MrsCuoco

I flunked HS bio twice before they just passed me with a D to prevent me from not graduating. Science literally made me cry every night over homework. When I decided to apply for nursing school and had to take anatomy & phys 1 and 2 as prereqs, ...

Yup. My "thing" is phlegm. I can. Not. Handle it.

I just got hired. The DON said my cover letter was very honest and refreshing and impressed her. I'm also a fresh grad with no experience. Message me and I'd be happy to send you a copy

Yeah...I wanna know so I can work there! Hal my class works in LTC and they repot being run off their heinous!

I've heard that fewer and fewer places are doing credit checks, because your credit score just isn't that relevant in determining if you'll be a good nurse. This is mainly because there are just too many reasons why a person may have a poor credit s...

Oh my...from your lips to my ears. Nursing school has put me so far into debt it's not even funny.

It's no longer a hard and fast rule that a resume has to be limited to one page...in fact our class hired a résumé expert to come teach a seminar and she said its virtually impossible, especially for healthcare professionals, to put the vital stuff o...

My class had 30 students- well, 25 graduated anyway. Some has jobs lined up before pinning, and maybe 3 don't have jobs yet. A handful of us just lined up jobs in the past couple of weeks. I got hired on at a nursing home where 6 other fellow stud...

Be patient. Nursing grads take the boards in clumps and so the state BON gets inundated with results and they get back logged.

Sometimes all you can do is just...keep...applying. Everywhere. Even the places you might not want to. Have you applied to every local nursing home? I just got hired at one that employs 7 other former classmates and not a one of us had 1 year's e...

I'm extremely picky about grammar and spelling in real life, but in texting, facebooking and forum posting, I give people a break. It's just not that big a freakin deal.

Have you applied at LTC facilities? When my LPN class graduated in May, the nursing homes were snapping us up left and right. Still are- 3 of my classmates and myself all got hired within the last 3 weeks at a facility already employing 4 more of t...

I live in western colorado (grand junction) and we have TWO out of 3 area hospitals that employ a high number of LPNs, and there is ZERO talk about phasing them out of nursing homes. I graduated from an area LPN program in May and all but a couple o...

I am 37 and just graduated from a practical nurse program. In August I begin classes that are prerequisites to apply for the AAS program and after that I still have a boatload more prerequisite classes for the BSN program. But I'm going to stay the...

I have encountered several people both in my university and online who got the "good" pop-up and it turned out they had not passed, and vice-versa. Granted...I'll be trying the trick myself when I take my NCLEX in a few weeks, but I won't be shoutin...

Nooooo! If you know for certain that you are fuzzy on acid base balance or lab values or major classes of drugs or s/s of certain disease processes you should definitely do a little brushing up. You don't have to totally re-learn everything, just m...

Just beware. I know of 6 people that got the "good" pop up and it turns out they actually failed. It is NOT 100% accurate. Go by your actual results before sharing news.

Advice: don't waste time worrying about people in your class who don't seem to appreciate the fact that they're in those seats. Only worry about yourself. Unless you're doing a group project....then raise hell if someone slacks.

I chose to do the LPN program as part of my university's career ladder model because I am 37 years old and wanted to be entering the workforce as a nurse ASAP. I graduate in 6 days! I'm glad I did it this way because nearly every nurse I have encoun...