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Hello! I didnt receive anything that I know of! I saw you guys got save the dates for orientation and if I did,I deleted it on accident LOL which is always a possibility. I just wish I would hear sooner rather than later so if I didn't get in that I would know! I luckily don't have to make travel arrangements since I live local to SBU but feel bad for those who live further and are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to hear!
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Hello All! I also applied to the PMHNP and have yet to hear. I actually applied in August and interviewed in November so this has been a very long wait for me. Congrats to those of you that got in!! I emailed Anita just now because if it was not for this thread I stumbled upon, I would be very much in the dark about admissions decisions. Hopefully denials, waitlists and official acceptances come soon.
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Had a patient once who came in for pneumonia, late 70s, was discharged and leaving in the morning but kept going brady overnight. I printed the strip from the monitor to put in the chart when he went down to 34, and the strip I printed was TEXTBOOK complete heart block, got a pacemaker the next day.
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hii! Although I don't work for LIJ, I have many friends who do/have been hired by them within the last few months. It seems as though they start with phone interviews and narrow down their search from there, then you go in for an interview, so it is not out of the ordinary! Good luck!1
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I attended Farmingdale's program, graduated in 2014 (ADN) and got hired the week after I took my boards. Graduating from an ADN program will reduce your chances of getting a job because a lot of hospitals are looking for BSN students, a lot of the people I graduated with are still not hospital employed. I have not heard of any of the BSN Farmingdale graduates being unemployed. I am finishing my BSN at Farmingdale and graduate in Dec. I had a BA in psych before going to nursing school. Farmingdale has inactivated their ADN program because they found many of their grads were having hard times finding jobs and to keep up with the market for new grads, they expanded their BSN program with the staff that used to teach in the ADN program. I really loved Farmingdale. The classes weren't too big, and the clinicals were from Winthrop, NUMC, Good Sam, Southside, Stonybrook, St Catherines, the VA in Northport and Cohen's Children's hospital (I am sure I am forgetting some!)
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Hey guys, I tested on Wed the 2nd and got my results this morning with Quick Results! Passed! Holiday or no holiday, they still issue the results! Good luck to you guys!
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I tested on Wednesday, of course 48 hours later...this morning, 4th of july, well I got my results this morning! =) passed! good luck to you!!
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Took mine yesterday, 8 am...75 questions...good pop up! Now just waiting for official results! OF course tomorrow is the 4th, which means I may have to wait til Saturday or Monday for quick results, my luck! Hahaha
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I myself have never been pregnant, but there is a very good chance the morning sickness/exhaustion will wane after your first trimester. As a person with many nieces and nephews, as well as very good friends who have had children, their pregnancies all varied so greatly, one had no morning sickness at all, where another had morning sickness through the entire length of her pregnancy. In my program, absences need to be made up or you fail clinical; there is no exception to the rule. Stick it out as long as you can, only you can make this decision and I wish you so much luck in the future. Let us know what you decide! We are all rooting for you.
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A woman in my nursing program was accepted into nursing school and found out she was pregnant a month later! She (I am not joking) had her baby on a wednesday in October and returned to classes 10 days later!!! It was incredible. It was not like she missed a beat, she even out performed a lot of people on our test the first week in November, having missed a week and a half of classes. She was able to participate in all aspects of clinical until her water broke, so I cannot see you being unable to complete an externship, unless of course you are not feeling well toward the end of your pregnancy. As Waitingonmymoment said, this woman was also to get continuous medical clearance from her physician, so that seems to be consistent and may be the extent of your difficulty. Congratulations and good luck! At least sleepless nights can be spent studying hahaha! Wonderful.
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Welcome to Allnurses...and nursing!! Working as a PCA will defintley help you in the long run, in my experience and opinion, those who had worked as LPN/CNA/PCT/PCAs were more comfortable interacting with patients and had an advantage over those of us who did not work in the field before hand. So trust me, it will help more than you think! The first day of clinical for me, I had never walked into a patients room who wasn't My family member, I was like a deer in headlights! Having that advantage would have been great! Read...a lot! That is my advice lol It can only help you to read before or after class, and I wish I had figured that out before I started my classes! Hahaha would have saved a lot of stress! Reading before you start will only be confusing (I open my textbook before fundamentals started and let me tell you....shell shocked!) so wait for orientation and your professors will tell you what you need to do to prepare! When I first started clinicals, I was terrified. Now I look at it as a chance to laugh and learn! I have had my share of unpleasant, crude and nasty patients, but I have also had sweet, caring, funny patients whose families were sad to see me go at the end of the day and beg me to come back the next day. My clinical professor last semester (who I will be with again next semester) is the most wonderful person I have ever met in my life and I love being with her and having the chance to learn from her. Don't get me wrong, there are days where I wake up and think "Ughhh I don't have it in me to go to clinical today!" but within an hour of being on the unit, the feelings fade, you get into a rhythm. If you have a positive attitude about it and look at it as a great learning exeperience, then you will succeed. Good luck and congrats!!!!
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My boyfriend as a "Congratulations on getting into nursing school!" Gift got me a Littman Master Class II stethescope and while pricier than a lot of the scopes available, it was actually kinda a disadvantage, because it doesn't have a standard Bell/Diaphragm head, but rather a twist to adjust one sided (fancy to look at but more tricky to use in my opinion.) You can definitley get away with using any Littmann Stethescope, I have friends that have a $50 Littmann Select and I have not found any amazing difference between my more costly model than theirs.
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Working as a CNA will certainly help you in the long run. Not only will it make clinicals easier, you will be getting your foot in the door for when you graduate, and in my opinion, the longer you work at a job, the more likely they will be to promote you through. Most of the people I know who were offered positions as RNs after graduation from my school, were already employed by a hospital or facility before hand and were able to stay with the hospital which is great. You will learn how things work there as well as prove to them that you can hack it at a career in healthcare. AKA you would be a "less risky new grad hire," (actual words to me from nurse recruiter in HR AND nurse manager I interviewed with at hospital.) I just took a position as a Nursing Assistant at a hospital, and the nurse manager basically interviewed me as a NA/potential RN since I am graduating in I noticed that you said you would be switching to nursing for career potential and are leaving a field you absolutely love, are you sure you will love nursing? Im assuming that because you are a CNA that you went through some sort of training and know first hand what you will be encountering as an RN, because it's A LOT of schooling and work to do something if your heart is not 100% in it. I love animals and am super jealous because I would have loved to work as a vet tech ahaha. But I think working those hours, and doing nursing school will be great for you. Keep your ears open as a CNA and you will find a lot of the things you learn in class are right in front of you and it is a GREAT opportunity to experience things otherwise only heard in class and at clinical. PS once the nurses find out you are a nursing student, you may be surprised how helpful they can be! Some nurses don't care, but others will seek you out so that you can see different procedures or teach you some tricks of the trade!
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What was hardest for me, was understanding that 1. I had to read the text book! I cruised through my first BA at a great school without really picking up the text, but in Nursing school? No Way, if I was going to pass the tests, I had to at least read a chunk of what chapter was going to be on the test. Our professors can only teach so much in class, so they go over a lot of the nursing management and interventions for diseases and such, but really understanding the processes and reading the text is what ties it all together for me, and I go from memorizing to really understanding. 2. Practice questions!! A lot of nursing school success can be attributed to understanding how questions are asked, and how to approach these very different types of questions. I suppose thats why everyone stresses that to practice for the NCLEX, do practice questions after practice questions....after doing practice questions. As far as content, I found the first part of med/surg to be the hardest. As our professors said, "This is the meat and potatoes of nursing, and this is where you will look around next semester and wonder where all your friends went!" and it was very true. We lost the most students that semester and there was just SO MUCH MATERIAL. It was 28 chapters of the textbook and was a killer. But we got through it and now off to the next! Good luck to everyone!!