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Anyone know any legit websites or programs out there for nurses that will forgive your student loans? Sadly, I've only been a nurse now for almost 2 years and haven't been able to make hardly any payments due to financial hardships. I went through a divorce right when I started working so it was very hard and now I owe roughly $34,000. This is getting ridiculous, I'm still not really able to pay and keep deferring and the interest is adding up. I do plan to pay but I was just wondering if anyone can help me out with some info? thanks

So Hawaii was not approved... has to be in the continental US but I heard that the ONS Congress is a really great one to go to and its in Anaheim,CA this year so I'm hoping to go to this one.

So just found out that I was selected to go to one of my specialty (oncology) this year paid for. So excited! You know, I am considering ONS congress in CA or the Lymphoma one in Hawaii. Prob Hawaii... I'd never have that opportunity to go again. I am feeling guilty though... I have a 3 year old son who will prob stay home with dad and I' ve never been away from him for 5-6 days

I guess with ours it's paid for also but their are stipulations such as if you have attended in the last 3 years you aren't eligible

did you go alone or bring anybody along with you? Someone told me they brought their kids and i'm like well is there really any time to spend? I guess if you add days on you could turn it into a vaca but otherwise I think if I went alone for the 3 days I would just stay in the hotel the rest of the time

Has anyone ever went to these out of town nursing conventions that are in another city like FL, Vegas etc that are paid for?? I was wanting to sign up for one because I have never been to one yet and was wondering what your experience was like? I would like to learn a lot about different treatments available for oncology patients since I work on the oncology floor. I was also wondering since they are usually 3 days do you get any downtime to visit the city at all or is it strictly all day your in the convention and then you fly back??

I did recognize her on our unit we have a bulletin board where you can recognize an employee for something outstanding they did. I wrote a little note and put her name on there. For my 60 day eval I told my manager how great she is etc. I tthink I will get her a gift card for one of the shops in our hospital. thanks guys.

I had the best orientation experience with my preceptor and am looking for some ideas of what I could get her? She has given me so much advice and I've learned so much from her.

I spent a lot of time but since I have a 2 year old it was harder for me to find the time. I spent prob 4 days/week 4-5 hours each day studying. I took it in April and I think I stopped at 140...

rest of the scores were in the 50s and I did pass!!!!!!!! Thanks for asking

I really do feel more prepared this time around. I am still worried about pharm though. So hard to remember all these meds with their side effects and classes etc. Remembering the last part of the name has helped but not for all so I am spending the rest of the weekend on just meds and then maybe my last day practicing SATA type questions.

2nd attempt is on Tuesday. Prayers needed. I did saunders CD and NCSBN the first time and didnt work. This time I took Kaplan did all qbank and question trainers except 7. I've gotten in the 50's and the highest score was a 60 on one of the tests. Not good at SATA so still worried. Readiness score was 58. DIDNT do Saunders this time but didnt have much time to do anything else because kaplan takes up a lot of time itself. First time I failed at 75 questions and I did so bad... only got above passing in one subject, and near passing in two. Is it even possible for me to get above passing in all subjects second time around? lol just saying. It's been 2 months since I took it Feb 5th. Wish me luck.

okay that makes me feel a little better. I took an ATI exam right before I finished nursing school and I did so terrible but wasnt suprised because I hadn't been studying much. I think I got like a 50% but according to their scale I only had a 29% chance of passing so it was bad and I expected to fail.

so I got a 58% on the Kaplan readiness exam and I'm not too happy about it. I heard a 65% is passing. What does a 58% equal out to for the NCLEX? I heard there is like a scale where it will tell you your probability of passing... so far I've taken three question trainers and they were: #1 48 #2 56 #3 53 I havent taken 4,5,6 and 7 yet but I have finished almost every question on the qbank and have been mostly in the middle 50's my highest was a 60. I am retesting on the 17th and I pray I pass this time! I failed 75 questions the first time and did horrible.

I agree at least as far as the videos go, they arent very informational and are very dry. Dont really cover much.