Got an interview

Yay, got a letter this evening saying i have got an interview for a place on the new grad program at palmy hospital....

Am now freaking out.

Not till 26th, so i have about 10/11 days to prepare - i have the questions they are gonna ask me so i can prepare - am just freaking out a little cos you have to demonstrate skills etc as well - and i have no idea which ones, and there are some that i have not done for a while since i have not been placed in the hospital. so i am freaking out.

but YAY!

good luck you'll do fine I am sure

Janine you will be fine. What ward are you looking at going into? I have heard that most people that study in Palmy ususally get the new grad positions at Palmy hospital so the chances of getting a job there are very high for you.

I can explain that for you Andie, I have had a BIL and now ex SIL do the programme. It is job placement and job secerty at the hospital. It involve further study - really just on the job training such as doing IV's and then getting signed off so you can do them by yourself. Some wards have specialist things you have to learn eg ED learning about fast efficent ways of doing things. ICU premium care for patients. Well thats the jist of it. If i've missed anything Janine will fill in the gaps. My now ex SIL has been at the Palmy hospital for 4 years now and has just moved wards and she said the past 2 weeks feel like she is back on the new grad programme but with the "you have been working for 4 years now you should know what you are doing" attitude. Different ward so has been a lot of changes for her.

Woooohoooooooo!!! Well done Janine and good luck for the interview... charm the pants off them! (Well, not literally... not so ethical and all.)

How exciting. Congrats and good luck!!!!

I have applied with my preferences being neonates and children's ward (really would love neonates but kiddies ward would be just as great!!) next preferences would be theatre and recovery/day of surgery type thing, then my next is medical ward - mainly cardiac care unit or something like that.

We have about 30 in our class, not to mention many people take about 6 months aout sometimes and apply mid year when there is less competition (those that finish in november usually have a class of between 50 - 70!, plus there are the massey nursing students as well and i think there might be only about 16 places on the programme so here's keeping fingers crossed.

And yep the new grad programme is basically what has already been explained - a programme that gives you a contract for 12 months where by you are supported through your first year of practice as a registered nurse and fill in booklets and do tests and show that you are competent to do things yourself - so that you aren't thrust out into the scary real world thinking "what on EARTH am i doing??!!" cos we have the knowledge and we have done practical stuff but alot comes on the job - for instance - as student we are not allowed to touch IV's, we can prepare the bag to go up in the med room but cannot hook it up monitor it, change them or touch them once they are in the patient.. so we gotta learn that. At the end of 12 months there is usually no prob in assuming that you will still have your job (if you want it!) as long as you have proven yourself to be a valuable member of staff that they want to keep - i mean they have invested alot in you so mostly they kinda want to keep you. lol

Edited by mum2paris

wooo hoooo go jannie have my fingers and toes crossed for u

i didn't for a while there - after having paris i thought no way.. but then i had ayja and all this stuff that happened with her and i thought well - if i can hanle helping mum with bailey, and i can handle all the crap that's happened to Ayja then yeah - i can handle working there. plus well, neonates is such a special area to work in - so hard no doubt, but also so rewarding.

He's just got out of hospital cos he had a chest infection pretty bad but otherwise he seemst o be going ok, same as usual really, some days he is a happy boy others you go to see them and he looks like the lights are on but no-one's home, away in a dream world kinda sick and stuff. I think they've upped his meds again if i remember rightly but mums looking at some respite care for him now that my sis has moved out. she's pretty lonely and everyone is really busy at the mo, we are lucky if we get round there once a week, sometimes once a fortnight right now.