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Uh, I don't think that is correct, but maybe that is how this school is limiting applicants into their RN degree program. I'm currently in an ADN program, but our school has you obtain your CNA training to enter the LPN program, and then have your LPN to enter into the RN program. They encourage working to gain experience, however for many students working while being a full-time student is too overwhelming. I might go over that person to someone else, to see what kind of answer you get...or better yet, check their nursing handbook (which should be online) or with the director of the RN program to get a direct answer to your question.

It is one of the hardest things you will ever do. If you have family committments (husband, children) you will find you reinvent quite a bit, and you give up and miss quite a bit. BUT, you also grow and learn, your family finds a way, your relationship matures, you learn to bend and sway with the gusting torrents in ways you never knew possible. You can do it, it can be done!!! But you have to let go of many preconceptions and form a new you along the way (which might be harder than all of the work combined). It is worth it!!!

And the cursing, and the gossip, and the sharing of how much someone drank that last weekend. Maybe it is just tooooooo social for me. Or maybe it is that many of the students are still in that young, party, date, have fun, it is all about "me" period in their life, and I just don't have time for that now....

I will graduate with my ADN in May and I haven't joined any study groups. As a matter of fact, I find study groups distracting (that is just me, and how I study). I read my assignments and take notes on my reading as study, and I read ALL of the assigned reading. That helps me the most.

Oh I'm so sorry about your not being able to continue right now. Understanding failing by 1 point is really difficult, isn't it? About as difficult as trying to explain an autoimmune rheumatoid disease to those who don't have it. Sounds like you too are an amazing woman and have worked hard. Take time for yourself now, heal and recuperate and start back at it again next year! I'm sure you will make it in stellar form.

When I began this journey, I had not yet been diagnosed. During the summer directly before starting my LPN nursing core, we found out I have Sjogren's, and then the following spring I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, and symptomatic Lupus (my blood work has not yet "proven" Lupus, but I have 5 out of the ten markers). Sometimes, I feel like a train wreck. In addition, I am a wife and mother (4 children ages 10-18). I know what I am supposed to do to take care of myself, although that too seems to change occasionally, but I get so overloaded with everything I have to do. I graduate in May with my RN, and am planning to go forward with my BSN, to my master's in Midwifery while working at least part-time as an RN. Here is the hard part. Lupus is such a variant disease! Some days I am so tired, and hurt so bad I just want to stay in bed, and other days I feel as normal as I do these days and I can push myself a little bit. But, it is REALLY hard to explain to my instructors, my fellow students, and the nurses I am working with during clinicals what my limitations might be, because today I might not need to alter what/how I do something, and tomorrow I might not be able to do that same task at all. My frustration with this disease is equally comparable to my frustration with how others react. Even with those who seem to understand, it often feels like they believe I am overreacting, or playing up my limitations. This has been especially true this semester, as I flared the first week in January, and part of my flare includes heart palpitations/PVC's. So now on top of seeing my primary care provider, and my rheumatologist, I will be seeing a cardiologist to rule out pericarditis. Through it all, I am working hard to make the grades, get the paperwork done, attend the clinicals, prepare for my boards, take care of my family, and take care of myself. Needless to say I am completely and totally overwhelmed! I feel whiny, and yet I also know it is bad to keep these feelings held in. I know that if I had been diagnosed before I began my journey to my RN, I would not have. However, there are many days when my motivation to get up and moving is my obligations, and that keeps me going.

I called and emailed the call center, here is the email they sent back: "Thank you for your inquiry to the HRSA Call Center. The award notifications for the Nursing Scholarship Program have been delayed. The Award Notifications will be received in the next few weeks. If you have not been award you will receive notification explaining why no later than October 31, 2009." My question about awards was answered by the routine, "we can not give that information over the phone", but I was told that the final decision were not made until September 30th, and they do not know where the notification process is at this time. She said keep waiting until I am notified. I did not receive an email, am 0 EFC and in an RN program. Chantel Haynes LPN