acceptance stigma?

[piper_for_hire]

Did anybody notice a big change in the ICU when word got out that you were going to anesthesia school?

Ever since people found out that I was accepted, it's been very different. People say crap like "oh, he's too good for us now" and I almost always have code call with double isolation, CVVHD, swans, etc. (okay - I like the code call and swans but they don't think I do!) You get the drift. It's so bad now that I'm moving on to another unit. Bleah.

-S

[lifeLONGstudent]

mistake 2 was telling my unit manager, whom up until very recently worked along side me in the trenches, that i had 2 interviews with crna schools. suddenly, i'm a leper.

just curious -- how do you get around not telling your um that you are applying? don't most schools ask for a letter of recommendation from your manager? seems like it would be hard to keep it quiet that you were applying or that you got accepted (although that is my plan). i don't plan on telling anyone i work with just because i don't want to deal with the drama and the haters.

thanks for the info,

lifelongstudent

[piper_for_hire]

I got one of my recs from an ANM. Some of the schools didn't even want nurse managment - just a doc and a dean. I bet the schools realize that nurse managers are reluctant to write recs to get rid of their nurses.

-S

[Hold'emRN]

That was the same problem I had because I had not been in the unit very long. I spoke with all the directors at the schools I was applying to and told them that the managers would not write me a reference until I had been in the unit at least 2 years. All the directors told me to get any RN to write me a reference and that would fine. I received invitations to interview at every school I applied and was accepted to three programs with NO references from any of my managers. I used an anesthesiologist, a CRNA, RN, and a previuos professor. Most directors told me it was rediculuous for them not to write one. You can get in without a manager reference. I am living proof!

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Well, I'm still an LPN, but the 20 year LPN's were quite upset to hear I am going on to become an RN. Jealous and dismissive at the same time.