CashewLPN

In this time and age, ADN's and BSN's are still RPN's (basically, there is no license difference between ADN's and BSN's..) Usually, the only difference between either is pay rate. Also, Most (if not all) employers do not look at the school you went to, or what your GPA was.... They look to see if you passed your NCLEX, and were issued a nursing license (My mom went to College of Staten island. She is treated, and respected equally to nurses that went to such exclusive schools as johns hopkins, LIC and Beth Israel...I went to Curtis School of Licenced Practical Nursing, and I'm treated and respected equally to nurses who went to exclusive private vocational schools in the area.... Basically, all nursing schools are very exclusive- waiting lists are all long, and grade dependant... if you do poorly, you are dropped.) So, I guess I'm trying to say, Do what you can afford, if you can go all the way, go ahead, if you can only afford to get your ADN, go for it, you can end up having your job pay for the continuing education eventually. Hope this helped. --Cashew

I hate to say it, but its extremely hard to predict passing and failure based on the number of question... Please refer to 'How the NCLEX works', at the top of this forum for more info. --Cashew

I have to agree with the above... until you are issued a license number, and have the license in hand (your employer needs a copy) you are still a GVN, or GPN, legally. So, you'd still have to be co-signed under someone else until you get the snail mail in. --Cashew

hmm...if you just called for 'ms. smith' or, 'Mr. Joe Schmo' it would be ok...but if you called out 'I need the Ms. Smith with Cancer' or, ' Mr. Schmo, please come in for your chest x-ray' you'd be leaping over the line of ok... Names are cool, anything else paired with names is bad. -- Cashew

hmm... I was in the hospital I used to work for (my mom still works in the ER as an RN) for biliary colic. I recieved several mg's of mso4 for pain. unfortunately, I was having mild relief, and noted a little old lady sitting in front of me, screaming 'nurse! nurse!'... Apparantly, story goes I started yelling 'Patient! Patient!, why can't someone make this lady stop, I deal with it ALL DAY!', and story goes, I was spitting mad (In pain and tired. grr.) :|. apparantly, I was the funniest thing going (as a side note, both my mom and loving boyfriend have recovered from the lethal case of embarassment I caused them) --Cashew

Hi, and welcome to allnurses.com Nursing is not typically taught by a traditional apprenticeship... You must attend classes at a school that teaches nursing for a set period of time, then you begin the clinical portion of your schooling, (which is closest to an apprenticeship, but nothing like a traditional apprenticeship) Sometimes hospitals and LTC's offer internships, but they are usually offered to nursing students. I hope this helps. Let me know --Cashew

ooh--bucks-- I"ve got a lol in it now, and, its the first time I've seen it since school (in 99) -Cashew

Hello, and welcome to allnurses.com please check out this thread, its covered here. https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101290

just to let you know, CSI also offers a BSN program. (I as one will not go there, as when i was a freshman in college, one of the instructors [who did not know I already was a nurse] looked at my high school transcripts and told me with my grades I would never become a good nurse ever. I told her as I was leaving her office, that I was already an LPN for a year, and 1 poor grade from my sophomore year in high school, and taking off a year to work was no criteria to judge me in my nursing abilities.. (graduated lpn school with honors.) My mother Graduated from CSI's Adn program in 96, she did well.. --Cashew

Please read the post entitled 'How the NCLEX Works' at the top of the forum Yes, you can either pass or fail. We all feel like we failed until we get the news. It happens, you'll find out in a few weeks... take a deep breath, and see what happens. best of luck --Cashew

perhaps a shower chair and an assist for showering may be a better thing than just the non skids... a Grab bar may be a good idea too... those non skids can be found in hardware stores --Cashew

there is no law dictating that a patient must have bloods drawn in event of a needlestick in NYS. Other states may be different.... So, basically a patient may refuse. Needlestick survivor x2 --Cashew

At times it can be similar, but you end up doing the same tasks for different means... (using bedbaths to learn to assess skin, et al) Sometimes ya gotta pay your dues... --Cashew

contact the school you intend on going into, and request from them which study guides to use, as well as the format of the test. Theres more than one entrance exam --Cashew

uh... jokings fine, heck, I play around all the time, but, in the wild and wooley world of medicine, I will give you a creed you should always follow... Thou shalt not misrepresent yourself. Never Ever Ever. Ever. If your nursing instructor were to get word of it as a spoken joke amongst classmates, I'm sure nothing would happen... If they were to get word of it happening on the hospital floor, you'd be written up in just under a heartbeat. Its also extremely illegal, and theres more than a few people who'd like to hang we of the medical professions. ok, thats my spiel... Questions/comments/concerns, feel free to PM --Cashew

forgive me for going off topic-- Hippotherapy? Whats that?

congrats, and good luck, let us know how it goes! Cashew

Since there have been oh so many questions on 'did I pass at 85 questions' or 'did I pass at 250 questions' I figured I'd make a nice big sticky explaining it. -The NCLEX-PN is the licensing exam for graduate PNs. This is the basic idea on how it works. The test format is: To start, you answer a question, if you answer correctly, you get a more difficult question, if you answer incorrectly, you get an easier one. For scoring: Imagine the test to be a beam balanced in the center (a teeter totter, or a scale, if you will.) One side is labled Correct, the other Incorrect. Now, every time you answer a question, if it is correct, you get a point on the correct side, every time you answer one incorrectly, you get a point on the incorrect side. When the scale tips over to either side, the test is finished. Sometimes, you'll answer 1 correctly and 1 incorrectly, which re-balances the scale.. the objective of the test is to have a clear tip over point... which is why the test for some people keeps going and going. Occasionally ( I do not know the current amount) the test will cycle through all the questions... its a way to know whether all of the questions are good, so you can get all 285 questions, and still pass or fail. I hope this is helpful... What do you all think?

my schedule for example, I work 12 hour shifts, with an every-other weekend... I work Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Tues, Weds, Thurs, later, rinse repeat... Seriously, though, I work an entire weekend, then the next weekend, I am off. so on and so forth.

Hi... I"m gonna close this on basis of Beating a dead horse. Please give a quick look in the forum.. Any questions/comments/concerns, feel free to drop me a line, I'm around. --Cashew

dsd class? I've never heard of that before... Can you explain a little? --Cashew

I would advise, don't bother with College of Staten Island, they no longer offer an LPN to RN bridge... --Cashew

since there is already a thread for this, I'm gonna post a link and close this. --Cashew https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111297

I agree with ya's... I feel fine otherwise... they're a bit better after keeping them up all night (actually, I just woke up) If it doesnt get better by tomorrow, I'm in to see my doc. Health insurance be damned, (Both sides of my family have hx chf.) --Cashew

I know that swollen feet are bad... oddly enough, my poor puds have gotten edematous... I just noticed it. My legs are not swollen, just the tops of my feet... I've just put them up on a chair... its wierd... yesterday, they got swollen, but I was wearing shoes (heeled sandals) that were a little too tight... I've been wearing my comfy shoes today, and I've been walking without difficulty... wierd... its like my skin's too tight... aside from lasix, which I don't have, and ER, which I'm not feeling up to... and, keeping my feet up, which I am doing... I wonder what to do... wow... its like+1 pitting on the top of my feet....... not good... I'm gonna consult the dear ol' supernurse mom in th AM... just some hx on me if you're interested, the last few weeks, I've been feeling well... yesterday I went to the circus, and drank some wine. I have personal HX asthma, and migraine headaches. I am 24 years old, and yes, I'm very overweight (I dont need a lecture, I know what it can do to me) my period ended 2 days ago. I am also confused. oh well... keeping da durn uncomfortable things up now.. Maybe some compression in the AM. wish me to feel more well. --Cashew