akiara

Well today is the day after your interview date! I hope it went well! I know with mine, the interview was so short. She said that I "answered the questions perfectly, but cannot guarantee that I'm in". It took another month for me to find out that i was accepted. Waiting only gets worse every day! I'll be looking forward to congratulate you on your acceptance! good luck!

Talk to your teachers about it. I did at my school and they said that a majority of the classes has job offers pending passing exams. Because of this, I'm not so worried about getting a job when I get to that point. Maybe your teachers know something that you don't! =)

Congratz!! :heartbeat

Oh! I'm so sorry!! I know how you feel. I have been trying to become a nurse (RN) for a couple years, and things just keep going wrong! Finally I decided just to apply to an LPN program, and I applied JUST in time and got in (I start May 2nd!). It can feel terrible to wait. Maybe to ease your mind during this year you should volunteer at a hospital, or take classes at a community college that can help you bridge off to become an RN later? If anything, it'll keep the year from feeling like a waste of time. =) Good luck!

I'm super nervous and I'm just looking for a bit on honesty to make myself ready for what is to come. I start an LPN program in about a week, and I'm not nervous at all. I know I can handle it. I'm nervous about what happens when I graduate. I was told that everyone graduating from my school gets tons of job offers around town. The problem is, I hate where I live! I live in Tallahassee, and was recently burglarized. It seems there is always crime going on around me, and it's making me very nervous. I'm skinny, cute (not being full of it, it's just true.. right now I wish I wasn't), and kinda tiny. I'm a good target for anyone, so I want to get out of Tallahasee and move somewhere like Tampa, Gainesville or Orlando. Even Miami (I lived there and never ran into even HALF as many problems). I'm scared I'm not going to get a job because I'd have to turn down all my job offers here in Tallahassee. I want to go on to be an RN, but many problems require you to be working (sometimes for at least a year). So... I'm stuck at what I should do afterwards! Stay in Tallahassee for one more year? Or move and risk not getting a job and being stuck as jobless LPN failure!!! Any advice would be AWESOME!

My LPN program is at a technical school in FL, and cost roughly 6,000 (this includes pre-testing fee's, books, scrubs, and everything else.) Hope this help you!!!

Thank you for the reply!!! Your "words of wisdom" are greatly appreciated! I'm just so desperate to start my career as a nurse. Thanks! :)

i have been trying to get into nursing for awhile now. when i originally attempted college, i was in a bad position in life (full time job, lazy/bad boyfriend, living an hour away from home and not with my parents). that mixed with not know what i wanted to do with my life, i struggled a bit. my gpa is currently sitting at a sad 2.7 =( . i'm a smart girl, don't get me wrong! when i realized i wanted to be a nurse, i turned my act around and got straight a's and b's. that's why it's not lower than that. most of my grades beforehand were c's. anyway, to the issue. i got all my prerequisites for the nursing rn programs. i passed them all with a's and b's! but as it turned out, my gpa wasn't high enough to get into a nursing program. sometimes i made the minimum gpa, but the advisers were tough and told me to not even bother trying. (i listened, maybe i shouldn't have). so i got my aa degree to try to raise my gpa (after all my trouble i was only 3 classes short), and graduated with a 2.7 gpa. i then got accepted into a lpn nursing program at a technical school in north florida. :redbeathe my question is: (sorry for the long story!), how hard is it to get into an lpn to rn program? will they look at that 2.7 gpa? what if i do really great in my lpn program? how much with that play a part? will they look at only the prerequisites for the lpn to rn, or will they also look at the many other classes that i have taken that have lowered my grade? any insight would be greatly appreciated. i want to be a nurse so bad, and i want to work my way up to at least as bsn, maybe my masters. i don't want to be stuck as a lpn. thanks!

I'm not sure how acurate this is (I just got accepted to a nursing program, I'm not a nurse yet), but I have been told 13$ an hour is the starting pay for most places. With experience it can go as high as 16-19$ an hour.=)