jennafezz

Geographic location: East Bay Area, CA Pay rate: $58.48 base In which area / specialty do you work?: Intermediate/Telemetry What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)?: RN What type of degree and/or certification do you have?: BSN (MSN in progress) How many years of experience do you have?: Almost two Are you full-time, part-time, or casual / per diem / PRN status?: Full time What shift do you work?: Nights (12 hrs) Do you receive any shift differential?: $5.64 nights, $2-something for weekends Are you a manager or supervisor?: No

i recently graduated from csueb and plenty of people in my cohort had 3.5 GPAs. that's crazy talk. please apply. make up for it with a good TEAS score and you will be fine. it's not as insanely competitive as people like to tell you.

I didn't orient on holidays because they didn't want to pay holiday pay to an orientee, since I was extra staffing.

Scrubology. They sell it at some Sears. They make Grey's and Koi replicas. Not exactly the same but close enough to be worth the price drop.

Sacramento has pretty good pay vs. cost of living. Patient ratios are a wonderful thing and I've never not gotten breaks.

You're just tutoring, all that is normally required of a college tutor is very successful completion of the classes you are tutoring for. You aren't telling them how to be experienced nurses, you're just helping them with their current coursework. New grads who hadn't yet found jobs were tutoring for people in my nursing class.

this has been my experience as a new grad (seven months in now), very blessed to be supported by great charges and great coworkers.

i would call in a week. i like your username.

are you sure the NS wasn't just the primary bag for the antibiotic piggyback?

If it's a standard offer letter, yes you can "go back on it" but I wouldn't expect to ever be hired there again. Burned bridge. However, some new grad offers are like contracts where you agree to work for two years or whatever, and some of those can have penalties (fees) involved with breaking the contract. The offer letter would state this if it were the case, though.

many of those words don't need to be capitalized. too many for me to list right now but examples are "glucose" and "speaking, reading, writing".

1. State you work in: California (SF Bay Area) 2. Years of experience: Six months (new grad) 3. Specialty/unit and work setting: Telemetry, hospital 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary: 55.45 hourly 5. Differentials (if any): 10% nights, 5% weekends (I work nights) 6. Union?: Yes, and they take about $110 a month in dues For cost of living comparison, the 3bd single family homes around here are going for 450-650k depending on neighborhood.

In my nursing class at CSUEB (graduated last December), only like three people (out of 65) had started at CSUEB as freshmen and completed all prereqs there... that's really interesting though.

Just curious as to the reasons you're avoiding the standard community college/state university ADN/BSN routes?

everyone has a personal preference as to the farthest east in the bay area they'd be comfortable living. brentwood is just farther than my preference. i feel that there's not enough going on there. and the "70 minutes to pleasanton" is extremely real in traffic, which would affect any day shift worker, as commute traffic to brentwood is terrible. i think the main point here is whether or not the bay area is expensive, and i think we agree that the farther away you live, the cheaper it is.

that's cause brentwood is in the middle of nowhere and most people living there have to commute extremely far to work..

my nursing class had identical twin guys.....i think they precepted on the same unit but didn't get hired at the same hospital. i think they post here. maybe they will see this. hey guys.

They offer some at Concord and many are available online.

Wait til orientation. You get to pick your sections then, with everyone all at once. There's no worries about the classes filling up as all of the spots are reserved for you. It would be beneficial for you to sign up for an upper division general education class though (if you still need them) - like a B6 or HDEV 3800. The first quarter is by far the easiest quarter so it's a good time to take an extra GE class, and if you wait then they will probably fill up.

I've read research about the amount of germs found in wedding rings even when nurses washed/sanitized their hands according to protocol... and it scared me a bit, so I wear a plain band. My hospital doesn't have a protocol for that but I feel better about it.

Quite a few. I was at Concord campus and went to a SNF, John Muir Concord, John Muir Walnut Creek, Children's Oakland, Herrick in Berkeley, Alta Bates in Berkeley, San Ramon Regional, John Muir Home Health, and there are like 20 options for preceptorship sites...

did this for all of my classes, all of my books, saved well over a thousand dollars. never had a problem. some of the page numbers didn't match up sometimes but i was never disadvantaged.

http://www20.csueastbay.edu/csci/departments/nursing/files/docs/5yr-roadmap.pdf Here's the roadmap for the nursing program (Hayward campus - Concord campus has an extra summer session so they finish a quarter early) - you'd start in "first year nursing" and there are also upper division GEs and the code class requirements thrown into the roadmap as when students normally take them. It's normally like 10-12 units of nursing classes, but it's kind of a moot point because units aren't a good representation of time spent when it comes to nursing. I've taken 22-unit loads of non-nursing classes and had way more free time than 10 units of nursing.

With those stats you should be fine with getting admitted, I wouldn't even worry about it. You do have a strict schedule and you will all sign up for classes at the same time, after (or at?) orientation. There is some degree of choice/flexibility to the schedule, but for the most part it is made for you. There's no worries about the class spaces filling up because they are reserved for you. You can sign up for GE classes though, if you need to take any (everyone has to take 12 units of upper division GE, for example, and the first quarter of the program is an excellent time to take a GE class because your schedule will be super relaxed compared to the rest of the program). However a couple of the nursing requirements also fulfill some upper division GE requirements so I'd talk to someone from the nursing dept before signing up for any GEs. But I wouldn't wait on that if I were you because upper division GEs tend to fill up quick and it's not something you want to put off til a busier quarter. A lot of people are like "I don't want to overload myself the first quarter, I just want to give 100% attention to nursing!" and they don't take a GE class, but that's a mistake, because you will be busier every quarter as the program progresses. The first quarter is like a cake walk. But maybe your upper division GEs are already completed and you don't even need to think about this at all! Good luck!

Besides all of the job importance and opinions of hiring managers and all of that stuff, *you* will feel more comfortable as a new grad nurse if you have a longer preceptorship. To me, preceptorship was completely different than the regular nursing school clinicals and I think it had a huge, irreplaceable role in my current comfort level as a new grad RN. And I did get hired onto my preceptorship unit. Keep in mind that some schools allow you to go beyond the preceptorship hours, as they are more like a minimum.