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Anyone applying for Frontier class 148? I've turned in all of the paperwork and application for FNP and now playing the waiting game. I haven't found another thread specifically for this class but if there is one, can someone please send me in the ri...

In 7 days I went from the wait list to being accepted. Stay on top of the admissions coordinators to make sure you're being looked at/moved up the list.

Got the email today...wait listed.

Just waiting patiently and thinking that every new incoming email could be the one. Surely by tomorrow we will know something since we will be approaching the 6 week mark.

My email that I have states that notification will be made 6-8 weeks from Frontier Bound date. That would mean somewhere around mid-late January hopefully. Oddly enough 8 weeks would be Jan. 4th, which is the application deadline.

Wyoming is a traditional 16 week semester. All classes are online, no clinical component. The classes can be taken one at a time or you can double or triple up if you can swing that with work or other life commitments. The classes are a mixture of so...

I can vouch for University of Wyoming, just finished my RN-BSN on Friday. I live in Kentucky found that the program was still rather affordable for me compared to other similar programs and the "for profit" programs. Finished in 2 years but probably ...

I would be interested in seeing other replies on this issue. The occasional 3:1 for a nurse in the unit happens, but daily for over half the staff seems unacceptable. It's a burnout/compassion fatigue issue for me, but legally I would like to see wha...

I've been saying this for a while. I appreciate my nursing assistants for what they do but I do not appreciate it when they call themselves nurses or see people I know who are NA's call themselves nurses on social media.

Background: I took a job right out of my ADN in the ICU, a job that I dreamed about through school. After I got there I realized it wasn't all I had made it out to be in my head even though I loved the hands on application of my nursing skills and th...

I really feel like the 5 days a week of clinic life and the monotony involved is burning me out. I actually worked in ICU yesterday and it was absolutely insane, not because anyone was crashing, but because I had 2 transfers and then picked up a pati...

Thanks for the reply. Money really isn't the issue because I'm getting paid roughly the same as I did in the hospital. There is an itch to go back because I enjoyed the hands on aspect of it all and the critical thinking involved. At the clinic, not ...

I've got 2 more shifts of orientation and then I'm on my own. I feel like I've gained a lot of confidence through the orientation process but I know I've got a long way to go. I've already had run ins with those arrogant, egotistical physicians and i...

I really think its ultimately a program by program type of thing. In my area we have a community college and a University that both offer degrees in nursing and in this particular case, the CC has a more prestigious program and higher pass rates for...

Sorry about that, you fixed it before my reply was posted.

How do you see that the CO2 is within normal range? 35-45 is normal for CO2. Below 35 is alkalosis and above 45 is acidosis. Also, 02 sat does not really matter when interpreting ABG's because the hemoglobin could be saturated with CO2 instead of O2 ...

Your pH is within normal range though it is on the alkaline side. Your C02 is low which would be alkalotic and the HCO3 is alkaline. The best way to look at it is if you drew and arrow and your pH and CO2 had arrows moving the opposite direction it w...

Hey everyone. Just curious to see if any of you here on AN would be joining me this Fall starting the RN-BSN program at U Wyo this August. I thought it would be nice to have some friends and support going into it.

I don't feel that would be productive given that it is a nationwide RN-BSN program, that's why I placed it in the student section to begin with. I live in KY and attending so I wouldn't want to limit it to the Wyoming nursing section. Thanks though.

Hey everyone. I am a spring 2013 grad and starting in a 12 bed Med-Surg ICU. Fortunately for me I have been working as an extern(PCT) since May of 2012 and I also did my 120 hour practicum there as well. I was supposed to have started yesterday but I...

Check out University of Wyoming. It is under $200/credit hour and appears very doable. I'm getting all of my stuff together to start in the fall. Not sure what state you are from but there are a few states that they do not accept students from.

$25 Walmart gift card.

First post on the threads but I'm with all of you. 3 more finals next week and this one is done. Only 8-9 weeks of class next semester, 120hrs of internship, and then the NCLEX. The light is getting brighter every day.