay in reply. The lecture was 4 hours a day and the clinical was 7 hours with a 1 hour post conference each day. We were required to wear white scrubs (these were hospital regulations because we were technically still con...

Hi Di0sAbELLA! I actually just completed a RN Refresher Course last week through Azusa Pacific University. It was a great experience! It was a 7 week course with 1 day of lecture and 1 day of clinical. The lecture & clinical were both held at ...

Congratulations!!! :)

I graduated with my BSN when I was 24 :)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :)

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Yaaaay, congratulations!!!!!

You only fail if you give up! Take some time rejuvenate yourself, and then set yourself a realistic study goal & get back to it. You can do this! :)

congratulations!!!

Hi Tripper J! I am in a similar situation to you and just wanted to give you some insight on what I've been doing. I graduated with my BSN almost 9 years ago. I took the exam once after graduation & failed. I finally retook & passed the NCLE...

It sounds like you may need a really good content review course. I graduated almost 9 years ago. I took the NCLEX once & failed it right after graduation. I finally took it again for the 2nd time in January 2011 and passed. I spent roughly 6 mon...

Here is the link for the CA PHN certificate application. It's $75. http://www.rn.ca.gov/applicants/ad-pract.shtml#phn If you went to school in CA, then your BSN program should have included the Community/Public Health Nursing course that would all...

joj0bo, Did you get your Public Health Certificate? Have you applied for any Community Health/Public Health positions?

I am in the exact same situation as you, graduated more than 4 years ago with a BSN. I also have the BLS, ACLS, PALS & IV therapy & Blood Withdrawal certifications and am now in the process of applying to taking a refresher course. I have n...

congratulations!!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! :)

I would suggest what Caliotter said to do too. I finished all the Kaplan questions & kept re-doing the ones I got wrong & then occasionally making tests from all the questions in the qbank. I would do about 25-50 questions a day from the Sa...

Congratulations!

Helppassnclex, Waiting for your results can be worse than taking the NCLEX itself. Keep faith & check again tomorrow. Tomorrow will be 4 business days & someone posted on another thread that it could possibly be 4 business days before the B...

UC San Diego has a re-entry (refresher course) for RN's who have been out of practice & need a skills refresher course. Best of Luck to you! http://extension.ucsd.edu/studyarea/index.cfm?vAction=singleCourse&vCourse=FPM-40387&vsacategory...

When studying for the NCLEX, I didn't do well on the SATA questions at all. I always had one wrong or one missing. I think I only got about 4 SATA on the NCLEX & like RadBSN said, they were more straight forward than the ones I had done in pract...

KGMM, It depends on which state you live in. I live in CA & there isn't a limit to the amount of times you can take the NCLEX. I have heard that some states do have a limit on how many times you can take it & within how many years you have to...

Hi Jabewet! I would suggest reviewing whatever you found to be your biggest weakness. Your test is only 5 days away, so you don't want to be cramming at the last minute because that will stress you out. I was weakest with meds, so the last few days ...