CHOC Children's RN Residency August 2020

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Hi everyone! I thought I would start a thread for CHOC Children's RN Residency that is starting in August 2020. I'm super excited to be applying to the NICU!

Fingers crossed for some good news in the coming months!

3 minutes ago, nursealy23 said:

Has anyone been contacted for a NICU interview?

No I haven't

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55 minutes ago, coffelovernurse said:

No I haven't

I have not either! Applied for the residency. App is still under consideration.

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1 hour ago, Lindsaygee said:

I have not either! Applied for the residency. App is still under consideration.

I'm also in the same position!

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Specializes in Medical, Surgical, Telemetry.
2 hours ago, slewrn said:

I applied to the CVICU fellowship. Interviewed last Friday. I did adult CVICU prior to going to NICU.

Let us know if you get an offer or if you find out the interviews for CVICU are done. I applied to CVICU fellowship but haven’t heard anything back yet.

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Specializes in CVICU/NICU.
4 minutes ago, HoopNurseMomo said:

Let us know if you get an offer or if you find out the interviews for CVICU are done. I applied to CVICU fellowship but haven’t heard anything back yet.

Based on what I was told, Friday was the last set of interviews and that a decision would be made soon. From what I am aware, HR sent apps for the managers to review already prior to that- I was a late applicant.

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Specializes in Medical, Surgical, Telemetry.
2 minutes ago, slewrn said:

Based on what I was told, Friday was the last set of interviews and that a decision would be made soon. From what I am aware, HR sent apps for the managers to review already prior to that- I was a late applicant.

Thanks for that! Good luck! I had a feeling that I wouldn’t be picked. I’ll try for Feb cohort.

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Specializes in CVICU/NICU.
Just now, HoopNurseMomo said:

Thanks for that! Good luck! I had a feeling that I wouldn’t be picked. I’ll try for Feb cohort.

You work tele in adults? That should help, get any certs and go to classes if you can for hemodynamics, critical care, ect. Good luck! I think though, other units would be happy to train you to do peds if you were interested. Easier to get in once you have peds experience.

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Specializes in Medical, Surgical, Telemetry.
35 minutes ago, slewrn said:

You work tele in adults? That should help, get any certs and go to classes if you can for hemodynamics, critical care, ect. Good luck! I think though, other units would be happy to train you to do peds if you were interested. Easier to get in once you have peds experience.

Yeah I work in tele with adults, which is why I thought it would be easier to transition to CVICU of the options available. If they Med/surg peds Open I would have applied to that. But everything happens for a reason. I’m applying to TIPS peds for sept 2020. And a recruiter for chla reached out to me on linked in but I missed the app period for fall 2020, so she told me to reach out to her during the next app period. So my peds future might be with CHLA next year. Who knows?

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Specializes in CVICU/NICU.
6 minutes ago, HoopNurseMomo said:

Yeah I work in tele with adults, which is why I thought it would be easier to transition to CVICU of the options available. If they Med/surg peds Open I would have applied to that. But everything happens for a reason. I’m applying to TIPS peds for sept 2020. And a recruiter for chla reached out to me on linked in but I missed the app period for fall 2020, so she told me to reach out to her during the next app period. So my peds future might be with CHLa next year. Who knows?

Sort of- peds CVICU deals with congenital defects ,anomalous veins, ect- even my adult CVICU experience doesn't translate well to peds since it's mostly MIs from CAD, diet, ect. Even between two pediatric congenital defects that are "the same" you may have different OHS performed. CHLA cancelled all of their fall cohort due to census except PICU if you had peds experience (I'm interviewing there in June). It's just a difficult time right now with census being low overall in peds hospitals. Good luck!

You can still apply to a med/surg position in peds- they will train you. I recall several RNs on the MSU unit (they do onc, hem, neuro, and med/surg) from adult med surg being trained not through the formal fellowship/residency.

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Specializes in Medical, Surgical, Telemetry.
12 minutes ago, slewrn said:

Sort of- peds CVICU deals with congenital defects ,anomalous veins, ect- even my adult CVICU experience doesn't translate well to peds since it's mostly MIs from CAD, diet, ect. Even between two pediatric congenital defects that are "the same" you may have different OHS performed. CHLA cancelled all of their fall cohort due to census except PICU if you had peds experience (I'm interviewing there in June). It's just a difficult time right now with census being low overall in peds hospitals. Good luck!

You can still apply to a med/surg position in peds- they will train you. I recall several RNs on the MSU unit (they do onc, hem, neuro, and med/surg) from adult med surg being trained not through the formal fellowship/residency.

Oh I know it’s a huge jump, but PICU and NICU seemed like even bigger jumps from what I’m used to of the available options, when I did research before deciding which unit to apply for. I have been looking into non fellowship positions, but it seems like they want previous peds experience as a requirement, so I never applied to them. But that’s good to know they will hire external through non-fellowship. That gives me more hope. I do really feel like I probably won’t get hired into peds until next year, esp with the low census happening.

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Specializes in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant.

Anyone that applied to the PICU fellowship hear back yet?

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Specializes in CVICU/NICU.
2 minutes ago, HoopNurseMomo said:

Oh I know it’s a huge jump, but PICU and NICU seemed like even bigger jumps from what I’m used to of the available options, when I did research before deciding which unit to apply for. I have been looking into non fellowship positions, but it seems like they want previous peds experience as a requirement, so I never applied to them. But that’s good to know they will hire external through non-fellowship. That gives me more hope.

Doesn't hurt! Hem/Onc experience would be valuable too! I went from adult CVICU to NICU (huge jump) but it's not impossible to do, just it's hard to adjust to the different sets of treatments/normal VS for them. I did adult CVICU per diem while training in NICU and boy was it hard to do a 180 in my mindset for treatment modalities. Just keep applying!

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