Tanguera BSN, MSN, RN, NP

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1. ANCC FNP exam: My experience

   Tanguera replied to GoodNP's topic in NP Students

   I took the ANCC FNP boards a couple of days after my last post and passed! I found this site helpful for info before I took the boards so I figured I’d post my experience as well. This post became a whole lot longer than I originally would have wante...

2. ANCC FNP exam: My experience

   Tanguera replied to GoodNP's topic in NP Students

   Congratulations to those of you who already passed! I am wondering what scores you got on the Exam Edge Familynpprep.com tests. I am wondering if the scores on there are indicative of how well one might do on the real exam. I purchased a few tests f...

3. Passed ANCC FNP

   Tanguera replied to cougdogrn's topic in NP Students

   Hi Hephzy and all of you other FNP-BCers!! Thanks all for your input with the boards. Reading through these posts have been helpful. I am scheduled to take the boards for FNP ANCC soon and I did purchase some tests on the familynpprep site but I'm w...

4. Columbia or Yale?

   Tanguera replied to babycatcher12's topic in Post Graduate

   Hi BabyCatcher, I'm actually curious to know how things worked out with your part-time master's at Columbia. I am particularly interested in learning how you handled going to school part-time and working full-time. I am starting the Part-Time FNP pr...

5. Columbia ETP vs. master's

   Tanguera replied to JeanettePNP's topic in New York

   Yeah, for ETP you don't need to have any experience since the students already have a non-nursing Bachelor's degree and have only taken BSN prerequisites; but they don't even have the RN license. It seems that if you want to enroll in the NP program...

6. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

   Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

   Yeah, it's tough to know what their process is like. I was wondering whether they might have made offers to their top 10 and are giving those ten people maybe a week or so to decide, then after a week, they try to fill the slots with their next top c...

7. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

   Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

   I'm tempted to call and see if they've made any decisions, but the thing is, I already called last week to follow up on the matter and they said they were still interviewing candidates. I already got like 5 offers and I would like to know at least wh...

8. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

   Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

   I don't know when we're supposed to hear back but hopefully soon!

9. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

   Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

   They asked some very common interview questions: about previous work experience, how did you transition into nursing, why HSS, where do you see yourself in 5 years, things like that. It isn't always about the questions and the answers, they just want...

10. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

    Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

    Thanks Horseshoe, Yeah, I had my interview already and it wasn't too bad. I usually am very relaxed at interviews, and I have a lot of experience with public speaking, so I wasn't too nervous. However, what threw me for a loop was that I was in the r...

11. ADVICE NEEDED- Hospital for Special Surgery Interview

    Tanguera replied to NurseJackieO's topic in Job Hunt

    NurseJackieO, I have an interview coming up there also. Did you have your panel interview at HSS? What does that mean even? Who is on the panel besides the nurse recruiter? It sounds intimidating! I usually do really well with interviews, but a "pan...

12. NYU, SUNY Downstate

    Tanguera replied to kdrose01's topic in New York

    So I was going to bring up this topic (gender/race/ethnicity/nationality/) before, but since it is a touchy issue, I didn't think I wanted to touch it until someone asked outright. So, thanks for asking a good question. Gender: As in most nursing sc...

13. Paying for a Residency Program

    Tanguera replied to hiddencatRN's topic in New Nurse

    Wow yeah that is new to me. I know that in other countries, like the Philippines, those programs are popular where the students will pay the hospital for experience so that they could perhaps get their foot in the door after completing the program. B...

14. Home Care for new grad?

    Tanguera replied to Aleirax's topic in New York

    I'm in the same boat as you are. I just wonder whether a NJ state license is going to be of help. I talked to people who said it is also very hard now to get a job in NJ. I don't want to have to move, but i am thinking I might have to get another sta...

15. New Grad RN - employment options???

    Tanguera replied to KK1017's topic in Massachusetts

    I graduated three months ago and passed the NCLEX. I haven't looked that hard for jobs but my classmates who also graduated with me have been looking. I dont' think anyone has a nursing job yet. I went to a staffing agency that asked me if I was open...