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When I was a new grad nurse my dream had always been to work in an ICU somewhere. I've always made strategic moves towards that goal. However now that I'm on an intermediate care unit I feel like my patients are more stable than they were on the med surg floor by far and I have almost completely turned off the critical thinking part of my brain since being there for almost a year. It's weird because on imcu we get strokes, nstemis, rapid afibs, trach'd/vent'd patients for a variety of reasons, VATS patients. Yet they're all stable. I think I've been apart of three or four rapid responses since I've been there and only one was with my patient. On the surgical floor I worked on we'd get alot of colectomy/bowel resection patients and other gi surgeries. TURPS requiring alot of hand irrigation and cbi. We'd get urostomy patients/kidney cancer patients who got nephrectomies/ureteral stents. I feel like there were always surgical complications with my patients. Hypotension from hypovolemia, bleed, sepsis. Alot of sepsis. Rapid afibs, ileus, once a patient developed a PE after surgery. And I feel like we had alot of rapids. It was really exciting honestly. I both enjoyed looking for complications and preventing them before they got really bad and also running rapids. I felt really prepared and confident I could handle whatever came up. However because my patients don't have alot of complications on imcu I don't feel this way anymore. I have a couple of questions. Does my imcu floor have patients that are too stable for most imcu floors? As in- is it not true imcu. And is the fact that we had so many surgical complications indicate that our surgeons did a poor job? Do cardiac patients tend to crump less? IDK I'm so bored these days and am honestly fearful of rapids and crumping patients. I just feel it's mostly CNA work at this point too, alot of turning and baths. For reference the hospital I worked surgical at was in Eugene, oregon and the imcu unit I work at is in Portland Oregon. Sorry I wrote this after my shift so it probably doesn't make any sense.

Has anyone received roommate information yet?

Well okay I guess I did not understand how PM worked on this website (I only signed up today). I apparently can't use PM yet, so sorry to whoever messaged me. Here is my email: [email protected]

Yes I was impressed by their program and will most likely attend Roseman. The only other reason I was hoping to get an interview at the other school is because it's quite a bit cheaper. But there standards are more competitive to get in (certainly higher than a minimum 2.75 GPA) and I probably don't think I'll get an interview there. As for the 90%, I guess really it could go either way. One thing I found on their website though that made me feel more confident about the 90% is the way they test it: "This is usually a fairly traditional, paper-and-pencil "exam", using multiple-choice, true-false, or matching items." T/F and matching items sounds pretty straightforward/not too hard. I mean it's nursing so of course there's going to be a ton of studying, but I think we can do this. I'm kind of curious about the group exams and how that'll go. Anyways you and anyone else from the August course are welcome to PM me.

One thing I was kind of surprised about though. I was admitted to the August 2016 BSN cohort on February 29th. Then a few days later when they emailed me an admissions packet, I saw that I have to send my $250 seating deposit by March 18th to secure my spot. I didn't expect to have to finalize my decision so quickly. I was wanting to interview at one other school too, but I don't really want to risk waiting another whole year to have to go through the application process again with schools.

I had my interview in February and have recently been accepted. I did horrible in my interview! I got asked a question and my brain went blank and I went silent for like 2 minutes. And I said some other stupid things too. So if I got accepted, it's absolutely going to be fine for you too. Before we went in to interview, current students came up and talked to us about how proud they were to go to Roseman and how they felt very prepared. It was very cool.