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I am currently doing in home assessments a couple of days per week. I live in a rural area in Indiana, so my drive time is killer. They do pay $75 per assessment, plus $10 per hour, plus mileage. The money is good, but I spend a lot of time on the road. I would say it's easy money, but wouldn't recommend it as a new grad. I'd want the clinical time first.

I work in acute care in rural indiana and started just over 100K. That's 36/hrs per week. I get 9hrs of PTO every 2 weeks, 1 week CME, and 2500 in education benefits. I was told that I would have to take a cut going to primary care, but wasn't told how much. Hope this helps.

I finished the RN-BSN program at IUPUC in December 2012. The columbus campus was cheaper than the Indy and Bloomington campus, but all the classes were the same. I did mine all online and all of the campuses were combined in classes. Consider this when you apply to the program. I loved the program. It was very do-able with a full-time job.

All the IU Health academic hospitals (IU, Riley, & Methodist) start new nurses at $22.00 with a $5.50 weekend differential. They just recently announced that they would be taking away our after 3pm premium. Community westiview for PRN starts experienced nurses out at $30 per hour with a 15% increase for weekends and a 15% increase for weekends.

i'll definitely add you on facebook! i'd also love to keep up with others who are going through the same things i am. my sister is doing the lpn program at the same campus as i am (madison) so atleast i'll have someone there to chat with. i'm moving almost 2 hours away to go to this school. i'm extremely overwhelmed, but know this will all be worth it in the end!!

Well it sounds to me like you're going to be an RN! I'm not sure which campus this is, but it's definitely an interesting way of doing things. Just stay on top and things and make sure you're where you're supposed to be ranked on the first day! Best wishes.

I've found Madison to have excellent response time. I hate calling Ivy Tech with a question and having to wait on hold for hours. Madison always returns my calls and answers my questions immediately. I also did some research and they had a 95% NCLEX pass rate last semester. I decided to drive 15 minutes more each day to go to Madison :)

madison...i turned down my richmond spot when i got my madison acceptance letter.

So this week as been extremely rough for me. I put in my 2 weeks notice at work last friday. They offered me more money on Monday and when I turned it down they fired me on the spot. I was practically speechless. I went to Madison on Tuesday to get my books and that was a disaster. I purchased the big box that included most of the classes, but when I opened it up and compared what was in it to the list of what they said was in it, I was 2 study guides short. I'm really curious as to if this has happened to anyone else? The bookstore manager is looking into it, but it's hard telling how long that will take. Aside from the book issue I've got everything purchased. Now I'm just waiting on my uniforms to come in :) Hope everyone else is doing well!

I am going to get books tomorrow! They are right under $1,000 new from the bookstore at Madison! That campus is so nice, anyone else going there?

Received my call from Richmond today. I'm in the RN program!!!!

I just got a call from Bloomington. I'm accepted into the LPN program with a 197! For those of you still waiting, don't give up hope!

Can someone tell me when the orientation is for Columbus??

Does anyone know when the orientation for Columbus is??

My score was 194 with no region points

i received my pn letter yesterday from kokomo. however, i'm turning it down.

I'm turning down PN spots at Lafayette, Kokomo, Sellersburg, and Madison. This will free up several spots for anyone who's waiting. Best wishes...

Received my letters from Bloomington today. I didn't get into either program

Received my letters from Kokomo and Sellersburg today. I didn't get into the RN, but I was accepted into Sellersburg's PN program. Kokomo hasn't sent their PN letters yet.

Yea me and my sister both received ours today. I'm sure she'll get in with a 215.

no i applied to the lpn at all the campuses. hopefully i'll get in somewhere :) they didn't say how far down i was on the alternate list, but i'm pretty confident enough people will drop. it seems as though most people applied to more than 1 campus.

So far I've received denial RN letters for Indy, Lafayette, and Madison. I accepted the alternate LPN position at Lafayette. My sister called Madison and the LPN letters will be going out next week. I had a 194 w/o region points by the way. (3-A's 1-B and a 84 on my TEAS) Best wishes to all of you who are still waiting.

I just recently took the CNA program through the Columbus campus. Although it was an absolute JOKE, I'm confident not all campuses are this way. Most of them are set up for 8 hour days for a couple of weeks straight. You have to have so many classroom hours and then you move onto so many clinical hours...It was a decent experience for me. I haven't worked in a health care field before, so I learned ALOT! I really feel like I've got my foot in the door with the whole nursing thing. Good luck to you!

I was really disappointed about the Greencastle campus. I also had planned on applying there. They told me they had decided to "Restructure" their program. I believe they aren't even accredited yet, since they haven't had very many (if any) graduating classes. It kinda threw up a red flag for me. Restructuring=Disaster. However, I'm in Avon so it too would have been about 25 minutes from my house

My first choice is Terre Haute which is about 40ish minutes from my house. ( I live in Avon) However, I also applied to several campuses that are about an hour away. I'm determined to go somewhere! I know the driving part will suck, but maybe I'll get lucky and meet some friends who are driving also :)