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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.