The Daily Twit

[ocelot]

• 08:45 Waiting for my test. Exciting! 15 minutes... #
• 10:17 Menthol and butterscotch is a weird, though not entirely unappealing, combination. Fidget. #
• 10:43 This is totally not starting promptly at 9 #
• 10:46 Fidget. Fidget. Fidget. #
• 11:49 I totally rock. 99% nationwide, over 90% in all categories #
• 14:44 So the problem with this is that most of the ASN programs around here don't take the test score into account as long as you pass. #
• 14:46 So it doesn't necessarily help me get in for spring semester. It will help for BSN programs, though #
• 15:16 Wow, smaland took Leif for an hour and a half today. #
• 20:01 Uh oh, neighbors are unloading kegs. We're in for it tonight! #

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Comments

[dymphna79.livejournal.com]

What were you taking, the TEAS?

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Yep. I meant to post an actual entry with a little more detail, but my computer is acting up in the heat.

It's looking like Sac State may be my best option if we don't want to move.

[dymphna79.livejournal.com]

I have no complaints about Sac State--I mean, nursing school is pretty tough, annoying, and irritating at times, but it seems like that's true at all schools. Especially now that it's four semesters instead of the ridiculous six that I had to do.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm very happy about that. I wasn't really considering it before they changed, and am not planning to even apply at CSU Chico, which has a six semester program. Humboldt is my other main consideration as far as state schools go. They have a five semester program.

I'm mainly worried about your experiences with not being able to get a job after graduation. I've heard the Sutter Extended Campus people generally get picked up by Sutter, and Sac City claims 100% job placement. But since we're not planning to stay in the area long-term anyways, it should all work out one way or another.

[dymphna79.livejournal.com]

I don't believe for a second that Sac City has 100% job placement. In fact, if you hang around on allnurses, people post there from time to time about job hunting that I'm pretty sure are Sac City students. I can see that the Sutter Extended Campus people might do better, since Sutter already has a substantial investment in them.

And I would add that Sac State, at least officially, doesn't even know I don't have a job. A couple of my teachers know, or at least knew at one time, but the school doesn't collect any statistics. I wonder whether Sac City really does?

Also, I've found anecdotal stuff to be pretty outdated, in general. The people who graduated the semester before me had multiple job offers; in my class, almost everyone found a job (at least initially--some were laid off); it was only after May 2007 that things got really bad. So it's all pretty new, and even most nurses don't know how hard it is to get new grad jobs.

I heard that UC Davis recently suspended its student nurse extern program, which is how some of my friends got their feet in the door, but they still have the intern program, which has historically been almost a sure thing for a job post-graduation.

Ultimately... I would say go to whichever school you really like (or whichever you get into first, of course), because the job market could change completely by the time you're done with nursing school.

But I've never had any reason to think my failure to get a job has anything to do with being a Sac State graduate. This isn't an area where the nurses respect ADNs more than BSNs, or anything like that (despite what ADN students might claim).

Anyway, hope that's helpful... or at least interesting.

[telemicus]

You DO totally rock! Congratulations!

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Wow, looking at that, the times are totally off. The first is right, but the others should be over an hour earlier than they are.