For those of us that are currently waiting for our results of acceptance or denial into the Fall 2015 start for nursing school, I think we can all agree that the word "patience" is not something we have.
After a long two semesters of pre-requisites, application deadline date of April 1st, final grades posted May 9th and knowing that letters will be sent "sometime before the end of May" I'm afraid that time has officially stood still!
I don't think I've ever anticipated a piece of mail so much in my life. Not even for Christmas as a child. As one of my friends says, "Still checking my email, mailbox, and waiting for the carrier-pigeon!"
Good luck to everyone out there who applied for the Fall 2015 nursing program. May the odds be ever in your favor
I wish they would let us know sooner. I think I may just go and have my titers done over the summer so that I am prepared. Also, in my above post I wrote two to, I meant to two and I can't edit it LOL. Thank you, I hope you all get in somewhere as well! My GPA is 3.81 and I got an 81.3 on the TEAS. For the one school they just look at your pre req gpa and give you points off of those. I have 54/60 points for them. For the other school they add your teas score and critical thinking score and the points from your gpa together. I take the critical thinking next week.
People, people, listen to yourselves! Do you really want to be taken for six-year-olds the week before Christmas?
Note: What I am about to say is not NETY, is not wet-blanketing, is not mean, is not recognizing how haaaaard this is. It's a simple bit of advice that will serve you very, very well when you get to school, and certainly afterwards.
This is another great time for "Fake-it-til-you-make-it." In this case, you will model mature calm while awaiting that which will come when it comes, and not a minute before.
Pretend you're awaiting the news in a grown-up way, because it will come when it comes and as an adult you don't need somebody else to validate your wailing frenzies and be all over you with consolation in recognition of how hard it is for you to WAAAAIIIITTT, pooooor babies. Pretend that's really the case.
Pretty soon you will learn that it actually ... is. And the next time you have to wait for something (payday, the Amazon delivery, your period, your due date, your lover to come home, your birthday, your NCLEX results, spring, your dog to have her puppies...), no one will mistake you for that six-year-old. As that wonderful passage in the classic "Charlotte's Web" says, Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.â€
I'm not even really sure how to respond to that. I feel like I can be excitedly awaiting something without being equated to having a six year old's mentality. I've learned patience through having all three of my children in the NICU. This is nothing compared to that agony. I am excited to get the results because I've spent years preparing for it. That doesn't mean I'm being juvenile. Life would be boring if we didn't stay hopeful for the future.
I have been waiting for this moment for a decade. I know that I am overly excited, but I would say I have earned it. Besides, I believe nurses above all should be passionate about nursing. I would say our attitudes are exactly what this field needs. Good day!
I have been waiting for this moment for a decade. I know that I am overly excited, but I would say I have earned it. Besides, I believe nurses above all should be passionate about nursing. I would say our attitudes are exactly what this field needs. Good day!
Excited is fine. I'm talking about, well, over-excited, the type that makes others roll their eyes and smile as they turn away. Perspective is all.
I was going crazy! Rushing home from work every single day to check the mail.
"Still checking my email, mailbox, and waiting for the carrier-pigeon!"
It's got my stomach in knots!
now it's all I can think about.
Come back and revisit this in a year or two. I'm not saying you'll become heartless and cold, but you will have a different perspective. Deep breath! :) Welcome to nursing!
Well then, I believe you need a lite background to understand my excitement level. My father was diagnosed with renal failure during my sophomore year of college. He was put on a transplant list and after fighting for his cause was denied due to his cardiovascular condition. My mother and I worked tirelessly to keep him as comfortable as possible and during the last years of his life he was cared for by many incredible nurses. People who really loved what they did and it showed. These nurses educated us on how to care for my father and taught us how to use the peritoneal dialysis machine for him at home. In the last year of his life when he had to under go two different surges which left him an amputee these nurses cared for him with compassion and respect. More than once we heard the nurse correct the doctor and made sure my Dad got what he needed. They did what they did because they were passionate about nursing. You may have become hardened because that's your personality. And make no mistake, I do understand fully that I will need to develop for this career a thick skin in a number of areas for a number of reasons, but that doesn't mean I will ever have to stop being passionate about patient care. This is why I chose this career and why I am so excited to join the ranks of the people who cared for my father. Like I said, I have wanted this for more than a decade now, and I have worked very hard to achieve this small start to my goal.
If there is one thing I know for sure, in a couple of years I won't be trolling pre-nursing students feeds and rolling my eyes. I will smile and remember how excited I was. I will offer up a word of encouragement and say hope for them as they begin their journey that they will retain their passion and enthusiasm for one of the most exhausting, terrifying, and wonderful professions a person can chose. To be a nurse.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being excited about something we've worked hard for.
Does this mean I'm calling the school every day, asking when I'll find out? No. (Which is more than I can say for MANY students).
Does this mean it's all I can talk about? No.
Does this mean I'm constantly whining/"wailing" about the wait? No.
Am I jumping up and down in anticipation? No.
Am I calling my advisor or staff members in the nursing program, complaining about my wait? Absolutely not.
Do I want to share the experience AND EXCITEMENT with those who are in the same boat as myself? Absolutely.
Just because I may not be patient about it does not mean that I'm a pest about it.
I've waited for a number of the things you've listed (and then some) without a care or a notice in the world, but after two semesters of very hard work, yes, I am going to be excited and impatient to find out if my hard work paid off.
And yes, perhaps in a few years I'll look back and think this was silly, but until then, I'm completely fine with my excitement level.
If you can't differentiate between levels of excitement from potential nursing students waiting for their letters and a "6-year-old on Christmas", then that's a new issue entirely.
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She may have noted that she didn't want to sound mean...but she came across patronizing. I don't exactly know what her issue is with pre-nursing students being excited/nervous/anxious/impatient but it wasn't really her place to call you guys "six year-olds". That being said...it's her opinion. I'm not sure if she thought it would be constructive criticism but it was definitely not helpful. Her profile says that she was a nursing educator and I'm hoping that this was not the approach she took with her teaching.
There are going to be a lot of nurses in the field that are negative, rude, patronizing ..among other undesirable traits.. As long as you try to keep your passion and COMpassion and NEVER forget where you came from, then you should be A-Okay I'm an LPN and I'm currently waiting to hear back from my school from the application for the LPN to RN transition program...I'm definitely anxious and their decision holds a lot of weight right now. It will be the deciding factor for the next year of my life if I'm accepted...I'm a divorced, single, working mother and it will be tough but I know that hundreds and thousands of people have done this route before and I know I'm not the only one that has felt nervous, anxious, or impatient in waiting for the news... Take what people say with a grain of salt. Like I mentioned before; there will be many nurses, doctors, staff etc that will offend you in this profession (and other professions) they're everywhere. We just learn to deal with them. Good replies to her comments though! :)
Really!? I thought April 1st for end-of-August start date was early!
aye, and I'm quite pleased by it. At least I'll know by next March whether or not I'm going to nursing school. My deepest sympathies to everyone who has to wait until May! Hoping for good news for everyone who's still biting their nails waiting to find out if they're off to school this coming fall :)
She may have noted that she didn't want to sound mean...but she came across patronizing. I don't exactly know what her issue is with pre-nursing students being excited/nervous/anxious/impatient but it wasn't really her place to call you guys "six year-olds". That being said...it's her opinion. I'm not sure if she thought it would be constructive criticism but it was definitely not helpful.
Oh I definitely have no hard feelings towards GrnTea! I actually said a few weeks ago that she is one of my favorite posters on AN. I don't take anything on here (or any other website) personally because I know we all have different opinions, and that's totally okay!
I do think it was a little silly to chastise students for being excited, but I also do understand from her perspective as an experienced nurse that it probably does get annoying if she sees/hears it all the time. But with that, I can also say that she could have avoided my post altogether.
We should all come back and update when we find out!
I'm an LPN and I'm currently waiting to hear back from my school from the application for the LPN to RN transition program...I'm definitely anxious and their decision holds a lot of weight right now. It will be the deciding factor for the next year of my life if I'm accepted...I'm a divorced, single, working mother and it will be tough but I know that hundreds and thousands of people have done this route before and I know I'm not the only one that has felt nervous, anxious, or impatient in waiting for the news... Take what people say with a grain of salt. Like I mentioned before; there will be many nurses, doctors, staff etc that will offend you in this profession (and other professions) they're everywhere. We just learn to deal with them. Good replies to her comments though! :)
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Good luck!!