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Our physical therapists wear scrub pants with tee-shirts and they look so comfy! I don't like scrub tops at all either. NRG by barco was the most tee-shirt like fabric I could find. I rely on my pockets way too much! I couldn't give up my scrub tops and my place of work requires nurses wear scrub tops. I even checked the policy on that when I was considering tee shirts in the past.

Go on the Conn. board of nursing website and see what they require. I transferred my license several times and I needed a passport type picture, FBI fingerprinting, obviously a check for whatever amount I had to pay, an application, and some kind of thing where I had to release my NCLEX results to the new state or something like that. Each state has it's own requirements but the NCLEX is a one-time deal--you won't need to take that again unless conn. has some weird rules I don't know about. Try their website and call their office

Take kaplan the week after you graduate, then give yourself a week to finish the practice questions after the class ends and take the NCLEX right away. I really think that's the best way to go. The longer you wait the more you'll lose it. I did it that way and passed in the minimum number of questions because I felt as though I'd seen them all before in the class!

I would go for the hospital as a first job for a new grad.

I didn't realize nursing degrees and teaching degrees were interchangeable...they are very different career paths.

all the hospitals i applied to required sealed envelopes signed over the seal by the instructor. so i couldn't just make copies. If i were you i'd get about 5 or 6 from each instructor because that's all you might need. you bring them with you to the interview--so you have to get to the interview stage! all the hospitals I applied to required the sealed, signed envelopes.

I find these much more offensive: 3WISHES.COM - Buy Nurse Costume, Sexy Nurse Costume, Naughty Nurse Costumes for Women, Nurse Lingerie, Nurse Outfits, Sexy Nurse Halloween Costumes for Adults, Outfit Nurses Uniforms it's really terrible how nursing is sexualized in pop culture (not that the duck toy shows that, but they make those costumes for girls too... Child Nurse Costume does that really need to be short and shiny??

sounds like a huge dread to me!

I use bigwords.com because they compare prices across all the websites, and many of them pay for shipping. so easy, and i've gotten a lot of money back by using their services. I made over 200 with one semester of textbooks, which I bought used originally!

I've had insane difficulties with the maryland board of nursing. I spent an entire day calling every number on their website under "contact info" and not one person answered the phone. I left voicemails and sent emails. Never heard back. I am going to drive over an hour away to get to the board of nursing this week to actually speak to someone in person. I am not happy with MBON, can you tell? I had no problems with the DC board of nursing.

Northern VA--25.71 per hour with $4 night differentials and a raise after 90 days on the job.

i found that Peaches scrub pants run slightly smaller, but they are still baggy in the thigh and through the leg on me. But fit me better than Grey's, Koi, Izzy, Dickies, Urbane...and let me think...Cherokee, Fundamentals, Landau...yes I have tried on many different petite XS scrubs lately...

I graduated in May, took the NCLEX in June, and got a job offer in August. It was my one and only interview/offer, and the job starts in September. It's on a medical unit. I filled out over 20 job applications. I'm thrilled that I got a job but pretty nervous. It's a fellowship program and I will have a preceptor, so that helps. Good luck everyone!

I ordered from them and never got an email confirmation, never got any kind of message that I did actually ORDER something. However, when I checked on my debit card balance, the money had been taken off my card :-/ every time I call, "all representatives are still busy" and i waited for over 20 minutes and no one took my call. I also emailed and never heard from them. DO NOT BUY FROM SCRUBSHOPPER!!!!!!! I don't even know if they will actually send me anything :-(

Hello fellow nurses, I am starting a new job and need to buy navy bottoms for my uniform. I am 95 lbs and 5ft tall. I usually wear a 0 short in pants and a small or extra small in tops. In nursing school I wore cherokee xxs petite scrubs that were way too big for me but I didn't want to spend any more money so I just wore scrubs I was swimming in. I have tried on Koi, Urbane, Dickies, Baby Phat, Grey's Anatomy, Fundamentals, Cherokee, and Peaches. The only pants that remotely fit were dickies sandwashed flare in XS petite and peaches doo-dad pants. The dickies were so so so high rise they were up on my ribcage (ew). The peaches made me look big because they were so baggy, but they were better than the others. I didn't buy either pair. Online, I ordered one pair of the peaches adventure pant and one pair of the dickies perfect pant without trying either on and so if they don't fit i'll have to get them tailored I'm not sure if i can just wear navy pants (non-scrub pants). Has anyone ever done this? Navy chino/khaki type pants are fairly easy to find and fit me well at old navy or aeropostale for about $20 per pair (yes aeropostale is marketed towards prepubescent kids but they fit me well ). I'm not worried about tops fitting me. Has anyone gone to work in a scrub top and regular pants? No one has specifically told me that I need to wear scrubs, I've just heard "navy bottoms and a white top" but all the nurses I saw when touring were wearing scrubs. I don't even know if anyone would notice since the waist of the pants would be covered by my top. Hmm. Please help? Any suggestions would be great! Thanks!