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Never heard anything and all of my applications are gone when I checked my application history!

I never heard from them. I just withdrew my application because I accepted an OR residency at THR:) I hope your interview goes well!

I just got a call for an offer for the OR residency and accepted! My friend also got the call right after me

I just got a call for an offer for the OR residency and accepted! My friend also got the call right after me :)

Which did you apply to? I did surgical and ortho

No still haven't heard anything

I am waiting to hear back from an in person interview I did with Denton for the HVU last week. I also did a video interview for Plano for the OR and haven't heard anything.

Don't give up on making into nursing school! I never thought I would get in because of my low GPA. I also felt like everyone applying probably had perfect applications (4.0 GPA and perfect pre-entrance exam scores). I went ahead and applied anyway and I'll never forget the day I got my acceptance letter, the tears were rolling! My advice is: if you have gotten a C in any classes try to retake some. I didn't retake all of my C classes but I did retake several. Try to make As in all your classes until you get accepted. Try to make As in all the categories on your pre-entrance exam. Take extra classes that give you extra points on your application. I ended up making all As in nursing school except for 1 course and my GPA went up a lot during school. I did it all while working part time too. If you have a boss that is willing to work with your schedule then it is very doable to work and go to school. If you are dedicated and can be organized I don't think you will have a problem being successful in nursing school!

I am a recent graduate of nursing school. During my time there were mostly difficult instructors but they were difficult in that they had the mentality that nursing school should continue to be extremely challenging because that is the way it was for them and the way it always will be. Is it made more difficult than it has to be? Yes. It is hard and there will be blood, sweat, and tears but what matters is that you learned the knowledge that is required to be a nurse and you did all your work and passed nursing school. Me and my friends were basically self taught. We did every single page of reading of whatever concept we were learning and we knew that we were not going to learn much in lecture. My clinical instructors are probably who I learned the most from. Me and my friends made it and passed the NCLEX, not everyone did. I don't regret nursing school for one second. With all that being said, we had a clinical instructor who yelled at and threatened a student at clinical in front of hospital staff and students/instructors from other schools. This instructor was reported and let go. This is an example of something that should be reported. Now an example of what should not be reported: the class behind me created a petition to take to the dean because many of them were failing exams. In speaking with some of these students the instructor that they had previously lectured straight from the test and now that they didn't have someone doing that for them, they were failing. What they didn't realize is that that previous instructor was doing them a disservice because they weren't retaining that information and no one can do that for you for NCLEX. Like others have said, your story is vague so it is hard to give you advice.

I was a pharmacy technician up until my last 2 weeks of nursing school. I worked 15-32 hours per week. It was very doable if your manager works well with your schedule. My pharmacy technician experience is what I believe got me many more interviews than my friends who I graduated with. You could sign up for pharmacy technician in training, go ahead and start working in the pharmacy, and take your licensure exam before nursing school begins. My pharmacy experience also helped me tremendously with the medications on the nursing exams and even on NCLEX. Another option, at least in Texas, is to become a patient care technician in a hospital after your first semester of nursing school. So many PCTs had job offers before they even graduated from nursing school at the hospitals where they worked. The only reason I did not go this route was because I would have had to take about a $4-5/hour pay cut to do this.

I interviewed for 2 med-surg internship positions at Methodist Dallas last Thursday and haven't heard back yet. I had applied to two other units L&D (internship was cancelled) and ER (I am not being considered). Has anyone heard back from med-surg and does anyone know if they'll post any perioperative internships?

Congratulations!! That's so exciting! I interviewed today and I think it went well. Just curious, did they tell you in your interview when you would hear back?

I have an interview for the OR tomorrow and I am very nervous but cck04's post made me feel so much better!

I agree Saunders is the best! I used the book several times but mostly used the online questions that came with the book. I always used study mode to answer the questions and made sure to read all the rationales. The questions are great because you can choose to answer questions based on concept/topic, part of nursing process, or alternate format questions. We also used Lewis' Med Surg book which has a great clinical companion book that really breaks down most of the diseases from the giant 8 pound book. The clinical companion was basically my Bible for nursing school! By the time I finished school I had had to tape the spine back together twice! I just finished nursing school in December and passed the NCLEX during the first part of February. I used Saunders as well when studying for NCLEX