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Hi all, I'm an ADN student graduating next August (I know, I know, I'm that girl posting almost a year in advance--but I'm determined to not let this sneak up on me) and I'm just beginning to think about residency options. I've been working as a PCT (or equivalent--right now I'm in perianesthesia) since 2016 with most of my experience being in major pediatric hospitals. My passion absolutely lies in pediatrics and I would love to do a residency in a pediatric hospital if at all possible (which I absolutely know is a tall order for an ADN). I've started looking at children's hospitals and have found a few residency programs that appear to accept ADNs, but they're all out of state. I will get my BSN as soon as humanly possible after my ADN, but I'd like to start working as an RN (read: earning more) ASAP. Thus, my (maybe stupid and relative but definitely relevant) questions: 1. What is even the likelihood that these major hospitals (CHOP, Children's National, Seattle Children's, etc.) will actually accept me as an ADN even though they supposedly accept ADN nurses? 2. What does getting licensed out-of-state entail, especially as it applies to a residency? 3. Assuming I am accepted and would move, is there ever any discussion of relocation bonus, etc? (This feels futile to ask as a new ADN grad with little to no leverage but I figured I may as well) 4. Is all of it worth it assuming I want my career to be in peds? Or is it a wiser decision to work as an ADN/RN wherever I can until I can earn the BSN and then hopefully transfer to peds then? Again, I know a lot of this is relative to different places, but I was hoping for any general insight I may find. Please let me know if there's a better place to post. Thank you thank you!

I was accepted too! Talk about a pleasant surprise! Can't wait to meet everyone ?

That's probably the case, then. I was honestly kind of surprised it was initially such a short window--before COVID closed the world, the application-to-notification period was about a month long, so I totally understand why they would need more than 12 days from the extended application deadline! I'm sure they're doing the best they can!

Not sure when this went live on the website, but I just saw that they pushed the notification deadline to May 29th. I can't decide if that makes me more or less anxious. This is going to be the longest week and a half of my life!

I've turned in mine! The better HESI I took averaged to a 94.0% (the other was a 93.2%). I'm hoping this is enough for acceptance, but I'm looking at applying to El Centro as well, just to explore my options. It looks like they keep pushing the application and acceptance deadline back... according to the nursing page, we have until May 10 to apply and we should be notified May 22. As if I wasn't anxious enough to hear back! Are we supposed to do anything specific when it comes to fall registration? I'm assuming they'll help us register if/when we are accepted into the program, but I want to be sure I'm not missing anything!