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On the application for licensure in IL the question asks "Have you had or do you now have any disease or condition that interferes with your ability to perform the essential functions of your profession, including any disease or condition generally r...

I was wondering, the backround check that the BON uses to determine if they will let you sit for the NCLEX, is it a fingerprint backround check or the non-fingerprint variety? Id like to order a backround check of myself to see whats on their and the...

Hi Guys, Im hoping you all can give me some insight and advice. I will be starting nursing school soon and Im pretty sure I will start out with some kind of restricted and/or probationary license for a past addiction problem and a criminal convicti...

I know this is an older thread but I was wondering if anyone has heard of any updated info regarding if and when IL will become part of the compact states?

Hi guys, I was just wondering how the job search is going? Have you had trouble finding a job with a restricted or probationary license?

My goal is to be a home health nurse. Im not interested in ever working in a hospital. In my area of the country, the RN home health nurses only make $3 more an hour than the LPN home health nurses (to start that is). Anyhow, the RN extra $3 an hou...

So what ended up happening? Any updates?

Your mother sounds just like my father. When I graduated high school, I announced I wanted to go to nursing school. He actually forbid me to go. He said no daughter of his was going to empty bedpans for a living! So I never went to nursing shcool....

Im wondering if anyone here has recent experience with Massage Therapy in this economy? I am thinking about going to MT school. Anyone here doing massage full time? If so, are you able to support yourself? How do you like your career? Thanks :)

I believe here where I am located that you would need a separate license for acupuncture and a separate license for massage (your nursing license would not cover those two professions). Also, Illinois just passed a law that limits the people that ca...

At out local family practice, all the clinic personal are MA's, they do the patient education and pretty much run the office and are very much relied on by the doctors and patients. This is in Illinois btw.

Does anyone know of an LPN program that cost 15k or under and takes federal financial aid? I do know of cmk healthcare that has a lpn program that cost 15k but they dont take financial aid. Are there any others in the chicagoland area that Im not a...

I've read that CMK healthcare in Glendale Heights is offering their LPN program for 15k. From what I understand, they also have payment plan where you can give a down payment and pay the rest in montly payments. I think it comes out to $1200.00/mont...

I was curious about the Excelsior LPN to RN program. Does it require a Speech class and if so, how does that work? Is the speech class online? Ive looked into other lpn to rn programs (at junior colleges) but they all require a speech class that ...

I read the following post on a student doctor's forum: "Agreed. CRNA's and nurses in general aren't the smartest group of people out there. The CRNA backlash has already begun. In response to CRNA's push for autonomy, anesthesiologists are support...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if somebody could tell me what color scrubs the nurses wear at silver cross hospital? Just wondering Thanks

At some point, you have to ask yourself what kind of nurse do you want to be? Its gut check time. They are obviously not doing the care they are being paid to do at the expense of the residents. If someone does drugs or robs a store or harms an an...

I know I've read on here multiple times regarding MA's calling themselves nurses but now its not even the ma's but the doctor's office they work in calling them nurses. I feel this is so misleading and done deliberately. I called my doctors office ...

My SIL whom is very smart is trying to decide between these two programs. She doesn't do well with long periods of high stress(she gets anxious and depressed). I told her to try Respiratory Therapy as hospital nursing is very stressful A LOT of the...

I honestly dont think nursing is for you. I think you would be much happier in more of a lab type environment. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

For what its worth, I know the hospitals where I am located require their ct and mri techs to also be certified in rad tech. Best wishes to you.

I do deal with people just as you described. 3 in fact. 2 are quadriplegic and one is a one legged blind man. I just let them have control. I don't really try to reason with them anymore or struggle for control. They obviously have issues and I ...

Not to be rude, but that is not the point or the topic of this thread, however you are more than welcome to start your own thread.

I just wanted to say I hope you're feeling better soon. I have suffered from pinched nerves on and off for 7 years now. PLEASE PLEASE be careful with the chiropracter! The one I went to years ago made things much much worse. Physical therapy didn...

You are not the housekeeper, maid or babysitter. If it doesn't involve nursing duties then don't do it (other than keeping your work area neat...if mom fed the kid she can clean up the mess). Otherwise it will only breed resentment.