corbinRN

Did they tell you how close to the top of the list you are? Hope you get in there! I'm sure there will be some who applied who will decide to go elsewhere. Best of luck!

I got accepted to UNCW! Whoop!

I know I'm over-analyzing this, but maybe it's a good sign that it said to check back tomorrow rather than "waiting list" or something else. Good for you for ECU! DNP program, yes? Congrats!

I received an email today saying that a decision has been made and that I must log in to my application tomorrow after 5:24pm to see what the decision is. They like dangling carrots don't they???

Please update as letters start rolling in. I'm holding my breath every time I check the mail!! í ½í¸¬í ½í¸¬í ½í¸¬

Hey! The FAQs on the website say we will by by May 1st, so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll get notification any day now. Sooner the better. When you receive yours, please post here so we can be on the lookout!! :)

Hey nurseypoo26! I have applied to the UNCW FNP program for Fall 2015 matriculation as well! I am so nervous!!!! Best luck to you!

Nope. No info but I applied. Crossing my fingers!!

GRE is the Graduate Record Examination which is one of the exams that may be required for admission into a graduate level program.

Yes, I would tell your nurse educator and manager of the floor you work on before she does. It would sound better hearing it from your first.

At the hospital I work at, we work three 12-hour shifts per week and they're not always consecutive. So, they try to put us with the same patient if we are working consecutive days, but it doesn't always work out that way. Patient turnover can be pretty quick, or we can have apatite not for a week or more. Feel free to email me at dcorbinrn (at) gmail (dot) com if you have more questions. :)

I think if it was the other way around and a male instructor had made a comment about women, it would be a huge deal. Lucky for them most men don't care. The only reason it bothers me is that it's a double standard. I, for one, try to be very neat and if you ask all the female nurses I work with they'll tell you I have the neatest handwriting on the unit and that my patient information white boards are always perfectly done (just one example).

If you were accepted into nursing school with that hair and it doesn't violate the dress code, then I don't see a problem with it. I'm just going to throw this out there though: Nursing has come a long way in the past several years and nursing has worked hard to get the respect and professional status that it has today. I personally like your hair (in the picture), but if your nursing program or future employer doesn't think it reflects a professional image, you may need to change it. I don't forsee that happening though. Good luck to you!

There are no rules (aside from maybe dress code). It really is up to what YOU like, not what others like :) I personally don't like stethoscope covers, but does that make me more manly? I don't think so.

Truly and honestly, past acedemic performance is a good indicator of future acedemic performance. While this is not always true and people overcome acedemic struggles, it's important for you to know and to know that medical school is going to be the MOST difficult thing you've ever done. Nursing school would probably be the second most difficult thing you've ever done. I'm honestly being sincere and not mean when I say this, but do you know if you'll get accepted into nursing school with your past acedemic performance of a 50% on a final exam? I would talk to the acedemic counselors at some schools that you're thinking about attending to see if they can do a transcript evaluation for you. Nursing school and college in general is a WHOLE lot harder than high school, so you're going to have to start getting serious and work really hard on your general education prerequisite classes. Pay particular attention in math and science classes and definitely pay attention in your English classes as you'll probably be writing a lot of papers in college and probably in nursing school too. With all that said, nursing school is most likely going to either be a waste of time and not prepare you for medical school (the method of training is completely different and you'll still be lacking many prerequisites required for application to medical school) or you'll absolutely love nursing and won't want to do medical school. Nursing and medicine are too drastically different to compare.