I was accepted and will be starting this fall too! Where is everyone coming from and what kind of ICU are you guys working in? I will have 2 years of nursing and cardiac surgical ICU experience when school starts. My husband is currently in the progr...
I hear a lot of ruckus on forums in regards to never seeing family during school. It's simply not true. So far in my first year, we are expected to be in class/clinicals 40 hours a week. That is not including study time, which is a lot..but you are a...
To make a long story short- I had a 3.4 overall gpa, 3.55 or so nursing gpa, no gre, was ccrn/acls/pals certified at application time, 3.3-3.5 science gpa, and had a year and a half experience. I was a very average applicant grade wise, but stood ou...
Yes...Graduated nursing school May/June of 09', started in the icu, and applied to school in Oct. of 2010. Was accepted and will start in August. So I will have 2 years by the time I start, but was accepted with just over a year. -rm
If you have facebook, feel free to join the "Minneapolis School of Anesthesia-2013" group, a few of us are on there and keep in contact... or check your private messages. -Riley
Your GPA is not everything! I was told specifically by someone in an interview, "We are not looking for that 4.0 student (although it wouldnt hurt)...we also arent looking for that C-D student either. We are looking for someone who is extremely mo...
Make up for it in other area's! Try and work in an environment in which you are getting to see a wide variety of patients and treatments (swanz, lvad's, ecmo, oscillator's, central lines, etc...) and also using or seeing a lot of vasoactive drugs. ...
I can not believe this....but I got in. It's almost like a dream right now. Sean, send me a pm. Good luck to the rest of the interviewee's...see you august 24th!!!!
Hey there, my wife (Courtney) and I graduated from east central univ. We currently work at baptist (701,801), did u do any clinical rotations there? Anyways, I would wait until you start working before you shadow. Once you have a strong clinical back...
Just finished my interview. Felt pretty nervous during the first interview, and felt I could have definitely done a better job articulating my thoughts...Second interview was with one of the instructors, and I felt that interview went perfectly. I'...
SeanSan, I hope your interview went well! Was it as nerve wracking as you had expected it to be...better/worse? How long did it end up being? I'll let you know how mine goes in about a week or so.