sierranic

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1. Lpn Student Questions???? Help

   sierranic replied to studentLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Students

   Get one of those NCLEX-PN review books. Saunders is a really good one. This will really help you understand the format of some of the test questions you may get in class, as well as why that answer is...

2. How are you "paying" for school???

   sierranic replied to TashaLPN2006RN2012's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   Ummmm... I'm not ...... Yet! :) I took out max on student loans, and qualified for grants (which really helped) Alot of the Hospitals around my area will pay back some of your loans once your...

3. Priority question

   sierranic replied to Purlple's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I'd have to say the 3 y/o

4. For those of you who passed NCLEX-PN

   sierranic posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   What did you do after graduation but prior to boards to prepare yourself for the exam? If you studied from the review books, on average how many questions did you do each day and for how long?

5. Physical before entering LPN school?

   sierranic replied to chachacha's topic in LPN, LVN Students

   Our school required a physical and once I got into the office I got very upset. I assumed with this being a health care program that I would only have to answer some questions and possibly prove that...

6. Anyone (or someone you know) fail clinical?

   sierranic replied to SirJohnny's topic in General Students

   I had one of those "weed em' out" teachers and most students lasted the first 10 weeks of this semester and then the teacher turned evil :angryfire We lost about 5 out of 25 students within a 2 week...

7. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

   sierranic replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

   - By second semester you realize that the three alarm clocks you had are no longer waking you up, so you go out and buy two more! - Your dinnerware now consists of plastic silverware, plates, bowel,...

8. Nursing for the wrong reasons? (long)

   sierranic replied to Soonstudent's topic in General Nursing

   It sounds like you have yourself in the perfect position to make a move! My recommendation would be to see if it would be possible to shadow a nurse and see how you would like it. Over 50K a year is a...

9. Period 8 days late...neg HPT!!

   sierranic replied to TweetiePieRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   You may be stressing yourself out. I once went through this after having two children, I was a day late and almost had a breakdown, I wasn't ready for #3 to come yet. I stressed myself out so much...

10. Greetings from a newbie as well

    sierranic replied to zigs's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome Zigs!!! I'm here in Council Bluffs, hoping to get into the ADN program here at Iowa Western...... However, I have also applied to Southwestern in Creston and Iowa Tech in Denison just in...

11. anyone taken A&P online?

    sierranic replied to jenc73's topic in General Students

    I took A&P I last semester and I loved it!!! I'm currently taking A&P II. All of our labs were taken at home on the computer with lab simulating software. We averaged 1 lab everyweek and 1...

12. Nurses pay

    sierranic replied to ChristineG's topic in General Nursing

    Cb is right, And for your last response to my "Why go to college", I was refering to the fact that you can walk into quite a few businesses around my metro area with no college education and start out...

13. Nurses pay

    sierranic replied to ChristineG's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to add this in the last post, but a hospital close to me offers the student nurse internship, which pays $10/hr and once you graduate you get $1/hr for every hour you worked as a student and...

14. Nurses pay

    sierranic replied to ChristineG's topic in General Nursing

    No, it was RN, and to top that off the LPN's make only a few less than that.... Kinda makes you wonder why you would go to school longer for only a few

15. free cna or gna classes

    sierranic replied to stichy5683's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Iowa, so I can't answer for MD, however we are not offered free CNA classes here. In order to take one you need to pay out of pocket, or be employed by a nursing home or LTC facility (they...