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Hello! I'm coming up on my 3 year anniversary on my inpatient ortho/neuro surgical unit and my life has changed a lot in the past year. I got divorced (2/15,) bought a house (5/15) and had my first injury related to patient care (~2months ago, but im...

I got an email from the director of the program requesting volunteers to speak to the new cohort at the welcome breakfast on August 22nd. Congrats to our new colleagues, can't wait to meet you!

Hi folks. I just graduated from the residency program at the end of June. One reason things might be going a little slower this year is that the RN who ran the program is leaving the position and has to train her replacement. 40 is a big group! We we...

Linfield. This cohort had a lot of accepted folks, but not all cohorts have this many.

Legacy did some calling today. Out of my BSN program 6 folks have been offered residency positions in this round of Versant. It's tru that they have scheduled an info session for new hires on Tuesday. A little bird told me that Kaiser is going to ha...

I got called today for post-surgical specialties at Good Sam. I know two of my other classmates are interviewing for the same unit. I also heard from a classmate who got called for oncology at Good Sam. I haven't heard of anyone getting any calls fro...

Portland is saturated with new grads. It takes most people several months to find something, and many of my classmates are moving out of town to find work. I think if you can move to a more rural area, your chances would be better to get a job faster...

Heard from another one today who had his second interview on the 8th in PCU/Cardiology/telemetry.

Alrighty- two of my classmates got calls from the Family Birth Center at Good Sam for 2nd interviews today. One said it sounded like other hospitals and departments were on their own time schedules. If we're not out of the game we're still in it, ri...

One thing that makes me feel a little more hopeful is that quite a few of my graduating class applied and had first interviews, and no one has admitted to being called back. So, maybe they are just slow...

If they don't get born, they won't be around for you to pound on their chest in the ED. Your education is about learning what it's like to care for people in various stages of their lives, even though (gasp!) you may not work with that population exc...

I just got Diseases and Disorders; a Nursing Therapeutics Manual by Marilyn Sawyer Sommers for med surg and I love this thing. Ever wonder "what he heck is that?" and "what do you do for that?" Well, here it is. It's very specific to nursing which wi...

Hello! I was doing some googling this evening and came across a thread from last year that was mainly Linfield summer cohort talk. I was inspired to try and start a similar thread and possibly a facebook group for Linfield Accelerated Summer 2011 fol...

Take a shower before you come to class. Greasy hair is gross.

Wait..no papers? At all? Are you getting a BSN?

Ah yes.. the smells. I have my first clinical day for my accelerated BSN program on Thursday and of course I wandered into a room and ended up helping a CNA change a patient's very smelly briefs. I have two small kids and am the designated cat/dog/hu...

Lack of sleep is what gets me sick. I'm trying to strike a balance between school work, family time, and SLEEP! I've done two IV vitamin pushes this summer (Meyer's cocktails) to boost my immune system and in the winter I take Elderberry syrup (it ha...

Congratulations Nurse Crunchy Mama!

Sooo irritating! NO working nurses in our area wear white shoes! Luckily for in my program we can wear white shoes with logos, swooshes, piping etc in whatever colors they happen to be, but it seems like a serious waste of money to require (hideously...

Here's a trick that you may or may not have heard of. I'm still in my first term of nursing school, so of course I haven't tried this yet, but I've heard it never fails! HERE ARE THE EXACT STEPS TO SEE IF YOU PASSED THE NCLEX EXAM ON THE PearsonVue W...

I'm in my first term of an accelerated BSN program and according to my profs it's also because there is a push in nursing to get more nurses with masters and doctorates. Having more nurses with bachelors+ elevates the entire field. More respect, bett...

I got 10 days off between my pre-requs (been going straight through) and my accelerated BSN program which starts (gulp!) on Monday. We took a vacation. I tried to read a little. I've been attempting to enjoy spending time with my kids without thinkin...

Sounds like the internal pair she had served her just fine! What a great story. I strive to be that confident and secure!

I randomly met a Kaiser employee yesterday at a coffee shop. She's not a nurse. She said the layoffs were mostly going to be CNAs, based on what she had heard and e-mails she had seen. Not that ANY layoffs are a good thing, but I haven't heard anythi...

That's funny. I didn't apply to OHSU in part because of this very reason! I had an ex who worked up at OHSU in pre-tram days and it was a mess trying to get her to/from work sometimes, especially when it snowed/iced up. I'm a parent and picking up/d...