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Hi again! Thanks for the ELNEC recommendation, smurfynursey, I am hoping I can get some ceu units & possibly have it covered by my work...we'll see! I am still a very new "baby nurse" but my unit pays for us to sit for the CPON cert after 1 year of practice. I don't think they have any nurses who are CHPPN certified, but my hospital does have a Palliative Care team and I am hoping to let them know early on that I'm very interested in this field. jsmnkids -- I was one of your former nursing students. I was going to contact you to update you on what I'm doing...and here you are : ) Small world! I will send you an email this evening. All the best to both of you!

There is nothing to indicate that you failed, just be patient. Sometimes it takes longer for random reasons. I waited 8 weeks for the CA BON to post my name...had to re-send my transcripts to them. It was awful & excruciating waiting that long, but the Pearsonvue trick definitely worked for me nonetheless. Keep breathing, you'll know soon. Good luck!

Hi there! I wanted to follow up and see what you decided about this certification. I am a new grad pediatric oncology RN with an interest in palliative care. This certification sounds right up my alley but I don't know much (and it will probably be a while before I pursue it anyways.) Anything to share? Thanks!

From graduation (end of August) to start date for my new job (March) was 7 months for me...You might actually get time off before starting anyways. ...and my job offer was relatively quick compared to many new grads right now! Anywhere from 6months to over a year for a hospital position is pretty normal. Good luck

It's a great idea & worth the experience/networking potential. All the students in my class who worked as CNAs got jobs first, or had them lined up before we graduated. The rest of us had to scramble quite a bit harder and many of us are not getting acute care jobs (working sub acute, home health, LTC) or we're being hired float/per diem. Granted, I'm in California where the new grad RN market is horribly impacted & competitive... Good luck!

You only need to send transcripts from your RN school. I did not end up sending from my other schools and got my RN license last October. You send in a piece of paperwork with your application that outlines pre-requisite courses taken from other schools. Good luck!

Nope...erased the notification...of course!

Nope, I just remember she was a professor from her profile and I thought it was reflected in her screen name somehow... Basically everything after December 14th was lost. What a bummer...HOWEVER, I bet I've still got my old email notification from her response! That may be a lead! How did your interview go??

Hi There! Some of the posts in this thread were deleted after the AN site re-do : ( ...there was a member on here who wrote about having experience in Peds BMT. I contacted her via private message but her response to me was also deleted after the shut-down. Anyone by chance remember who that other poster was on here? She had "professor" or "prof" in her name... Long-shot, I know, but thanks!

Similar topic, better written in my opinion: "New California nursing graduates find it hard to get hired" http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/04/4097980/new-california-nursing-graduates.html Cheers!

A friend of mine who works in health care said it was pretty standard to call in about double the number they were looking to hire -- so interviewing 11 for 6 positions on PICU sounds about right. Probably a little better than 50% chance of hiring?? That's pretty good odds! Good luck!!!!

Does anyone have a sense of how many folks were invited to the round two interviews? If you got a 2nd interview, what's the probability of actually landing a position at this point? I'm assuming your chances are greatly improved, but then we've also heard that some units are only hiring internally, others aren't...any thoughts?? Good luck to everyone who's moving on in this process

I don't know where you're located, but in California the job-market is very contracted, over-saturated with new grads, and VERY competitive. We're easily seeing 1200-1500 applications for new grad programs at the major teaching hospitals (with few positions available) and I've been hearing about smaller hospitals being flooded w/ as many as 500 apps for a single opening. The new grad positions are few and far between! HR departments are swamped...getting responses from them is basically impossible unless you get miraculously selected for an interview. Not to mention it often takes them months to actually get back to you to scheduled the interview... Priority seems to be given to: RNs who already have their license (rather than interim permit), internal applicants, BSN or direct-entry MSNs, applicants who previously worked in an acute care setting as a tech or CNA... Many new grads are taking side-jobs to cover themselves in the meantime: working as CNAs or Techs, volunteering, working in vaccination clinics, and networking, networking, networking like crazy....some new grads are taking jobs outside the acute care setting such as LTC, SNF, Home-health, or research. I don't know if everywhere is as bad as this, but that's been the story over here. I'm not surprised at all that no one is giving you personal feedback on your application. I don't think it's right, but I'm not surprised...

PS: What a bummer to go through all the work & then they only hire internally in the end...Good luck on the rest of your search!!

Which department?? -- I just missed a phone-call from them too & the message didn't sound encouraging