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  1. Critical Care Trauma Nurse Parkland

    I'm DYING!!!! lol I keep staring at my phone and my heart starts racing and I'm like maybe I'm having ESP and they're about to call.........haha I'm driving myself
  2. Critical Care Trauma Nurse Parkland

    Yeah that sounds like the residency. Wish I would have gotten an invite for that one as well though just for some backup in case the cctn program doesn't come through. Maybe they're in cohoots and...
  3. Critical Care Trauma Nurse Parkland

    TexAg- I believe they will be doing all of the calls at the same time (good and bad) so it's really up in the air :0\ but someone here talked to the recruiter and they said it would be sometime around...
  4. FACIAL HAIR during the job search

    My opinion is to shave it. Better to just do it rather than risk them thinking you didn't care enough to get rid of it for interviews? Just my 2 cents :) good
  5. Terminated over the phone.

    I'm sorry you're going through a hard time. If it makes you feel any better just know that you can learn from your mistakes and be an even better nurse because of it. As a new grad reading your story...
  6. Critical Care Trauma Nurse Parkland

    Oooh OK that's really good to know haha. They told me they would be doing their last interviews the week of the 18th and will prob. start calling people the week after... I'll go with what you said...
  7. This is what happens when....

    I dream all the time when I'm on "studying binges" Last week we had a GSW simulation and I dreamed that I was the charge nurse during the simulation and went through the whole thing in my head, and...
  8. what do you want to be when you grow up?

    An artist and musician. I'd bake fondant cakes during the day, paint pictures by the ocean at night, play my guitar until I got sleepy.
  9. Angry young lady

    haha that last post literally made me laugh out
  10. New Grad May 2011

    Hello all, I have just begun my last semester of nursing school for BS major in Nursing in Houston and will now be entering the world of the infamous GN job search... and I tell you, I've never felt...
  11. New Grad May 2011

    Thanks to both of you for replying! It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels this way! I think I'm getting a little more confident about it. Gobananas15: I think I saw you talking about the...
  12. In need of amazing scoliosis specialists!

    My name is Kelli I am a nursing student and my sister has scoliosis that was corrected when she was 14 years old at Scottish Rite hospital in Dallas. She wore a brace for 2.5 years prior to surgery,...
  13. Hostile nursing staff at clinical

    My best advice is, take charge of your own experience and just do everything you can autonomously. Go in and take vitals and do your assessment, write it all down and hand it to her just say "Do you...
  14. Practice Quiz or Test for Health Assessment?

    GOOGLE! That's how I find thousands of multiple choice questions- get really good at
  15. Nurse Residency Programs

    sweetmissdixie- where are you located if you don't mind me asking? I go to school in Houston and I wanted to apply for all of the versant programs in Texas I really want to get into the Versant...
  16. If it is so very mild, then why couldn't you have made it to clinicals
  17. TWU Fall 2010

    I don't know why you guys won't listen to me, I have been at TWU Houston for two semesters....the reimbursements come out the first week or two of class depending on when they receive your check, then...
  18. TWU Dallas Fall 2010 - Accepted

    BOOOO I'm so jealous of all of you. When I got my TWU acceptance letter it was like yayyyyy I'm in............oh no.....I'm moving to Houston. For some crazy reason, I thought that since I went to...
  19. Help, I've got a crush!

    I say if your instructor doesn't know what the guy looks like and if you use an email account not associated with the school, and of course you aren't taking care of his father/mother anymore, go for...
  20. I need help to succeed in nursing school

    I am also a writing learner- I write tons of notes in class on our power-point print-outs, then when studying for exams (usually start 2 weeks in advance) I re-write literally all of my notes while...
  21. Least favorite pre-req: Political Science

    I hated developmental psych at the time but it totally pays off
  22. Fall 2010 Classes!!

    Mental health-5 hrs Child Health-5 hrs Adult health II-5 hrs plus 3 12 hour clinicals/week! woohoo bring
  23. TWU Fall 2010

    and you don't need to worry about getting dropped from your fall classes they have enough spaces for all of the incoming junior
  24. TWU Fall 2010

    reimbursements usually come during the first week or two of
  25. TWU Fall 2010

    yeah that's a must you gotta get the assessments down for sure. the first semester is extremely nerve wracking during checkoffs (you have vitals checkoffs and assessment checkoffs) so don't worry,...