Sunshine1879

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D

took mine today as well. 75 questions and I feel like I kept getting one question wrong after another. I got some pharm questions and had to guess on a few, which I think I actually got right! I hate the alternitive answer questions where you have to check all that apply or put the following in order. I seemed to get ALOT of those as well > Well whats done is done and the worst that can happen is that if I don't pass then I retake it again in a few months. It would suck to not be able to work all that time though. I'm trying to stay positive and keep my mind on the statistics, which are in my favor....doesn't reassure me much though. Dear God I hope I don't have to retake it!

I wrote this poem yesterday when I was going over some of my old saunders practice exams. Hope you like! I dreampt a dream, one might say, what seems many long years ago, before my dismay. I felt a calling, a need, a pull - that my place was not here, that my routines were null. "Do it for them", a voice said in the back of my mind, "be strong for the weak, be eyes for the blind." Like I said, it wasn't a desire so much as a pull... So I left home with my love and entered nursing school. I was naive to think it would be easy- HA! Was I a fool... To leave ones home to many far places, away from family, friends and familiar faces, into frightening, dark, and unusual spaces, left me timid, tired, stressed, and without a word to rhyme with spaces. A simple walk in the park this was not meant to be, more like jumping through flaming hoops or walking through a cloud of bees. Maybe I'm being too harsh, maybe it wasn't all that bad... But when I look back, Most of what I see is the worrying and studying and all the trouble I had. No, at times school was tolerable and even fun. But I'm glad that it's over, time to relax with my husband and enjoy the sun. Like that stupid cliche of a butterfly emerging with new wings, I'm going to leave this all behind and focus on what the future may bring. But it's not over yet, ooooh no, this is only the beginning. There is one more obstacle yet to hurtle even after the pinning. I might be a bit overreacting but I'm dreading the day... of a storm on the horizon in the coming of May. It means that I'm done and there's nothing left to do, but study my ass off and hope that boards day I'll not rue. It came in a hurry, though I've been watching, I'm scared to death, my biggest challenge yet soon coming. The dreaded NCLEX...the one thing that could shatter my dreams. A beast in the shadows, the one thing that could throw a wrench in my schemes. But no, I've worked too hard to let it slip away. To the God of NCLEX-RN we shall pray! Boards will come soon enough, make no mistake, but ready I'll be and the test I will take - my nerves will not fray. This journey is over, but not to my dismay. 6 years in the making. May 16, 2009 This is my day.

I live in Nashville and graduate this may. Jobs around here seem pretty scarce as most of the hospitals seem to have only night shift or part time jobs available. Stonecrest was my first choice of hospitals but at the moment they have ONLY ONE rn job posted. Williamson only has like 12 at the most and St. Thomas doesn't have many posted either. Most hospitals I think right now are looking for nurses with experience as opposed to new grads. I've been throwing my resume all around and have only heard back from one place so far. Hopefully this economy problem (or whatever the problem is) fixes itself and fast!! hope this helps

I used to be a tech at 2 nursing homes...one still sends me their newsletter also (only they add on a request for donations) and the other also called me to work long after I'd quit. I'm glad hospitals are more organized =\

does anyone know what new grads make at Williamson or Stonecrest medical center? Any other info you could share about these two (tuition reimbursment, etc.) would be great. thanks