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Thank you so much for your response! That is all immensely helpful! Hoping for the best as I head into it!

Hi! Thanks for your response! What do you wish you had known before you started the program? What were the most challenging elements? Most difficult classes to be prepared for? Were you allowed to precept at your own hospital for AGACNP clinicals? Approximately what was the cost at the end of the program, after all of the hidden fees? Any words of wisdom appreciated. Thank you so much!

Any takers? = )

Hello! I am starting University of South Alabama's AG ACNP program this August. For anyone who is attending or has graduated, I am looking for perspective, advice on what to expect, etc. Thanks! = )

Check out Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford. I've worked there for a year and a half on two different units and have loved my experience. We've been rated a Truven top 100 hospital 5 years in a row and won a designation for top cardiac hospital in the nation from CareChecks this year. The Rogue Valley is beautiful and has a lot to offer. We hire quite a few new grads! Wherever you go, be persistent, and try to make face to face contact with a manager. Just putting in an application is almost never enough. A lot of hospitals outsource their recruitment and the recruiters are often terrible about following through and making the connection to actual hospital employees. Good luck!

Hello! I am a bachelors prepared new graduate nurse working in the very bearded hipster state of Oregon. Teaching is the only skill in life I would say I have a "gift" in. I am a good communicator. I love people, I love students. I have a dream of teaching nursing school someday. This is not something I want to do until I have a good few years at the bedside under my belt. However, I am looking at starting my MSN next year, as I figure that it will be easier to obtain my degree while I am still single with few commitments rather than later in life when I may have a spouse and little ones. I love students. I love teaching. I love nursing. I do not love acadamia in of itself, nor do I have much interest in conducting research. I am struggling with my desire to pursue teaching, as some educators I have read from have stated that I will need to obtain my PhD if I want to obtain a lecturing position. I understand that an MSN would be adequate to serve as a clinical instructor, but I really would like to lecture. I'm not too keen on being a hospital educator either (though I appreciate and respect the educators I work with). Completing a PhD is not something I would take any joy in. It would be at least 3 years of my life pulled away from the bedside, and 3 years I do not think I would find much joy in. The degree seems to be completely focused on research, not on teaching me practical skills to be an educator (yes, I understand the importance that research and EBP plays in education). This seems like it would be a soul draining endeavor for me. If this is really the only way to pursue teaching nursing students, I'm not sure I have what it takes. The coursework in a DNP program seems much more interesting to me, however, I have no interest in working as an NP, and the degree is not education focused so I'm not sure how much good that would do me. I had teachers in nursing school who invested into my life. The ones who stayed in their offices or lab hours past their work schedule to help me become competent in difficult skills or understand concepts. Professors who motivated me, who encouraged me that I was capable of becoming a good nurse when I felt I was facing immovable barriers and that I would never graduate. Teachers who grieved with me as I faced intense personal loss during nursing school. Teachers who never gave up on me, and helped me achieve what I felt I was not capable of doing so that today I can practice as a nurse. That's my motivation for wanting to teach. Students. Not the desire to see my name published. Bonus question: If I pursue my graduate education now, yet remain at the bedside for another 10 years... Would my education possibly be looked at as "obsolete" by the time I begin teaching? Anyone have any thoughts or wisdom for this idealistic newbie? Thank you!

Yes! I will be starting August 8th, heading to Medical Oncology.

Howdy Nmac12! I take it this was an interview with a recruiter? After I had my initial interview, I contacted my recruiter on a weekly basis, with questions, to update my application, or just to check in. It took about 5 weeks after that until I got my second interview, with a unit manager. I would make sure you keep in close contact with your recruiter. If you live in the area, it may not be a bad idea to drop by the hospital and introduce yourself to the manager of your area of interest with a resume in hand. That may be a controversial move (it has been discussed on this forum before) but I have always been received positively when I have done that in the past. Whatever the case, make yourself known, find ways to show interest and keep in contact. I had my interview last week and was given an offer for Med/Onc the next day. Hopefully things go quickly for you, good luck, maybe we will meet in August!

Well I had originally been told the next step would be over Skype, but apparently this will be a telephone interview. I don't know whether or not there will be a panel interview after that. I'm not sure about the ICU, it may be full or they may have felt according to my experience I would be a better fit in Onco. I currently work as a tech on an onco floor and love it, so I would be happy to work there. Let me know what happens! I hope you hear back soon. Keep making contact every week, they continue to make selections all the way through June.

I did! I got a call this Wednesday asking to interview me for their Medical Onco unit next week. I sent an email or called every single week, I guess maybe it paid off? Don't give up! Keep in close contact with them, and hopefully you will hear back soon. :)

Howdy folks, Is anyone else applying to Asante Health's new grad RN program in the Medford area? I had an interview with a nurse recruiter one month ago. She told me that the next step would be setting up a panel interview either in person or over Skype. I have not been given any timeline since then. I have turned down multiple job offers (in the ICU, my area of preference) in hopes of getting into this program. I'm a west coast native who went to school on the east coast, and I would like to get back closer to home again. I have put in for positions at Providence Medford, St Charles in Bend OR, and others. However, I am starting to wonder if I have made a mistake in holding out hopes for a position in Oregon. Anyone out there heard anything? Or if you went through this program in the past, how long did the process take you?