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I'm with you Bluegrass. I went to nursing school to become an L&D nurse. I precepted at my local hospital here in the Bay Area and was hired. I lasted 3 months. For all of the same reasons you mentioned. Now I am in oncology -- I know what a ...

I agree with ANC33....I signed up for the review course and did a couple of the modules, but it was basically just reading the same information as the book, but online. Some of the 'activities' involved printing blank tables and filling them in with...

I'm 49 years old and a new grad as of 6/06. I quit my dream job after three months because I couldn't work the night shift. I know a new job, especially a new nursing job, takes over one's life to some degree at first but working the night shift ad...

I too am a new grad in my first nursing job. This is a second career for me -- I worked in sales/acct. management/service for 15 years. I was successful and made good money. I was tired of the corporate gig though. I was then a stay at home mom fo...

Thanks to all for your advice and encouragement. I've had a couple of days off to rejuvenate and have made up my own lists that I plan to carry with me to help me organize. I am going to hang in there at least through orientation -- hey they gave me...

Hi jenrninmi: I started on the floor of a very busy L&D unit -- we do over 700 births per month -- on 10/31. I precepted on this very same unit from Jan-Mar 2006. I am now on nights with a couple of different preceptors, all of whom are very good...

I don't know about the hospital as a good place to work, nor about the MacArthur Bart station per se, but the area where Kaiser Oakland is located is about 10 minutes from where I live in Oakland and as cities go, is pretty safe. My front door is of...

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Oh yeah -- and my husband has a relative (distant -thank God) who named her daughter Nicole -- but spelled it Nickhole. Imbecile.

Pajama -- but pronounced pa-ji-ma. And another -- dajanae (all they had to add was 'petite' and you have breakfast!!)

Hi everyone. I was offered a position -- a night job with a .9 schedule. I know this works out to 36 hours per week, but not sure if it is 3 - 12s or something else. And me, in my excitement at receiving the job offer didn't think to ask at the ti...

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Thanks for the replies to my post. Finally heard from the nurse manager who told me that at this particular hospital a .9 is 4 days on one week -- 11pm-7:30am alternating with 5 days the next week -- same hours. She then asked me if that is what I ...

Congrats!! I am just a bit behind you ....I start my job on October 9! I will be orienting on days and then training on nights. Trying to get prepared for nights -- been on a bunch of websites etc. I am so excited too -- L&D is why I went int...

That is great! Congrats!

Hang in there velvet126. I took my test on 7/19 and found out two weeks later that I passed. I was convinced I'd failed because, like you, most of my friends found out within 2-3 days. I was with my family on vacation in Hawaii and I was waking up ...

You are definitely not crazy nor are you the only one who recognizes the personal power a woman gains from going through labor. I was fortunate that during my preceptorship, my preceptor with 22 years of an L&D nurse had also been a doula and al...

I kept checking the CA BRN website to just bask in the glow of seeing my name in lights -- so to speak! Never considered that they might issue a license in error. Highly unlikely IMO.

Love, love, loved your post - what a crack up! I agree, you should be a writer. Amazing how that test unnerves 99% of us.

1. 75 questions 2. Kaplan complete; some Saunders, and Mosby online CAT. 3. Yes, our SON had us take a practice test in both Spring of our second year, and during our third year. Both were CAT tests -- the first was Medpro and the second was the ...

I know, CA is ridiculous. I had to wait forever too. Exactly two weeks ago today, I took the test and finally received my results this morning. I sort of slunk (is that a word??) over to the computer telling myself that if it didn't show up today,...

Meant to say more med questions -- not math!! Sorry - newbie!

I'm new here, but I absolutely couldn't believe it when I read your post. It could have be me -- word for word!! I think we had the same test I too had many more med questions than I'd anticipated -- my greatest fear because remembering exactly whe...