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It is extremely difficult finding work as a new grad in CA, and 10 times worse in Sacramento. With an out-of-state education and no experience, expect to be without a job for a year or longer. Getting licensed in CA takes about three months at the minimum. The California BRN is the slowest board of nursing in the entire country.

It depends on your local job market. In some cities and states, you will not be hired in acute care without a BSN. If you want a job upon graduation, I suggest you jump through the extra hoops to earn a BSN degree. It is not about salary. It is about getting a job in the first place.

You are right. Kindred has a bunch of LTC facilities, LTAC hospitals, transitional rehab centers, and anything else they can acquire to make fast cash.

Is there a reason you're only considering the seediest nursing schools like ITT Tech, Keiser, Rasmussen, et al? These schools are bottom of the barrel and sludge of the crop.

1. I've never heard of any nurse who did "loose" a license for passing meds late. You can "lose" a license, not "loose" it, but I still never heard of any nurse who lost their license for a late med pass. 2. State surveyors only watch nurses pass meds to maybe 7 or 8 residents. 3. When state is in the building, you will see more staff than ever. Ask one of them to help you finish your med pass. Of course, once state exits the building and finishes their survey, all that extra staff will be gone. 4. When state is in the building, you need to use BP equipment provided by your nursing home. Your personal BP cuff hasn't been calibrated. Of course, you can do what you want when state isn't there watching you.

My advice is to stay far away from NYU nursing. No basic bachelor of science degree nursing program is worth $47,000 a year in tuition. Pick another school. http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/financialAid/documents/tuitiongeneral.pdf

This is why it's important to date people who already had somewhat interesting lives of their own prior to meeting you. It seems like the girlfriend depends too much on you for a social life, entertainment, amusement, et al. I think it's a red flag when a person leans on her partner to give her the interesting life that she cannot or will not provide for herself.

You posted about getting offered a job at a nursing home at the beginning of this month, OP. Did you decline the job offer? If so, that probably wasn't the brightest decision considering you are on the verge of homelessness. Good luck.

Correction...you are not an "old new grad" because you have been gainfully employed as a nurse the past two years. A true "old new grad" is someone who has been licensed for longer than a year and lacks any type of paid work experience as a nurse.

It means absolutely nothing at this point. Keep checking the website every couple of days. If you see an RN license number posted next to your name, it means you passed. If you receive a large envelope in the mail with directions on how to retest, it means you failed.

Many LTC facilities have high employee turnover rates, especially for CNAs. This is not unusual by itself. It's due to the bust-ass nature of the work.

I lived off Roscoe and Woodman in Panorama City a long time ago. My old apartment building had graffiti and drug activity out in the open, but it was all I could afford even on a middle income.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: not everybody can be whatever they want to be. I'm not being sarcastic or negative. I'm just being truthful. The first flunked chemistry class should have been a wake-up call, but three failures in a row is beyond the exaggeration point.

If I am not mistaken, you need to be licensed in your home state. This is the state you declare as your residence.

Yes, just as long as you avoid the $25,000 to $30,000 private for-profit LVN programs.Your tags say you are in CA. CA already has too many LVNs R/T the 200+ private LVN programs that have popped up on every other street corner. Wages are dropping and it is taking a year or longer to get a job.

Yolanda is also a common name of Mexican and Chicana women. A large number of Latinas were named Yolanda when I lived in Los Angeles.

A 1:40 nurse to resident ratio is not illegal in the nursing home setting. An agency nurse can work at five different facilities over the course of a week, while a nursing home nurse can work at the same LTC facility for many years. The difference is that the nursing home nurse is an employee of the LTC facility, but the agency nurse is an employee of the staffing agency. Also, agency nurses can be sent to hospitals and other settings.

Aspen University is not regionally accredited. This could affect credit transferability if you ever wanted to return to school to earn a graduate degree. They have national accreditation from the DETC and CCNE. If you are worried about any negative reaction to an online degree you always have the option of choosing an established university with a brick and mortar campus like the previous poster brought up. Public colleges like Stony Brook and UT Arlington offer 100% online degrees. If your online degree comes from a public college, no one will know you earned it online.

I also don't want to publish a peer-reviewed research article, but like to consider myself an educated professional who makes every attempt to write more competently than the average elementary school kid. Your blog post is umbecoming of someone who has advanced graduate level education. The basic grammatical and usage errors were too numerous to count.

It would help if we knew a location. Starting pay can be as low as $18/hour in rural Kentucky. It can be higher than $50/hour in San Francisco. Some nurses receive a nice benefit package while others receive no benefits. It all depends on location.

Maybe some people want to work as a CNA while they finish prereqs because they need the money? Just a thought. We all didn't come into this world with a rich uncle or a trust fund to bankroll our educational costs.

Well-mother/baby postpartum nursing was my dream when I was a nursing student, but reality dictated that I had to take a job in a specialty that would actually hire me. Fast forward a few years and I am working as a school nurse.

WGU's RN-to-MSN program awards both a BSN and a MSN as long as the student is sure to petition for the BSN.

Finding nursing jobs, LVN or RN, ain't easy in any part of southern CA. Plus you'd need to see the Inland Empire before making the leap. Many of the Inland Empire cities are dumps and armpits with high crime and a meth problem. The crime, in addition to the 100+ degree weather, is the reason why rents are cheaper there.

I paid $1295/month for an old 400 square foot studio apartment when I lived in a shady Los Angeles neighborhood in 2002. I wonder how much that apartment would cost me in rent in 2015, but I really don't want to know! The point is that I was always flat broke, even with a full-time job, a part-time weekend job, a PRN job, a used car with no payments, and a simple lifestyle. It is pricey to live in LA and the pay does not always keep up.