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  1. Penn State University offers a noncredit LPN program. After you complete the program, you are eligible to sit for the NCLEX. If you receive your LPN, can you still go for your RN if its a noncredit...
  2. Anxiety disorder

    Hello. I'm posting this because I do not know where else to turn to. I feel like I need to talk to educated people who won't judge me. Please listen to my story and give input. I'm 20 years old and I...
  3. Anxiety disorder

    Yes I have seen all of those. They don't know what to
  4. Anxiety disorder

    I have seen a few. Would you be able to recommend another website where I could get suggestions on who to go to
  5. I applied for an LPN program for fall 2010. I found out today that the reason why I didn't get in was because I was lacking a biology class that others in the program took. For admissions, you do not...
  6. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    What would happen if the LPN program wasn't
  7. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    I'm not trying to sound like that. The point of my post was that nursing schools should consider GPA plus real life experience. This is supposed to be a nursing community. No mean or judgmental...
  8. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining. I worked in Africa as a nurse there for a semester because they had no one and we had to step in and learn things as they were happening, qualified or...
  9. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    Wow!! Im just upset that even though I am missing a course they think I'm under qualified. I have seen EVERYTHING there is. I can stomach all of it. I have helped in under served clinics in Harlem....
  10. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    I don't what to do for a whole year. I have an opportunity to attend a college in NY but it does not have anything nursing related. The only other programs in my area are medical assisting programs....
  11. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    I went in and they said that since I took intro to biology and the students in the program took human biology, that's why I won't be accepted. However, they should seriously specify that in their...
  12. Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    Do you think it would be a good idea to go in person and speak with them? I obviously cannot push for anything but maybe if they saw me in person and I spoke with them about what I would have to do...
  13. What do you think of this?

    Hazardous Chemicals Read the article and give your
  14. Wait list

    How do nursing programs wait lists work? Is it by your grades or when you
  15. I would like a nurses opinion

    Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing Video Hosting I'm living in a dorm next year and I'm afraid of cigarette smoke. The blue area is where people are allowed to smoke. The pink area...
  16. I would like a nurses opinion

    Am I putting myself in danger? My grandmother died of lung cancer and it scares
  17. I would like a nurses opinion

    The dorm is smoke-free except for designated areas outside. They moved me so that my window faces the street and not the entrance where people smoke. Any
  18. I would like a nurses opinion

    It is technically off campus but it is through the college because tuition and housing bills are together. It said it was a non-smoking dorm and I was not aware that people are allowed to smoke right...
  19. I would like a nurses opinion

    I am going to talk with them and see if they can move me to the other side of the building (its on the side of the street and away from the designated smoking area). Do you think that would be any...
  20. Patient and stupid rules

    I was listening in on a case that was being discussed between a few nurses but it was not my patient. A student came in suffering from not only Anorexia, depression, severe OCD, and severe anxiety,...
  21. I have asked this a few times but I don't think anyone understands what I actually mean. What skills do you learn how to do as a nurse? As in, I know you learn how to bathe someone, do an enema,...
  22. Did anyone else learn about this?

    For one of the nursing courses, we are learning about toxins in hospitals. I was a bit surprised by this. I know that OSHA has safety regulations for all occupations but the instructor was making it...
  23. What are clinicals all about????

    I don't really get what clinicals are. Can anyone be detailed in their
  24. Worried Patient

    There was a young college student that came into the office for immunization for college. After talking to her briefly, I realized she has severe anxiety. Her grandmother died of lung cancer almost a...
  25. Worried Patient

    Does anyone feel that she has a point or is right in her