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I see the same thing. The pop up I got from 3/28-3/30 had the "member board" verbiage and the one I just got today does not.

I was in HFCC from Jan 2012 through Dec 2013. For clinicals a list would be posted on the K Drive around the start of the semester (often not long before that) with all the different clinical rotations as worked out by the school, except for 126 where we got rotations I think between one and three weeks in. From there people could trade spots or whatever, sometimes the rotations would be revised. They usually tried to give us preference sheets.

I did too, this was a useful exchange. Between graduating University and Monday I felt like I was always overqualified for the jobs I had (non patient care, non degree requiring), but it's like as soon as I had my license and started reading this board and seeing job listings it's like oh wow I never realized the extent to which I'm viewed as being inferior now, and have been struggling to come to terms with that. To see voices against substantial support from hospitals to do RN to BSN was a shock to me, because I always just kinda assumed the hospital would cover that for some reason to the extent I never even looked into it. In wrestling terms, I felt like I got worked, then I turned heel, now I'm either begging off or turning babyface, probably depends if I'm Ric Flair or not because you know he's gonna turn on Sting. Why would anyone team with Flair against Arn Anderson, it's obvious where that's going.

I agree there, education is wonderful, and I do believe that a more educated nursing workforce will be a safer nursing workforce, but I would like to see this come about through enabling nurses to access this education more easily rather than building walls for them to climb over and fostering infighting and resentment like I totally was engaging in.

I'm sorry I read "I think that LPN's should be an AAS" as saying that you don't feel AAS nurses should be able to sit for the NCLEX RN exam and that current ADN RNs without so much experience should be downgraded to LPN, and I got so ****** off I didn't see the moving forward part, which does make it true that you didn't suggest current RNs to be stripped of their license, just for people of the same education level that are currently eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam not to be eligible in the future. I bet after I take the what like 5 or 6 non-patient-care courses that differentiate my ADN/BA background from a BSN background I'll never make such a mistake again.

So you'd strip AAS nurses that took the same NCLEX you did to carry the same license you do of that very license? Smug? As John Adams said in 1776, "DIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSGUSSSSSSTIINNNNGGGGG!". With all the cultural sensitivity you learned in your hallowed BSN program did you ever consider how this would disproportionately un-license minority nurses, in addition to working class nurses that don't necessarily want to take on staggering debt to participate in the profession that they're licensed to perform in? "Whites Only"? Too direct. "African Americans need not apply"? Those liberals will get us. "BSN only"? That's the ticket! http://www.ccdaily.com/Pages/Workforce-Development/Federal-data-demonstrate-value-of-associate-degree-RN-programs.aspx Community colleges play a crucial role in increasing the nation’s supply of minority nurses, according to AACC. ADN programs educate nearly 55 percent of black RNs, while BSN programs educate 32 percent of RNs from this population. Likewise, ADN programs prepare 55 percent of Hispanic nurses, compared to 39 percent educated in BSN programs. A full brief about the scurrilous rogues ruining your field: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Publications/Briefs/Pages/pb03222011.aspx

You'd think that in our modern day it'd happen quicker. Hearing what happens in CA makes me happy I don't live there.

YAY! My license is posted on Michigan's website!

LOL I thought I understood smug and condescension but reading some of the posts on this forum from the BSN folks....

Hopefully it won't take too long for either of us. It took from graduating in mid December to February 19th to get my ATT (mostly because my school didn't even send our stuff out until like early February!), I hope this is a little bit quicker.

I got the quick result, which I take to be official (tested on Friday, good pop up 1hr later, QR pass on Sunday). I'm checking the MI BON website like every hour to see that pending change over.

I'm wondering the same thing about Michigan. Perhaps to my own detriment but I'm waiting to apply for jobs after I have my license and everything else in order.

AWESOME! I bet you feel a ton better now that that's over, lol. I know I sure did yesterday.

My Kaplan scores were all mostly in the 50s with some scattered in the 60s, and I passed. One thing I think helped me was using tutor mode with QBank because I found I had more motivation to read the rationales one at a time right after I answered the question and also to know if I got it wrong or not immediately. I feel like that helped me more than timed mode, but I've always been a rapid test taker (for better or worse, lol). Another thing I did was at the end once I had answered all the QBank questions I took the ones I got wrong over and over again (helped me focus in on stuff I was missing, and worked for pretty much everything except those ******* hotspots, so happy I had zero on the NCLEX).

I wish someone told me about the absolute worst 48hrs of the whole NCLEX experience, I had NO IDEA they would suck so much. I passed a lot of the time playing this cool puzzle game I found called 2048: 2048 You try to combine 2 like numbers with the arrow keys to make double that number, with the goal being to get your highest number as large as possible. I found it to help in relieving the stress and I think it has a really pleasant design/feel.