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Hi all, I am an LPN soon to be graduating with my RN in May 2016. I am also moving states and getting married in May. I'm looking for advice regarding what everyone would recommend as far as my licensure goes. Both states are in the nursing compactur...

Hello all, I am new to nursing, especially LTC. I've been licensed as an LPN for nearly two years but have just begun working in nursing 2 months ago. LTC just really wasnt what I wanted to do so I spent a year taking pre reqs for RN programs and a y...

I'm a new nurse, just started my first job in LTc but graduated from nursing school two years ago. Needless to say I'm quite overwhelmed and seem to have forgotten a lot since nursing school. One thing that concerns me most is how much pharmacology I...

I am on week number two of orientation at my first nursing position. I rarely have a moment when I feel like I know anything about what is going on around me - and even if I do think I know something my confidence is usually misplaced. My strategy at...

Hello! I can't really give you any advice, but I thought you might feel better knowing that I too am in the same boat. I graduated in August of 2011 and JUST landed an offer after my first interview two weeks ago, and I have been in panic mode ever s...

Hello all! I just landed my first LPN position at a LTC facility. I graduated a year & a half ago and am afraid that I've lost a lot of the book knowledge from nursing school. I'm looking for advice about anything and everything! What should I ha...

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No wound care nurse, which makes me the wound care nurse lol. I do know they have a med tech who administers most medications which is nice! Thanks so much, I'll definitely brush up on all of those things! =)

If you are going to start out as an LPN you will more than likely have to work in long term care...this being said, Delmar Gardens starts out new nurses at $18 an hour and they don't cap raises. I know that Friendship Village also starts out new LPN'...

Thank you for your suggestion, I didn't know refresher courses existed but I will definitely look into it!

Hello everyone! So today officially marks a year to the day since I graduated nursing school with my LPN. I've been licensed for nearly a year as well. Since I unexpectedly transferred schools and was unable to bridge into an RN program right away li...

Hello Everyone! I'm looking into Lutheran's LPN bridge program and was wondering what the acceptance process is? Can anyone tell me what the LPN proficiency exam and any other acceptance exams are like or have any recommendations on how to prepare? I...

Nursing school isn't easy, period. Its a lot of work, no social life, a lot of sleepless nights and meals on the run - if you're not 110% dedicated and focused you probably won't make it. I was in a bi-level nursing program and if you didn't score 85...

I'm no longer a nursing student, nor am I male - but I can tell you that as a male in the field of nursing you definitely have an advantage. The school I attended would accept a male with a lower GPA and testing scores over a female who had much hig...

I took it in 2011. My school was getting ready to start using it for their entrance exam in place of the PSB so they decided to test it out on the graduating LPN class as an exit exam first. Its extremely long, and honestly I thought it was pretty ha...

The NCLEX is rough! I graduated in a class of 60 and every single one of us walked out of the test thinking we'd failed. Out of 60 people 59 of us (myself included) passed! My test was like yours - all select all that apply or multiple choice (but th...

I was nervous about passing boards as well so I went to Barnes & Noble to browse through their prep books...after flipping through about 15 different books I ended up with the one that had been recommended to me: Saunders NCLEX-PN has great pract...

I recently started my job search last month, this will be my first job in the field of health care. My only preference is that the job I land is at a hospital, being from Saint Louis I have plenty of options so I wasn't worried about having too much...

Hello All! I am new to this site and new to resume writing as well. As it stands my resume is pretty rough. I'm currently working as a server so my nursing experience consists solely of that which I gained from nursing clinicals. This is what my resu...