shamrokks ADN, ASN, RN

39 twice divorced single mom of a 8 & 10 year old... My children have seen me through getting my LPN and in 10 weeks by the grace of God they will see me walk to get my ADN. All while working full time. Anything is possible.

And I also have two young kids. I feel bad about things we do not get to do because I am in school and work full time but I figure I am setting a good example and our future will be much better off for it.

I got my LPN end of 2011 and will have my ADN middle of 2014. I waited about a year. I will probably wait another year then get my BSN.

Yes, someone who did the program with me moved to Hawaii and then California and transferred her license to both states from Florida.

You can network in several areas ad even she you don't know it. I found my current job through someone in Facebook that I had never met but seen she was wearing scrubs. We struck up a conversation and now I work where she does and I've been here over...

Thank you

I was going to say PTEC but someone already did. It is Pinellas County Technical Institute in Pinellas county Florida. There are two campuses, one in Clearwater and one in St. Petersburg. I did my LPN at the on ground program in St. Pete but they hav...

It depends on your dedication. I do the bridge program online so that I can work full time. I also have two young children. It is not easy but I am almost done. I am determined. My boyfriend works full time and does the full ADN program. He has had s...

We did two 12's at Sabal Palms which is a peds long term care facility in Largo, FL then two sim lab days that were about 8 hours. It depends on what's available in your area so hopefully you will get a hospital clinical. That would be more awesome. ...

Have a great quarter! We were always in icu step down, icu or the ER every week ... There was also a med-surg oncology floor but that was more rare. I hope you love it!

It depends on what quarter it is and what you transfer in. If you go to my profile and see my posts you will see me list a lot of what my previous quarters have been like. My last quarter (6) has started it is 11 weeks and Monday 5pm-9pm I will be o...

I should graduate July 11, 2014! So hopefully no fall school for this girl... Happy dance!!

I am taking Wednesdays off of work and going up to Bayonet Point hospital in New Port Richey, FL. I'm not happy about the cut in my hours at work but at least I don't have to try to get Fridays off. Having weekends free to study and have family time ...

Thank you! I will make it work out to get through this and be done! My clinicals have been great. We ended with three patients total care. It was a crazy whirlwind but I'm better for it. I have one month off of clinicals until my last quarter if them...

I have watched some of the videos too. He says he used to be an EMT or paramedic and that he is now an RN. I have watched some of the videos. They can be helpful but he has made some mistakes and usually corrects himself even of the correction comes ...

We still are jot being offered the promised weekend clinical but instead of making me do Friday clinicals with the rest of my online group they have changed me to a Wednesday because it will be easier for me to get off of work. It still sucks that I ...

And thank you Kaligirl. I hope it works out too.

Nope - they no longer offer the preceptorship. You go to the same clinical site that you went to for NUR265 with the same instructor. I did my LPN at PTEC so I believed Galen when they told me the hours of the program.

Warning: my first bad experience with Galen but it's a huge one for me! I go to schedule my LAST quarter this week and there are NO weekend clinical spots offered for the online students. This is what we were promised since the program is geared towa...

Warning: my first bad experience with Galen but it's a huge one for me! I go to schedule my LAST quarter this week and there are NO weekend clinical spots offered for the online students. This is what we were promised since the program is geared towa...

Warning: my first bad experience with Galen but it's a huge one for me! I go to schedule my LAST quarter this week and there are NO weekend clinical spots offered for the online students. This is what we were promised since the program is geared towa...

Warning: my first bad experience with Galen but it's a huge one for me! I go to schedule my LAST quarter this week and there are NO weekend clinical spots offered for the online students. This is what we were promised since the program is geared towa...

Warning: my first bad experience with Galen but it's a huge one for me! I go to schedule my LAST quarter this week and there are NO weekend clinical spots offered for the online students. This is what we were promised since the program is geared towa...

Wow that was so long ago I don't really remember. It was fairly quick. I think they told me when there were spots open before I went in. The first time I inquired they were full the upcoming quarter so I waited. Then I got a different job and waited ...