canchaser530

I didn't

Who knows. I have a 4.0 GPA bachelor's degree and 2 years experience in healthcare but they rejected me. Maybe you have to know someone to get in

I heard back yesterday. Got a rejection email good luck to you guys, hopefully you hear soon :)

Thank you for that information. :) Yes I would love to know if anyone hears anything. Fingers crossed for all of us

I applied too. Haven't heard anything back yet. I was so hoping to hear something this week!

I'm still a new nurse and learning from my mistakes, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who makes mistakes. This post is great for boosting my confidence as I learn that we are all human! The first time I ever got in trouble with my manager was because a doctor told me over the phone that the patient would be having a laproscopic cholecystectomy the next day and to put that in the orders along with an order to get the consent. I put both of those orders in the chart, got the consent, and trying to do what I had learned, I went ahead and put in the order for the patient to be NPO after midnight for the procedure. Well several days later, when the patient is being discharged, I learn that the doctor was very upset and refusing to sign the patient's chart because he never gave orders for the patient to be NPO. True, he never gave that order, but the patient was having surgery, isn't that a given?! My manager informed me that if I ever did that again that I would be written up. Then she told me that next time I should just hold the breakfast tray, and not put the order in the computer. I was not the nurse for the next day, what if that nurse forgot. My next mistake I got into trouble for was over labs. In this case the patient was a very hard stick, and it took 4 different nurses trying just to get an IV started on her the day before. The doctor ordered a couple of labs to be done on this day of my shift. I knew the patient was a hard stick, and I knew the patient would be going for dialysis later that day. So, I saved the labels for labs, and sent them with the dialysis nurse to be drawn there. Later in my shift I saw new lab results pop up on the screen, quickly glanced through them, then moved on. I assumed all of the labs were done after that, but never went in a really checked it good. The next day I received a call from my manager, on my day off, that the doctor was very upset and throwing a fit at the nurses station because the labs he had ordered were not done. I was told by my manager that the incident would be reported to administration, and never heard anything else after that.

So I was not required to take a Chemistry class in order to receive my ADN degree. However, times have changed, and it seems I now require Chemistry for all the BSN degrees I am finding. Chemistry would require me to actually go back to school rather than take the class online. This is a little difficult with my work having a nursing shortage right now. I found UT tyler online which states that if we didn't require Chemistry for our Associate's then it will be waived for our Bachelor's. This would be great for me, but I'm wondering how great of a school UT Tyler is. Is it worth it? Anyone recommend it? Any other suggestions? Thanks