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...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
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!
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!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
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....
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....
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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.
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.
Friday, May 23, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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.
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.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Now that's well worth YAYING about
I can now place the letters "BN" after my name. Huzzah. I have acheived my Bachelors. All I have to do now is my electives, starting 26th May and then registration exam in July.
I got 86% for the assignment I was freaking out over.
Huzzah.
HUZZAH!!
I got 86% for the assignment I was freaking out over.
Huzzah.
HUZZAH!!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Yay. Interview
I scored an interview at capital and coast district health board - for the post grad nursing programme.
Here's hoping, and insanely praying I get it.
I was the first one they called and I'm hoping that actually means something. Of course, intervew will be when they decide if I'm awesome enough to be hired.
God, I pray so.
ME WANTY!!
Here's hoping, and insanely praying I get it.
I was the first one they called and I'm hoping that actually means something. Of course, intervew will be when they decide if I'm awesome enough to be hired.
God, I pray so.
ME WANTY!!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Getting close now
I'm kind of freaking out at the moment, I handed in my LAST EVAH assignment the other day. It was one of those situatiosn where it should only have taken me 2 hours... it took me 9, I was so restless and "I can't be bothered, but I gotta".
I hate those days. I had the same issues when I walked into my final Bursary exam.
Wednesday, 1st December, 1999. It was geography.
Now before you say "wow, Jeanette, what a memory you got there, you remember the date and the day".
I remember it because it was the day it became legal for 18 year olds to hit the piss, dropped from 21. Man, I got blasted that night. We all bowed over to my chum's place, about 10 of us, went to the liquor shop, went to the near by primary school, played Bloody murder - which is awesome when you're plastered at 2 in the morning!
Ah, those were good times.
But I'm still freaking out. I hoping I passed, I should have. We have culumlutive (however its spelt) grades, and I've already scored 36%, so I only need another 14%, so whatever 14% of 40% is, is how much I need to get as a % to pass. I tried working it out but my brain collasped in on itself in a huge void of dyslexic horror. If I haven't passed with enough I'll have to wait till next Feb to do it again!! That would so piss me off.
The second poitn of "EEEP I HAVE TO BE A GROWN UP!!" realisation, is apply for jobs, I've already sent one off to Wellington hospital - I really want a job there. IF you pray, PRAY FOR MOJO... ah..> PRAY THAT I GET THE JOB!
I'll hear at the end of the month if I've scored an interview. I'm telling myself the following about my chances:
a) I've had experience in elder hospital care.
b) My boss from that job thought I was great, so great referances
c) all my nursing lecturers love me to bits, cos I'm just so damn Awesome... oh my gosh that smells like Awesome? No, it's just jeanette, for she is Awesome (I'm trying to be positiive, apparently it helps). So hoping NLers will give me good referances
d) Its the July intake and there's not a lot of people finishing mid year, so less people
e) Most people want to work overseas... why wellington?
f) I'm not a dumb arse.
Man. I really want that job. Man, I really hope I pass.
I'm freaking out.
Damn.
I'll be okay. Things will work out fine.
I hope.
Well, I'll bike the 40 minutes to the gym, work out, then bike back, so hopefully that will be enough to work off the nerves.
I hate those days. I had the same issues when I walked into my final Bursary exam.
Wednesday, 1st December, 1999. It was geography.
Now before you say "wow, Jeanette, what a memory you got there, you remember the date and the day".
I remember it because it was the day it became legal for 18 year olds to hit the piss, dropped from 21. Man, I got blasted that night. We all bowed over to my chum's place, about 10 of us, went to the liquor shop, went to the near by primary school, played Bloody murder - which is awesome when you're plastered at 2 in the morning!
Ah, those were good times.
But I'm still freaking out. I hoping I passed, I should have. We have culumlutive (however its spelt) grades, and I've already scored 36%, so I only need another 14%, so whatever 14% of 40% is, is how much I need to get as a % to pass. I tried working it out but my brain collasped in on itself in a huge void of dyslexic horror. If I haven't passed with enough I'll have to wait till next Feb to do it again!! That would so piss me off.
The second poitn of "EEEP I HAVE TO BE A GROWN UP!!" realisation, is apply for jobs, I've already sent one off to Wellington hospital - I really want a job there. IF you pray, PRAY FOR MOJO... ah..> PRAY THAT I GET THE JOB!
I'll hear at the end of the month if I've scored an interview. I'm telling myself the following about my chances:
a) I've had experience in elder hospital care.
b) My boss from that job thought I was great, so great referances
c) all my nursing lecturers love me to bits, cos I'm just so damn Awesome... oh my gosh that smells like Awesome? No, it's just jeanette, for she is Awesome (I'm trying to be positiive, apparently it helps). So hoping NLers will give me good referances
d) Its the July intake and there's not a lot of people finishing mid year, so less people
e) Most people want to work overseas... why wellington?
f) I'm not a dumb arse.
Man. I really want that job. Man, I really hope I pass.
I'm freaking out.
Damn.
I'll be okay. Things will work out fine.
I hope.
Well, I'll bike the 40 minutes to the gym, work out, then bike back, so hopefully that will be enough to work off the nerves.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The final countdown
Got sick of my more cynical and politically heated blog. So decided to start a new one in the run up to my completion of the programme and registration.
I'm in my final few months of the bachelor of Nursing programme at EIT, that being the Eastern Instititute of Techonology. I've got one paper left, and I finished classes for that on 28th March 2008. I've got one assignment left for that paper, due in April, and from now till 26th May I've got the study bug for State rego exam.
I'm doing my electives at the A&E (Accident & Emergency) for five weeks. Then some more study then the big day 15th July. State registration exam.
Yay New Zealand. I'm also in the process of looking for a nursing job. Applications for Wellington Capital and Coast District Health Board's hospitals start in April for the Sept intake - that will be me!
I'm in my final few months of the bachelor of Nursing programme at EIT, that being the Eastern Instititute of Techonology. I've got one paper left, and I finished classes for that on 28th March 2008. I've got one assignment left for that paper, due in April, and from now till 26th May I've got the study bug for State rego exam.
I'm doing my electives at the A&E (Accident & Emergency) for five weeks. Then some more study then the big day 15th July. State registration exam.
Yay New Zealand. I'm also in the process of looking for a nursing job. Applications for Wellington Capital and Coast District Health Board's hospitals start in April for the Sept intake - that will be me!
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