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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?

ive never taken classes at this school so i have my orientation friday to learn the campus more.. i just moved here from colorado...

I am taking the final courses for my pre-req before i apply for the nursing program and i need to add an extra class on to make myself full time. My advisor signed me up for English Comp II over the phone recommending it to me but i really do hate ENGLISH!!! its my weakest subject and i barely pulled off an B+ in ENG Comp I IF i was to change it i need to pick one of the following and i was wandering if anyone has taken any of these to give me your input. I am thinking on which one i want to change it to... AML 2010 - American Literature: Exploration to the Late 19th Century 3 cr. AML 2020 - American Literature: The Late 19th Century Through the Modern Era 3 cr. ENC 1102 - English Composition II 3 cr. ENG 2103 - World Cinema 3 cr. ENG 2670 - Conflict and Nonviolent Resolutions in Film 3 cr. ENL 2012 - British Literature: The Middle Ages through the Late 17th Century 3 cr. ENL 2022 - British Literature: The Late 17th Century through the Modern Era 3 cr. ENL 2330 - Introduction to Shakespeare 3 cr. LIT 1020 - Introduction to Short Fiction 3 cr. LIT 2110 - World Literature: The Ancient World through the Renaissance 3 cr. LIT 2120 - World Literature: The Renaissance through the Modern Era 3 cr. LIT 2203 - Poetry, Peace and Social Justice 3 cr. LIT 2380 - Women in Literature 3 cr.

I am a military veteran who just got out of the US Marines after 10.5 yrs, I was an Intelligence Code Decoder in the military and have an AS in Intelligence Operations i got from Cochise College back in 2004. When i got out i quickly realized with the government being broke and getting out of the war zones we are in that my job was quickly vanishing for a job as a contractors position. After 6 months of applying for jobs and coming up dry i decided it was time to go back to school and get a new career. I did some thinking and decided since i enjoy helping people out and that i was trained as a combat medic assistant in the military and enjoyed it i would pursue the medical field. Well i just moved to Holiday, FL from CO.... I went down to PHCC today to talk to an adviser because last Thursday i couldnt and had to make an appointment. Well i get in her office and she asked me if i applied for the school, I said yes. She asked if i transferred my transcripts to the school. I said i ordered them but they didnt have them yet. she asked me what program i was interested in and i told her nursing and she looked at me and said which one. I told her i wasnt sure as i was switching careers. Then she told me i needed to read into which one i am wanting to take and come back and showed me to the front office.. I was like seriously... can you not help me.. and she pointed over at all the people waiting and said.. your not special and all of them have a million questions also.... I am curious.. are they always like this? when i took college before the adviser HELPED me down the right path.. i felt like i wasted time and effort trying to speak to someone going there.. What are all the options for nursing there? I thought nursing was nursing.. didn't realize i needed to apply for something specific so early on before i get anywhere.. After showing the lady at the front desk my transcripts after the adviser kicking me out.. she informed me that there was only 5 classes that are used for the prereq's and that i needed to start studying for a test i have to take to get into the nursing program.... from what she could tell i had 2 or 3 of the 5 already done so i would need to get the other 3 done first before applying... She also mentioned that my grades were honestly low to have a decent chance to get in to nursing.. because all 3 courses she thinks that will take the spots of prereqs i had B+ in.. i took all my college while deployed mostly so time to study and stress got to my grades some... I decided to drive down to st pete college and sat in the waiting room to talk to someone and i spoke to a gentleman and he informed me that it would basically be a waste of time for me to attend school there unless i wanted to just take courses. He told me that with me living in pasco county that i wouldn't really have a chance into the nursing program. he said in the last 3 years all the people who got accepted where from pinellas county.. and showed me the program book and on the top near the title it said pinelles county residence have priority....what the heck.. how is this fair for people?

Hello All, I recently decided it was best that i start a change in career as i continue to look for jobs. I was in the US Marine Corps for 10.5 years as basically a code breaker for intelligence and was denied to stay in because of job over strength because of the withdraw from wars we were in and president demanding that military branches reduce numbers by 2013...Good buddy of mine, previously in charge of me was in 18 years and was given paperwork to be released recently also and he was ahead of promotion curve... Once i was out.. i started to look into jobs (still unemployed) and found that it was incredibly difficult to attain a job in the field i served in unless i wanted to go back to Afghanistan as a contractor for the military.. and chance my life again which i didn't feel to motivated to do again as the smell over there is unbelievable if anyone reading this has experience you would know what i am talking about.. I have always been someone who likes to help people out and spent thousands of hours volunteering and helping out the community from building houses under the habitat for humanity program to spending time with orphans. Recently while stationed in South Korea before getting out i dressed up as Santa and let all the kids tell me what they wanted and gave them small gifts that i could afford... I am finishing my first semester at Lake Sumter State College and decide i wanted to move to Tampa, FL to be around most of my family and applied to St. Petersburg College for Fall 2013. In my first semester back in college i was asked to say a little about myself and what degree i was chasing and found that in all 3 classes i took over the summer people would smirk and giggle when i stated i wanted to pursue nursing.. is this a common issue in this field? I think its interesting that my class mates joke about it but sometimes i think of how this is thought of by the public.... Most people i have asked what is the first thing that comes to mind when they say male nurse.. with all the people i asked females cause most of the classmates for females this past summer i was told they thought of "Male Nurse Stripper"... Anyways.. just introducing myself a little and wanted to see how others are treated as a male in the nursing field going through school..