I'll see you in the ICU!

after talking to the wise one...

I came to a better understanding of my situation.

I've been told there's one residency, at night, in the South SF Kaiser, and then I have an interview at the Mills-Peninsula ICU next Friday.

Check this out: Mills-Peninsula expects you to drive to Fairfield a couple times per week ("oh, you can carpool") to take their didactic classes, and then they expect you to PAY FOR YOUR TRAINING with the promise of reimbursing you upon hire.

Hahahah, I don't think so.

Afterall, I already have a spot in the ICU residency at Kaiser SSF, it's also nights but it's 5 minutes from my house, I don't have to pay for my training, and I don't have to drive to Fairfield, and oh yeah...it's KAISER! One of the strongest and biggest hospital organizations around. Plus, the wise one told me that if I go off to anesthesia school and come back to Kaiser, I won't lose my seniority, but pick up where I left off.

Nice!

Oh, and did I mention that Kaiser has one of the three schools in California that offers anesthesia MSN?

I'm not sure I'll be able to not laugh at the people during my interview at Mills...seriously, what do they think they're doing? How do they expect to get good nurses, let alone keep them?

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well with this Kaiser residency. I'm going to have to keep my fingers crossed that I pass the NCLEX and the training goes well, and they like me enouogh to offer me a position...and that I can handle working nights :(

Ahhh, the struggle.
Would I have started all of this had I known? I don't know...probably, but who knows?

posted by sketchmonkey @ 8:06 AM