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I’m shaking! I’m in too and I’m accepting the offer ?

Hoping we hear back today. I’m just getting off a night stretch and won’t be able to sleep today. This is the week!

Same to you friend. The wait is going to be the worst part.

For those that interviewed on the 6th how do you feel about how it went? For me personally, I couldn’t help but fall more in love with the program. I want it that much more haha. As far as the interviews I wish I could have done the student one first to loosen me up and then the one with the professors after. Otherwise I have mixed feelings about it, some good some bad. Definitely not looking forward to the wait!

It’s a virtual interview.

I have an interview October 6th as well. Good luck to everyone!

Hello, thanks for your response. I have heard this mentioned on the forums here before, however from the NLN website on their FAQs: "ACEN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NLN located in Atlanta, Georgia." Does this mean that it is considered different?

I am currently looking at graduate nursing programs and many of them have a requirement of going to a BSN program that has NLN or CCNE accreditation. However, the school I went to was accredited by the ACEN. Does this automatically exclude me from applying to the program?

Hello fellow nurses, So a little background... I recently moved to California and worked as a traveler at this particular facility. I extended and eventually applied for a permanent position and was hired (mostly because I enjoyed most everyone that worked there and the facility in general is a good place to work as a nurse). The only friction I have had is one doctor. This doctor is generally known and accepted as being sassy. Sassy, in my opinion, is a nice way of putting it. If I were to use the words I wanted, it would not be appropriate for this forum. It was jarring the first time I experienced his attitude and I just let it slide. I quickly learned that the attitude was a permanent fixture and after each event I have resolved myself to think it had something to do with me specifically. Some highlights of this behavior range from him rolling his eyes when talking to me, to making rude comments, to avoiding me when trying to talk to him about my patient that he is covering. Without unnecessarily making this post longer, one major unprofessional event was when dealing a patient. I had a patient that was recently trached who at home was used to taking 80mg of oxycodone and was not receiving any while in the hospital (he was on IV fentanyl which was DC'd when extubated and trached). All he was receiving was 1mg of Ativan Q6. So not surprisingly the patient was anxious at the beginning of the shift. When the doctor was making rounds I asked if so many words if the Ativan could be supplemented with something else, I mentioned the home dose of oxycodone and he immediately said no with no rationale. I asked for precedex, he screamed "WHY DO ICU NURSES ALWAYS WANT PRECEDEX". I just ignored his tone and asked if he could at least get more Ativan. He said "How about 2mg Q6?" and then walked away. 2 hours later my patient ended up needed propofol and fentanyl because he was acidodic. When in the room he literally said the words, "I don't know what happended." This story is the only possible source I can think of his attitude and unprofessional behavior with me. I have not directly brought up with and have instead attempted at trying to make a connection with him with the hopes of getting past his prickly nature. All my attempts have been met with disdain and eye rolls. What I am asking is this: Have you dealt with a doctor like this and how did you do it? Should I tell management (for fear of affecting my newly obtained job or suck it up because I'm the newcomer)? I'm afraid of dealing with this issue directly because everyone at the unit seems to just accept his behavior which undoubtedly has contributed to him being this way. HELP

I will have a little over a year of experience as a nurse. I currently work in an 18-bed MSICU. I will be moving to Seattle in June/July and I was wondering these things: What's the average salary of nurses in Seattle with 1 year of experience? At my current hospital my base pay is $25.00. What's are good hospitals to work for? I heard that University of Washington and Swedish are good. What's the job market like for nursing in Seattle? What are good/affordable living areas that are close to the hospitals?

Hi everyone, To give you some background I am currently about to start work as a nurse at the hospital where I went to nursing school in New York in a critical care resource pool. My plan is to work for a year and a few months (basically till my lease is up) and then move out west or south. I am shooting for either Seattle/Oregon/California area or the Baltimore/Washington DC area. I got a little discouraged when I was looking at possible places to work when pretty every critical care job wanted 2 years or more of critical care experience. I was worried that I would not be able to get a job in critical care. Is it possible to find jobs that take people like me or is it very unlikely? I would really appreciate some perspective on the job market. Also, what would help my chances on getting hired? I plan on getting my CCRN certification and BSN in the time that I am in New York, but is there anything else?

They said they would do the orientation for two months on each floor. Do you think that's something that they would go back on?

Thanks for your reply! Currently I work as a Student Nurse Assistant in the hospital at which I go to school. As an SNA I float to all kinds of floors and I don't know where I will be until I come to work that day. In doing so I have found it has had the opposite effect on me socially that you describe. I have met a lot of interesting people. Also, I would not be the only person in the float pool and the intention is to have us as a group do our training and classes together. I think this is done to create that feeling of a support network. Thank you for your advice though! I think you are right about orienting in a new hospital.

So I was hoping to post here and get some sage advice. This is my first post so please bear with me. Some background: I am currently a nursing student about to graduate. I know for sure I want to work in critical care and have a couple options on how I can pursue this. The first option for a job is working in the critical care float pool at the hospital that I attended nursing school as a GN. The way the float pool would work is I would orient on each of the critical floors at my hospital: PCU, MICU and CVICU/SICU for two months each. At the end of my orientation I would float to each of these floors as they need me. I like this option this most because it is a hospital I am familiar with and I like the idea of floating around to different floors. I like the change of pace and change of environment every so often. Plus, the GN money right out of school is really nice. My only concern is how this will look for me for future employers. Does it look bad that I have not worked on one floor for an amount of time? Also, will this be valuable experience or will it be disorienting? The second option is after graduation studying for the NCLEX and once I am licensed start working at a different hospital in the area in their CVICU. The positives for this option are that I have a "home" so to speak and have all of my time and experience on one floor and I have time to study for the NCLEX. The negatives are that it is a new hospital to learn on top of transitioning to being a nurse. Also, there will be a lull in time where I am not making GN money. I realize that I am lucky to even have the option of working in the kind of nursing I want to do right out of school. My concern is about 1.) getting the most valuable experience for my time and 2.) being employable based on the experience I choose to have. I want to be a well prepared critical care nurse. I would really appreciate any advice you may have to offer! Sorry for the long post!