I sent in my application, along with a nursing resume - that included my work history (19 years), my education including my CE's, all the states I've been licensed in (currently active in Ohio), a copy of the nursys report and a letter outlining everything. I also sent an additional packet requesting approval for a distance learning program with a side by side comparison and a list of why the program would work for me.
Both packets were sent by certified mail and were recieved today at 9:44AM. We'll see how long it takes to hear from them.
I also called the Prez of the LPN Board to let her know all had arrived and asked her help to "hurry it along" due to my dire financial situation, I told her - I could be taking the therory portion right now (online). The BON only meets 6 times a year and sometimes they will meet via phone on the off months - January being an off month. She also told me they really have nothing on the agenda right now, so it could be the middle of February before I even hear anything .
I also called my State Representative to give him an update and complain about the antiquated system - lets move into the current century - no one on the board or any of the staff even have email:eek:. I think they communicate via string and paper cup :icon_roll.
So everyone keep their fingers, toes and anything else crossed that this moves through rapidly, I will still face several months of refresher, but I'd at least like to get started:cool:.
It's telling that you throw off the term "hijacking" to the sole person who is providing another perspective to your soap opera. What comes through, despite your best efforts to portray otherwise, is this: in a state where there are 33,000+ active licensed LPNs and 100,000 active licensed RNs, all governed by a state board which likely has a staff of about a dozen people and which deals with more urgent matters like impaired and incompetent nurses, you (who hasn't worked as a nurse in 18 years) waltz in and demand that long-standing rational policies be changed, and when they are, you demand instant action, feigning disbelief when told that you aren't permitted to speak to a staff member (thank god, you'd badger them to suicide), or that you'll get an answer in 25 days (which sounds more than reasonable to me).
Lapsed nurses, especially those who haven't practiced in more than 10 years, should be required to take something more substantial than a "refresher" course ... a 3-credit semester-long college-level course with a clinical component might be more appropriate, and I applaud the GA board for taking its time to consider the merits of your individual application.
In a prior post, you tell how someone else described you as "tenacious". That's not the precise word I would have used. Regardless, I've made my point and you can have your thread back. Good luck ... I think you're gonna need it.
LMAO... Some people are simply Unbelievable... But this is a public site... And people do have a right to their opinion!
Good gracious Louise almighty. (Louise subs for a number of words and can mean god, or any number of combinations of words that I really say and violate the TOS)
Well I hope you hear good news. My friend and neighbor graduated in GA from an RN program and did all her lovely paperwork this last year. It happened to be the first year that they did fingerprinting, I think. Fun. She got her license in october, after graduating in May. The details of what all caused the GA BON to decide that she had lied on her application are kind of personal to her so I can't disclose. Suffice it to say that we learned that hospitals in the area do background checks and have no problem with her, but the GA BON does a FBI background check and believe me, they enjoy finding reasons not to license people. The average person doesn't know what in tootin' is on their FBI record or if they even have one, so if they know you exist, and you don't mention WHY the FBI knows you exist to the BON you wind up with quite a problem.
And yes, it does take them about two days to cash your money orders, then they leave the mail in the mail room for two weeks. Here I always thought a mail room was for UNopened mail! Silly me! Anyhow they decided, at first, that she wasn't a criminal. How nice of a group of nurses with no bearing on the criminal justice system WHATSOEVER, to decide that. Then they decided she would need to pay a fine and carry a mark on her license for the offense of lying about something on her application, and it took a great deal of patience, the intercession of the head of her nursing program and the payment of said fine, to get her a license with no mark on it from these people.
I don't know how she didn't lose her everloving mind during the summer. Anyhow. Best of luck to you, I'll be sure and mention to my friend how lucky she is to have gotten through their craptastic little game in only five months.
Thanks for your support Indy. A simple phone call or email would have been nice from the GA LPN BON about their findings but as usual...nada. I'm in another holding pattern , waiting on the results of their meeting on 2/10-11. It would have been nice to know because I'll miss my window of opportunity to take a phlebotomy course that could have gotten me a job:mad:, or I could order the program and started on the theory portion. I don't have the funds to order and then be denied.
i'm sorry i haven't posted but i've been quite ill for several weeks and still recovering:sniff:.
i've gotten two conflicting communications from the bon that i'm still trying to sort out.
i got a snail mail letter from the bon ed person that stated i'd kinda been approved but my program hadn't and i needed to provide a long list of additional information that of course was very vague (no surprise there). one requesting specific dates, times and patients for all my clinical assignments:icon_roll, not sure how in the world i can do that since i won't know until i'm much closer to doing the actual clinicals. another to provide a clinical check list the faclility uses not one from the school like i provided, keep in mind no where is that mentioned in any communication. also, at the end of the letter, it states if i provide all that is listed/required i may be issued a temporary permit to do my clinicals. so in other words, i can pay to take the theory portion and pass it but they will not guarantee they will issue me a temp license even if i provide all the needed paperwork and pass the theory portion.
several days later i got an email from the "licensing analyst" at the bon claiming i had been approved but again with a list of additional information needed.
each list has some similarities and some not. again no surprise, it's like one person is not talking to the other and they can't seem to get anything straight.
one of the real glaring issues is they both are requesting the "form a":no:. they were both emailed a signed copy of it the form by the don of the facility and when i called her about it, she said she had a confirmed received. i've asked her to save it. both people at the bon that it was sent to are "claiming" they never got it.
so basically, i'm having to start all over with the required paper work since the list of needed documentation has changed again and additional info is now required.
i'm hoping i will feel well enough to start this nonsense all over again next week.
I do have a copy of a reciept from the DON who sent the form. It has to come directly from the clinical facility not me as it has confidential info on it. Yet they "claim" they never got it.
I'm having the same problem in Georgia. I'm a LVN recently passed the NCLEX-PN, but it's been more than 10 years since I practiced. Can you share with me where you are getting your clinicals? I've send letters to the few facilities the board provided. The only responses I've received have been they do not offer the program. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
First, if you live anywhere near one of the approved brick and mortar facilities - go that way, it's much easier.
Also, you must be approved by the BON before you can take a refresher course.
I spent weeks and weeks on the phone calling facilities, they must also be approved. The must also conform to what is required, as you can see by my thread it is a long and frustrating event. I am still working on getting final approval.
Good luck!
PS, if you can move to another state DO IT! Just about anywhere is more friendly about refresher course requirements.
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. I think they communicate via string and paper cup :icon_roll.
I certainly will, I figured your buried up there in Sasquatch land...LOL.
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, waiting on the results of their meeting on 2/10-11. It would have been nice to know because I'll miss my window of opportunity to take a phlebotomy course that could have gotten me a job:mad:, or I could order the program and started on the theory portion. I don't have the funds to order and then be denied.
again no surprise, it's like one person is not talking to the other and they can't seem to get anything straight.
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I will, it's now a waiting game again:uhoh3:.