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Does anyone know if Excelsior is still taking this as a transfer credit? I have a request in to take the class, but haven't heard back from Excelsior yet. I really just want to sign up for the class and get it over with this week, but I hesitate to ...

Hey everyone! I was formerly lisamc1 but graduated from Excelsior this summer and passed boards! YAY! So now it's lisamc1RN, woohoo! Ok, I've been on 2 job interviews and it was amazing the differences I experienced between the two! The first ...

Being busy may not seem like a good excuse to the patient who hears it, but to the patient who I just spent 30 minutes with trying to control a bleed which took precedence over your need, it has a whole different meaning. Just because I don't care t...

Tasha, I called my advisor at excelsior, who gave the approval to take the Penn Foster class. I called up Penn Foster (credit card in hand) and paid $90. Two days later, I received my student ID number from Penn Foster and logged into my class onlin...

Thanks everyone! I called both Excelsior and Penn Foster and I'm getting my material hopefully soon! My advisor said to get it done and even if I miss the deadline by a day or two, she would make sure I graduate in July!

You know I'm so happy for you! And I'm tickled about the stuffed possum! (Read her journal on the EPN. ) We call them speed bumps here in Ohio, too! LOL!

I agree with Lunah. Take a week off. It sounds like you are doing great! Make yourself get back at it after that week, though. :)

I'm so happy and I can't stop smiling. My cheeks are beginning to hurt. LOL. I'm going to type up a journal and post it to the EPN later if anyone is curious about my experience. :) :) :)

Wooohooohooo! That's so wonderful! Congratulations, Deb! My mom went with me, too! LOL! It was a great day for both of us! *dancing a little jig*

Thank you all! Megan, yes, I was at York, Pa and I thought that the CA and CEs were great and I really thought the site was great as well. :)

Oy. I have learned mnemonics for all AOCs except drainage and specimen collection. I just haven't come up with anything and have not even looked at it in about a month! Thanks for the heads up everyone!

My condolences to the family. Daytonite was inspirational and will be missed.

I think you will find that opinions go both ways. There are nurses out there who firmly believe in Med-surg as the first place to work as a new nurse, and others who feel that it is just fine to enter a specialty field. I'm in the same boat as you, ...

You should be washing your hands all the time. When you go into a room, when you leave a room, before and after doing a treatment. You should be gelling all of the time, too. In between patients, between med passes, before and after doing your charti...

I know I'd love a fruit basket or veggie tray! I work in a place that is inundated with cookies, cakes, and doughnuts. I've lost 15 lbs out of sheer iron will. It would be nice to indulge in a nice fruit basket on occasion. :)

Men gossip just as much as women. They just tend to do it with other men. People are people. *there's a song in there somewhere* Although I believe there are fundamental differences between men and women, the ability to be lazy, mean, gossip, or be i...

Yes, we are required to wear long hair back and no false fingernails. I wear my hair short now, but always wore it back when it was long and keep my fingernails trimmed.

It's time to get your social worker and your DON involved. Your patient is actually not safe and her relatives are the ones who are creating the problem. Be a patient advocate before she ends up in the hospital with a fractured hip.

I'm close to graduating, too. (God willing and the creek don't rise.) I would love to just keep on a goin', but I need to take a break to spend time with the kiddos and hubby and just enjoy my success. I'm also going to need to get a new job, so I ...

OP, I've been an LPN for almost 4 years now and am getting ready to take the CPNE through Excelsior (next month. Yikes!). I highly recommend it. I found that the most challenging part of doing my book work is making myself do it. If you have the m...

Is it those world history classes they make you take?

Whoah! Ok, first of all, we ARE all nurses. Licensed Practical NURSE and Registered NURSE are both nurses. Notice the NURSE in our titles? Second of all, you assume too much to think that RNs are the only ones who sacrifice, put forth great effort,...

We recently had a long time patient of ours pass away. He had always had the tv on and was always on the call light. We adored him. He was one of those guys who loved to chat and loved to eat. When he passed away, we were saddened, even though it h...

OMG! As I was reading this, I was trying to figure out which nurse you are at my former employment! LOL! This sounds exactly like what happens there! Thank you for putting into words! Well done!

Yay! Congrats! Scoot on over to the EPN. There's lots of good info and great people that are going through exactly what we are!