RookieRoo

I just did this move! Indiana to san diego. We moved to SD because of my spouse's job, because of family, because it's where I'm from and because of thw weather! Yes it is more expensive but the pay is also higher and so is quality of life. I don't regret this decision one bit!

Hope you get good news! Let us know!

Got the email today that I got in! Spring 2017, wahoo!

Nothing yet here, anything for you?

Omgomgomg! My license FINALLY WENT THROUGH. It wasn't there at 8am this morning (I checked) and now at 11am, it is!!! I am CONVINCED that leaving a message for the supervisor AND following up with all the phone calls is what did it. If they tell you to wait and not call back- don't listen! Call back anyways!

I'm thinking of driving up to the board this weekend and getting there first thing Monday morning... I just don't know if it would do any good at this point or not.

spoke with everyone and their mom today at the board. I don't even want to look at my phone to see how many times, how many minutes I called and was on hold. I got bounced around from cashiering... to licensing... back to cashiering. I found out that they DO have my money for my temporary license but now they are saying that they don't have the application for one- what?! It's a freakin box that gets checked, right? Yes, verified the licensing specialist. And that's all I have to do right? Check the box, send the money, good to go? Licensing specialist says yes. THEN WHY DON'T I HAVE MY TEMPORARY LICENSE?! Licensing guy blames cashiering... cashiering blames licensure guy. Somewhere along the lines I got the number for the licensing supervisor whose voicemail states, in no uncertain terms, not to call any more frequently than every 5 business days. Cool, left a message, doubt that will fix anything. So disheartened.

Here is my latest update. I am SO MAD right now. I called the admin building number this morning (the number I posted earlier in the thread). I had called this number last week and the lady wouldn't help me at all, said I had to call the call center number, but I figured I would try it again before I gave it up as a lost cause since the call center clearly isn't getting me anywhere. So I called, and the lady did warn me that they aren't supposed to help us when they call (FYI for future callers) but I was super polite and nice and she agreed to help a little. She looked my stuff up and lo and behold, my fingerprints STILL weren't back. There was no note, there wasn't anything saying they had been rejected, they just... weren't there. She said that seemed fishy to her so she promised she would look into it and call me back. She also told me each and every transcript they have recieved... turns out they are missing one. Good to know, wonder how long THAT information has been just sitting there. She said the board sent me a letter last week about the "oral communication" class that everyone has a problem with... well, A) I haven't gotten that letter and B) if they had my last transcript that they're missing, I'm pretty sure there's a class on there that would have satisfied it SO. She said there's nothing to do except have them send the transcript again. All this, and we hang up, and she promises to call me back when she has found out information about my fingerprints. Much to my surprise, she DOES call me back about two hours later. My fingerprints have cleared, great! Apparently, the problem was that my last name has a hyphen in it and wasn't transmitting properly... and the past three times I have called to check this, no one has bothered to look this information up or even try to help. This could have been cleared up SO MUCH SOONER. But I digress. Fingerprints are cleared... check. Still waiting on one transcript. Check. But I can get my temporary license now, right? WRONG. She tells me she can't see where I have paid for my temporary license. What? I sent a money order for them in the same envelope as my 2x2 picture and fingerprint hard card, along with a note explaining what the money order was for (there wasn't an option to pay for it online when I paid for everything else, so I HAD to do it this way, and had actually called the call center previously to verify that this is what I should do.) So now I'm PISSED. This whole time I've been thinking "at least I will probably get my temporary license soon" and now they're saying they don't even have that. And I paid for it- so where the hell did my $50 go?! She said she would check with the cashier's office but didn't promise to call back or anything, so here I am once again in limbo, waiting. I am going to file a complaint RIGHT NOW. So unbelievably frustrated.

I just applied for NP with a 3yo and a 1yo. I did nursing school pregnant and with a toddler! It was hard but with the right support system (daycare, emergency care people, etc) it was very doable.

So as of today, there is no longer a place on my application where it says "status." What does this mean?!?! Is it a sign, or is it a glitch? LOL I called that back door number and the lady there refused to look it up for me, she said I have to call the main number. We all know where THAT is going to get me...

why on earth would it be the end of the world with pharmacy? At my hospital, we just had to waste it in MAK (sometimes with a witness, depending on what it was) and then get a new one out... anyways, I do sympathize with you on the blister packs. Infernal, annoying things! I try to open mine over the cup but I have had my fair share of pills go flying.

Well, I've finished applying to ISU's online FNP program and gotten the word that it may take until October 15 for them to decide. So, I guess it's a waiting game now! Is anyone else on here who has applied for this program/semester?

I'm not celest but I can answer for you... (916) 574-7600

I called again this morning... I used the other number and got through to a human being on ONE ring! This person said that they actually DON'T have my nursys verification in yet and restated what the other person had said, about my fingerprints not having gone through yet. I asked if there was anything I could or needed to do and he basically just told me the same thing- wait two weeks, call back. He also said that if my fingerprints aren't through in two weeks when I call back then I need to speak with their fingerprint processing supervisor/coordinator. UGH. I asked him about my nursys verification expiring and he said it should still be good but I have my doubts. WHY is this such a nightmare?!

congratulations! I'm jealous... and nervous about how long this is REALLY going to take!

I've been too nervous to even begin applying for jobs until I have at least a temporary license. I wasn't even sure if hospitals would even look at my application without one. In terms of wait time... I hadn't seen that! When I applied it said 8-12 weeks. Which is still ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as 14-16!

Okay, I'm throwing my lot in with all of you here. In the process of endorsing from IN to CA and let me just say... I'm not entirely sure "process" is the right word, more like long-ass freaking WAIT. My timeline so far is that I requested fingerprint cards midMay and got them beginning of June, applied online June 6, mailed hard copies of fingerprint cards and cashier's check for the temporary license that same day (there was not an option to pay online for the temp license but I did pay online for everything else) and had all my transcripts sent from various schools (and there were a lot of them, my RN BSN was my second degree and CA wants ALLLLL your transcripts). Now I am just... waiting. My license status says "pending" and "open" but it has said that ever since a week or so after I turned in my app (before that it said "recieved" or something.) I finally called the BON yesterday... again. Like many of you, I have kept on getting that "too busy to talk to you" message that hangs up on you. I got mad yesterday afternoon and kept hitting redial and redial and FINALLY got through to be put on hold... waited on hold for twenty minutes and actually got to talk to someone! The lady I spoke to was very nice, she said it looked like they had everything except my transcripts and when I protested at that (I know very well I have had all my transcripts sent in!) she said that she actually can't see transcript information on her end and they probably do have them in my file (but there was no way for her to check, apparently.). I asked what was holding my license up (10 weeks later?!) and she said they were waiting on my fingerprints back from the FBI and that once that is done, I will be able to get my temp license issued if nothing else. Finally, she told me to call back in two weeks. Wahoo. More waiting.

We hook up right away, but no feedings until confirmed placement via radiology.

I just finished a five in a row stretch of 12hr shifts... not typical, and by no means pleasant, but that was the way the cookie crumbled this time. Usually though I only work 3 in a row with maybe an on call day tacked in at the beginning or end of that stretch (so the potential to work 4 in a row).

Where I work, ICU is a closed unit and we don't float to other units, nor do other units come to us. We do our own scheduling just within the ICU. It's nice. We do have travelers who are sometimes floated to tele. Those of you who are med surg RNs being floated to ICU.... I can't imagine. Are you given stable patients? Vented patients? Any other training other than just ACLS? Do you take a titrate drips?

I was in my first code and couldn't remember my patient's code status! No one had ever told me he was a DNR so I was assuming he was a full code, but when the moment came I started second guessing and we had to call the nursing facility from whence he had come to confirm code status DURING the code. Thank god he was indeed a full code. So... I understand what you mean about freezing!

One pt I was supposed to get went to my colleague, ten minutes after arrival to the floor she stroked out. A lot of busy poop issues. And then at 650am, right before i was due to give report and go home, thinking I got out unscathed, my pt needed a stat CT and ended up coding down there. fml. So, it was busy.

Indiana ICU New grad, first RN job $23 and change per hour days, $26 nights, a couple more for weekends.

I am a new grad and I just got off orientation too, in the ICU. There are things I know and things I don't and things I don't even know that I don't know yet. I don't panic on a daily basis and I too feel and have been told that I caught on quickly, however I am almost constantly asking questions and I never assume I know anything- if I am even slightly uncertain, I ask. Certain patients make me more nervous than others... I can handle "stable" vent patients but there are others who make me feel like I know absolutely nothing. I'm still learning and I know that. I had a guy Friday morning who was a new admit and made me very, very nervous. I couldn't figure out why I was so nervous and I was calling doctors left and right... then he coded. Learned a lot from that situation- he was my first to code while I was on my own AND he coded while I was down in CT with him, not up on the unit surrounded by coworkers. Terrifying does not begin to cut it and this situation specifically, taught me a whole lot about "gaps" in my knowledge. I've talked a lot with my precptors about what happened and learned a lot from the processing. I'm sure I have many more learning opportunities in my future. Everyone I've talked to says it can take a year to get comfortable but my one preceptor has been there five years and says there are still days she questions everything. I am sure that will be me as well.

RT or MDs do them here and RT runs the analysis; we all pour over the results and wonder why our ph of 6.9 pt wasn't intubated long before...