Seattle U - APNI 2012

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Anyone already applying at Seattle U? Which track? I haven't finished my pre-req's, so I am probably not too competitive this year, but I am going to apply anyway. I am applying for the nurse-midwife track and my background is Microbiology (UW).

Flaneur,

Stable situation huh? So it probably was a disadvantage that I went to my interview 7 months pregnant? lol I figured....I thought I did a complete job of explaining how I would overcome the challenges of having a newborn in the program but who knows. Thanks for all your input!

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Kelsey, I am alone in that group LOL ;) I'm not sure people want to go to facebook and ruin the anonimity before they know if they get in or not. Try searching again - I changed the group from closed to open. Although you should have been able to find it as well. Maybe just search for APNI 2012?

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Leah, I just died reading your last post. LOL 7 months pregnant, how awesome. I am totally suspect to say: I want to go into midwifery so I'm obviously fascinated with pregnancy! Congratulations!!!

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SU has nursing exchange programs and I think one was to New Zealand. I also looked up the laws and I remember reading something about them taking nurse practitioners but that any degree is ultimately evaluated by some type of nursing board over there. Here's the regulating authorities website. The BSN is only required of their local nurses, they evaluate international nurses differently.

Nurse Practitioner - Nursing Council NZ

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Calinca - Thanks my husband and I are excited! It was unplanned and I had started applying before I knew but fingers crossed. If not this year I will try again next!

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A LOT of women go back to work in this country after a very short maternity leave (especially if compared to other countries!), so I have no doubt you can do it!! And if we both get in, I will offer to help as much as I can. You will miss your baby like crazy (I'm already missing mine by anticipation) but you can make it work.

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@christymel THANK YOU!!!!!! this has been very confusing for me.... xo

leah, congrats! so exciting!

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For your entertainment.

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Flaneur and other students:

Totally stole this question from another thread, but now that you are finishing your 3rd quarter as a student nurse - what's your weakness? Poop? Smells? Mucus? Blood? Vomit? Did you feel like passing out or getting sick during any of the clinicals?

I passed out once when I was assisting with a veterinary surgery. I do great once we are "in", so I had no problem during spays, etc but in this case it was an eyelid surgery and all that messing with the skin/eye messed me up! I wouldn't be a good plastic surgeon hahahah

I have to add that this was 10 years ago and I'm a lot better nowadays, but that's definitely something I need to improve.

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Obviously I'm not in school, but I can give a bit of input here as I'm a PCA now and just started 7 months ago. I have always hated vomit. Definitely my weak spot. I find myself holding my breath and having to turn away when dealing with it. I have gotten a lot better as now I can somewhat watch (okay, not watch, but if the situation presents itself and I don't have time to prepare myself!) instead of just running out of the room like when I first started. Poop is always gross, of course, but it's part of the job, so it is what it is. Blood, meh, never has bothered me. Mucus can be disgusting and I know a lot of people have trouble with it, especially suctioning (I can't do that, but I've heard the nurses talk). Once I saw a dude cough up a ball of mucus the size of a golf ball. Poor guy had really bad lung ca and he coughed those things up all the time.

So I've only been at this 7 months and I got used to it all very quickly, mostly because I had to! You will never like dealing with any of those things, but the patient never likes it either!

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Vomit is the only one that bothers me (although the suctioning would be new, so I'm not sure about that one). I did an intership as an MA and it was only 3 months and blood, poop, pee, and pus never bothered me.

One of the people in the clinic was saying they think the vomiting thing might be evolutionary. We instinctively don't like it since it means someone is very ill and could make us ill.

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Oh I had forgotten all about pus. It's pretty gross when you have to lancet something.

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