futureicunurse9

Wow! Thank you sooo much that was incredibly helpful! Congratulations on graduating and good luck on the NCLEX! I’ll be praying that you can find a fantastic job on the CVICU!!!

Hi guys! I know this is super old but I found your discussions about the actual program extremely helpful and was wondering if anyone could answer some of my questions! I am planning on applying to the spring 2020 program and I will have a 4.0 GPA and a 97.2% HESI (no summer classes and since we apply in September those will be my stats)! I had some specific questions, particularly about levels 3 and 4 so here they are: 1) I aspire to be a CRNA in the future and that pretty much requires working on an ICU. My mom works on a SICU and I volunteer on her unit and love it! I was wondering for the critical care Clinicals, do you get to have preference as to what unit you are in (for example ER vs. ICU)? 2) I’m super interested in doing residency during level 4 and as you can probably tell, I’m hoping to do it in an ICU. How does application to that work?! What do they consider and do they take preferences into consideration?! Thank you in advance if you are able to answer these! ❤️

I'm currently taking Microbiology and Anatomy & Physiology 2 together and have A's in both! I have an iPad that I use to take notes and find that it is really helpful to look at the powerpoint during lecture and solely write what my professor may be highlighting on the specific slide; I know that you can also do this on a computer in the speakers notes section, etc. After class, I rewrite the notes from the powerpoint and include the extra notes that I took as well. I find that looking at these notes a little bit every day is really helpful because when I go back to really study the week before exams/quizzes, I don't get super stressed about not knowing everything. Whiteboards have also been super helpful for me! I go into empty classrooms because I live on campus, but they are super cheap at the store too! I will go in and write everything that I know from major sections in my notes, and then I look over my notes and write the things that I might have forgotten about (obviously rewriting things helps me memorize stuff) but it is different for everyone! Look up youtube videos as well! If something is a little unclear to me, I tend to look up some youtube videos to clear it up. Armando Hasudungan has some amazing A&P videos, Crash course is a cute and condensed version, and then there's Khan Academy as well! I though Chem was really easy, in my opinion micro has been the hardest just because it isn't as interesting to me; however, in a couple weeks we are starting diseases so that might change. Good luck, I will be praying that everything goes well for you! ?