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That is typical pay in the South. I started out at $18 as a new grad a few years ago.

See you at orientation!

Yay! So exciting! What campus will you be at?

I got my acceptance letter yesterday! :)

Good luck while you're waiting. I'm sure you'll have good news soon.

When did you interview? I interviewed about 4-5 weeks ago, so it did take a while for my status to change.

Yay! I really hope that's right. I picked the Athens campus since I'm living in Lawrenceville right now.

Under required documents not received, my status check now says a background consent form is now needed. I hope that means I got in. Fingers crossed.

I checked my status again Friday and it finally changed to Decision Made: Notification Sent By Mail. Hopefully I'll receive the letter Monday or Tuesday. I have no idea why he received his so quickly. Did you apply for FNP or PNP?

I had to pay my deposit by February 15th for FNP, but I'm doing only the MSN portion as I'm already an RN.

Have you heard anything yet? I'm getting anxious.

The interview was very laid back. It took about 15 minutes total. I haven't heard anything back since my interview for the DNP-PNP, but I know someone who was accepted last week for DNP-FNP. I really hope I hear something soon. I turned down Vanderbilt in hopes of getting accepted at GRU. I hope I don't regret that.

I've applied to the GRU PNP/DNP program and have an interview scheduled for next week. For those of you who enrolled at GRU, how is your first year going and what do you think about the program? I haven't been able to find too much information about the program online. Thanks!

I got in for FNP, but I have an interview with another school for their NP/DNP program next week. I'd love to go to Vanderbilt, but I'm hesitant to go to such an expensive school just for the name. If I get into the other school, someone on the FNP waitlist is going to be very happy.

If you noticed, team player was in quotations. Don't get me wrong, I am definitely a team player when it comes to my coworkers and helping others out, but this isn't about helping others, it's about completely doing another person's job. They have completely changed the definition of team player in order to exploit nurses.

Exactly!!! Don't be pawned into being a "team player"! It's hurting us, those who need jobs, and the patients! If we ever want to be truly respected, we can not continue this self sacrificing behavior. I didn't choose nursing to be a missionary, volunteer, or because it was my "calling". I chose it as my career and would like to be treated as any other professional.

Do you think chemical engineers or lawyers have to mop up floors and clean bathrooms? No. Their professions are respected unlike nurses. I went to school to have a career as a nurse. I didn't spend thousands of dollars and study hundreds of hours to be a janitor. Until we respect ourselves and take pride in our career nursing will never improve. Hospitals are in the business of making money. If it can be done for cheaper, it will be done. There is a difference between caring about your patients and sacrificing your time, skills, training, and education. There is a reason the top paying careers are made up of 90% men. You are doing no one favors by gladly taking on more mindless tasks. It will just be one more thing tomorrow. I hope by the time I retire our profession is more respected. Anything can be done in 30 years.

I'm so so so glad I didn't end up with a nurse residency position there! Just goes to show Magnet Status is crap. Guess they bypassed that whole shared governance bit... That is such a slap in the face to our profession. I used to have such respect for Vanderbilt.

Yay! I'm happy for you! You have an awesome chance of getting one of the jobs and my friend loves being a TB nurse. I'm so glad I got into public health, so so so much better than the hospital.

First and foremost, I work to support myself and gain experience for the future. I am not a missionary or a volunteer. Nursing is a career, not a "calling" for me. While I care about my patients, my reason for working is myself. You cannot expect your staff to neglect their needs and goals. Your staff are probably leaving in order to have better working conditions and opportunities. Staff need to feel supported, involved in unit decisions, and have advancement opportunities in order to increase retention not just the "love of the job".

I'm sorry, but the fact that you can't even write a complete and correct sentence makes it hard to take you seriously. If I was asking educated people in my chosen profession for advice I would at least make sure I spell checked my writing. Why is nursing the one profession everyone thinks they can do? Augh. I wish you the best in your career, but realize professionalism is essential in nursing.

Over half of my ADN graduating class were hired at a magnet hospital. A lot of them even were hired into very competitive residency programs in the trauma-icu and ED.

Yes. You have to get fingerprinted. If I remember right, the locations are listed on the background check website. They're all in Georgia so you can't get fingerprinted in your state and have them sent to GA if you're not already there yet which is a pain.

No one is texting while putting an Iv in...texting while driving is dangerous because you're taking your eyes off the road to text.

Any idea if their pay is similar to hospitals in Atlanta?