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I in no way to to be at my job 5 days a week. I work nights and after working even 2 or 3 nights straight regardless of the extra 4 hours I work that make a 12 hour shift, the entire next day is purely just for relaxing and gaining some normalcy and energy. I would have no time to accomplish anything with just one true day off. Sorry I just disagree, this isn’t for everyone.

Going back for your advanced education will make you realize how little emphasis many registered nursing programs put on helping you KNOW and LEARN things rather than MEMORIZING them for their school exam. Clinical practice is something to solidify, clarify and expand your knowledge. Always ask questions and never be afraid to say “I don’t know this but please explain it to me.” A good impenetrable pair of shoes, (despite maybe looking kind of ugly like mine), go a long way.

I interviewed July 3rd and got the acceptance email end of the business day July 22nd

Check your emails y’all! Just got my acceptance letter. Good luck to everyone still waiting to hear back or waiting for their interview! You got this!

My specialty is medical ICU. I got a scenario regarding a possible airway issue. There were things that I had wished that I had mentioned on the spot, but these only came to me in the car when my nerves had washed away some, lol. Biggest advice to to make eye contact, smile, provide clear and concise answers and be authentic and show that you're confident but comfortable discussing and answering questions. Also have questions prepared that would like to ask of them at the end. Good luck!

They ask you exactly what they will tell you they ask in the email they send out to confirm interviews. What is the role of an acute care NP? What are your professional goals 5-10 years from now? 1 clinical scenario where they simply want to see your train of thought and it doesn’t necessary need to be a spot on, correct answer just wanna see how you’d approach things. There are usually two interviewers. Make eye contact and smile too ?

Just got an interview for July 3rd! Anyone else get an interview ?

I called UM and they have not yet started their interview process.

Has anyone gotten any interviews yet? All my recommendation letters and transcripts finally arrived in full today. I called the office and they I accidentally applied to the primary care program lol so they switched my application into the acute care. I was a little mortified. Anyone else?

No problem! Best of luck!

Hey! They do tours Mondays and Fridays at 130pm and he happened to do the tour. Just call them. He said that you don't need a reservation but it would be nice to let them know. Go ahead and submit your application if you have sent out your requests for references at least. You do not have to wait for you recommendation letters to all come back in order for you to submit your application. Yea, I've heard the same. It just takes a bit of preparation I guess and it's usually a two panel interview. Good luck with your personal statement! That was the hardest part for me because I looking for a good mix of unique, personal but not totally informal.

I sent my application in yesterday. I am waiting for my recommendations and transcripts to come in but I did the tour yesterday with their associate dean and he said to send it in as soon as you can so they could start processing it. Once your recommendations and transcripts are received and processed, the faculty board will begin reviewing it and they review them as they come in every 2 weeks except next week when their system is down for maintenance. My coworker interviewed for their full time Fall 2019 admission and she and the dean both stated that you must prepare for the interview if you receive one. You have to know the ins and outs of what an acute NP role consists of and know your clinical stuff and be able to concisely state it. She was asked about the pathophysiology of sepsis for example. Good luck ladies and gents!

COngratulations!

Hello there fellow nurses! I'm a young 23 year old RN, 4 years of LPN before me with almost 1 year of med surg tele heart failure experience on an extremely busy floor. I graduated with my associate RN and will be completing a 1.5 year program to finish out my BSN at a university. I am currently still living at home with my mother who is a fellow nurse. Though nowhere near experienced in the nuances of life and all that it brings, I have found myself approaching what can only be described as my quarter life crisis. My dream so far has been to finish out my BSN and move away to somewhere like Texas or the like and turn a new chapter in my life. Several of my significant friends are getting more serious in their relationships or are moving away as well, while I have been single for almost 4 years. The only tie downs I have are my family, 2 of which are aging grandparents that I do not feel completely at peace with them having to be cared for my father who has a new family of his own and my aunt who has a demanding marriage. I also have a mother who may option to move closer to me if I move away as she is also not tied down by anything except a few properties. I love nursing, 100%, but lately have found myself wanting to broaden by horizons to other fields of possible interest. Though I'm sure no one can answer the question of "what is my passion?" except for myself, I wanted to get a little bit of advice from some of you regarding my step by step plan. Right now I will start my BSN program at the end of August ending it sometime in December of 2017. If I am still aiming to leave my state, I would desperately love to get at least a year of ICU experience while still working within my hospital down here. Getting into ICU from tele I'm sure can be difficult, with may choosing to move up to IMCU and then further themselves to ICU later on. Originally I fell in love with cardiac ICU and though I still am, I would like to be approached various diagnoses and conditions and have possibly settled to attempt to get into medical or surgical ICU. Can anyone tell me if my reasoning is wrong? Should I leave my comfortable but stressful floor in order to further myself (if even possible) into ICU only to uproot myself a year or so later? Would getting ICU experience benefit me if I move somewhere like Texas? Am I taking on too much by starting school again (all online) AND trying to move to a different unit & acuity? Any opinion or outlook would be beneficial. Even if you don't agree. Thanks!

So many congratulations to you as well. I also just received a nursing scholarship and no words even match the excitement and honor and pride you feel. I wish you all the best in all your endeavors!

Thanks so much. I graduated at 17, turned 18, graduated high school and then am now 20 doing this. I keep trying to keep my head up to but it seems I can never catch up. My nervousness and impulsive and fear of failure constantly find me even when I try to avoid them. Thanks so much for your kind words. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Hey, I'm right there with you. For all the facts that nurses are supposed to just exude caring, patience, and compassion, it feels like this field has very little of it for us in return. But we fight through. We will pick ourselves back up. Do one thing at a time and persevere. No matter the circumstance. I may not personally know you. But I know what you're going through, even if you think I don't. We will make it through and continue on. Leave the mistakes in the past and don't fear judgment. :)

I feel like I have no one to turn to at this point. With everything going on in my life, I finally understand how easy it could for someone to give into depression and turn to suicide. Not that I am suicidal AT ALL. But I see that other than hypertension, stress acts like a silent killer. Currently I'm a new nurse judging full time school, work, and personal life. I am unconfident of myself, I second guess myself, and I'm impulsive. I try my hardest and my best to do things right, but I feel as though everything always slips out of my grasp. As I'm done putting out one fire, I'm onto the next one. I currently am doing my LPN to RN and it is hell. People are failing out and dropping out left and right. I didn't pass my skill demonstration today and I'm trouble with my instructor for something I didn't realize I was doing. I am barely slipping by with my grade in theory. I don't even know what that will do to my perfect GPA. And I don't think I am eligible anymore for a hospital scholarship which would ensure me a job if I pass the program. I look, act, and feel like a nervous wreck. I don't feel like a real nurse. I feel like a liability waiting to happen. I work at a LTC job where I get so frustrated with administration because I feel like I'm being treated differently by my boss due to my age. I'm get so much backlash for trying to do the right thing and stay on top of things and find solutions and rectify problems. My mom lost her job. She is a nurse as well. I have to make her a resume and cover letter and help her job hunt. I barely ever see my friends, or my boyfriend. Anxiety attacks are a new thing of mine now. I try to act strong, responsible, collected, confident and efficient, but I'm a giant fake. I love this field and I'm passionate about my path in it and all the ways I want to have influence in reforming it for the better. It's all I've ever known most of my life. I know I can handle it. I know things get better. I know all this "too shall pass." But I just need a few kind words from anybody out there who has ever felt like I do now, to push me through this day. Doesn't matter where you come from, if you're new or experienced. Anything helps. Thank you.

I didddddddddd! :) congrats to you as well btw

I wish I worked with you. Christ help me become an RN already.

I too plan to apply for the Fall term and wanted to know the facts on doing it online full time

It may be half and half. Half of your preceptor's abilities might be her personality and the other half is definitely the fact that she is a regular there and probably tries to stick to the same routine day in and day out. This is a right of passage for all new LPNs. We can all argue about who have more patients but at the end of the day we are all different and all situations that we encounter depend on the critical thinking skills of the person responsible for that particular situation in that time and that location. Even if you feel like you're being judged, and even if you are, plenty have been in your shoes and plenty will be soon. So don't fret, EVER. :)

I have lived around the Miami area since I was a little girl and now work as an LPN here, I can't imagine any professional reasons that I would wish to stay here longer than necessary. Pay is very low in comparison to other states, who do have their own issues such as a greater cost of living. Although the baby boomers in the theory would create a surplus of jobs, finding a job without knowing that certain "somebody," is very hard. The jobs that you do end up finding sometimes have indescribable patient ratios. Although no sales tax is always great, the BIPOLAR, and extremely HUMID weather is completely a deterrent for people who have been living here for years like me. For people who visit for a couple of days, weeks or even months, no amount of time other than a permanent residency which allow you to understand that all that warm and nice weather is a thing of the past. The weather changes quickly and extremely as of late making being outside unbearable at times. Traffic is traffic is traffic IS traffic. As long as you have a job that affords you being able to find other routes to get to work, you can and may get stuck in very slow moving traffic. Housing is on the rise, with rent prices much higher than before and although prices for homes have dropped, a gradual increase is starting to occur again especially with foreign investors who send their agents to just buy up properties without even a look. As a nurse who is looking to one day go further with her education and what not, I would not recommend Miami at all.

I swear after reading your experience with your first year of nursing, I must say I feel so much better about going into my 3-11 shift in a few hours despite how I normally dread the hell out of it. I too am an outsider in my 99% Spanish-speaking facility with people talking behind my back thinking I dont understand them when I actually & moderately do. I'm so glad that I read this because before this I felt like I was just going to kill myself. But I realize now that it takes time. It takes time to make yourself and prove yourself that you can be one of them and that you are infact destined to succeed and be a great nurse. So that's what you have inspired me to do; to hang on and learn as much as I can and do the best that I can. Thank you so much. You've made a world of difference.

And I WISH we had med techs at our facility.