State and all its glory

I sat State rego exam yesterday...

Tuesday 15th July, 2008. First exam was at 9.50 till 11.30 and the second 1.20 till 3pm. I was out early on both of them, cos they give us ten mintues reading time piror and I just go through and pick the answers.

Plus, its really bad to go back over and change your answers as according to my lectuerers you're 90% likely to get it wrong if you change it.

Obesity, diabetes, child health and immunisation were NOT in the exam, despite what w'e've been told for so many years. MS, a lot of mental health, MIs, STDs, and a heap of other cultural safety crap was.

I'm not going to mouth off that I past and I still feel uneasy about some of it. But I"ve just left it in the hands of the Lord and if I pass, well, fantastic, if I don't, well, life will suck hard for the next four months until november when I can do the resit.

But thinking positive...

A much huzzahs!

I have gained employment! At the Hamilton hospital run by Waikato DHB. I start 15th September, so gotta get my A into G to get organised.

State rego exam is this Tuesday coming... only a few days left.

Of course, I can't officially sign any contracts with WDHB until I've gotten my state exam results in August sometime. But I"m confident.

So many huzzahs!

TB ended it all

The disease!

Yes, yesterday, my last class ever at EIT (as an undergraduate at least) was discussing a quick overview about TB. Its quite prevalant in Hawkes Bay and the State rego exam oftentimes has topical issues, and TB was featured in the last few exams.

The only weirdness feelings I experienced yesterday was that it felt like a Friday when it was actually Thrusday, it's now Friday!

I went into school to drop off my evaluation forms file (they save all your forms from clinical over the years you've been there, we get them whenever we need to do photocopying en masse), but it had to be returned for them to do some auditing paper pushing thing with it. As I went in to school, my second intention was to blog from school, but a power fault of some description collasped the whole campus net work, so here I am.

Next week will bring study, then state on the 15th July.

Holy moly,

I have a phone interview for the new grad position in Hamilton this afternoon at 2.30.

Transition week 2

So electives are over, and today, Monday 30th June, 2008 is our second week of Transition - basically a lot of revision and discussion about our State rego exam.

I'm still looking for a job - and still waiting to hear back from the places I applied to, Tauranga, Hamilton, Whangarai. Also, there are still empty places in the local hospital's new grad programme so I caught up with the lady in charge of that and showed my interest - I missed applying the first time round by one day.

If I don't get one of those new grad places I'll just arse around for 5 months or so and try to get into the programmes that start in Jan, and there's a lot more of them.

Not long left now....

More job app-laa-maa-caa-chuning

I'm doing my elective at the emergency department (in NZL we call it A&E - Accident and Emergency).

Also applying for jobs. Applied at Hamilton, Tauranaga, Whangarai (spelling, whoops) and for a mental health job in the local region.

I'd really like to escape the stinking, Mongrel Mob infested confines of Hawkes Bay, and since Tauranga is a tourist town and will cost the earth to live there, I'd probably go Hamilton if I was offered the job. Whanagarai is some small town up north, about two hours from Auckland (if my friend's geographical knowledge is correct) while I like small towns, I dunno. I'd probably take it if Hamilton and Tauranga ended as a no go.

I'm really sick of a being a student, I can't wait till I have a job, I'm sick of being poor.

And living off potoatoes looses its charm really quickly.

Lying is not nice

Perhaps given the situation it can't be classed as lying, merely, the removal of aspects of the truth that would lead the individual being lied to to establish an idea and consider the event to be different to what truely is the factual case.

Long winded, yes, but I likes me semantics.

I didn't get the Wellington Hospital job - that nursing new grad programme I applied for.

This doesn't piss me off in the slightest.

A societal lack of respect for the dignity of life is what rips the crotch right out of my undies. I"M LOOKING AT YOU VIRGINIA OR HOWEVER THE FUCK YOU SPELL YOUR CRUMMY STATE'S NAME!! YOU AND YOUR DIRTY PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION PROCEDURE WHICH YOU UNBANNED!!

Bastards.

Back to the job.

At the interview, I inquired as to the number of applicants and number of job placements. I was told that there were not enough applicants this time round and too many openings. In the reject letter I recieved today, soaked in the rain - perhaps an ominous sign, it said "sorry, too many applicants and not enough places".

Is it a lie? Or can employers get away with bending the truth?

I had a suspision i wouldn't be getting the job when I realised my referances hadn't been called.

I would like to know why I didn't get the job, given my grades are pretty decent, I've had 4 years part time experience in an elder hospital and unlike the influx of Asians with english as a second lanaugage, I can speak clearly, understand gramma and when writing nursing notes you wouldn't think I was at all dyslexic!

So I will be ringing these fellows and asking why not me, if only so I can know for next time what I did or didn't do right.

I am more annoyed that I blew $300 on my hair for that interview so I wouldn't look like some hobo bag lady.

Where to from now? I will apply to mental health jobs, and a few other hospitals I know in the greater Wellington area, and if I dont' get a job, I will go back to Uni and finish my Classics BA, which will only take me a term to do - so then I can apply for the new grad programmes at private hospitals next Jan.

What is of nusiance is the fact there is a huge nurses shortage. And yet, here I am, a person with a bachelors of nursing degree, and will be registered in July (my lectuerers have all said the rego exam is so easy, a homeless guy with a pick axe in his head could pass), and with good grades, a wide range of education, experience in elder hospitals and an all round love of the disturbingly bloody, you'd think I'd be first on the list of employer's perferances.

But hey, if they don't want me, well, that sucks for them. If I get knocked back too many times, well, why stay in NZL? I'll just leave.

One less nurse in NZL, right?

Hope you pay attention to our movements, Politicans. Most of the peeps in my class will be flying out the day they get their rego results.

Waiting for word

So, I had my interview in Wellington, it went pretty well. I'm hedging my bets on numbers being in my favour, as when I asked how many people applied and how many people are being selected I was told the following:

They had intended for all of May to be interview time, however, they only had enough people for about two weeks of interviews.

They usually have about 14 - 30 places.

Not a lot of nursing schools in NZ have July intakes.

So on those facts, and the fact I beleive I adequately impressed them, I might get the job.

But I'm not getting my hopes too high up, if I dont' get it, well, then crap, time to look for something else.

But I'm praying hard core that God lets me get this job.