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Some weaknesses may include ill preparation, inappropriate dress, arriving late, and verbal negativity regarding your current or past employers. Even if the interview is stressful or confrontational, interviewees must stay calm and beware not to get...

I always thought you had to be a mature and intelligent adult to make it into med school. That's what I get for thinking!!! these idiots bring shame to the whole lot of them.

Not to keep the antagonizing going on and on and on, but I am with those who believe it is wrong to sleep at work. I'm a night-shifter, too. That having been said, I once took a phenergan before leaving for work, by accident of course. My husband g...

I to you Dorimar for finding a way to get out of doing those audits. I also worked in a unit where we were required to do audits, one per month. We filled out a sheet on things that we found that were not up to par and turned it in to the superviso...

Unfortunately, it takes some time for even evidence based practices to trickle to some facilities, namingly rural areas- not that the right things aren't being one. I've experienced a recent situation where orders for sedation and vent bundles are d...

After 4 years in ICU I still dilute some meds for IVP, especially Ativan, which is incredibly hard to manage while in a oily, pasty state. 5ml doesn't make that great of a fluid volume issue with most adult patients. I could understand if it was to b...

This is hilarious! :cheers: I may just use it at home, at work, in my car.....where not only co-workers can walk off with things, but so do my kids and husband. But that's another story.

While we've strayed to the subject, anything the school recommends that you do, you need to do. Otherwise you tell them that your are not willing to do whatever it takes to get into the program. Last year I made a good GRE score, got an interview, b...

I am currently working agency in ICU areas only, and making application to NA schools. At one interview I had last year, I got a little flustered (hopefully not noticeably so) because I had worked in more than one unit and the interviewer viewed it ...

I'm not sure how you studied, but the first time I took the GRE, I got the Princeton Review book, which had tips on how to take the test, how to look at and read the questions, and had practice forms for the writing portion. I got a decent score the...

Maybe I'm the only one, or the only one dumb enough to post, but I interviewed at 3 schools this past year after having applied to 4 and didn't get accepted to any of them. So I'm a second-time-arounder. After all the time, effort, and energy I put ...

Thanks for the encouragement. You can bet that I'll keep on trying until someone lets me in. This is what I want to do with my life and I'll make sure the schools know I won't give up.:)

I worked as charge nurse in an ICU and was written up on several occasions 1) for asking the aide to help with a bath, 2) for asking the unit clerk if she would stock syringes, and 3) finally for asking a nurse to help transfer a new patient from the...

I'm applying (again) to Newman University and Texas Wesleyan. I'll be sending apps by the end of this week, got the references and other things done. The deadlines aren't until December, but last year I had already interviewed at TWU by then. The be...

No, in the end I didn't get in. Getting ready to apply again. Tex Wes makes it faily easy to do. :) I've got one more year of ICU experience and 100+ more CEU's. Maybe this will be my year.

I interviewed at TX Wesleyan back in November. They told me after the interview that I stand a good chance of getting into the program, but I have not heard anything else, except that others got in right away. I'm wondering if there is still a chanc...

I am an ICU nurse living in northern Oklahoma, interested in working at Via Christi or Wesley. Can anyone tell me about working for these two entities? What's good about them, that's bad about them? Why would one choose one over the other as a fu...

In the days before ICD's and EP labs people got thumped all the time. There have been several cases of patients in my hometown that, from what older nurses have told me, would not have lived their last few years without a good thump from an ICU nurs...

I was still on orientation when we had a patient's heart stop. My preceptor asked the charge nurse to call a code and went to get the cart. I jumped upon this patient, who by the way was on a fluffy air overlay mattress, and started trying to do ches...

Sounds like almost everyone that posted has had very good luck. I applied to four schools, interviewed at three of them, didn't get accepted to any of them. This next year going to apply at four other schools, hopefully I will have better luck, with ...

I too have had frustrations re: night baths. I think it's rampant at a lot of hospitals. I have gone to work sometimes and found out that a patient has not had a bath at all during this admission, and it's day 7 or 8. Often I know the nurse that h...

There are PA's that assist with surgeries, mostly assisting and finishing up with closing. Does anyone know if any advanced practice nurses do this? Would that be similar to what you are asking. Not nearly the same as a CRNA, who has complete auto...

I'm a nervous wreck, well not really, but TWU is mailing out letters tomorrow to those who weren't fortunate to get early acceptance. I feel that I have a decent chance of getting in. Not the greatest stats, like most other applicants. But four yea...

:balloons: Congrats!!!:balloons: ...and best of luck to you.

Pretty good. Being the work-a-holic that I am, I'm going to work at Wesley's MICU for now and then apply for a part-time at the Neuro or Sugrical ICU at Via Christi in a month or so.