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I graduated with an ADN in May, passed NCLEX July 31, and had no previous experience in the medical field. I began applying in April, applied at the two hospitals in my area. About 150 applications put in. At the beginning of September, I had two...

IL 20.10/hr with $1/hr differential for weekends. no previous healthcare experience med-tele with crosstraining to cardiac stepdown.

So just as an update, the nurse recruiter with the first hospital called me back (the day after I left that voicemail) with 3 job offers! One for the first floor I interviewed with and two for the second floor I interviewed with (different shifts). ...

Hi all, I've been applying for jobs at the two major hospital systems in my area since April. I graduated in May, passed NCLEX in July and received my license in August (yay!). I got a call a couple weeks ago from one of the hospital's Nurse Recru...

Thanks for the advice! I called today and left a voicemail for the nurse recruiter, thanking her for the interview and letting them know if they needed anything else from me, paperwork or information to please give me a call. I don't want to seem p...

Graduated with ADN in Illinois May 15, 2014. Passed NCLEX July 31. Began submitting job applications in April. Applied for over 100 openings. First interview is Thursday, fingers crossed!

After pre-reqs, my school had this layout: Semester 1- Nursing 112 (10 credit hours) and Nurs 138 (1 credit hr) Semester 2 - Nurs 122A (5 hrs) and Nurs 122B (5 hrs) Semester 3 - Nurs 216 (10 hrs) Semester 4 - Nurs 226 (10 hrs) Clinicals every semest...

Graduated in May, and take NCLEX next week! So....terrified! :)

Thanks! I'm terrified but hopeful..studying like a madwoman! When I was given the extension, it paid for my classes with some left over for books (I also had a scholarship that helped). At my school, once you're given the extension, you can get the...

I ran into that. Not sure if it's the same issue you had, but I basically "used up" the hours that financial aid would cover at my community college getting a previous associates degree (that was actually useless, but I was younger and not too brigh...

Hi All, I'm looking for opinions from people who've taken both the HESI exit exam and NCLEX. I am graduating next week (YAY!) and took my exit exam this past Monday. I passed with 1,052 (my school requires an 875 before they'll put you on the roste...

Thanks for your opinions! :) The Hurst is pricey (hell, everything is pricey for me right now).......the whole "split it up into two checks" is pretty much the only reason I'm going to be able to do it. I'll definitely let you know what I think of ...

"How to look incredibly stupid without even trying?" Easy. Be a nursing student at clinicals. That's me. Every dang clinical day. I feel like I enter some sort of fugue state on the drive in and am rendered ridiculously stupid and incompetent fo...

That's insane. A student acting like that in my clinical group would have been bounced out on her butt and given a fail for the day, at least. Our entire first semester was in a nursing home doing basic patient care. That's part of the job! What'...

I'm in my final semester of an ADN program. Here's my current schedule... Monday - off (with the exception of community teaching and certain observation days). Tuesday - Clinicals from 6:30am til 3:30pm. Wednesday - Clincals from 6:30am til 3:30pm. ...

1. Coffee 2. Day planner 3. Sense of appreciation of the ridiculous.

Well that give me some hope! Hoping to move to WI in a few years, I love that state!

I love these stories. I'm about to go into my last semester of nursing school, and bless your hearts.........I just couldn't take the ED. LOL I'm on medicaid for the moment and I've made two ER runs in the last year. One for me, and one for my 3 ye...

Hello! I'm an ADN student at the end of my third semester (the end is in sight!), and just finished my L&D clinical rotation, which was absolutely fabulous and taught by a ridiculously good clinical instructor. It was also kind of neat to be ba...

I absolutely hate them as well. If I never have to see another concept map or IPR again after May, I will be the happiest person ever!

Many of the students in my cohort bombed the first test at the beginning of the program. I was a good-grade student before I began the program, but it's a different way of thinking, not just memorization (and my hatred for "choose all that apply" qu...

I started my nursing program at the age of 39, with a 2 year old child. I'll be graduating at 41 (fingers crossed). My cohort is really mixed age-wise. Our youngest is 20, oldest is 54. I'm going with the "never too late" opinion! :)

Hi there! I'm currently an ADN student in Illinois. My ultimate goal is to move to WI, as I go there several times a year, have many friends there and generally adore the state. Luckily my husband is also excited about the idea and my daughter is ...

I've always been a procrastinator, so I totally understand your hesitation. I'll tell you this much, I was still a procrastinator when I started my first semester of NS. However, I got a massive slap in the face by failing my first exam because I d...

It depends on your school. I took both of them in the same semester last spring (I had to retake API because it had been over 5 years since I'd taken it and my school has a rule that it has to be within 5 years for application to the nursing program...