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Denners916 Can I ask what your GPA was? I'm debating whether not I should try for the next start date. I was told not to even bother without a 4.0 but I was hoping my 3.7 would be enough. oh and congratulations!

I received my rejection email (FNP program) today. Bummer, but I know that it just wasn't meant to be right now. Good luck to everyone else!

I got an email a few weeks ago that said decision emails will be sent out at the beginning of April.

I don't see a Fall 2018 thread for the FNP program at a Texas Tech, so I thought I'd start one. I submitted my application in December, now just anxiously awaiting to get accepted or rejected. I hope I got everything submitted correctly, in the portal it shows everything is there but there is no final "application complete" indicator for the supplemental items. It just says 12/12 items received. Hopefully it's all good. I was accepted to UTA's online FNP program, but I declined it due to the high tuition cost and after hearing some negative reviews of their program. Texas Tech is where I really want to go, so very much hoping to get in! I have almost six years as an RN. The first couple of years I was an ER nurse. Then I worked in psych for a while before moving to my current position in day surgery. My GPA in nursing school was only 3.7, which worries me somewhat since I know Texas Tech is highly competitive to get into. However, I have a ton of volunteer work so I am hoping that boosts me a little. I have decided that if it's meant to be, I'll get in...and if not, I'll apply to some different programs for 2019. But, I really hope I get in!

We have a separate area in our ER for these patients, and we rotate the nurses assigned to it. I actually enjoy working that area every now and then, it's nice to have a day "off," that is, a day where I don't have to worry about my patients coding on me! I also get annoyed and frustrated with the BS people present with. We get all the toothaches, knee pain x 2 months, and cough/congestion...but we also see an incredible number of "abdominal pains," aka "needs a pregnancy test and is trying to manipulate an ultrasound." I am less annoyed with these than I could be, because of the high number of women who have a hard time getting in to the clinics for prenatal care (Planned Parenthoods, and the like, are far apart and overcrowded here in Texas). If the doc orders pain medicine, I give it with a smile. I honestly feel better at the end of the day if I don't let this stuff get to me. Showing how I really feel won't change anything, and will just leave me feeling angry and bitter. So, I put it out of my mind! One thing I refuse to do, though, is provide food to them. I'll bring them a blanket, narcotic pain meds, water, or socks...but they are NOT getting a sandwich! The sandwiches are in limited supply, and we reserve them for patients who are being admitted and have to wait in the ER for a room assignment. "But I'm diabetic, you have to feed me." Fine, here are some crackers, peanut butter, and a juice =) And if they throw a fit, we have an excellent social worker, who is more than happy to explain that this is a hospital, not a soup kitchen, and that ER rooms aren't required to provide full meals. The thing that gets me the most is when people complain about their co-pays, then complain about not being provided snacks. We cut all that stuff down to trim costs!!! I love when they say, "I should have gone to XYZ Hospital, they give me a lunch tray and all my visitors get one, too." I just laugh and tell them it's a free country and they are free to leave and go elsewhere. Oh, and I can't stand when one of their friends/visitors asks for food! I tell them we have a cafeteria, especially for visitors. One lady, when I told her that, said, "What! I don't want to pay for it! I want some of your free food, I'm diabetic and you have to feed me!" I told her that if she wanted free food then she would need to go up to triage and register as a patient. Unbelievably, she did just that. They assigned her to another room, and when she demanded her free food, her new nurse brought her crackers and juice, lol. We didn't even have sandwiches that day...LOL. Basically, I just treat everyone the way I would expect to be treated, were I a patient or a visitor. That leaves me feeling generally satisfied and not bitter at the end of the day. Also, our nurses station has a closeable door, and we frequently close it so we can laugh about a situation with each other!

Baylor Health Care System in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area does! I've also heard THR hospitals do, as well, but I've never applied there so not really sure. Children's Medical in Dallas does...at least, when I did clinicals there I talked to several nurses who were hired as new grads in their ER. Good luck!

This is a very intense program. I am in my Senior 1 semester, and graduate in May 2012. I was an A student, with a 4.0 before I started taking the nursing classes, not anymore! I also have a baby, though, who was only 3 months old when I started the program (he's eleven months old now), so that has caused my grades to drop. I feel like I could do better but it would be at the expense of spending even less time with him and my husband, and I won't do that. You really cannot work full-time and do this program. I work 20 hours a week at Baylor, but have my son in full time day care, because I need all of those hours to study. Seriously, I try to pass off as many of my hours as I can to my co-workers who want them. The online classes are very time consuming, with multiple pod casts, online lectures, slideshows, etc. You really need to be self motivated to do the material. My clinical group does most of our clinical rotations at Baylor Dallas. We went to JPS for Psych, and I am currently at Childrens' Dallas for Pediatrics. Back to Baylor next week for Critical Care rotation. My group has testing on Wednesdays. The tests are difficult, and require critical thinking and application of the knowledge learned in class. My advice is to DO YOUR READING...and whatever else you find helpful. If your instructor offers to to a live webinar, attend if at all possible! It is a great opportunity to ask questions and get helpful advice for the tests. You have to pick what material and resources will be most helpful to you, and use your own smarts to do it, because unless you don't work and don't have kids and don't have any kind of life other than school, you will NEVER have time to do everything they tell you to do. Also, I didn't have to sign any contract with my partner hospital (I work at Baylor). Neither did anyone else in my clinical group, including one girl who who is not employed with any of the partner hospitals. In fact, one of my classmates quit Baylor because her department would not work with her school schedule. So I don't know if it is only certain hospitals that require you to sign a contract, but I can tell you that Baylor does not. Hope that helps! Good luck.

I took online chem at TCC NE campus. I took ******, but I heard ***** is also great. You do have to go in one day a week for the lab. I made an A, and not because she was easy, I made it because she is an incredible teacher who is really good at explaining chemistry! I learned so so so much and it really helped me in Pharmacology, and is still helping me now, as a senior in the AP program. She's awesome, highly recommend!!! Yes, you have to go in one day per week but TRUST ME it is worth it.

I am employed with Baylor, and so are the other seven people in my cohort, but I think that the answer will be the same. Yes, you can quit. One of my co-students was employed with Baylor (an AP partner), but after being accepted she quit because she was not able to get weekends off (which is when we have had many of our clinicals). Even though we are Baylor, not THR, I think it would be the same for you.

Some people were talking about that earlier in the thread. You might want to look there if you haven't already.

Students working for partner hospitals get in first, then everyone else. It just depends on how many qualified applicants there are in the hospital system. If your grades are very good, it is possible you might not get picked right away, but go on the wait list. Then you might get selected a little later on. There is no way of saying for sure how likely you are to get in, but if your grades are very good, then you definitely have a shot! The UTA program has a very good reputation. Many nurses from my hospital graduated from there. I am in the second semester of the nursing program, and I will say it is VERY challenging. I was always an A student, but not anymore! But I feel like I am learning a lot. I have never even heard of the Tarleton program, nor do I know anyone who graduated from it. Is it an online program?

Have any of you who applied for the Spring 2011 start have gotten any confirmation that your application was received? I emailed my advisor a couple of weeks ago, and she just said that when they get them processed I will get an email confirming receipt of my app. I was just wondering if anyone else is in the same kind of "did they get my application-limbo?" Thanks! And good luck to those waiting to hear!

I am a former animal control officer who is now studying to become a nurse. I left the animal control field because I couldn't handle all the suffering, pain, and death/euthanasia of the animals. However, I think I will be a good nurse. It's not that I won't have compassion for people, I just tend to get far more attached to animals. Perhaps because they cannot tell you what they are thinking, and have no voice? I am very compassionate and empathetic towards people, as well, I just think that it will be easier for me to not get personally involved with human patients. So, I guess it depends on your own personality. There are so many areas of nursing, even if you have a hard time at first, you can always work towards a department that doesn't have alot of death/dying/suffering. I, for example, hope to someday work with recovering drug addicts. Of course, they do suffer! But I think it's a little different =)