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So I just got a job working as a nurse. YAY! I will take my NCLEX next month. So when I come home from work, I do some questions. I'm glad I studied my butt off the past 2 weeks when I didn't have a job... because now, I don't have a lot of time to b...

Do you find yourself crying a lot while in nursing school? I never cried so much in a year as I have in this PAST year. I'm always scared about failing (I have one shot while others have two) or get so incredibly frustrated and stressed out. I'm in M...

What is the last RN-BSN course (Capstone) like? Can we do all the work at home, or is it one of those times where we have to go out and find someone to talk to / interview / observe? Are there still quizzes and discussion boards? I think I heard we h...

WOW. Thanks so much, Just1nRN!!! You definitely made me feel better and less anxious. I'll be starting the course in November (I know, a little early to be thinking about it), but I can't stop thinking about what the very last course will be like!! H...

I agree with every single word you just said. One day I'm feeling great and positive. And the next day, I get all depressed and cry that everyone around me is getting a job EXCEPT ME. And everyone is completely shocked when I say that I can't find ...

i graduated last may from an adn program and still have not found a job. so i've been unemployed for 1 year. i know many people are on the same boat. anyone here?

I applied and got an email about a few questions to answer. But I never got an interview. And today, I got a rejection email (one of hundreds...)

Come on, people. I'm so curious to know what's going on! LOL.

Congratulations on obtaining an interview. I wish I got to have one!! Keep us up-to-date now.

So nobody else got an interview? Do you have a BSN? Any health-related experience? I'm just trying to figure out what these people want...

maybe it's because it lasted 1 week and is hardly called a job - more like a failed attempt at training someone. and fyi, i have been unemployed for an entire year... even after the ltc facility. wow, someone reasonable is here!! thanks for stickin...

first of all, i'm glad you see my point of view with the ltc facility situation. and "very few nurses"? okay, with my luck, i would be one of those few nurses. it's not like it's impossible to get a mark on your nursing record from a nursing home... ...

OMG I'm so jealous of the 2 people here who have gotten calls! I've been waiting a year for this job.

your ltc facility must've been absolutely wonderful to work for. i wish i had the same luck!!! i would've stayed at a place like that. even if it was fast-paced, busy, and required 20 patients, i would work there if the employers treated their employ...

Glad to see I'm not the only one!!

i will start my 2nd year of nursing school and will be taking med surg 2 (the hardest course). i have 1 chance to fail, as others have 2. i have a boyfriend of 7 months and i told him that i will rarely get to see him. the only time i'll get to see h...

Yes, yes you can. As long as you're a licensed RN, you can get your BSN degree online. In fact, that's why a lot of people are doing the RN-BSN transition program.......... because no one's hiring ADNs.

I started orientation today at my new job in a nursing home here in California. I'm a graduate nurse who has yet to take the NCLEX. I feel like they have just thrown me into a pit of snakes. I'm being trained by 1 nurse. She is very extremely busy. S...

I received a nursing home job as a GN/RN. Lasted very shortly because they were seriously understaffed, LVN preceptor had no time to fully train me because she was so insanely busy, hadn't taken the NCLEX at the time and employers said the job was mo...

All I did was the NEC review course (you know, the company that created all those images to help us remember diseases and conditions). https://www.facebook.com/pages/NCLEX-NEC/90904973295 And I did 3,000 questions (most coming from Kaplan question tr...

I never heard about the last question determining whether or not you passed. At 75 questions, I didn't know how I felt. And then I got up to 80 questions and felt like I redeemed myself or something. And I passed. The only alternative style question ...

I'll be doing the RN-BSN online transition program. I have all my pre-reqs done already. Should I go to TWU or UT Arlington? I got admitted to both but am clueless as to which one I should attend. How are the online classes? I heard they're both easy...

Someone PLEEEEASE tell me what UT Arlington's online RN-BSN program is like. It's great that each class is only 5 weeks with 1 week between each class. But is that manageable? Is 5 weeks not enough for a class?! I need to decide FAST between this sch...

Kafka? What's that? Well, I'm not really concerned about non-nursing courses because I've done all that already from the first bachelor's degree I obtained. I'm just concerned about the nursing courses itself. I did have some trouble getting them to...

On the NCLEX tutorial right before you take the test, it says to perform rounding AFTER your calculations. And do not type the units, just the number. Maybe you did one of those mistakes. Please check out the NCLEX tutorial so you can see what it say...