balatro replied to FutureNurseSmith36's topic in North Carolina
I know LPNs from ECPI and while they're fine LPNs, my only real gripe is the cost of their diploma -- you're looking at over $35,000 for the program which generally runs about 1.5 years. Your local community college will probably cost 5% of that, if ...
I can't say there's a better time than any other when applying for jobs. However, I will say that applying during May-July is probably the worst time, as the market becomes flooded with new RN graduates looking for jobs. There's a smaller surge in ap...
Considering the accepted ranges of last semester being 158+, I don't forsee composite scores climbing 9 points in one semester but who knows. If it puts your mind at ease, retake - they take the highest of your TEAS scores.
Unfortunately where I work, the LPN attitude is pretty evenly split. There's some that won't assist with personal care, at all - no matter how simple it is. There's one in particular who I've watched walk into a room to give a resident their medicine...
At the Information Session they said they had a massive spike in applications after Obama visited and mentioned them in his State of the Union address, I think he said something to the effect of Forsyth serving as the "national model" for what he wan...
I'd like to get in at GTCC (I live in Greensboro but work in W-S), I assume Tiffany meant she'd begin notifying people the week of Sep. 17-21 but we'll see. I'm not sure how they'll handle letters, honestly. I know FTCC sends out denials and acceptan...
Honestly, I don't know the number GTCC gets. I asked Tiffany Bryant and all she'd say was "It changes from semester to semester," which is the same answer she gave me regarding the accepted points range. I was at the FTCC Information Session that had...
The reforms began in the 80s, yes but there are still LTCs out there that don't follow it to the T. Slowly they're being handled but they're still out there - quite a few in fact. The 80's, in my mind, wasn't that long ago -- a good number of my coll...
Erin, I've taken some official practice TEAS this past week and gotten a 78 and 81. I will go in and at least retake it, officially - it can't hurt. I have an app in at GTCC as well, their due date was the 11th and Tiffany Bryant said she should have...
LTCs have long had a bad reputation, primarily because before national and state reforms things were, well...nasty (generally). You know the saying, "It takes one sour apple to spoil the bunch?" It works for nursing homes. They had a reputation of po...
According to the MAR review I went to, accepted students for the Fall 2012 program had composite scores of 158-183'ish. On FTCC's system, I'm at 147 currently. I have a C in Gen Psych and a C in A&PII from nearly 8 years ago, both dragging my sco...
I doubt most applicants are aware of allnurses.com, but it's possible that most applicants are more interested in day programs and would prefer not to spend their evenings and weekends in a classroom/hospital. We'll see. Either way, I think with 60 p...
balatro replied to remigirl222's topic in Minnesota
As someone already pointed out - you shouldn't worry about nursing program losing students, but rather look at their first time NCLEX pass rate. It's common practice that if a student stands a rather high probability of failing the NCLEX, the school ...
Minnesota is one of the select few that doesn't require background checks when getting your license - that said, they have been known to do them randomly and odds are high that your potential place of employment WILL do a background check. It's just ...
Yea, I tried to get a feel from Tiffany Bryant regarding the average/median composite score of accepted students and she said they stopped keeping track of it because it would change so dramatically from semester to semester. I've heard getting into ...
So, I've been doing my CNA clinicals at an adult care facility in their skilled nursing unit. My first day there, as usual, I was nervous but ten minutes into being there a resident passes away. She'd been there for the better part of 20 years, her C...
As luck would have it, our last night of clinicals DHHS made a surprise visit after they received some complaints from residents and others, I'll share some of them: - A resident being forced to have a BM in a wash basin - the CNA (employed, not a st...
balatro replied to Lmthompson87's topic in North Carolina
http://www.gtcc.edu/media/72806/nursing%202012.pdf Has a table on how to compute your points, if you scroll down to page 4, there's a list of extra points you can receive for certain classes, certifications, higher scores on your TEAS, etc. It's how ...
balatro replied to Ready2beAccepted's topic in North Carolina
I know how you feel, it's likely that the vast majority of the 437 applicants were ineligble through some means - low/failing TEAS, didn't attend a nursing information session (required at FTCC for prospective, if you apply without attending one you'...
balatro replied to Ready2beAccepted's topic in North Carolina
Wow, the admission chances at GTCC is remarkably easier than FTCC. Fall 2011 at FTCC had 437 applicants for 72 slots. Now, the admissions didn't break down the point cutoff, TEAS ranges, etc but it was enough to throw me for a loop when I saw the app...
Heads up for anyone who stumbles upon this and is looking for CNA courses in Greensboro, Monolia's has had their approval to teach state approved CNA courses revoked. Essentially, they had a larger than acceptable amount of people failing the written...
Generally speaking from what I've seen in the Charlotte area, LPNs make about $10/hour less than a RN. Keep in mind that you also have experience which should drive that up some. I'd probably try for a $15/hour raise and go from there, most of the ne...
I generally lack respect for nurses who didn't climb their way up the totem pole by starting out as a CNA (or something similiar). It's not because Susy Q. fresh out of college with her BSN, having never worked a day in a hospital, LTC, etc in her l...