KrysyRN

You wouldn't necessarily need to transfer any license. When the time comes to apply for the NCLEX, you'll be asked which state you'd like your license from. Provided you've met California's school requirements to even take the NCLEX, after you've passed, you'll be issued a California license. Talk to your school's nursing school guidance counselor about California's requirements for licensure. They may have info or may refer you to the California Board of Nursing website for this info. To see the steps for obtaining a California license after you've choosen a Connecticut license for your first license, go to the California Board of Nursing website for information on how to "endorse" or apply for "endorsement" for a California license. Lot of criteria needs to be met, and it can take multiple months for some to receive that CA license even if all criteria is met. Talk to your nursing school's guidance counselor about this. Ask if your nursing school is accredited. Email the BON with specific questions.

I'd recommend contacting CT State Education Department (it might be called something similar) to see if they have information about obtaing transcripts from your school. Or do a Google search on how to obtain a transcript from your school or a closed school. You could also look on facebook to see if someone has created a page for the school, or check LinkedIn to see if other grads are out there that might be able to direct you. As a side note, there are several non-compact states that require official transcripts when applying for endorsement. I found it common.

I'd recommend submitting it now.

I'm not sure I'm following your first paragraph. Have you contacted your school to have them send your official transcript to the BON? Or are you unsure if your school actually sent transcripts to the BON? If unsure, give your school registrar's office a call. You may be able to do all of this online. There's going to be a small fee most likely. Ask the registrar if their signature will be on the transcript. On an official transcript, their signature and stamp will be on it, but it's good to confirm. You will not get licensed until your official transcripts are received by the BON, and the BON confirms you've met the educational requirements for licensure. Good luck!

My first thought was that a medication aide was asking this question.

Sent a PM to you!

I'm curious if or how the seven IV insertion attempts were documented on the patient's record.

I work from home and have a telehealth position, so I have to be able to service all 50 states. Right now I have a compact license and 17 individual licenses from the noncompact states.

So true.. It does get very expensive. I have a MI license. The obstacle is that I'm required to have a compact license for my job and would lose compact privileges if I moved to MI. I feel so foolish for not taking into consideration this bill might get vetoed.

This is such a letdown. My work requires that I have a compact license, and I had been planning to move to Michigan once the bill was enacted.

I've been waiting 3 1/2 months for CA BON to send verifications to two other states. Talk about frustrating.

I would recommend requesting the California license to be your initial license when you request authorization to take the NCLEX. If you request WA first, and then apply for endorsement into CA, it will add at least a month (but probably months) to get your CA license.

Keep your picture off your resume. However, if you create a LinkedIn profile, you can add a professional looking photo of yourself on that.

Toward the end of your program, your nursing school should provide a NCLEX application form to fill in where you can select the state where you would like your initial licensure from. You can select any state. When you receive your authorization to schedule your exam (also called "authorization to test" or "ATT"), you can schedule to take the test in any state you choose. Once you pass NCLEX, you will receive a license from the state you selected on the initial NCLEX application.

Biggest frustration: Keeping the calls within the allotted time frame. Some callers want to give you their life story, and it is usually not necessary to have that much info to make a recommendation. A really great day is when all calls are within the allotted time frame and all callers state that they understand and will follow the recommendations that you provide to them. Also, it's really nice to receive positive feedback from callers or even your supervisor when you've handled a call(s) particularly well. Be prepared to learn how to navigate many different systems and resources and to possibly use them all during a single call. Best of luck with your new job!

Very nice, Cecilia!

Yes, I worked from home for multiple years. We didn't have loads of charting, thank goodness, but there were alot of different processes to follow and EMR systems to navigate depending on the reason for the call and the location in the U.S. the call was coming from. The worst part about working from home wasn't the charting. It was the horrible cabin fever from the isolation of being in my tiny home office where I had to keep the door shut and have my family stay in another part of the house. I worked for 10's. My friend worked 12-hour shifts and loved it.

Yes, definitely put in on your resume. It's valid, recent experience. You won't need to indicate that the job is per diem on your resume. However, you will need to list this job on your application, and you might have to list your per diem status there. An interviewer may ask about the job during the interview. That would be a good time to ask about conflict of interest.

Consider recording your lectures if you're allowed and use the recordings to fill in your notes.

What are some of the reasons the callers complain about?

I was in an LPN-to-RN program, and the theory classes were intense and required a huge amount of studying. The clinical portion was the part that less stressful.

If you still have your Nursing Skills textbook, review the processes, including the videos on the textbook's website, for all of the tasks you've mentioned. You can also review YouTube videos. If you still have your med-surg textbook, thoroughly review the section on diabetes, insulin, the diet, etc.

How did the other half of the class manage to remain enrolled? Just curious but were you originally threatened with clinical failure for not doing the quizzes? Did you have the other students' and your paperwork showing completion of the quizzes (that was legible) that you could have physically handed to the dean instead of faxing it? Was he basing dismissal on the faxes he received or the actual physical paperwork you had in your possession?

Toward the end of your program, your nursing school should provide a NCLEX application form to fill in where you can select the state where you would like your initial licensure from. You can select any state. When you receive your authorization to schedule your exam (also called "authorization to test" or "ATT"), you can schedule to take the test in any state you choose. Once you pass the NCLEX, you will receive a license from the state you selected on the NCLEX application.

If you fail out of one program, you may not be eligible to continue to participate in the other program. Many nursing schools will not accept applicants that failed out of another program. I would recommend going the ASN route to save money, then bridge to the BSN program once the ASN is completed.