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How you are ranked will depend on your particular school and what factors they consider. My accelerated program ranked us solely on GPA in prerequisite courses. Although we already had degrees, we still had to complete certain courses prior to applic...

The podcasts are no longer free on itunes. I did locate them by googling (I guess they decided they could make some money off of them), but did not purchase. I studied the Pass CCRN online questions that came with the book. I also studied the Laura G...

you seem really focused on what others think... you need to remember that this isn't about anybody but you... don't think that a psychologist or psychiatrist is sitting there waiting to judge you; this is their job to help you... it is what they do

I work in the ICU for a large private hospital. New grad base pay is $20 per hr. $24 for nights. $26 for weekend nights. My wife (RN) works for a state hospital in the same town. She makes almost $27 an hour weeknights and $29 weekend nights. She ha...

Mental health... the exams. so much gray area. I partly blame my teacher. I liked the clinical portion and I rocked out the ATI tests, but 97% of our final grade came from the exams. Only C I made in nursing school.

we use the caps with the alcohol soaked sponges on the inside, no alcohol wipes necessary.

My coworker originally came to the transplant unit on a travel assignment. I guess she really liked the job or the city bc she was from all the way from upstate NY and decided to stay (in Louisiana). I think she worked the transplant unit for 2 years...

I think that this is a good opportunity for you. One of my coworkers started on a transplant floor before coming to our SICU (we recover fresh Livers, Kidneys, and Pancreases). I also think its great experience that yall's transplant floor gets the f...

well the good news is that we use the metric system here in america (in the medical field); everything is mg, kg, ml, liters, etc.... should be pretty close to what you are used to... i recommend saunders comprehensive nclex review... the book is yel...

we usually had 3 or 4 tests per class... they were roughly every week or week and a half. the amount of chapters varied; they jumped around a lot. if i had to say a number, i would say 3-6 chapters per test

I used saunders too, did not do an online or in person review... i just did saunders questions from the cd. i did about 50-100 questions a day on my off days for about a month (i work 3-4 days a week). i also did a free kaplan iphone app, which my wi...

funny, i actually thought about this earlier in the week when i did a bladder scan that revealed a 15ml... thats the lowest (i can remember) i ever got other than 0... probably varies by brand

i didnt think it was too hard... i did have to study. i was in the accelerated program though so it was almost every day class or clinical. we did have several people fail... usually 2 or 3 people failed every class and then i think 7 failed the las...

i completed the accelerated asn program this past june... the accelerated bsn recently replaced the accelerated asn. i was in the second to last class (one more completed in dec)... https://allnurses.com/louisiana-state-nursing/lady-lake-accelerated-...

i graduated from olol in june... i did the second degree accelerated program. i actually did metairie/ new orleans cohort and did the majority of my clinicals at tulane and east jeff... i was in the second to last new orleans cohort (the last class ...

You are a CNA until you get an LPN job (assuming that you havent already acquired an LPN job)... this isnt something that just happens automatically. You will have to apply for an LPN position and be offered and LPN job, before you can actually start...

took mine a month from my last day of class to show up... had to push back orientation at my new job twice!

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i just graduated in June from a 10 month accelerated ASN at Our Lady of the Lake College (private) in Louisiana. Cost me about 17k. The program has recently changed to a 16 mo BSN adding another semester. Should be in the neighborhood of 23k now.

where do u live? some areas will hire new grads in the icu, especially if u have experience as a tech (cna) or some other kind of healthcare experience: EMT, military medic, EKG tech, etc... personally, if i couldnt have landed a new grad icu job, i ...

I have never heard of an Associates of Arts degree being a prerequisite for any kind of nursing degree. You seem very confused. Generally, you take prerequisite classes as outlined for the nursing program that you would like to enter. If you are seek...

i am in NW Louisiana and I got a job at my first choice hospital. I was also given the option of which floor and which shift. However, I went to nursing school in south Louisiana (New Orleans) where only 4 or 5 of my graduating classmates out of 27, ...

they dont hire lpns in the ER in the city that i live in (shreveport), but i know they do hire them in the rural hospitals and even in a larger hospital in texarkana which is about an hour and 15 min north of me

if you already have a previous Bachelors in a health related field, i would think that u already have most, if not ALL the non clinical courses that you would need for nursing... if u want a true answer, then look up the curriculum for the program u ...

My school only looked at prereq gpa. Our Lady of the Lake College ololcollege.edu