Dear So and So

[Lise]

Dear Board of Registerd Nursing,
Perhaps this is too much to ask, but could you make an effort to streamline the approval process for applicants? ...

Hang in there, Mikki. You'll have that thin envelope in your hands very, very soon. (In my day, a thin envelope meant you passed. A thick one meant you were taking the test again.) Then you get to decide you want to be an APN in some specialty and wait for the equivalent of that thin envelope some day... ...let me be the first to say: Welcome to the field. You are a nurse. You just don't have the paper quite yet. L.