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Hey everyone, extremely excited to begin an operating room residency in about 3 weeks! I passed my NCLEX in September and have been employed administering vaccinations since and I feel my brain has just been turning to mush, LOL. In the three weeks until my start date what material or info should I take time to review to put me in as prepared a position as possible? Common OR meds? Heart tracing? Something else? I feel like I’ve forgotten so much since passing the NCLEX and want to be as prepared as possible. thanks guys!

Great job! 81 should get you in easily

@CountMeIn209 congrats! Guess we can count you in those of you that received your dove shipment, when did you order? I haven’t gotten any emails or anything from them

+1 for hewette she was a little boring as a professor but the material is interesting and her course is very organized.

I do! Not really worried they’re not gonna d/q us for that. Anyway, my docs were uploaded by the deadline which is what the packet asked for

Thank you for clarifying!! ?

So I uploaded my signed and stamped delta vaccine page to castlebranch on Friday- as of today they’ve accepted the tdap, but declined the hep b, and everything else is pending review. Castlebranch requested actual lab reports for my hep b immunity, did you guys have to do this too? Annoyed. 3 days until the deadline at this point.

Congrats! I’m pending review on everything but should be good to go come Monday or tues! Im also at lodi memorial. My first choice was St Joe’s but evidently that was the case for most of our cohort. Just relieved I don’t have to go to Manteca!

Mine says the same thing, I forgot I was supposed to ask everybody here lol.

The two step TB test is a real PITA but once I finish that I'm just purchasing insurance (6/26), taking my drug test and I'm done A little disappointed we've got class 5 days/week ?, but hopefully it'll only be the first semester and we'll get to 3 days/week for the remainder of the program. That'll be lovely.

You’re right! I only missed points from those categories you mentioned and not being proficient in a foreign language. I took the TEAS only once. I was determined to do well the first time cause it’s like $150! Atitesting.com has the official products. They’ve got multiple packages but I just went with the the practice exams- they are exactly the same format and style as the actual exam and being able to see it beforehand is invaluable. the mometrix guide was from amazon and also has practice tests inside, they’re useful- but can’t replace the ones from ATI. I studied for about 6 hours over 2 weeks. My practice scores were high 80’s/low 90’s and I didn’t feel that studying any longer would improve my score by much. When I got the the 95- I was pretty surprised. I expected to be high 80’s. Your score populates on the screen as soon as you’re done taking the exam.

I had 4.0 across the science pre reqs and a 95 TEAS. I used the official online ATI practice tests (huge help, they’re just like the actual exam) and a study guide by Mometrix. I definitely lucked out on the English portion because I gave up reasoning and went with my gut on nearly the whole section. If you’re still working on your pre-reqs, give them everything you’ve got so you not only get full points for the GPA but are also that much more prepared for the TEAS!

You heard right, micro and physio were both difficult at delta. Their rigor prepared me well for the TEAS though- i got a 98 on the science portion.

While 76 might’ve been the cutoff for the top 40 people we won’t actually know the true cutoff until the final alternate is chosen. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up settling somewhere in the high 60’s or low 70’s. If you’re still doing your pre reqs, knowing that 76 was the lowest score among the top 40 is still valuable information though.

@BCAN thanks for sharing!! Congrats on finishing your first semester, only one year to go for you! do you remember what it was on the math test that you had trouble with? want to be prepared! Thanks