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)...

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. Ne...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 edu...

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 ...

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 preceptor...

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 nurs...

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 ...

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 s...