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Hi all, I just got offered a position in a new grad program in their ICU department!! I am beyond excited but also very scared. I currently work at a Post Acute Rehab facility and have been here 3 months now so this is the extent of my RN experience. I just want to ask for general advice when working in this unit. I know there's is so much to learn but I also do not want to fall behind and I want to excel in this unit. I currently am completing my RN-BSN online and I will be working nights. Thank you all in advance for all and any advice. All is welcome! Thank you ?

Hi, I have been invited to interview for a new grad program at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley and the recruiter informed me I would be required to bring with me 2 professional headshots. I have questions as to how I should dress for the headshot? I only really have 1 good interview outfit and was planning on wearing that to headshots but also to the interview? would that look weird? Should I stick with solid colors and avoid prints for the picture? Also, I will be having 2-panel interviews back to back. He asked me what units I was interested in and I said ICU, ED, and Med/Surg if the others are not available. Do you all have any tips or advice as to the type of questions the specialty units might ask? I do not really have much nursing experience and a previous interview I had they literally only wanted clinical related answers and I gave as many as I could from my clinical experience and preceptorship in school but some of them I had not experienced in a clinical setting so I tried to give examples from my previous non medical field, but supervisor related jobs, and they said they wanted clinical related only??!! so that was a bust. Sorry for rambling but any and all advice is appreciated. They do the STAR method of answering questions which I still need to get better at. Thank you.

Thank you all. I decided to complete my RN-BSN at a different school. I went back to the school where I got my first Bachelors from. A lot of my classes from my other degree satisfied the upper-division GE for the BSN so I will end up taking 3 fewer classes as well as no math since my other degree satisfied that as well. It costs the same as UTA and it's a school I know a lot about since I went there before. But I appreciate all of your input.

Hello all, I am recently considering enrolling for UTA's RN-BSN online program. What really caught my attention is the time one can complete it in (assuming everything is transferrable), the cost (very broke jobless RN at the moment), accreditation, and apparently, they're a very good school. What I want to know is can it really be completed in 9 months as they advertise? has anyone done it in this time frame? especially if they do not live in Texas? I am from California and I am also contemplating another online program from the university I received my first bachelors in back in 2016, Kinesiology, but their program is 16 months and I have very ambitious goals to begin BSN-DNP after having 1 year experience and so finishing in 9months would be ideal as I can work for a bit after finishing that program before I start the next (assuming I get over a 3.5 GPA in the RN-BSN). If you have completed the RN-BSN degree online form UTA, any insight is appreciated regardless of the time it took you. I also want to know what the classes are like, is it possible to do with a full-time job? (I've done it before with my previous degree but online is very different), and anything else you would like to add. I did read somewhere that one class that is required by Texas is some sort of history of the state (weird!), but other than that did you find that all of your classes transferred without any issues? Thank you all ?

Thank you all for your comments. I really appreciate it :)

Thank you. The Urgent care closes at 8 I believe she told me. I am actually also applying to SNF now since I haven't had any luck with Med/Surg New grad programs. I am planning on getting 6 months at SNF and continue to apply to new grad positions. Is this ok to do? Will it look bad if i leave a job after 6 months?

I am a brand new grad (may 2019), no luck getting into mew grad programs yet. I met someone who knows the supervisor of a clinic with an urgent care and said she would speak to the supervisor about me. I would like to be an ED nurse at some point but I've heard that if i start off in urgent care is almost impossible to get into ED because urgent care is not considered acute care experience. Is this true? will I have trouble finding an ED job after urgent care? Should i keep looking into acute care? I really don't like med/surg or SNF. My dream is to work in ED or ICU. Any tips will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.