The Wait is Killing Me!

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Specializes in CNA (Stroke, Neuro, LTC), Volunteer.

I applied to start the nursing program in the Fall. My GPA is good, but its right on the borderline of getting accepted and not getting accepted. I'm driving myself crazy waiting to get that letter!!

I go to the mall or I go to a store and I see a watch, shoes, etc. and think "Oh, that would be a perfect for clinicals." Everyone keeps asking me when I start clinicals and I always say "Fingers crossed for August."

But seriously I'm going crazy with this waiting game. The first week of March cannot get here soon enough!!!!

How is everyone else coping?!

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I am doing ok with the waiting. I really think I have an excellent chance at being accepted; I am not sure what else I could have done differently that would have increased my chances. In my head, I can see myself starting next fall :)

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

You probably don't have enough to keep you busy!

As I write this, I am waiting to hear from 5 schools! But thankfully I am not freaking as most would. I have too much to take care of in my life and I don't allow myself time to think about it. The decisions come when they come, and they are what they are. I know myself, and if I let myself obsess, I WILL obsess! So I think about other things and watch a lot of Netflix, LOL! :D

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We must be applying to the same school. Like you, I won't find out until March, and the wait is absolutely killing me. Some days I feel so anxious and get scared if I don't get in. If I am not accepted at my school of choice right now I will have to take a few more classes to get into another program and I do not want to do that.

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I am in a similar boat, and I find things to keep me busy. I recently started a medical terminology course to keep me busy. All the help I can get for ns the better off I will be. Not only do I keep busy, I get to learn something that will actually help me in the long run.

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Omg I know how you feel! I only applied to one school and I find out mid-March. I'm so scared and nervous!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Lol. I won't find out until somewhere between April and June! That is months away!

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Me too! Our deadline is Feb 1 and I won't know anything until mid March. I am a nervous wreck!

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I find out mid-Feb if I even get an interview. Then the interview would be in mid-March....then a week after than I would know final decision.

Waiting is very hard. Keeping busy helps....but the days are just dragging!!

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Me too! Our deadline is Feb 1 and I won't know anything until mid March. I am a nervous wreck!

May I ask you where are you attending? I am attending COD in IL. Our deadline is Feb 1st. I am dying.

I feel I have a great chance to get into the program. But I still going to stalk the mailman!!!!

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I am applying for USM! I have been doing some reading on here and there are quite a few schools with our deadline, too! I am like you! The mailman is my prey! *giggles* I hope we get in! We need to keep this thread going for moral support!:no:

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Even though I turned mine in already, our application deadline isn't until March 1! I should know by June 1 at the latest.

I'm taking 4 classes this semester, including micro and patho, so that's helping keep me occupied. I think after the application deadline arrives and I know that decisions are being made, I will start freaking my mail lady out. Until then, I just try to focus on diseases and bacteria and not on the letter that will determine my future!

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