sun1shine1

check your state board's website. most of your questions will be answered there. also once you have graduated from an accredited nursing school, they don't take away your diploma. you won't have to go back. :)

I also think that a verification through the SBN would be better than a credit check. My husband's been unemployed since July (just got a job last week :)), so right now our credit is really hurting. With all of the other tests, checks, and physicals, you would think that they would already know just about everything about you. I'm just wondering what's next. My BBT chart to know when I ovulate? That's about all that's left. I guess boys will just have to suffice with a semen sample Perhaps they could get my karyotype done for me too.

I'm hearing around the $20/hr range here in south Louisiana. Check salary.com. I was trying to figure this out earlier tonight too!!

I am in my second semester of clinicals now. In my first semester we had 10 students per faculty member per clinical day (we only went one day a week per group. the instructors each had 2 days of clinicals = 20 students total.) Our care maps and documentation (and at least one research article) were all due first thing Monday for the Friday groups. This go round we are doing (in a condensed semester) 2 9-hr days (10 once you include preconference and postconference) on Wed and Thur. Our paperwork is due at the end of the day on Wed. We have all day to "finish the details and evaluations". I think it will be easier that way. We only have 8 per clinical group this semester because so few ppl wanted to do summer school (May 19-July 28). The staff nurses have all been very helpful at my clinical sites, and for the first semester you don't have a whole lot of knowledge to work with yet. We knew how to do wound care and Foley's. It was a great opportunity to really do focused health assessments. We had plenty of practice performing bed baths, linen changes, perineal care, and just kinda got our feet wet. This semester we started with meds, trach care, and NG tubes. We actually start our clinicals this week!! I can't wait! Just a quick question - How far is everyone else driving to clinicals? This semester the hospital is halfway btn my house and campus (and I live 5 min from campus)? Last semester, I went to a hospital a couple of parishes (counties) over. It would take us about 35-40 min beceause we left my house at 5 am. That drive gets to be about an hour long when we would be coming back home in the afternoon. Sun1shine1