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  1. AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card

    designer-mommy replied to designer-mommy's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Yikes! That's crazy. I plan on doing it right away, so hopefully it's not busy right now since desertlady got hers within two weeks. Ten

  2. AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card

    designer-mommy replied to designer-mommy's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Thanks so much! I hope mine goes that

  3. Banner Layoff March 2014

    designer-mommy replied to Kabin's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Phew--thank God that's an old article! I was sitting here thinking, "Great, I'm THIS close to getting my AZ license (after a long, grueling, expensive process as a "foreign educated" nurse) and now...

  4. West Valley Hospital/Abrazo Health Care- Goodyear

    designer-mommy replied to artisticmind's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I agree with amberdawn85's view of the hospital as a patient. My husband was there for a week in 2012, and he absolutely loved it. The nurses, doctors and PCTs were awesome! They all seemed very...

  5. Has anyone done the WGU online RN to BSN program?

    designer-mommy replied to mightymitern's topic in Western Governors University

    This is exactly the problem I'm having. I want to enroll but I can't because I'm not employed as a nurse, yet no one would want to employ me because I don't have a BSN and can't even say I'm...

  6. Question about license endorsement

    designer-mommy posted a topic in General Nursing

    I think I'm in a bit of a pickle. This may be confusing, so thanks to those of you who actually stick through it! I have a license in Wisconsin, but I live in Arizona. I went to RN school in Puerto...

  7. Question about license endorsement

    designer-mommy replied to designer-mommy's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the advice everyone. I actually spoke to one of the people who handles endorsements at the AZ BON today and she said that I was fine. She told me to start my AZ application ASAP though. I...

  8. Question about license endorsement

    designer-mommy replied to designer-mommy's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! But, can't I get in trouble for declaring that as my primary state of residence if it's not? Will I have to show proof, such as a WI driver's license? If they question it can I just say...

  9. Grand Canyon RN-BSN

    designer-mommy replied to tokmom's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I have a few questions that I didn't find the answer to while reading this post. I am looking at starting GCU sometime soon. I really wanted to go the WGU route, but you have to be employed as an RN...

  10. Disadvantages of WGU?

    designer-mommy replied to Boox's topic in Western Governors University

    Awww man, I got excited when I first started reading your post and saw the part about an "active RN license," but then I saw that another person said you'd have to get a job first. Bummer. Good luck...

  11. Disadvantages of WGU?

    designer-mommy replied to Boox's topic in Western Governors University

    Main disadvantage--you have to be working as an RN to even get your foot in the door, yet most employers don't even give you a chance if you don't have your BSN. Other than that it seems awesome,...

  12. WGU won't accept per diem nurses

    designer-mommy replied to MommyandRN's topic in Western Governors University

    I'm sorry you went through this I really, really want to attend WGU, but as a new grad ADN it is pretty much impossible to find a job, so that knocks me out of the running for WGU. It really stinks...

  13. Applying before getting an RN position?

    designer-mommy posted a topic in Western Governors University

    So, I really want to enroll in the RN-BSN program at WGU, but my situation is quite unique. I went to a school in Puerto Rico (accredited by the NLNAC) and now I live in AZ. I passed the NCLEX last...

  14. Applying before getting an RN position?

    designer-mommy replied to designer-mommy's topic in Western Governors University

    That's very true! Unfortunately, the AZ BON considers nurses educated in Puerto Rico to be "foreign educated." It doesn't stop there--people from PR who graduated before 2006 don't have to jump...

  15. Cheapest way for "foreign educated" RN to get endorsement in AZ?

    designer-mommy posted a topic in Nurse Registration

    Hi everyone! I graduated from a school in Puerto Rico (accredited by the NLNAC) and took my NCLEX last Friday for the Wisconsin BON. I passed (yay!), so now I have a WI RN license, but I live in AZ...

  16. Puerto Rico school feedback - thread #2

    designer-mommy replied to WorldTravelingYogi's topic in US Territories, Puerto Rico

    I used Hurst for content review. I have Saunders, but I used the CD very little and the book even less. Honestly, what helped me the most were the Q Trainers from Kaplan and the PDA book by La...

  17. Puerto Rico school feedback - thread #2

    designer-mommy replied to WorldTravelingYogi's topic in US Territories, Puerto Rico

    Hi! I finished in February of 2012, so I'll try to answer your questions. What do you like most about the program and what do you like least? I'm going to be brutally honest here, but I liked the...

  18. What are the chances of failing with 75 questions?

    designer-mommy replied to kwit412's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I feel the same way!!! It took me an hour and only 75 questions. I thought it would be long and extremely painful. I also told myself that if I got the good pop up I would be content, but here I...

  19. Nclex tommorow ...

    designer-mommy replied to jeanprz86's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    So, 1 hour, 75 questions, 7 SATA and I got the good pop up!!! I seriously don't believe it!!! I feel like I did something wrong and the "trick" didn't work right LOL Thanks for all of your prayers....

  20. Nclex tommorow ...

    designer-mommy replied to jeanprz86's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Gah!!! I'm getting super nervous now. I leave here in about 45

  21. Nclex tommorow ...

    designer-mommy replied to jeanprz86's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congrats jeanprz86, RN! You got the pop up so you're golden :) I hope I see that glorious pop up today as

  22. Nclex tommorow ...

    designer-mommy replied to jeanprz86's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Yay!!! Congrats, nurse kwit412! I'm leaving in about 3 hours. I started out this morning by doing some PDA questions, but then I figured that I would totally burn myself out. I didn't take...

  23. Nclex tommorow ...

    designer-mommy replied to jeanprz86's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I am taking mine tomorrow as well! I feel exactly how the two of you do--confident one moment and completely unprepared the next. I have a lot of things working against me--four children, out of...

  24. Maternity/Pediatrics Questions

    designer-mommy posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Hi everyone! I am supposed to take the NCLEX in three weeks (if I don't chicken out and reschedule again) and I was just wondering how much maternity/pediatrics questions were on the exam. I just...

  25. So frustrated I could cry

    designer-mommy posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    So, I have kind of a unique situation. Both my husband and I went to nursing school in PR. It is accredited by the NLNAC so I didn't think we would have any problems. Well, we moved to AZ and it is...