LadyinScrubs

LadyinScrubs ASN, RN

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  1. Book buying for ADN program

    Many schools do not have a bridge program or they accept LVNs into the last year or 1.5 years--on a space available basis. Meaning, if someone fails a class, then there will be a space available in...
  2. After your first semester, check back and tell us what your experience was and advice to others in the same
  3. LVN to BSN, RN

    There has been much written about the ISU distant learning program and their preceptor, proctor requirements. Quickly, no, they will find your clinnical location. If you have a site that qualifies for...
  4. Chemotherapy Infusion jobs in California?

    There must be an oncology association in CA. BTW Cedars has a good oncology program and it is also a teaching hospital...as is LA County hospital in downtown LA and County Olive View in the San...
  5. In a regular nursing program one must take the exact same prerequites. Should you decide to go for the regular ADN program it will take you 2 years; go the generic BSN route it will take you 4 years....
  6. Don't worry about clinical facilities at this time. Problem with Los Angeles is the clinical facilities are very impacted as there are so many LVN, ADN & BSN programs. Worry about the clinicals...
  7. Much has been written about what to do after your have your prerequisites. You are on page 6 and go to page 5 of this thread. Read my posts and your questions are all answered...if not, repost what...
  8. Isu lvn-rn used study guide needed... Help!

    You do not need a the TCN study guide for ISU N224. If you have a nursing book for the subject concentrate on that. If you have a book by Pearson or Saunders, they have free websites that correspond...
  9. The info you received is accurate. However, I do wish TCN would put the following in bold "ISU has established a partnership in education with The College Network (TCN) to offer this progressive...
  10. http://www.indstate.edu/degreelink/lpntobs/ the ISU website. This may be helpful. It takes a few weeks to get the authorization for the proctor fromthe nursing department so give yourself enough time...
  11. Dennis, just google Indiana State University+LPN to BSN nursing that should get you to the ISU nursing dept
  12. ISU, difference betwn hybrid or blackboard courses

    If you are talking about ISU distant learning nursing classes they are all taught on line and use Blackboard as a source of exchanging info to and from the professor and the students. If the didactic...
  13. why do teachers turn a blind eye to cheating??

    My sentiments,
  14. Time it takes to grad from Excelsior or ISU. It takes less time to graduate from Excelsior than from ISU. I believe Excelsior is an ADN degree and ISU is a BSN degree...which means that ISU's...
  15. ISU, difference betwn hybrid or blackboard courses

    In your descriptive title above you mentioned ISU. I do not know what a hybrid or blackboard courses are. ISU is a distant learning program in which you study and take exams independently. However,...
  16. Isu lvn-rn used study guide needed... Help!

    I bought the TCN ISU study guides but you do not need them. Further, the study guide questions may or may not be on the test. I also found that some of the questions were never covered in the study...
  17. why do teachers turn a blind eye to cheating??

    The BSN program I attended allegedly had a problem. Just before the test was to be administered the professor and the dept chair came in and discussed the problem with the class -- that someone had...
  18. Chemotherapy Infusion jobs in California?

    You didn't say which part of CA you are planning to move to--north or south. I would start with those hospitals that specialize in cancer. In so cal there is the City of Hope. There are others such as...
  19. seasons: you wrote: "i'm still a little confused about the challenge & assessment exams... once i submitt necessary documents to isu":after you have reviewed the prerequisites for the isu lpn/lvn...
  20. ISU distant learning - first semester over. Here is what I learned about the two classes (transition and assessment) that I took Spring 2011. Transition: This is actually two classes -- a transition...
  21. If anyone is interested in the LPN/LPN to BSN distant learning program offered through Indiana State University, I strongly suggest going to the AllNurses distant learning site. There you will learn...
  22. Whether you go to a community college, private or adult school for your LVN/LPN license, if you want to go forward you must take the required prerequisites to enter the program. An RN degree is based...
  23. Chris, Ventura CommunityCollege will accept LVNs as advance placement. However, you will be held accountable for all the information that was taught to the previous class as well as understanding how...
  24. Graduating RN school after struggling

    I want you to examine what is not working. Are you reading the assignments. Are you taking notes and reviewing them after class. Do you have difficult writing or understanding the assignment....