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  1. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ATfriver, congrats on getting your interview! Did you do anything in between last time you applied and this time that you think made you stand out? Doesn't look like I'm getting an interview this time...

  2. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I saw on facebook that MICU sent out

  3. Which CSU nursing program should I go to?

    thinwildmercury replied to aluong819's topic in California Nursing

    I would recommend taking things one step at a time. My best advice for you is to start taking night classes at your local community college. I did this when I was in high school and it is the only...

  4. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    MICU was my first choice-still

  5. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    SK2022 you have NO IDEA what a relief that is to hear! I can still have hope for now

  6. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    SICU has started sending emails for interviews. My first choice was MICU.... still

  7. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ugh my status date is still 3/24 and still says "online assessment completed". Trying to stay positive, but it's not looking too good for

  8. SHARP New Grad Nurse Residency Programs, Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to Colby21's topic in California Nursing

    Are people who are getting interviews from San Diego?

  9. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My status hasn't changed I have been checking like crazy lol. I read on FB that they will be contacting people for interviews "end of April-beginning of May." Pretty much any day

  10. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No changes on mine. I applied for ICU and NTICU at RR and CCU/med-surg at SM. I had two preceptorships one on a step-down and one in a burn icu so i wasn't sure what to pick

  11. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I graduate in May. I think even with the back up, there should be no problem getting my license my September! Also... still no status change PEDSNURSEPASSION, when the recruiter talked to your...

  12. Making the drive to Sacramento anything I need to know?

    thinwildmercury replied to pnkgirl25's topic in California Nursing

    I just went to Sacramento a month ago. There were only a couple other people there and we all got our issues resolved. (I couldn't help overhearing their situations since they were ahead of me in line...

  13. Applicants to Chico for Fall 2014??

    thinwildmercury replied to curlypearly's topic in California Nursing

    Someone in my cohort was number 19 on the alternate list and got in... you really never

  14. Applicants to Chico for Fall 2014??

    thinwildmercury replied to curlypearly's topic in California Nursing

    I am in the program now as well if anyone has questions. I am finishing up so I don't remember the schedules exactly but I know it was a two day schedule for lecture almost all, if not all through the...

  15. UCLA New Grad Summer 2014

    thinwildmercury replied to sarahruby's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I applied! From looking at last year's posts, they took about two weeks to start making phone calls. Good luck

  16. Transferring to UCI? PLEASE HELP! I'm completely lost!

    thinwildmercury replied to mmm's topic in California Nursing

    Find out what nursing schools you want to apply to, take the pre reqs required for them at a community college and save your money!! Anatomy, physiology, chemistry, statistics, and microbiology can be...

  17. Do you have a clever way to do IS teaching?

    thinwildmercury replied to EGVnurse's topic in Patient Education

    I always say "you suck, you don't blow" although some of the hard of hearing patients hear the "blow" at the end and still get it wrong... then I use the straw example and I don't leave until they...

  18. Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

    thinwildmercury replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am graduating this May. As a student nurse I have had one error and one near-miss so far. The first error was in my first semester... I was at a rural hospital that did not have EMR yet-all paper. I...

  19. For those that got into a CSU BSN nursing program!

    thinwildmercury replied to ohhivivian's topic in California Nursing

    I got into Chico State 2.5 years ago. I was number 15 on the wait list and I got in. I also applied to Sac State and I was number 60 on their wait list and didn't get it. My GPA was probably like 3.3...

  20. IF you WEREN'Ta nurse, what would you be???

    thinwildmercury replied to sjoy's topic in General Nursing

    starving actress trying to "make it" on broadway and not caring about money. if

  21. 18 weeks of "residency" to give 18months experience?

    thinwildmercury replied to nohika's topic in General Nursing

    of course not, there's no substitute for

  22. A&P or Human Bio

    thinwildmercury replied to nursingstudent221's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes it does. classes in the 100's are intro. So bio 100 is the first bio class you can take and it is a pre req to bio 328 which is a pre req to bio 610/611. This is how it is at my school. It looks...

  23. Waiting is the hardest thing

    thinwildmercury replied to Piglet68's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    "The waaaiiiiiting is the hardest part" - Tom Petty =) To relieve the stress, I might suggest going for runs, taking long showers, playing an instrument if you know how. Cooking? But that could...

  24. A&P or Human Bio

    thinwildmercury replied to nursingstudent221's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    you should read the class descriptions. At my school, human bio is bio 100 while anatomy is bio 328 and physiology is bio

  25. Microbiology: Spring 2010

    thinwildmercury replied to blueyesue's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We had an unknown-everyone's was different and we did tests on it all throughout the semester. I remember thinking I would never find out what mine was! It ended up being Shigella (or I hope so lol!...