Has anyone ever heard of a school accepting your time as an intern or in orientation on the unit counting towards your 1 year minimum of experience? One of the schools I'm looking at appying at has a start date of Feb and at that time I will be 3 months short of a full year in the ICU on my own, if internship times counts then I will have the 1 year experience. The other schools I'm looking at have a sept and june start date. So would I be wasting my money even applying? since most other applicants will probably have well over the 1yr minimum experience? I know I can just wait the extra year and it will more than likely be the best choice for me education wise. I guess I just don't even know how many people even get in on the first application try with 1yr minimum.
Plus this program is one of the few with a part time option, spreading the didactic courses out over 9 quarters rather than 5, which will allow me more icu experience time before the clinical practicum anyway.
So if you were my, would you apply for the feb entry?
I don't think you sounded like a jerk at all, just honest. And honestly I was just wondering when I would meet the bare minimum requirement so I know if I'm throwing away money applying before I would even be considered. But thank you for your bluntness. I do agree it's best to learn all you can but I didn't know if more of that came by being "on the floor" or just getting back into the classroom.
Here's another quick question for you, would you take an hour commute over a 10min commute to get to a "better hospital" with a very high accuity CVICU over a local hospital with a general CCU that covers anything they need (yes there is a cath lab at this hospital too but the big cases seem to get flown out to the bigger city)???
I do, I make the hour commute for the "better" level-1 trauma, teaching hospital. I see and experience things here that I would never even know I was not experiencing at the local, smaller, level-2 trauma hospital.
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I do, I make the hour commute for the "better" level-1 trauma, teaching hospital. I see and experience things here that I would never even know I was not experiencing at the local, smaller, level-2 trauma hospital.