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True success never comes without some degree of failure, is my motto in life. I am a lab instructor at the school I once failed out of. I failed a lab class so hard the ADN program I was attending would not readmit me. I graduated in the 97th percentile on a nationally recognized standardized exit exam 3/4 the way through a different program. I am also almost done with my RN-BSN program and I have a 4.0 GPA. My advice is keep your head up! Learn from your mistakes and look at future potential mistakes. Ask other students what difficult concepts await you in future classes. Take that information and master that content before the class even begins. If you think electrolyte tests will be hard in your critical care class start studying now, if it is developmental stages in your pediatric class that might get you, memorize them now. Do not let failing one class in nursing school be the end of your education, let it be the beginning.

I moved to vegas with my parents when I was 15, when we moved from a very small and safe town in rural Nevada. I found vegas to be a great place to grow up and almost 15 years later I still love it here. I did well in high school and graduated from a magnet program. There are many magnet programs out there most of which allow students to graduate with college credit. I graduated from a health occupations program which allowed me to work as a medical assistant or nursing assistant. I chose to pursue nursing and having my nursing assistant certification allowed me to buy my first home at 20 years old, while I was attending nursing school. I have been an RN for about 4 years and I am proud to practice in Las Vegas. I have never worked for Sunrise, but I do a lot of volunteer work with their trauma prevention program. As a community member and registered nurse I will tell you Sunrise is a good hospital and they do a lot of good for our community. I think you will find Sunrise and Las Vegas to be a good fit for you and your son. A magnet school is a public owned school paid for by public funds. Magnet schools are specialty schools that give students college or college like credit while still giving them all the education a traditional high school would. Charter schools are publicly funded, but they are owned by private organizations. They function more like traditional high schools, but generally use different curriculums.

I am a peds ICU nurse in Nevada and I regulatory sit on new grad interview panels. For any area you want to go into the question you need to ask yourself is, "what can I do to separate myself from the 300+ other applicants for this limited position". The problem we have as interviewers when we open a new grad position, we will get applicants from all over the country who apply and almost all have the same qualification. So, think outside the box. Tip one: Do extra well in nursing school. Tip two: Get involved in community events. Want to be a peds nurse, take a car seat certification class and volunteer at car seat check up events, want to be an ER nurse become a CPR instructor and volunteer to teach it at community events, or want to be a labor nurse find way to get the word out about the importance of prenatal care. All of these will be great networking opportunities and resume builders. Tip three: Become a member of associations specific to your desired field and read their journals. Examples: The Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) or The Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics and neonatal nurses (AWHONN). Tip four: Have customer service skills. It may sound irrelevant, but I love seeing applicants who have recently been managers of Starbucks or high-end retail stores. Right now, customer service is a big deal in healthcare and we all need applicants who can help us increase our HCAHPS scores. Last tip: Know what an HCAHPS survey is and how you can increase your interviewers scores.

In my experience $25 is a little low and $30 is a little high, but that seems to be the range. Hospitals do not necessarily pay more, because they are more in-demand. When I was a new grad, I went from a rehab hospital to a critical care unit and took a pay cut.

At CSN you will be eligible to take the CNA exam once you are pass the Fundamentals of Nursing class with a C or better. The process is simple fill out the application, which I have attached a link to, get finger printed, then wait for a letter in the mail stating you can register for the test. Taking the CNA class is a waste of your time, because those topics are covered in Fundamentals of Nursing and none of them are difficult to grasp. The real question you should ask your self is, "do I have the time to learn a new skill while in nursing school"? It may be a CNA position, but there is a lot more to it than meets the eye and it requires time to learn. Nursing school is difficult. You have a lot of material you are going to cover and not a lot of time to learn it. All that said, I do not recommend becoming a CNA during nursing school. My advice is that you dedicate 100% of yourself to school while you are in the program. Study, study, study and be the best student nurse you can be, because your future patients deserve that of you. http://nevadanursingboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/CNA-application-packet.pdf

Very good discussion thank you guys

I am proud to say, I graduated from National University. I passed the NCLEX in 45 minutes with 75 questions. Today, I am a pediatric critical care nurse. Sense graduating I have become certified in among others, ACLS, PALS, TNCC, pediatric critical, and I am a soon to be BLS instructor. In the unfortunate event a child who is important in your life becomes critically ill or injured, rest assured this NU grad has the knowledge and skill to keep your precious child alive.

I am a past nursing student and I am currently taking general education classes at CSN. I would say it really depends on you. Online classes offer flexibly and are good if you are more self passed learner. Classroom classes demand that you pace yourself. If you are the type of person that needs motivation to study online classes may not be best. Also you loose a lot of the social aspect of college when you take online classes and that is really important, especially in nursing.

congratulations sarah (on the baby and school)! study hard! nursing school is one of the hardest things you will ever do, but it is so worth it.

i agree the ___ made incredibly easy series is good. i also used lippincott. lippincott books are good, because the question is on one side of the page and the answers are on the other side. that way you do not have to keep trying to find the answers in the back of the book. the cd's that come with nclex prep books are great, because when you are tired of looking at the text book you can do the questions on the computer. one of my friends also had a set of cd's that he would play in his car radio. that seemed to help him a lot. also the west charleston public library has those __ made incredibly easy books and tons of videos you can check out. some of the videos are made my the text book manufactures. if you want to start studying now the west charleston library has the jarvis assessment dvd's, which are the ones that go with the assessment book the school uses.

... a good printer (i bought a laser printer)... you defiantly need a good printer. your first syllabus is over 200 pages. one of your first assignments is an elderly essay, remember the instructions for it are in three different places, and do not forget to put it in one of those cheep clear binders, before you turn it in. all that stuff you have to have for clinical, make sure you have it. if you show up to clinical, without a penlight or with a crooked name tag, they are going to dock your grade or send you home. that program is a nightmare. they are going to break you down physically and emotionally every chance they get. it is not going to be easy, but yes it is worth it. 2 years of hell = one amazing career. study, study, study, because pharmacology is going to make bio 189 seem like a piece of cake

i disagree with the statement above. you have a bachelors degree in nursing, which is a degree. be proud of that[color=#ffa07a]! someone suggested going to another state and endorsing your license to your state. i live in nevada and i know that is a loophole here. we can take the nclex a maximum of 2 or 3 times, but if we fail we can go to california and retake the test and endorse our california licence to nevada. that might be an option to you.

i highly doubt that. i know st. mary's hired at least one of carrington's las vegas students, and that school never gained accreditation. what makes you say kaplan's adn program will not gain accreditation? the have not even graduated their first cohort yet. i have been to most of the board of nursing meetings for the last couple of years. kaplan's lpn program flew through accreditation with impressive results. further, kaplan has one of the strongest administrative teams i have ever seen. i have zero doubt kaplan will gain full board approval well with in the allowed two year window.

impaired spontaneous ventilation is not a nanda so i would not recommend using it.

I am not sure you did anything wrong. The pts BS was 295? I highly doubt he is going to bottom out with 11 units of insulin and like Loriangel 14 said even if he did there are always ways of dealing with it.