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As a new-ish grad. I had the mentality of I'm entering "YOUR" territory. You've been here longer than me and so you know more than me. I took my precepting days as a day of learning. Everyone had a different charting style, or whatever. You just need to learn to accumulate all the information you took, and just do what you feel works best for you. But again, my mentality was me entering their territory. I came in enthusiastic and eager to learn. I got along with everyone, and everyone seems to like me (at least, I'd like to say they do). In terms of showing compassion, you just have to let the "newb" learn themselves. I was very sympathetic in the beginning with a lot of the "regulars" and to others, it seemed like a waste of time. But overtime I'd realize how much some people abuse the system and would literally come in 3x a week for the same complaint hoping to get something different from a different doctor. I'm still new, but I can typically spot a regular.

Here's a documentary about the waiting room. I use to precept here and well the waits were up to 2+ days. People would come in at 5-6AM and bring a blanket and anticipate the wait. The Waiting Room | A Film & Social Media Project About Health Care

Saw this from a friend: https://www.ncsbn.org/4220.htm

Just tell them how much money you make... and they'll shut up.

Good luck brother.. this forum has an abundance of information.. enjoy the much deserved winter break.

Just calm down and take the test. Don't let your nerves take the best of your judgment.. Don't get all concerned about how many Qs you get or whatever.. answer each questions as if it were your last. Don't aim for 50% correct, aim for 100%. And if it helps, go to the locker.. take a breather.. sip of water.. clear your thoughts, and head back in.

I'm a personally a running shoe wearing kind of guy, and I couldn't imagine wearing any clogs or anything else, but this was pretty popular. Nike Air Max 90s.

I complete agree with Joe, it REALLY varies on which hospital you are in. I have a friend who works in in VA, and gets $19/hr. California is a great state to work in, but super saturated. In Southern Cali, they get around high 20s-mid 30s. Here in Northern Cali, it ranges from mid 30s - mid 50s, starting.

It varies hospital to hospital. Some don't have differential, and some don't offer time and a half after 8 hours. I know several hospitals who just do 12s and those last 4 hours are not considered OT.

Just keep looking. You really have to know someone who works internal who will really know. I feel like a lot of the Kaisers anywhere in CA aren't really offering a lot of new graduate programs.

My friend was selected for the position. Not sure how many others or what else. But from what I heard, you do get sent a behavioral test if you qualify.

California is TOUGH. I got super lucky on the position I'm at, especially in the market right now. But rumor says, 2014 is "the year". Like what everyone says, keep applying. Here are tips in nursing school.. build strong connections, these connections are the ones writing your letter of recommendations, forwarding your application to a manager, or telling you about a position at the hospital. Utilize everything you can, and really introduce yourself and offer yourself.

Anyone else get an interview/call-back?

Anyone get any call-backs or interviews?

I know how you feel, and that happened to me as well as all of my classmates. Here's what I did to get a bigger sample. Anyone feel free to participate. The more people involved in that, the more accurate. https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/pvt-integrity-poll-763039.html

SATA is an above the pass line question. You don't have to get all of them right in order to pass. As long as you get the next question right, then you should be fine. It's going to be impossible to get all the SATA correct because it can honestly be about ANYTHING. Don't stress, practice questions, relax and get plenty of rest. And no, you won't end up working for K-mart. Being nervous and anxious is completely normal. You just need to not let your nerves get the best of your judgment during the test, which is what got me the first time. I was able to zone out and calm my nerves the second time.

Be ready to in an environment where the ratio is 8:1

I had forgotten about that option. My friend also had that as well. (and he too also passed)

As you can see, options 1 and 4 proves that the PVT trick works, 2 and 3 makes it not.

Okay, I have had this discussion with ALL my friends and we all so far have seen only positive results when it came to the PVT trick. So I thought that if we had a poll on whether/whether not the trick worked for someone, they can then look it up here and realize how many people it has worked for and did not work for. As for the other thread, the original thread-starter did post it, but s/he did not post whether or not if the trick failed, it only asked if you passed/failed. So I thought about it, and this might be more helpful. So feel free to put any input into this thread, also, putting the number of questions you had P/F. Good Luck, and Thanks for participating

I was scoring around that range on NCLEX 4000 and passed. NCLEX 4000 is generally focused on content questions. It has great review on topics so it would definitely be beneficial to use, but I don't recommend only using that as a study tool. Also don't let numbers make you think you will pass the test. I took the Kaplan course that guarantees you will pass on first try. My instructor had told me that my readiness score was likely to be passing on the first try, but I had not passed.

Don't worry too much about numbers, focus on your mentality going into the test. I know you're not going to feel 100% ready for the test, but just as long as you have a general concept of what is expected I think you should be fine. Do not be discouraged about your scores dropping to __ or what not. But if you're a numbers-person like me, you're numbers are great. The problem with your second-guessing/over-thinking, just focus really on what the question is asking, and REALLY understand the outcome of each answer. That is the biggest reason for over-thinking/second-guessing is because you're not sure what the outcome is of each answer is. To be honest, your first guess is usually the correct one. I ran into some problems with that as well but as I took my test, I'd pick an answer, then re-read to make sure this answer choice answers the question, then I start to doubt myself but I stuck with my first choice. I'm pretty sure I would get those right because my next question would be a SATA (so I'm assuming I got the last question correctly). All in all, get plenty of rest the night before, try to relax (like everyone says) the day. If you truly feel guilty, wake up early in the morning, do some Qbanks, and then just do basic memorization such as labs, mnenomics, etc. Do not let your nerves overcome you during the test, and good luck!

From what I heard, the readiness scale floating around here is invalid. (as confirmed from my Kaplan instructor). She had told me that people usually who score roughly 50% on the Readiness, are 90% likely to pass on the first try. People who score 60%+ are usually recommended to take the test like the next day. ** This is what MY instructor told me. Also, I'm not sure where that rubric of likelihood of passing from the Readiness came from, it stemmed back from like 2008.

So at my school, I saw other cohorts produce awesome sweatshirts, so I thought of a creative idea to make one to represent our cohort. My sister who also is in nursing who was the cohort behind me also decided to make one to represent her class. I worked with another guy who was one cohort behind my sister who loved the idea and is now working on his cohort's sweatshirts. So here's the *official* post your nursing class sweatshirt thread! Here's mine: Here's my Sister's who is on semester behind me: They both are American Apparel Zip-Ups (I couldn't figure out how to rotate it, because I uploaded them vertically) PS, we both go to Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA

Congrats everyone! See you all in the Spring! I just started my BSN here SMU!