ASU2021

Our class originally had 31 students and I think the class above us had 32 at the start. Congratulations to everyone!

Hey guys! I am also currently in ASU’s program and will be graduating in 2021. I see everyone has questions about the interview. Like Asu2020 said, there is a "quiz" before you go in and interview. Our quiz was mainly ABG interpretations and "what would you do in this scenario" type questions. A couple of "off the wall" questions like a molecular structure of a drug and you have to identify it. They called us mid July for an interview the first week of August and we knew our acceptance status by the end of August. Let me know if you guys have any questions and good luck to all!!!

That's funny. I was told 6 weeks.

Not yet but I'm starting to wonder if it's not a group interview on the 24th. My time is 1640. How about everyone else?

I guess they might be interviewing all the early admit applicants on the same day. That's telling of how many applied.

What interview date were you offered if you don't mind me asking? Mine and a couple of others I've seen is on August 24. Thank you for the positive words, it is just very frustrating considering all of us have put a large amount of work into applying and there has been constantly conflicting information and what I perceive as unprofessional way of conducting admissions.

I applied for early admission in April and just had an interview setup for August 24. It seems as if the program is quite disorganized. Please share your experience.

Just got my interview for August 24 as well! It seems as if this is their only interview date because when I asked for another day the assistant stated they could possibly interview on August 31st. Perhaps they're just interviewing all the early admission candidates on the same day.

Just scheduled my interview as well for late August. This admission process seems beyond disorganized. My experience so far has been quite negative and I hope it's not a reflection on the program as a whole. I applied for early admission and was told interviews would be in May by Melinda Burcham. I later called back early May and was told Melinda was no longer with the program and then there was radio silence. I emailed the Dr. Black late May asking about the details of the admission process and she apologized that I had been misinformed and stated that they were missing my BSN degree even though I attended Jonesboro for my BSN. Dr. Black later emailed me stating they were "shooting for July" as a potential interview time frame. I called again in July to ask where things stood and was told they were shooting for last week of July or first week of August. Finally now we are at Late August. This whole experience has been a mess! I hope that they aren't just combining early admission and regular admission candidates because that would be unfair to individuals that applied 3 months earlier. Who knows when we might find out when we got in. From how it's gone so far I would think it would be in December! lol Please share what your experience has been.

Congrats!!!

The same is true for my unit and that's why I felt so insecure going into the testing center because I really didn't know what to study. There is so little information out there regarding the neonatal CCRN. My best advice beyond feeling like you have a good grasp on the material would be to do those 600 questions on a loop and to watch those videos to pinpoint what you struggle understanding. Very little of the test is just regurgitating information. It's mainly applying your knowledge to scenarios I hadn't experienced before

Let me know if you have any other concerns.

While preparing for the neonatal CCRN exam I found that there wasn't much information regarding what the test was like other than the test breakdown found on the aacn website. I had seen some mentions of what books to look over such as the core curriculum and the neonatal intensive care 4e book but those are quite indepth and there's really no real way to retain all of that information without spending several years in the NICU. So here is a review of everything I did to prepare and what I feel helped. To put things in perspective I have only been in the NICU for a year and I was a new grand prior to that. I passively read the core curriculum, then I did the neonatal intensive care review questions book. I read through a copy of the NICU Solutions book which is highly recommended by many but I was not able to attend the 3 day class. The week of my test I reviewed a series of videos on youtube by Crash! Medical Review. I found them immensely helpful in narrowing down what to focus on. I also did multiple rounds of 100 questions of the neonatal core curriculum online questions since I really couldn't get access to a practice test. About the test: it was 150 questions some of which are pilot I'm not sure how many actually but aacn claims 25 are pilot. There was a lot of hypotension/hypertension, IVH, TTN, RDS, renal disorder questions, couple of PPHN. I definitely think it was as difficult if not more difficult than I anticipated but those Crash! Medical Review videos were extremely helpful and I don't believe I would have passed without them. As great as those books are I feel like the CCRN focused a lot more on pathology than those books and even the NICU solutions book led on. Please post a comment if you have any questions.

Did you find out how you did?

I did the pop up trick immediately after and 24 hours after and got the good pop up. I feel like based on the information you provided that you passed. When you turn off at a minimum amount of questions, this is my interpretation, you either did really well and required no further questions or really terrible to the point that you could not redeem yourself. Ask yourself which one is more likely. I feel like off of the information you gave you passed :) but if you find out you didn't it's not the end of the world, you just have to correct where you went wrong and hopefully next time you will pass :)