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After a phone interview, the hospital is flying me crosscountry so I can have an in person meeting with the manager and do some job shadowing with the nurses on the unit. I have no illusions that this is a sure thing, but the recruiter suggested tha...

For the residencies, the application is just the one online, right? Am I correct in that there's no way to attach a cover letter? It seems like an awfully light application... How can I make this personal?

I don't know if you'll ever check this again but if you do, could you empty out your Pm box? I'd love to chat with you more about working at the hospital!!

Can you really only apply for one of the internship/residency positions? I'm interested in both OR and ICU but don't want to get myself on the naughty list for applying to both. Also the online application is very spartan. I can't even attach a cover...

I'm so upset. Summer III was the reason that I pushed myself since I started NS -- when I learned about it, I thought to myself "This is what I want to do!" I had a solid application and excellent GPA, and thought that I'd add diversity to the progr...

Hello everybody, I'm a BSN student graduating in May of 2012 and am seriously looking at the USAF as my future. Problem is, nobody in my family has a history of any kind of military service so I have no clue about military life, let alone nursing in ...

My mom works tele and I had some classmates on that unit last semester so I have some insight. Its a very interesting place and you will learn a lot about all the rhythms -- my classmates know much more about cardiac than I, who worked on a surgical-...

I overnighted my application to them yesterday. My school fails at getting official transcripts out (submitted request on December 6 and I'm still waiting) so I sent it with an older transcript and my unofficial to show the grades from my last semest...

Our school requires we pay for our ATI modules and tests each semester. It's worked out to being over $110 each semester so far, and I'm just finishing semester 2 of 6. It's a steep price to pay, especially since the only reason they added the progra...

Hello! I have the opportunity to purchase my MedSurg book for 1/3 of what my school is offering the bundle for, but the catch is that it's the international edition. That means it's softcover and can't be resold in the US (I think). My medsurg book i...

Evergreen Valley College is also lottery. A friend of mine from SJSU was rejected at SJSU so she applied at EVC and got in on her first try. Then again some people wait at EVC for a few years, so your experience may vary. SJSU has no waitlist or lott...

Thank you everybody for your expertise! I think I'm going to go for it -- if the book does happen to be missing some pages, I'll just ask my friends if I could borrow their books for an hour or so. I also sent the seller an email asking about the pic...

I'm not sure about SFSU, but SJSU is a "5 year" program. That's means it's minimum 2 years prereqs, 3 years nursing classes. The nursing semesters are typically less than 14 units each, so it's not a terrible class load. They dropped their accelerate...

I was pretty much a straight A- student with a few A here and there. Since sjsu is impacted, they take three factors into account. 1) GPA of the 5? Prereqs (anatomy, physio, chem, english, and micro). 2) gpa of last 30 units 3) teas score. That way i...

I'm a new admit to the SJSU nursing program, and the undergrad coordinator told us at advising (when many of us were just starting our prereqs) that "You need a lot of A's, and very few B's." You need a minimum GPA of 3.0 to even submit your applicat...

Is it common to seem so isolated in nursing school? I'm wrapping up my first semester in a BSN program and had a huge breakdown this afternoon after a session in the sim lab with some of my classmates. It's not the content that scares me, it's the fa...

Wow, thanks for the great response! :yeah:I do take notes on my laptop, but I don't study straight out of the book like many of my classmates. And I've NEVER been able to read extensively on a computer screen, I'd rather have my huge, physical text w...

I started buying my books online 1 1/2 semesters ago... WHAT A DEAL!! Half.com has become my best friend when it comes to buying new books. Sometimes I pay only 1/3 of what the campus bookstore is charging! For example, my first semester (Fundamental...

SJSU's nursing student uniform is navy scrub top and bottom, any brand. We don't have any patches or personalization. I really like the navy, and I picked out some Dickies that were 1) cheap and 2) flattering. When my mom saw me wearing them for the ...

I never thought that I'd be able to say this, but I am going to finally start nursing school! Orientation was last Friday, and my first Nursing class will be Tuesday at 1:30pm. Today I was so excited to start that I went out and got my BP cuff, scrub...

I took anatomy before physiology (they're offered as two different classes, one semester each), and I'm hanging in the class a little better then my friends who haven't taken anatomy yet. Anatomy was fairly easy for me, but physiology has been beatin...