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Not sure about NJ, but in NY, three days after the test I showed as active in the online system and had my license about two weeks after taking the test in my hand.

I took a job after graduating a few months ago on the 11-7 shift passing meds on 52 patients thru the night, chart on them, keep on eye on all of them, and then pass meds again at 6 am. I trained for one night - I quit the next day. I was afraid wo...

One week in a classroom, and 12 weeks with a preceptor on a telemetry floor. 12 weeks seems to be pretty standard with the hospitals in this part of the country (western NY).

It would still involve some patient contact, but perhaps a position in a doctors office where u have contact, but it is a different environment may be better? My friend was hired right from school to an office as a teaching nurse in a cardiologist of...

Also, would you be willing to branch out of Rochester some? I live in between Rochester and Buffalo, and was doing shadow interviews at Rochester as well, but wasn't offered a job there. I have recently been offered a job in the buffalo area, and i...

Try to be patient - from experience I know how tough that is. A few Fridays ago, I went into for two interviews to the same hospital systems, and the nurse managers got together and asked to make it a double interview at once. I was told by them, t...

First thing I did for the last semester was contact the nurse recruiters at the major hospitals in the area and see about when I should be applying for a position. They all told me to start about the middle of the semester, and one even had open int...

I totally understand how you feel and what you are going through. I graduated in May, started applying in March, and was just offered a position last week after months of looking. The market is tough right now. Unfortunately, I would not be able t...

I know how you feel, scheduled my exam for about four weeks after I graduated, hoping that if I had passed already it would help with my job search. I was terrified, and walking into the office was a little intimidating. It didn't help that I was ha...

The other posters are right. You aren't going to feel ready. I was in the same boat and was sure I wasn't going to pass. But I did on the first try with the 75 questions. I have been told the longer you wait after you graduate, the hard it can be...

I am enrolled in a 2 year program for my RN degree and am almost there - due to graduate in May. I am so excited to be almost done. But there is something going on that I can't get off my mind. In the last few weeks I have had clinical with anothe...

I would call and put out feelers, however, something to keep in mind is that they may not want to hire you due to the fact that you will be graduating shortly and then move on to be a nurse. I had that problem last semester. I will also be graduati...

I am getting more worried everyday - the third semester of our two year program had me the most worried, we went from 56 to 30 people which I saw in earlier semesters, but now that it is over, our last semester has me scared! It will be 3.5 years fo...

I'm in my 3rd semester of an ADN program and actually asked a nurse on our telemetry floor that question cause I have heard the same thing. She has been a nurse for 34 years and said that you actually use everything in one way or another, maybe not ...

We have to take a Pharm class the last semester of our nursing classes (it's a 2 yr program). I wish we were allowed to do it as a prerequisite class or in the first semester b/c it would help us with some of the background understanding. However, ...

I use Medical-Surgical Nursing, Reviews and Rationales. I bought it last semester, and have found it to come in handy multiple times. It is at Barnes and Nobles, and I have included a link here just so you can see it : http://search.barnesandnoble....

Last fall when I started school, they would post the grades outside of our nursing lab, and we sometimes had to wait up to 2 weeks for the results. Last semester, they switched to an online reporting of grades, so they are usually posted within 3 da...

I wouldn't work, I get where you are coming from, but I see the students that have to work and it is very tiring to them. Not only that, I am assuming you live in NY state because of the TAP mention, and I had a friend at 19 that was getting full TA...

http://www.hrsa.gov/loanscholarships/scholarships/Nursing/, also check what school you are going too for scholarships and apply, as well as if you work at a facility that is willing to pay for you to return to school

I had to deal with a classmate like this last semester. We were assigned to groups, and my groups had to answer questions and do a presentation on AIDS. They even gave us class time during skills testing to work on it. Well, there were five of us ...

I still have another year in school, but med-surg rotations were okay, maternity was my favorite (though I eventually want to be a midwife), and rehab I didn't like at all, too slow for my taste when you only had one patient. After watching the nurs...

Something my instructors pointed out last semester is that in the elderly it isn't unusual to find BP at 160/90 due to the veins and arteries being less elastic. I haven't seen it on a patient yet, but they said it wasn't strange. I agree with the ...

An idea is to check different websites, which many others have mentioned. I'm not sure of the ones that have been mentioned, but I have used barnes and noble (they had 30% off all new textbooks last summer with free shipped!), ebay.com, half.com, an...

Wow - after reading through 5 pages of posts (some with very good information), I had to go back and read the first post to remember all the details that started everything. I am about to start my last year of nursing school and have three children o...

I was an alternate at the school I am currently attending this time last year, and got in. Be encouraged, and good luck everyone!