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  1. Nurses are not in high demand!

    Illinois
  2. Do your teachers round up grades?

    I wish ours did.... 76.9% = F Thankfully this hasn't affected me yet
  3. Mayo Clinic Externship 2016 (Summer III)

    Thank you for the advice. Hopefully I can be a competitive
  4. Mayo Clinic Externship 2016 (Summer III)

    Thanks for the advice!!! I'm so excited to apply, but so incredibly nervous! I know the essays are worth a majority of the points, so I hope I can make mine good enough :) I have a near perfect GPA...
  5. CHANGE MAJOR from Nursing

    Public Health is the most popular major to switch to at my college because many of the prerequisites are
  6. Mayo Clinic Externship 2016 (Summer III)

    I'm planning on applying as well Brooke! :) I'm so nervous because I've been dreaming of this externship for so long, but I know how competitive it
  7. Is it easy to get into neonatal nursing?

    From what I have seen in my area, NICU is one of the hardest areas to get into if you are a new grad or have no NICU experience. If you have NICU experience, I believe it would be much easier to find...
  8. Common Health Issues In a High School?

    Headaches Period cramps Faking illness to go
  9. Making the Dean's list

    At my school Dean's List is done semester by semester. You must get a 3.75 semester GPA. However, I know that the norm is usually a 3.5 GPA, and some schools do Dean's List by the year rather than by...
  10. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    I've definitely heard this phrase before. However, the professors about my college say "Be an A nurse, not a C
  11. How many clinical rotations do you have?

    4 year BSN Program (with 5 semesters of actual nursing classes) 1st Semester: Simulation Lab & Health Assessment Lab 2nd Semester: Med Surg 1 & Psyc 3rd Semester: Med Surg 2 & OB 4th...
  12. NIU 2016 Nursing Admissions

    You are correct! However, they take 100 students for the fall and 80 students for the
  13. Northern Illinois University Fall/Spring Cohorts

    I'm really enjoying the program so far- just an update :) Pretty scared for the two HESIs we take at the end of the semester
  14. Northern Illinois Nursing Program?

    I'm currently in my first semester of NIU's program. I'm 20 years old, and many of my friends are 19. I would say that the instructors don't try and intimate us. We have a wide range of ages (from age...
  15. What Can't You Live Without?

    1. Coffee 2. My significant other 3. My nursing major friends 4. Practice NCLEX questions 5. My computer 6. Saying "only 2 more years" all the