Your base salary will be around that much without over time. As a new grad I was making 120k, which now I make more oh happy life. Keep in mind I am writing this from the inside of my brother in-law's garage that I pay him $1000/month. (Desperately...
You can make it. I'm in the bay area but Davis and Sac are only slightly lower in pay while the COL in housing are almost half as cheap. My first full year of working with a few OT shifts and call and I was at about 150k gross. With day care or sc...
Location: CA Experience: 1 year BSN Specialty: Operating Room Facility: VA Base Pay: $65/hour OT: 1.5 after regular shift hours. Pro's: 8 hours Annual leave + 4 hours sick leave every pay period (2weeks), pension, paid federal holidays.
I got accepted into the VALOR VA learning opportunities residency which is available in certain areas and colleges, worth a Google since it's a paid internship during nursing school. We get to choose our department and I randomly chose the OR withou...
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My first job is 9-5 M-F, I had no problems finding time to learn how to chart. I think a lot of it depends on your preceptor and hopefully they will help guide you with their methods for time management and little tips and tricks they've picked up.
First off, congrats on landing your very first nursing job! Here is a link to VA RN pay scales for different states Title 38 Pay Schedules - Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) I believe with Tampa you are RN Grade 2 (BSN) step 5, or $77,096....
Easiest- As long as you aren't scrubbing and the anesthesiologist doesn't kill anyone, OR nursing seems really easy. Review pt info, set stuff up and let the surgeons do their thing. Forgot an instrument? I'll get that for you. Of course if things ...
I'm in my final semester of nursing school BSN but I applied for the VALOR program from the VA this past summer and got a "job" as a paid intern in the operating room which is amazing. I knew absolutely nothing about the OR, but now I know it's what...
Still alive, but barely. My baby is 9 months and doing peds and medsurg which is really helpful but hard. I also got a VALOR internship working as a circulator in the OR and it's awesome. I feel as students we don't get enough exposure to the OR a...
You'll get a feel for the pace of the class and adjust from there but quite frankly I read 20 pages of the 100 assigned prior to our first day of instruction and that was about it for me. Everyone is different but you can decide if you want to gambl...
Currently set to graduate 1 year from now but got a paid internship and getting $36 an hour with a job lined up after I graduate around $50. Norcal, very expensive but you can commute from cheaper areas.
Consider yourself lucky, my program has 13 ebooks totaling around $1300 + a nurse kit containing bandages, needles and what not for 150. I commute 45 minutes with a motorcycle so I'm very happy about the text being in ebook format instead of lugging...
I had orientation a few weeks back but I had my uniform ordered on Amazon along with a stethoscope and sphygmometer. We learned about sim labs and got our schedule which they all picked out for us so that's a little less stress. Met the faculty and...
2 years at a community college to knock out prereqs for free with financial aid, then using my GI Bill to pay for my BSN. Not only is my nursing tuition free, I'm also getting a 3k per month stipend.
Many schools value the TEAS score more than prereqs. Do extremely well on that and you should be fine. For instance I have 4.0 in prereq and overall with an 81 on TEAS and 100 hours volunteer at a hospital but was still on a waitlist. Some other p...
Wow they're only on 9? I got my acceptance last month and I was 7. I don't think it's more competitive so much as the people who applied this year actually intended on accepting and not just using SFSU as a backup plan. There's still time, have to s...
I have orientation for my BSN at the end of July and start in August. I've told myself to enjoy this summer as it may be the last vacation I'll have for a while but I just want to start class already. I'm worried about the book situation as I'll be...
Got this email today: Dear Fall 2015 BSN admit, Please save the date for the School of Nursing orientation session occurring July 28, 2015 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.This orientation and advisement session is mandatory for students who will begin the nu...
Yesterday at noon I got an email saying that I was accepted into the BSN program from the waitlist :) I can officially enjoy my vacation. Good luck to everybody and I can't wait to meet you all.
Lol no no no, I was trying to find out how I can sign up for transfer orientation because they told me that was the next step. I'm still on the waitlist and it never occurred to me that I might need to wait until I was accepted into the nursing majo...
I can't seem to sign up for orientation, it just keeps looping me to a login page. Is anyone else having this problem? I can't seem to contact anyone in admissions either.
There is a link in the email they send you that should take you to the admissions page. Once there, there is a form you fill with your student ID and an option to accept or decline admission. I think that's it, but I'm not 100% sure. Here's the ...