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Thanks for the quick responses. Okay, so far I have found out that they do not have to be directly supervised. I also THINK i found once place that said you could combine hours from, say OB nursing, and LLL leader meetings, and get done faster. Has anyone does this? I still am worried as far as calculating the hours, how specific my documentation should be, or if it is just a number of hours. I find conflicting reports, and the "Calculator" hours link on their website is broken.

I am an RN but I have been in psych, so I was going to do Pathway 1 via LLL leader. But now I am transferring to PP! Which is still 1000 hours in pathway 1, if I understand this correctly. I want to document my bfing teaching hours right away. What is the best way to keep track of this? Just a notebook- patient initials, what I helped them with? Or do they accept just an average amount of hours u worked? Does it need to be signed off by an IBCLC or just a nursing director? And they are unsupervised (as opposed to pathway 3 working directly with an IBCLC), is that correct?

If I remember correctly, some people might have failed/dropped in the semester, but I believe they told us our third semester class (i am 4th now) was the first that everyone passed in the end. I have been using the same study techniques as always, which is writing down notes ( i am a big note taker). My technique is (for example) put HYPERTENSION in the middle of a blank white paper. in the top left corner put: Def: and the definition. then under that: SX: and the symptoms. RX and the mes, and so on. it should only take one paper (but some topics might be separated. for example CANCER SYMPTOMS might be one page) No complete sentences, all bullet point-type things. your brain takes a better snap shot of the info. i always end up without about 40 pages (front and back totaled 80) for each topic. aside from that, make drug and lab flashcards. and do LOTS of NCLEX questions. from HESI book, SAUNDERS book, CDs, and any NCLEX books you have. plus google has lots of nclex questions (mainly copied from saunders book). Use your HESI study book and Saunders comprehensive book also. I got away with not opening the book second semester, but with the lack of videos/powerpoints this semester, you MUST take notes from Iggy. (dont go crazy on the highlighting) study in groups as you can. and stay calm before tests, dont get into the "im gonna fail" crowd. Good luck, you can do it!

I am a lvn-rn bridger at el centro, entering 3rd semester, and did my lvn at el centro. i dont know what you mean by this quote but you are never guaranteed a job. hopefully you will find one, chances are good, but they do not provide jobs for you. good luck!

im sure you have already taken it by now, but for future people vital signs, physical assessment, sterile dressing change, inserting a foley catheter (sterile), changing iv bags (not iv insertion), ng tube feeding,(medication/insertion), and medications (im and sc injections) there will be plenty of time to practice, you get three chances to officially check off the skills, and it is all performed on maniquins. she also checks your notetaking ability. i recomended brushing up on youtube videos, bring reference skills books to class, and bring a watch and a stethescope. It is five days now (used to be three). it will be okay! to the other commented, el centro college is part of the dcccd (dallas county community college district in texas) nowhere near indiana.

hey curiousme, re: Click the Ports tab, and then click to select the Send To Microsoft OneNote Port check box. i got all the way to part2 step2 of your instructions to get vista to print to onenonote, and there is no 'sent to microsoft onenote port' option. is this because of the 64 bit problem? i have rerouted it before using different instructions, but it prints each powerpoint page onto a separate page (which sucks for 100+ page powerpoints we often have to download)... any suggestions? by the way, i didnt have my tablet pc with onenote in lvn school, but have since used it in all of my prereqs and love it! i usually need 6+ notebooks for math and i didnt need any paper at all! it was awesome for micro, especially powerpoints and the snipping tool for google images! i am def going to use it for rn school!

16.50, plus $2 shift differential for working weekends (most do doubles on sat and sun, 16 hours a day) weekdays are 8 hour shifts

i know its been a while since you posted, but for anyone reading with the same question, try Timberlawn Mental Health, they hire new lvn grads

I recently graduated from LVN school in dallas and wanted to get a job at a clinic or hospital. as you said, it was all 'we dont hire lvn's anymore' or 'you need one year experience'. the only thing left was nursing homes, and even then, the ones i tried were full. even the hospitals that our school used to use for clinicals now arent hiring lvns so we had a tough time even finding clinical sites. in the end i did find a great job at a mental health hospital, but if i had known then what i know now, i would have for sure gone for RN, or even BSN. i wish the school would just cut the lvn program and double the rn, because everyone in the program wanted to be an rn anyway and just could get in.

ops, too many times