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Does everyones say routed? Or just suitable candidates? I ask because mine says routed...

What does it mean exactly that the application has been routed?

Thank you for that info Pishiii!

Have you guys been calls today? Mine is "under manager review" and I'm waiting for a callback.

I passed a couple weeks ago with a 929. I did 50 questions a day of Saunders or NCLEX 4000. I also read the entire med-surg section in the blue HESI book. I subscribed to the NCSBN question bank but I didn't find it helpful, the questions were nothing like on the regular HESI.

What was your GPA? Have you applied out of state?

I do have some experience, I had a 10 wk paid externship over the summer. Just no CNA experience.

Hey california nurses, I know its rough out there but after I graduate from my midwestern school, I'm moving to california. I'd like to know how competitive I am for residencies/new grad positions. I graduate in April. My specs: BSN, 3.7 cum gpa (~3.5 nursing), externship at top 10 ten hospital in ICU, male, no other health care experience, background in IT/programming, but spotty work history with a lot of gaps (28 years old). I wanted to add - I will live anywhere in California, from north to south to the central valley or even up in the sierras. I would also be willing to live in a more rural area if necessary.

When does this residency start? I graduate with my BSN in april and want to start applying in california.

I always thought I had the hepatitis B vaccine, but wasn't able to find the paperwork, and just put it off for later. At my school I could "opt out" for the clinicals, so thats what I did. I just got an amazing opportunity of an externship for this summer off from school at a hospital in a different state, but now I'm worried about the Hep B thing. I got titers drawn, which came back negative! My mom insists I got the vaccine, but I can't find it at any of the doctors I went to. I'm thinking my mom never got it for me and was just confused. I have the first of the 3 shots scheduled for today, but they won't be done until the very end of the summer, way after the externship is over. So those who work in hospitals or have knowledge of the situation. Should I be OK? The externship is only 10 weeks. I don't have the paperwork to know yet if I definitively need hep B, but I should get it in a few weeks. What has been your experience with this vaccine? My future kind of rides on the answer

Thanks! Could I get just one more? Then I'll stop asking :)

thanks Nickilaughs! I appreciate it. Any way I could get a couple more opinions? Pretty please?

Greetings from Iowa! I have a project to do for nursing school and need some opinions on california's mandated nursing staff ratios. I'd like to know anyones experiences with it - how do you like it? Have you worked in other states? Do you feel that the nursing ratios have increased quality of care? Have the ratios affected your autonomy at all? I'd appreciate any anecdotes to how the mandated staffing ratios are working out. Thanks!!

I hope the situation improves then! I will finish in 2013, will be 30 when I'm done, and I don't have a plan B!

Lol, why are people from california always such spoiled brats about it? Mental health? As someone who also went to SMC and now lives in Iowa, Just get over it and do your ADN in kansas.

So the ANCC is requiring doctorate level education for the NP by 2015, but what about the AANP? I finish my BSN in 2012 and I probably won't get into a program until 2015, so I won't be able to be grandfathered in. This whole situation is highly confusing! I wish nurses had a bit of unity, all of this procedural infighting makes it impossible to get accurate information.

How rural? I'm a state over in Iowa (Des Moines) and don't think I can (or my fiancee from san francisco) handle anything more rural than des moines, lol. Its awesome you got a job though, I've been terrified after reading about people applying to jobs for a year with no luck.

Thanks for the info! Did you end up moving to vermont then? Did you get a job in a city?

Hi Everyone, I'm in a BSN right now and have about 3.8 gpa and everything is going well. I've heard that the market is oversaturated with nurses and people are really having difficulty finding jobs. Is this true with male nurses too? Are there quotas that must be fulfilled? I don't mind working a little bit of gender based affirmative action if it gets me a job :).

Hi everyone! I'm new here, so sorry If I'm posting in the wrong forum. I am in Iowa at a small private university working on my BSN. Next fall I will start the actual nursing program, and right now I'm working on prereqs. I only moved back to Iowa when the economy crashed, and I'm itching to get out of here! I've heard its best to try to transfer after your first year in nursing school, so thats what I'm planning on. My question is, how hard is it to transfer into another nursing program? Obviously state schools are much more difficult to get into from out of state, so I'd like to focus on private BSN programs. I'd like something in Oregon, Washington, Minneapolis, or Chicago. Right now I'm getting excellent grades, and doing everything I possibly can to make myself competitive. What else should I be doing? Is there anything I should know about transferring, or what obsticles I will be up against? This forum has a ton of collective knowledge and experience! Someone help! I need out of Iowa!

That makes me feel a bit better. I have been reading about nursing programs for weeks now, and have been amazed by the quality of applicants being turned down. I'm just terrified that this garbage from my youth will keep me from realizing my goals! I'm trying to plan my return back to California!! (Doing something I enjoy this time!) Oh, and to clarify, I mean that my gpa since returning to college is 3.86, NOT my cumulative gpa. If that was counted id be surprised if it was even 2.0. (Yes, I screwed up that bad). Do admissions departments like sob stories ? lol! If so maybe I can spin it somehow in my favor.

Hi everyone, this is a great forum, I have been lurking for a couple months now! I just have a few questions and need some advice of where I should go from here. Long story short, I want to get my RN but need some advice considering my circumstances. Heres my story. I had an extremely difficult period in my life after graduating high school through my early 20s. I won't go into it, but it heavily affected my grades in college. While living in Iowa. I got expelled for bad grades from one university. I then moved to california, and continued on into community college I basically failed out again there. After this, I decided college wasn't for me and decided to work as a computer programmer while I figured my life out. So I did, and I'm great now. Much, much happier and my life has stability. California is great! But the job market there imploded in october! Now I'm back in Iowa, finishing college. I'm a psychology major, and my grades are great now. My major gpa (cumulative) is 3.67. I have a 3.86 gpa now since returning to school, and I have ~45 semester units left. (not including science prereqs for an absn) I want to enter into an accelerated bsn program after I finish my bachelors in psychology and complete the science prereqs. But my question is this. What are my chances of getting accepted into a program? My first 60 hours of college are LITTERED with F's. I really screwed things up. But I improved vastly and am now basically getting straight A's with the odd B. Will this be enough? What kind of performance do I need to show to get accepted into a program? Anything I can do to set myself apart? Other thoughts: I figure I should be looking at private programs as their admission requirements seem to be a bit lighter. Should I think about getting my LVN, then doing an LVN to RN program? How difficult are those to get into? Any other thoughts would be appreciated!!!