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Hi everyone. I live in California and I recently completed my CNA course and took my boards on 10/31. I just recently have started looking for work and I've found two hospitals that just recently started hiring CNA's and I'm very interested in working for them. There's a problem though. When applying they want you to give them your license number, only problem is, I don't have mine yet. My certificate of completion says it should arrive in 16 weeks, which everyone has told me is a lie, and it normally takes much longer to finally show up in the mail. But no matter how long it takes, I dont have time to sit around and twiddle my thumbs until I find it in my mailbox one day. So does anyone know where I can go to lookup my license number? So far, the California Department of Public Health websight has been zero help at all and has been pretty much beyond worthless. So at this point Im stuck and have no idea who to turn to/where to go. And help at all would be appreciated

So I joined the National Guard a few years ago, I was in for four months and then a couple months before I got to ship to basic, I was discharged. Why? Because Im gay, and God knows how because I never said anything, but somehow word got out and it eventually made its way up the chain and ended with me left on the street. Other than that my record is 100% clean, not even a traffic ticket for christs sake. Since then Ive started college and completed my GE, and Im trying to decide between an Associates in Respiratory or Nursing. I would prefer to become a nurse, but, with my discharge status, is this even possible? Or should I give up hoping?

So for my first post, I figure I might as well get the noob question out of the way that I cant find with the search function. So I just graduated from HS and am about to start getting my GE out of the way at my local community college. Lucky for me I also was able to get onto the waiting list for the schools nursing program. But I'm rather...ambitious you could say. I want to get my MSN and hopefully become a NP one day. But enough blather, my question is, assuming you take the max amout of classes you can while working, about how long does it normally take to complete the bridge from RN-BSN? And then again from BSN to MSN? And if there is no "set amount" (which I assume there isn't) what would you say is average?