catjricern

I graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN--- we've got a BA program in Nursing. The only prior experience that I had was that I worked as a Nurse Aide at a hospital in Fargo and I worked as a Home Health Aide (basically a glorified NA) at a senior community. It was absolutely my dream to have a job in St. Cloud too- I had heard so many great things about the hospital (and they have Magnet Recognition--- only St. Cloud and the Mayo have it in MN). I guess the one thing that they looked for was an internship experience or a preceptorship experience. I myself did not do an internship, but our school provided a preceptorship experience for all of us, and I did mine in Med/Surg. Other than that... apply sooner rather than later! I think their applications start in like November? I didn't apply until like... March or April? Although they do hire like 60-70-some each year for the New Grad program, I really wanted to be in the ICU, and they had already filled all of their positions in the ICU. Oh well, I do love Med/Surg too :) So yup, if you're ever on the Med 2 unit, you'll probably see me running around like I'm going crazy! Good luck to you :)

I just want to say that I got hired at the St. Cloud hospital on the Med 2 unit and I am EXCITED to start working (but don't expect to see me until around Sept. 2006)... I got hired into the new graduate program, which I feel is SO comforting to new grads like me who are just absolutely SCARED of the real nursing world! So cheers to all of us St. Cloud nurses!

Greetings! So in response to passing either 50% of really hard questions right, or 50% of really easy questions wrong... would you say that if I felt like the last 10 or so questions on my test were exceedingly hard, it's a good sign? I just took my boards this morning and it shut right off at 75.... (Is that usually a good sign too?) Thanks so much!