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Yeah! Got my acceptance notice today!!!?

They will notify you by email. You can also check Merlin and they will leave a notification there as well. If you get accepted be looking for a mandatory orientation link. I did not get one and by time I got the survey asking how it went, it was too late for me. I had to reapply for the fall. I too am impatiently waiting. Good Luck!! :)

Well, south Texas is a really sick population and acuity is very heavy. So many total care patients. I have worked in ER and you hit the floor running, but in south Texas, they probably admit 45% of what comes into the ER and working the floor is tough. Patients missing limbs, poorly controlled diabetics, head to toe wound care, incontinent, unable to turn self. You get handed 5 of these patients and the very first room you walk into, you spend a minimum of 45 minutes and then you have patients already complaining because you are not answering your call lights and your nurse manager talking down to you about patient satisfaction. This does not include the confused, 1:1 and patients in restraint and some of which have been downgraded from an ICU admit to a floor admit just to place them in a bed?! Really!! Yet it is amazing that when they try to show administration how bad it really is...suddenly for a day or so staffing is perfect, no heavy patients, maybe 1-2 admissions and yes the same for when state or Joint Commission arrives and if this were not true, then why do they have special codes to announce to the floors and hospital administration that state or Joint Commission is in the house? I agree there does need to be a limit set on how many patients a nurse can take care of. Nurses don't stay around long in south Texas if they have worked elsewhere prior. The nurses that have always lived in south TX and have never worked elsewhere, don't understand because this is the only nursing they know. No one wants to complain because everyone is just thankful to have a job. Even doctor's that come from elsewhere don't stay long. It's tough and there has to be a solution to this.

Let me get this straight, a fat man in a red Santa suit lassoed you, tied you to a sleigh, then proceeded to take you to the edge of a cliff and told you to fly?