Since my posts here have become a little sparse, I thought this might be a good time to consolidate my nursing school posts from an older blog. Here's a post about my nursing school interview, originally posted September 25, 2008:
My interview went well today. I only managed to tongue tie myself once. My interviewer's office phone went off 3 or 4 times, her personal cell phone went off once, and someone knocked at the door and intruded. Interesting.
The questions were pretty basic:
Why do you want to be a nurse?
What are some qualities of a good nurse?
What are your strengths that you would bring to nursing school?
What are your weaknesses that you would bring to nursing school?
How do you study?
How do you plan to deal with the rigors of the program?
Do you plan to work?
Think of a time when you had a great deal of stress. How did you deal with that stress?
The one that made me think was:
Think of a time that a problem couldn't be solved with your current way of thinking. What did you do to solve the problem?
All in all it was a relatively painless experience. She seemed genuinely attentive, and took notes on my answers. When we were through she all but told me I'd gotten in. Acceptance letters go out towards the end of October, so I'll be glad when it's in my grimy little hand. Orientation is Jan 7 and 8, but classes don't start until after the 20th. Nice little break there to get myself properly immunized.
Oh boy.
I don't recall going through that type of an interview.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I know I was told that I couldn't do it....and they wouldn't register me because they felt I couldn't work full time (as an LPN) and also do my university prerequisites to get into the RN program's second year.
I went away from the administrations office feeling disappointed but with new resolve. I managed to do it anyway (on 3 different campuses so they wouldn't know what i was doing - no computers back then!), THEN presented the same Dean of admissions with my transcript - he couldn't believe it.
He told me that I MUST be determined, I said YES I AM....and I got into the first Access Class.... that was the extent of it.
I stumbled on the , " If a classmate came up to you and said someone has the test questions and they have seen them, would you turn them in?"
ReplyDeleteTalk about HARD... I was like um... to rat or not to rat? Would I look? Hell no. Too important to me. Would I tell? Sheesh... its still hard to answer that one.
CC that is amazing!
ReplyDeleteCC: That's a great story!
ReplyDeleteChristine: That is a tough one. Yeesh.
Zazzy: Totally agree.
Didn't have an interview to get into nursing school. They just took the top grades... failed half of them when it was over and done with.
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