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This is interesting as I never considered consulting as a future career option. Do you guys go to college for healthcare informatics or just learn from experience? I currently have a job in healthcare informatics and was considering going for MSN in nursing informatics but I don't think I would get the level of IT knowledge you are discussing.

Do you think online class would do.any good my last month? I know critical elements and pretty confident with care plans, I am taking lynns workshop next week. What all does it go over?

Ah yes I forgot about sherri! I have heard wonderful things about her online workshop online. If I hadnt already paid for my workshop I would have done hers! How much is her online class btw? Im going to lynns next week in north carolina :-) testing nov.4!

oh and I would really recommend going to a workshop if you have time. NOT an excelsior workshop!!! either lynn's or either or the tina's. (google search lynn's cpne or tina's cpne) there are youtube videos as well that are great, just search cpne and a whole bunch of videos pop up!

get rob's cpne videos, (www.robscpne.com) they give you mneumonics and dvds to remember the areas of care. you can also buy it for the labs. do the practice pcs scenerios on excelsior's website and do the careplans and submit it via ec's message center. make weekly calls with your advisor to ask questions. know the cpne study guide backwards and forwards. know all the critical elements (mneumonics help)

I am so glad I read your post! I want to go on for my NP so I was thinking go to WGU for BSN then continue on. Glad I know that I shouldn't go there. that's such a bummer where did you end up going??

I feel like I always do poorly on practice tests but then end up getting A's on my actual tests! Took micro practice test few days before my actual test got a 58 and 60 and then an A on the actual test. Go figure.

so is reproductive a relatively new course? I have an old college network chronicity book and it has quite a big section of reproductive health and sexuality. so that is no longer a part of nursing 3 right?

I am currently in excelsiors lpn to adn program but I kind of want to get into a program that is accepted in all states since I might want to move to a state that doesn't recognize excelsior graduated nurses. Are there any colleges that transfer in excelsior students and accept the nursing courses taken? I'm ok if the A&P and micro aren't accepted as long as most of the nursing courses are. I would prefer an online program since I live in ohio. I know there is one college out there someone recommended a long time ago I just can't remember the name....

studygroup101 waaaayyyyyy better than lisa's notes! I agree with the other posts though, use it as a supplemental study guide in addition to other study information. I get used college network books and mystudygroup101 and have passed every test easily. I have tried lisa's notes but I feel like its scattered and its easier for me to buy mystudygroup (which is cheaper) and has tons of quiz questions and I can browse over it after studying my main study book.

I was guaranteed "as many hours as I wanted". I've always wanted to be a home health care nurse so this was a big disapointment for me. Basically I was just waiting for on the field training and would be ready to go. I just wish they would have returned my phone calls! I mean I would be fine with the job falling through but to not return my calls? I mean our we in high school???

anyone around the cincinnati area don't waste your time with best choice home care. They "hired" me I went through orientation, the whole hiring process and then they never called me. I did everything right and I didn't even get a phone call. I tried calling them asking for a response, they never called back. How unprofessional!!! I don't want other nurses to go through this experience with a shady, new company that is extremely unorganized and unprofessional.

I work for NBD and they are very professional and the management is awesome and very helpful which is very unlike alot of companies out there! The owner of the company is so sweet and will help you out with anything. They are flexible with scheduling which is great if you are going to school. Also just the fact you get to be involved with providing excellent care to a person during their transition from life to death and making sure they are comfortable and their needs are met is a blessing in itself. I have learned alot in the time I have worked in hospice.

its so cool seeing other nurses on here that also have piercings and tattoos! I just think of the healthcare field as such a conservative looking field its interesting to see others who "hide" their little secrets at work as well! I have a septum piercing which flips up quite nicely and hides and a lip piercing which I can easily remove and actually I work at a few different places and really none of them mind it since its diamondy and small. I want quite a few tattoos in the future but I'm smart and know not to get a full sleeve or anything like that! professional at work and play when I'm off!! (my best friend is a social worker and she has the same piercings!)

I want to go to a college that I can take online, I'm cool if I have to go to clinicals and travel a couple times during the course of the program even if its in another state. I just don't think I can do excelsior, I need deadlines, actual courses online, not this whole self paced stuff! Also I find the whole excelsior program to be a headache, there's too many studyguides out there and honestly I've bought some of them and they are awful! I know there are online colleges out there for lpn to rn but I haven't found many of them and I'm trying to explore my options. once again I'm cool with travelling across country a few times during the course of the program for clinicals as long as its not like once a month or anything crazy like that! any help??

its not worth your license! I got out of nursing school less than a year ago and over and over we were told lpns CAN NOT flush picc lines. all you can do is dressing changes on it and IV certified LPN's can insert IV's from the ac space down.

so I have already had excelsior look at my transcripts but I don't think I can do microbiology self paced and test out so I want to take an online program with deadlines and all that but can I do that after my transcripts have been looked at? I have not enrolled yet. Also which online colleges are the best, quickest, and more importantly the cheapest for taking some prerequisites? I would like to take online classes through an online college and then test out of other classes but I'm not sure if this is allowed. I'm planning on calling sometime tomorrow but I'd like advise if anyone has done this or taken classes through a good online school that they would recommend...

I'm starting bohecker's adn program in april and I'm nervous so come and sit by me in class if you read this. I'll be the 20-something-year-old girl with bleach blonde hair. I'm a good study partner and I'm nice :) I'll see you on orientation on wednesday!

I want to go for my rn but I can't find a flexible job. for those of you who are lpns going for your rn where do you work at while you go to school? is it possible? I need to keep a decent amount of hours but I can't find a job that will allow me to switch my schedule as needed.

I don't remember the score off hand but its like basic stuff. I remember there being some terminology some math, reading. I passed everything even math which is amazing since I've always struggled in that subject. There were examples that were like; which sentence properly uses the word intravenous to its meaning? But this is for the LPN part. I have never taken the RN hesi entrance exam.

I really want to go back to nursing school to get my adn as I am a lpn currently but I feel as a charge nurse its next to impossible to find a job where it's really flexible so I can work when I'm out of school. Right now my work schedule is 7-3 but I'm always rolling out of there at like 4 or 5 so I can't dedicate myself to evening classes. I feel like I'm never going to become a registered nurse! I have looked for jobs all over the place but they are always a set time and I need more flexibility but it doesn't exist when you are in charge of a floor. Can anyone help me with any ideas? I wanted to do excelsior originally (which is online) but I am so beat when I come home that I don't have the motivation to study! oh and the classes I want to take are during the morning/afternoon so I would work 2nd shift

I graduated recently from hondros and the ages of student range from 20's to 50's generally. Honestly very few students were fresh out of high school, alot of people who had been in careers for x amount of years and then decided to go for nursing. You should find some students in your class to make a study group with. best thing you could do for your grades! I had a solid study group (of people who were serious about learning) and we stuck it through until the end. We would split up study guides, have study groups before tests and tell each other tips of how to remember things. Find people in your class that are also serious about schooling and attach yourself to them! Half of my class didn't make it because they didn't have good study techniques and didn't put the time and effort into the school. Good luck and I wish you a happy career in nursing!

who are these dreaded "state employees" that come into our jobs and cause everyone to freak out? I know they are surveyors of sorts but how do I become one? what is their officials job title? what is a day on the job like? if you are one or know someone who is one I am interested in hearing your stories!!

sorry if this post offended some of the nighters but I've compared night to day shift (at MY work) and yeah dayshift has way more to do mostly because the doctors want all the blood pressures, accu checks so on to be done during the morning shift. this isn't at all facilities so I am not calling nights "an easy way out" but I am saying you can learn more on nights because I won't have as many pills to pass on my 25-30 patients. when some people have 30 pills and there is no organization to the drawers it takes a while for a float to do where as a nurse who is permanent on that floor knows by heart what meds that person gets and doesn't have to look at the medex, then look at the drawer, look at the medex, look at the drawer....blah!!!

I am a new grad and have been orientating at my first nursing job on day shift. I am wanting to switch to nights though because I don't want to burn myself out with my first job and as a float on day shift I think I will. passing meds takes forever and it seems like every day nurse I have met have "short cuts" that they tell me not to do because it's bad habits but it is what they have to do to get the job done. some halls are better than others but as a float I'll never know what I will get until I walk in the door. nights are alot calmer from what the night nurses have told me, lot less med passes and I can get to know the patients instead of at the end of the shift being like "which one was he again?" my husband and mom think it's a bad idea and say to stick with days and see it through. My husband thinks I'll be tired all the time and will be miserable but I already have a hard time sleeping on days where I was really busy because I stay up at night questioning everything I did at work and seeing if I made any errors. Any suggestions? I want to talk to my work about this before I'm done orientating. my night shift would be 11-7 and I work in LTC. oh and I don't have kids so that's not an issue.