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Has anyone else applied to the University of South Carolina for fall 2017 admission in any nurse practitioner track? I applied to the MSN program, and selected the acute care NP track. The application deadline was April first, and the waiting game ...

I checked online first. Received an email a few hours later saying the same.

Just saw my status change online. I have been accepted to the program!! I'm so excited!

Mine too! Checked it when I got up tonight to get ready for work. I'm so nervous.

What kind of experience/certifications do you have? I have been a nurse for around five years, and have three years of ICU experience (including MICU, SICU, trauma/burn ICU, and neurosurgical ICU). I also have around a year of experience in an ED t...

Mine says the same thing. I'm checking it obsessively at least once daily.

As of Tuesday of this week, my application says "under review by decision committee," or something to that effect. I'm hoping to hear something within the next few weeks.

I work night shift in critical care, and yes, it is that hard. Three 12 hour shifts sounds like a breeze, until you realize the gravity of what occurs during those 12 hours. Also, even if your unit allows you to self-schedule, there is no guarantee...

Not checking an oxygen tank is simply poor practice. I understand that we all get busy sometimes, and none of us are perfect as nurses or people. I also understand that mistakes are made, and things are sometimes forgotten. But checking an oxygen ...

I worked psych for a little over a year in between stints in ICU. My unit was primarily made up of thought disorders and patients too violent for other facilities, with a nice mix of geriatric psych thrown in. When I first started in psych, I felt ...

I've worked in both ED and ICU, but I've only ever precepted in various critical care units. Usually for orientees who are unsure of rhythms, I take them into the room, and ask questions. "What rhythm do you see on the monitor? Do we need to immed...

If you're really dedicated to it, and you really want to do ICU, then I think the critical care orientation group is something you should consider. With you having no ICU experience as a bedside nurse, I would be interested to know how long the prog...

Units like that aren't safe, and they certainly aren't conducive to healthy staff. There will always be bad nights in any ICU we work in, that's just the nature of the job. But in units like yours, every night is exhausting simply because of poor s...

When I moved to Tennessee, I accepted a position in a large (32 bed) medical/surgical intensive care unit in an approximately 700 bed hospital. I loved the unit, the acuity was high, and the staff was great. Staffing, however, was a nightmare. It...

I have worked in both teaching and non-teaching facilities. In fact, I just ended my job at one of the largest, and most prestigious, teaching hospitals in the country. What I found was that I had significantly more autonomy at non-teaching facilit...

I have a theory that it either gets better with time, or you get used to feeling so exhausted that it becomes your new normal. I'm not sure which end of the spectrum I'm at currently. I started my ICU career in a busy 32 bed MICU/sepsis unit. From ...

I have an interview with Tristar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, TN in a few weeks. I was wondering if anyone here had worked there in the past, or if you currently work there. If so, can anyone offer any perspective about the hospital?

I feel like this is a really stupid question, but I'm going to ask it anyway (because you never learn if you never ask, and I really want to understand this). While floating in ICU, I was recently assisting with a patient who had metastatic cancer (...

I got the job in the MSICU at Centennial! I was called around two hours after the interview, and offered a night shift job, which I happily accepted. I was very impressed with the unit, and the staff that I spoke with, and I am very excited to get ...

Last week, I travelled to Nashville, TN where I interviewed for a position in a 32 bed medical/surgical ICU. Approximately two hours following the conclusion of the interview, I got a call back, and was offered the job. I will be relocating to Nash...

Twinsmom788, It's actually not Vanderbilt, although my room mate will be working as a new graduate nurse there.

I have about 1.5 years of experience as a float nurse working ICU, ED, telemetry, pediatrics, oncology, and neuro. I also have experience in crisis and inpatient psych, so I'm not starting out as a new grad in this unit (thank God). That being said...

Juan, I have also read that CVP measurement is not a highly reliable indicator of intravascular volume. Would it be safer to say that a PA line, and the numbers obtained from it, are better indicators of volume status, as well as the functional abi...

Thank you for the great information! This was a right subclavian tripe lumen central venous catheter. I thought it was incredibly odd that the line wasn't in the right position for CVP measurement, yet no action was taken, and was still being used ...

First, I would say consider if you really want to be a nurse or not. Nursing school is hard for everyone, and is harder for some than others. It's a very stressful time, and it's incredibly time consuming. You may not be able to spend as much time...