wrapping it all up

I finally graduated from nursing school with an Associate’s Degree (2 year degree).  I was ecstatic.  But now I had to find a job.  And wouldn’t you know that of all of the places that were experiencing a nursing shortage, I’d be in the one place that WASN’T having much of a shortage!!  Yeah, I interviewed for three jobs and got two out of three offers.  I ended up taking the third offer.  It was an hour and a half interview.  I got all kinds of wild questions which included:  “What do YOU think the pillars of nursing are?”  and “Tell me about a time when you have deviated from policy.”  Yeah.  Are these like trap questions or what?!  I bombed the first interview having no idea of how to answer these types of questions.  I don’t believe anything really prepared me for this part.   I wish that my school had given a one day seminar or something of the like to help us with interviewing. 

So, my first job was to work nights on a medical-surgical floor.  I swore up and down I was not going to work on a med-surg floor and I was CERTAINLY not going to work nights.  Guess what….I did both.