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Thank you so much for this!

I am applying for 2017. From what I hear it's a panel interview and they ask a lot of get to know you questions and they do also ask some clinical questions depending on what kind of ICU patients you care for. Plus you also get to talk to current students and ask them whatever you want to after the formal interview with faculty. I worked with a girl who is starting there this fall she seemed to be very pleased with the interview and school. Good luck!

Aw it's ok just wasn't meant to be for me! I will apply to more programs next year after I get my CCRN cert and retake the GRE which will hopefully make me more a competitive applicant. Congrats on your interview anurse1!

I didn't get an interview. Done. This same exact thing happened at the last school I applied to. I truly don't understand how they can do that but whatever. Good luck to everyone that has already gotten in to the program and everyone else that got an interview invite today!

I got an email this morning for an invitation to interview and then just now got an email saying "recall" the interview message so I'm super confused I don't know what is going on. Did anyone else have the same thing happen?

I think all of our emails said the 12th but none of us heard back so let's hope tomorrow we will hear something!

Mine said the 12th also

Lol yes I emailed her too and got no response. I'm sure we aren't the only ones! Maybe Monday we will hear back. I just want to know either way, it's so frustrating not knowing [emoji20]

Anyone hear back today? Today was supposed to be the day they were going to let everyone know if they had been chosen for an interview and I heard nothing so I'm just assuming I'm getting a rejection letter.

I passed and I had 83 questions it was such a random number and the test was difficult with a lot of SATA questions I thought I had failed but I didn't! So you never know, you might have passed stay positive!

I agree with ccakes you are being a little too hard on yourself! Your floor sounds like a very busy floor. I'm wondering what kind of high risk drips you're administering while having 5 patients? And why are there nurses that won't cosign for you? That's so annoying and unhelpful and rude. I remember when I first started on medsurg/ortho and I had 7 patients and I can even remember having 8 a few times but I was super overwhelmed a lot in the beginning. There were a lot of things to do and I would freak out if I wasn't able to d/c a foley or change a dressing but I had to realize that things like baths, linen changes, dressing changes, ect. isn't something I should worry about if I get busy due to a patient becoming unstable or something like that. Nursing is a 24 hour job and if you're unable to do something it is ok if the nurse on the following has to do it. In order for you to grow and gain the confidence you need to succeed you need the other nurses to support you and help you. Some nurses forget what it's like to be brand new bc they've been doing it for 30 years. I'm not sure what kind of med mistakes you've made but just slow down and realize you're only one person and its okay to ask for help if you need it. I hope it gets better for you, good luck!

Absolutely not. I work in ISC at a large hospital and they will only float us to other ICUs, not stepdowns and never the floor. We would go home before allowing management to float us to med/surg. It's not that we can't take 6 or 7 patients but we aren't used to it and some of the nurses I work with have only ever done ICU. I know there's a hospital near by that will float their ICU nurses to step down units and for that reason alone I have no interest in ever working there. I would gladly be tripled before I would float to the floor.

After reading all of these replies to the original posting I am disgusted at how judgmental the majority of you guys are. I am seriously SO sick of the attitude nurses have. The OP just asked for an opinion on why it is that nurses seem to dress down compared to other professions. The answer is because we are skilled health care professionals, we aren't judged on our appearance. It's a perk of the job that we don't have to wear make up, do our hair or nails, ect to be accepted. We all have our days we are exhausted working our 5th 12 hour shift in one week no one is really worried about being done up. But that doesn't mean you can't wear makeup when you feel like it. I see so many of you saying "omg always must wear your hair up" and "nothing unnatural on your nails". Ok firstly I'm a RN not a nun. I have nights I wear my shoulder length hair down and if I have to put it up to clean a patient or change a dressing or do a bedside procedure I do so. I don't keep it up all the time bc my scalp is sensitive and it gives me a headache. Wearing it loose doesn't work bc my hair is fine and it falls out. Sometimes I wear no make up and sometimes I wear foundation, eye makeup, blush, and a highlighter. As far as nails go I paint the **** out of my natural nails with every glitter/gel polish I want and I don't really care bc there's never a time where I'm not wearing gloves while I'm touching a patient. Either way it doesn't make me any less capable of taking care of my patients [emoji136]🏼[emoji168][emoji140]🏻[emoji182] and if you are wearing make up that's "melting off" your face then stop buying the ****** foundation sold at Walgreens and you won't have that problem anymore

Thanks ICUNole you are very right. Good luck in the program! Let us know how you like it once it starts! I would love to hear about your experience!

Thanks Phriz, I definitely plan to!