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    NP to MD

    NPs are welcome to apply to med school, the same as anyone else, and, if accepted, complete the usual med school program. Being an NP doesn't get you any shortcuts or special consideration. Best...
  2. In the states which still allow graduate nurse status, it is only good until you take the NCLEX. Graduate nurse status is based on the presumption that you're going to pass the NCLEX when you take...
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    Glutton for Punishment?

    Diploma programs are still around -- not nearly as many as there used to be, and there are plenty of states now that have no diploma programs, but there are plenty that do. For some reason I don't...
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    Glutton for Punishment?

    Turns out it is kind of dumb to think that facts might trump hearsay (I mean that in a funny way, not a mean way!) This is "a thing," and it's been around for a long time (note the date on the Boston...
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    Any alternates accepted last minute?

    I don't recall how close to the "last minute" it was, but I was placed on the waiting list for my school, because I had applied so late that they had already accepted a full class, and I got a call...
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    Glutton for Punishment?

    Just don't waste your time. Lots of people believe stuff that isn't true, and you're not going to change their
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    LVN to RN 30 unit program

    Yeah, there was a time I thought that I wasn't going anywhere else (other than the state in which I started my nursing career and lived most of my adult life). I'm currently in the third state I...
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    Credentials

    I would not use the initials until you have officially received the degree from the
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    Converse sneakers at clinicals

    Doesn't matter what anyone here says -- what matters is your school dress code. Different schools have different requirements. I suggest you review the school's dress code for clinical, and maybe...
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    Family Google expert, MD

    Yeah, the new phrase that makes me really cringe (when I hear it all the time) is, "Well, I read on the Internet that ..." It wasn't a refusal of treatment, but I was really struck by the level of...
  11. How does it not "make since"? Illinois requires a license from your country of origin/education for licensure, even if you're applying for endorsement with licensure in another US state. They're...
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    Withholding symptoms to avoid legal issues

    What led you to the presumption that the nursing staff are attempting to cover up for something nefarious? What is your background as a "care giver" and what is your prior experience with ICU
  13. As a friend of mine likes to say, "Clear, healthy boundaries are the key to a happy life." Professional boundaries are your friends. Just don't do
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    Mental Anguish about Acceptance into NS

    When I applied for two nursing programs many, many years ago, I got told by one of the schools (my preferred school) that I was being placed on the waiting list. Shortly before school actually...
  15. My graduate program included a direct-entry track (I was a traditional, experience-RN, student, but was in classes with the direct-entry students). The way the program was set up, the direct-entry...
  16. Well, you learn something new every day. I've spent most of my career in NC and have never of this before. There's nothing on the BON website about reciprocity with Canada nowadays. I wonder...
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    Im socially awkward. Cant interview well.

    For what it's worth, I've been on both sides of interviewing for jobs and, in my experience, interviewers are well aware that it is a stressful situation for the applicant and they are not necessarily...
  18. Wait, you don't mention having taken the NCLEX before -- did you get licensed in NC somehow in 1992 without taking and passing the licensure exam? If you have taken it in the past, I don't know why...
  19. Clinicals do not count as employment or volunteering at the facility. You had no formal connection to the facility. The correct answer is
  20. There is no experience requirement to be eligible for the NCLEX. New grads with no experience other than their education take it every day. The specific requirements will depend on to which state...
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    Student about to Graduate University

    Are you intending to be snarky in your responses to people? Because that's how you're sounding. "Wishy washy social science subjects?" Those "wishy washy" social sciences are considered essential...
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    Im socially awkward. Cant interview well.

    I agree with caliotter -- working with a professional coach on your interviewing skills could make a significant difference, and could be money well spent. Best
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    Smoking

    Except that we all have to put up with the stink and second-hand smoke when people return to work/class from their designated smoking area
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    Work for the State?

    I worked for several years as a surveyor for my state and CMS (all state surveyors are also contract surveyors for CMS). I used to joke that, when the nurses from the different divisions of the state...
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    Does anyone else ever envy their patients?

    I can honestly say I've never envied my clients. In fact, seeing the people I do at work, in the situations they are in, makes me more appreciative that I enjoy basically good physical and mental...