kaw5cv replied to rhernandez748's topic in Nursing Career
Nope, if you know what specialty you're interested in go for it! Don't waste time in an area you're not passionate about. You will be trained sufficiently during your orientation to that patient...
1. Richmond, Virginia 2. $23.18 base (evening +$5, night +$6, weekend day $5.50, weekend evening +$7, weekend night +8.25) 3. New Grad RN 4. Surgical Trauma
During school all of my clinicals ended up being on medicine floors. I worked as a UAP on two surgical units a PACU and Cardiac Surgery ICU. Having exposure to those ICUs and liking surgery more...
It will depend on you. Everyone in my program (Accelerated BSN) is different. Some are focusing only on school and don't hang out much, work, or do many extra curriculars. Personally I have been...
I don't think so. Medstar Georgetown is one of the places I'll be applying to after graduation. Worst case scenario is you get a job here at VCU or Richmond in general and stick it out for a year...
Hi, I was in the same boat as you 1 year ago. I was accepted to both programs and ended up choosing VCU. From my position now I must say that I'm very glad I chose VCU. I've heard some thing...
My stats were 3.6 ugrad GPA (biochemistry) and 4.0 pre-reqs. No volunteer/clinical experience so I was surprised that I was actually accepted. I also feel I had a pretty good essay/unique life...