It's been a MONTH!

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted. I've been absolutely busy with applying for jobs/nursing fellowships, classes, work, and my preceptorship that this has just been nonexistent on the to-do list as of late.

I had two interviews today for the same health system--one was with corporate then a second was for the manager of the NSICU. The questions were all behavioral and the recruiter asked me to walk her through a complete assessment and then give report on a difficult patient I have had. She also asked a difficult decision I have made in practice and how I have gone above and beyond for a patient. Fortunately, from my summer internship I had a plethora of answers to give her! It was great and she was impressed. Thank god. My last interview was okay, but they didn't want me because I had no experience yet. That one was somethin else--gettin thrown to the staff nurses for a group interview (5 staff nurses, care coordinator, manager vs. me!) after interviewing with the manager. I just wanna graduate, take the boards, PASS, and then deal with jobs.

I have so much to do still before graduation in 14 days!!
-Final Presentation in Med Ethics Mon night- presenting on Jehovah's Witnesses and Bloodless Care
-Final Exam in Weightlifting/Gym class (go figure, it's dumb...)
-3 days of 12.5 hour shifts for preceptorship
-1 journal entry for preceptorship + Clinical Ethical Paper
-Cor (American Dream class) presentation
-End of Preceptorship Seminar

Once I'm done with all this, I have to finally set a schedule to work at the hospital again and study for boards...on that note, I just dropped $335 registering to take the NCLEX. =) Sweet stuff, huh. and I'll be paying $500 monthly for insurance to be covered until I get a job, so yeah...no pressure to pass, huh. Love it.

I have day shift tomorrow in the ICU, so time for bed and hopefully a more interesting, well thought-out update next time. After tomorrow, 2 more days in ICU...how sad.