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Congratulations on your offer! Can I ask when you interviewed and when you got the offer? And....did you accept?

I would if I were you. You never know what the full hiring process was when you interviewed the first time. For example, they could have hired someone that didn't work out and you were like their runner up candidate.

Sorry I have no idea. I think you have to keep checking the Sutter Health Careers website, that's what I did.

The hiring manager wound up reaching out to me letting me know that they would be extending an offer but that there was a hold up with HR bc my BLS wasn't from AHA (it was from Red Cross). That's wonderful that you're doing your NRP! They def want that.

I don't want them to forget about you either! I just got the formal offer and accepted for Antepartum. I have gotten BLS, ACLS, and NRP certified, which I think hospitals around here really want of Antepartum, L&D, PP, and NICU new grad candidates. I suggest you do it. I did my NRP and ACLS at Safety Training Seminars and it was super easy, although expensive. Hoping you get an offer still!

That's really interesting that your app status changed to that. Mine still says "your application is under review." I'm going to send a follow-up email to the hiring manager tomorrow. It sounds like you never got a response to your thank you letters? I think it's totally normal to email the hiring manager for the one that changed app statuses. Just to give myself an option, I'm going to the In-Person Hiring Event at St. Frances Hospital. Have you thought about going too? Also random question, are you NRP certified already and if so, was the skills test hard?

Thank you! I still have yet to hear from HR though ? Have you heard anything back yet?

That's wonderful to hear! I really loved the hiring managers I interviewed with. I got confirmation that they will be offering me a position from one of them today! They said HR would be reaching out probably Monday with official offer. I'm 75% certain it will be antepartum as opposed to L&D. I'm so excited!

Crossing my fingers for you! Did you like the hiring manager(s) for NICU? Did they say how many positions they were hiring for? L&D/PP/Antepartum/NICU are all highly coveted positions for new grad, so the fact that we are interviewing in the most competitive part of the country is a good sign.

Hey! I have applied to the L&D & Antepartum New Grad RN positions at Alta Bates in Berkeley. They told me in my interview that they think the start date will be November 1st. Have you interviewed and/or received an offer?

I'm so sorry I didn't reply earlier. I actually turned down both offers and moved back to San Francisco where I lived before nursing school and have a better network. I am currently in final rounds for an L&D position at Sutter Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. 8 hour shifts, better pay, recently ratified collective bargaining agreement, etc. For what it's worth, I thought the hiring process was ridiculous at Swedish. You didn't even have the opportunity to speak with the hiring manager 1:1 to see if you would even like working for them. They told me their residency hiring process was "new.”

Same. I graduated this May on the 25th and I'm scheduled to take my NCLEX with the California Board of Nursing in 18 days (ack!) I received my ATT June 7th so it took 2 weeks and one day. I will say that I started getting all of my materials ready in December and sent my fingerprinting cards by mail ASAP so I got my ATT super fast. Sometimes I think it's not the CA Board of Nursing that is the issue but more the standard of hiring new grads in that state. Residencies will take your application before you're an RN, but any position outside of these hospital residencies won't look at your application until you are officially an RN. After you get your Maryland license, I would suggest getting your materials together (pre-nursing school transcripts) ASAP. They want to see that you have their specific prerequisites surrounding communication courses, intro to Psychology, and others. Doesn't matter if you're a first-time NCLEX taker or transferring, they want all of this documentation.

No, this is about the MSN program

I'm about to graduate from JHU's MSN program in a month and a half. We had almost 200 students in our class. I had a very different experience from the previous poster. The administration is tired af and so are the teachers. The university also breached my confidentiality when I came to them for help because I was experiencing domestic violence. If you are 23 and have never had any culture or lived experience this program would be great for you. If you actually have worked for over 10 years and have some grit, be prepared to come to a very depressed city marred by racism and social inequities pretty much caused by Johns Hopkins. The one positive is that you'll never have a problem getting a job and I've had a bunch of offers from great and high paying residency programs months before graduation date. They pay abominably in Baltimore and at Johns Hopkins in particular.

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Hello new nurses! I was just offered a position in the new RN residency program at Swedish in Seattle for their L&D - First Hill location. I'm trying to gather some information on what the experience of nurses are in L&D/perinatal at Swedish but can't seem to find anything. Can anyone offer any feedback? Additionally, I have an offer from Virginia Mason. It's a med surg position with 1:4-5 nurse/patient ratios. There are some pros and cons to this. I think med surge would be challenging but a great opportunity to sharpen my skills across the board since I would be exposed to a greater variety of patient scenarios and disease processes. What's pulling me toward VM is that the me and the hiring manager really connected. He seemed 1,000% devoted to his staff. That can make or break a work environment. On the other hand, women's health is what I want to do. I did my L&D rotation in a high acuity magnate hospital so it would be a good match. Cons to Swedish is that the hiring manager did not reach out to me to allow me to ask questions or get to know her. It was a 4-person panel interview where I wasn't allowed to ask questions due to time restrictions, so I have no idea what the culture is like at Swedish. I would be so grateful for feedback since I have to make a decision within the next coming days.

If you can see my other posts I put a really long one reviewing the program.

Current Hopkins MSN student. Run as far as you can.

I’m a current student about to start my 4th semester in the program and every day I wish I decided not to come here. Most of my cohort is incredibly unhappy, for one, but students are generally quite unsupportive of each other. Just the other day in my clinical environment the students were boasting about their grades to each other. A true lack of professionalism at its core, but Johns Hopkins doesn’t care who it recruits. If you’ve ever had any professional experience in your life, consider that to be true detriment to coming into this program. You will be amongst people who have never held a job, or only held one job before in their life. It’s mortifying to be in a clinical environment with very young tone deaf “adults” who cannot control their giggles and volume of the voice. Your clinical experience will be determined by your clinical instructor, but that’s what happens in every nursing school. Pray that you have one that supports learning and questions. Your psych clinical (and class) will be truly worthless, by the way, so I hope you don’t want to go into psych. As for the didactic components, I will agree with the previous poster that half of the professors are amazing, wonderful people. Most of the time I cannot believe our professors are even nurses because of staggering lack of empathy and compassion they expression toward their students. If you join this program you will soon realize that grading at this school is entirely based on a game they play called “hide the ball,” where they won’t tell you how to succeed on their exams whatsoever, so you just have to teach yourself. You teach yourself throughout the entire program. It’s profoundly lazy teaching. This is a toxic environment and if you want to be around kids with no real life experience who don’t even really want to be nurses but instead want to make as much money and have as little patient interaction as possible as a CRNA, join this program!

Do you have a psych? go see your SDS office. You are 100000000% entitled by law to get accommodations to bring you to a more level playing ground . that’s what ADA is for. Nursing school has exacerbated every single psych issue I’ve ever had. This has been the worst experience of my life, like worse than childhood trauma, so I will gladly take time and a half on exams, take them alone and not with the rest of my dweeble classmates, and be excused from classes to take care of myself. Your SDS officer should help you through this process and if not, just go above them. No one likes *** PR. I support you.

It sounds like you’ve been through a tremendous amount of suffering and adversity. Your experience will help other people I’m certain of it. I will caution you, though, about how to use your story and how it can be of maximum benefit to people. What I mean is that overcoming adversity is, unfortunately not as simple as getting one’s mindset right. Hence the whole study of mental illness in the first place. Or how about social determinants of health? All people do not have the same resources, inner or outer, the same faculties the same trauma background, the same financial resources, the same genetic disposition, physiological health, education level, intellectual skill, etc. etc., to pull themselves up by their bootstraps in the same way as the next person may. And that other person deserves love and kindness and compassion too. Not, just keep trying harder and harder! It’s because you’re not trying hard enough! See, they had less resources and they could do it! Why aren’t you? I don’t know, just my two cents.

Well I’m 36 went to nursing school as a career change and I absolutely hate it. I’m still trying to finish up my first semester due to having a nervous breakdown from all of the stress and toxicity of this graduate school and having no mental health care support. pretty sure nursing schools is where all of this stuff starts. It’s horrific.

I’m curious what people think now that the semester has started. Have I uprooted my life to go to online school?

Guess we were proven wrong LOL. Also......love seeing this...forever... Congrats Shawn! Where will you be going?

I chose psych, but there isn’t a point since the CNS psych certification is officially obsolete! I also haven’t received an interview, and I’m convinced they’ve like halted operations over there! Haha. I’ve accepted my seat and put down a deposit at Johns Hopkins but I’m still curious about the application and interview process with State.