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Hello All, Well i am kinda in a weird spot on things in my nursing career... I graduated Oct of 2015, but after failing my NCLEX the first time and having multiple life issues fall on my lap, i was unable to take my NCLEX again tell 2017... started studying in 2017, went and took my test in June after saving up for it and passed at 75 questions. So im thinking im good, but since June i have applied for over 40 position, been on roughly 11 interviews and literally i keep getting the same freaking answer, i dont get it.... Im being told numerous times that they took someone else over me because i have nearly a 2 year gap between graduating nursing school and passing the NCLEX, today i went for a new interview and they didnt even ask me a single nursing quesiton, all of the questions were just generic stuff like... Why should we hire you... What makes you a better asset to the company... What was your biggest mistake ever.. What your goals in 5 years... I answered them all with very professional questions and after we finished one of the nurses walked with me out to the parking lot and basically told me she liked me as a candidate, but the department head didnt like that you graduated and went so long before passing your NCLEX. Then recommended that i take a RN refresher course and try back afterwards... Im just like, i just passed the NCLEX... isnt that suppose to mean anything?

I am a newly licensed RN who passed his boards in June of 2017, but i graduated from nursing school in October of 2015. I have applied for over 30 positions at local hospitals and check them daily, but i feel like the hiring process is soooo slow.... literally every position i applied for is still sitting in the steps of HR Review from June except for the few graduate nurse positions i applied for that i was told i dont qualify for, because i graduated school more than 12 months ago... sigh.... I have always been told nursing is always in a shortage, but after applied for positions nearly a month ago, i feel like they could care less about hiring new nurses...

I am at a loss of words, i just recently finished nursing school and graduated nearly at the top of my class on the deans list for 6 months straight and took my NCLEX this pass Wednesday. I had a hand full of questions that i was unsure about due to lack of remembering specifics for it at the time, but the test overall seemed very easy and then at question 75 it turned off... last few days i have been more confident that i crushed it and then today i get an email from my school that i failed it... *** how... i am at such a loss of words, i know i was extremely stressed out during the test, but a lot of the questions seemed very straight forward to me......i am kinda at a lot of loss words unable to remember anything right now that i thought i would have picked the wrong answer for....

sooooo you gave up to open a tile and marble laying biz...?

If you wanna call it that.. haha with the part time schedule.. i am only going to get $538 a month... to live off of.. so i will be still penching penny's haha.. i told my family that i really wanted to focus on school as first priority and they were the ones that talked me into staying with them and selling my house..

Well just to let you know.. i start Rasmussen January 6th

If i was to give my 2 cents.. go on quizlet or just google teas test quiz.. its easy to pass with a little remembrance of some of the common questions. i looked over a lot of the quizlet cards online and various online test and when i took the test.. there was probably a good 40% of the quiz that had questions nearly identical or were the exact same question... and because i knew if from other quizzes.. it was a quick and painless test. I finished it first the day i took it and scored a 88 on it. I never actually knew alot of the info off of the test with lack of experience in my past.. but just seeing it on other quizzes i was able to fly through it... I think the test is pointless because most of the questions on that test have no real world usefulness... especially the ones when they ask you determine the distance from the airport they are and such.. unless nursing turns into a calculated measure of how far your patients are from you at the location you are.. im ok not caring about those types of questions.

I was at Orientation just a few days ago and when i sat down with the dean of nursing she recommended that i try to get a job at a local hospital... maybe 1-2 days a week since i cant do full time in the nursing program due to all of the college credits i transferred into the program. So i am on pace to graduate in 18 months with an nearly all part time schedule. She mentioned if i get a small 1 or 2 day job at a hospital.. it will be viewed as experience and net me a few more thousands on my first real nursing job when i graduate. Since this is a complete career change for me.. what kind of jobs did you guys do when you were in the nursing program? im not really worried about the income as im on the GI Bill and between staying with family to reduce my bills and my housing stipend... ill have plenty of money to survive.

what location are you.. from what i been told for a first time job its best to apply for locations in smaller towns and then a year after working there apply where you really wanna be. I was told this is the key to getting your first job because everyone hates to travel to a small town so far from where they live.. also people dont like to be in small towns cause people these days want the night life of the big city... I been told this about 5 times from different nurses that have graduated in the past few years.. i myself are just finishing up the pre-req to go into the nurse program and hope to do well in it. As this is a career changer for me since i was in the military nearly 11 years before i was canned from the random troop downsizing..

Question: I talked to someone today and they explained to me that Rasmussen is only accredited in the state of FLORIDA AND MINNESOTA.. that if i get my degree from them in the nursing program that i cant take it out of those 2 states.. if this is true couldn't i start the program at Rasmussen and then when i do get excepted at a better college or national accredited college i just transfer over and finish the remaining of classes..

i was hopeing for input from others..

so there is issues of credit transfer for Rasmussen?

i have not even graduated from nursing program yet and with being a male.. when i went for orientation and asked about jobs after graduation i was given the same response.. your a male you will not have an issue...

i see on there site that you can get your BSN through them, im near the NPR campus actually

I just got out of the military and decided to switch careers to something that has more of a future.. well long story short i am finishing up my last pre-req this semester and the after talking to my adviser today she explained to me based on my completion date for pre-req and deadline for applying for the program at PHCC i wouldn't know i would be accepted into there program tell end of next year basically is what she told me. Also she told me with the school switching to a state college there are going to be growing pains because the school technically has to redo its accreditation process which possibly could hold up the nursing program next year tell its done.. I currently hold a 4.0 on my pre-req's and plan to start studying for the TEAS test.. Since i am on Post 911 GI BILL i can go to Rasmussen with no financial burden but is it worth it? i ask because i choose to go to PHCC because of the ratings of there nursing program i found around the internet being fairly high.. and finding things about people stating that Rasmussen isn't a real nursing program and its frowned upon on graduates..... but i figured i ask since most of the stuff i found was a few years old and things may be different.. is Rasmussen considered a Joke once you graduate and on the market trying to get a job?