Submitting Application to Board

I realize most of you still have a while to go before graduation, but I feel it's my duty to bring up something that happened at our school.

We're the first LVN class, so you could pretty much call us guinea pigs. Everything that could go wrong with a nursing program, happened to us! By the end of the program we pretty much were laughing whenever something happened and we were just so happy that school was finally over.

Our DON contacts all of us after graduation and says "Pick up your applications in my office". What he did was separate the paperwork so that he would turn in the pink form that he had to sign, saying that we passed the program. We had to fill out the rest of the application, do the fingerprinting, get the money order, and send it in ourselves. He said the Board would match up the pink forms with our applications when they received them.

Okey-dokey.... so we did what we were told, because we're not school administrators, we're students, oops excuse me GRADUATES!! And we waited, knowing that it would be a few weeks before we would get our ATT. And we waited... and we waited.... Finally, around the 5th week of waiting, I emailed the Board to find out the status. A week and a half later, I got an email from the Board, stating.... are you ready for this..... :angryfire

that because we had not followed the proper procedure and had all of our paperwork turned in together in one envelope, pink form and all, along with a cover sheet, all of our applications had been placed in a separate pile that they probably would have gotten to in about 10 weeks! Basically, because they saw that there was no pink form, they tossed it in the other pile and there they sat!

Well, the good news is that they contacted our DON, who re-sent the pink forms in (who knows where the originals were) and 1-2 weeks later we received our ATT's.

I'm pretty sure our school did it this way because originally they were going to pay the application fee and the LiveScan fee, and then decided not to, so they left it to us to pay for everything. So the moral of the story is, if your school says to turn in your application yourself, and they'll turn in the rest.... don't do it!