{"id":2939,"date":"2009-06-19T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/19\/the-skinny-on-my-new-career"},"modified":"2009-06-19T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:47:00","slug":"the-skinny-on-my-new-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2009\/06\/19\/the-skinny-on-my-new-career\/","title":{"rendered":"The skinny on my new career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to take a moment to thank all my readers for your thoughts and congratulations!  I have the nicest friends.  It was nice having some time to breathe this week.  I feel like school is finally done and I can switch my lifestyle from student to employee. <\/p>\n<p>My job at SDC (small dialysis company) is as solid as can be without peeing in a cup.  We&#8217;re still waiting on my official license, but they&#8217;re sending me things I can fill out and work on in the meantime.  In case you haven&#8217;t waded through my recent, vague posts about my job, here&#8217;s the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wanted to specialize and get off a hospital floor asap<\/li>\n<li>When I had a rotation at this hospital (let&#8217;s call it BH for big hospital), I loved the building and location but didn&#8217;t like the work atmosphere.  I wished I could work there but not for BH.  Well, that&#8217;s what this job is!<\/li>\n<li>I will be an acute care dialysis nurse working at BH on our unit with an unbelievable city view, and down in their ICU.<\/li>\n<li>I will work daytime 12 hour shifts.  Three a week. <\/li>\n<li>Once I&#8217;m trained, I&#8217;ll be on call for one night per week and one weekend every month or so.<\/li>\n<li>They have a thorough 10 week training and orientation.<\/li>\n<li>The starting pay is about 20% more than the average new grad salary.  They already approved my pay increase after I&#8217;m done with orientation.<\/li>\n<li>They really truly want me.  I didn&#8217;t have to &#8220;prove&#8221; myself.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re already talking about my growth in the company, saying I would be an excellent charge nurse, that I&#8217;m &#8220;apheresis material,&#8221; and eventually could move into managment. <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a small company.  I do well in small companies, where everyone knows everyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what&#8217;s not to like?  Seriously, this job is perfect in so many ways.  They were a little nervous that I was just grasping at any job opportunity.  Smart of them to watch out for that.  I went into nursing thinking there were a lot of jobs.  I was told that 90% of regis grads get a job offer during their practicum to work there.  In my class 2 out of 54 students got a job at their practicum.  I hear that 188 nurses applied to 8 openings for new grads at St. Joe&#8217;s.  It&#8217;s tough this year.  But I wouldn&#8217;t take a job that I didn&#8217;t really want to do.  I hope I can make a home for myself at SDC. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, one thing I wanted to journal about before I forget this transition period is how grateful I am for the NCLEX studying I did.  I might have passed without doing the daily hours of studying, my test scores predicted it.  But going over all of what we covered in school coalesced all that knowledge into a useful form.  All the bits and pieces gelled.  I was able to look at how much I had learned in one year and say to myself &#8220;You know this stuff.  See?  You&#8217;re a nurse now.&#8221;  It was worth the time just to gain that confidence and sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to take a moment to thank all my readers for your thoughts and congratulations! I have the nicest friends. It was nice having some time to breathe this week. I feel like school is finally done and I can switch my lifestyle from student to employee. 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