VENT!!!! This Stinks

OK, now I'm getting mad. I went to the RN-BN program orientation today and the manager I interviewed with was there. Now he tells me that though he has no problem with my LPN job history, HR seems to so they are conducting a "review". How long this will take he doesn't know as its now "out of his hands". I thought if a manager wanted to hire you HR couldn't do anything about it since its not thier decision to make.

I am so mad right now, I've been calling and calling for a month. I was told the last time I talked to this guy that things were fine. I've called since and got no return calls. I know HR can be slow but this is ridiculous. I am calling them tomorrow and asking them exactly what is the problem. Is there a question they need answered or something? Yeah, I had some short stays on my employment history. I am honest about it, can't hide it you know. But I feel like I'm being jerked around. I so feel like informing them also that my chance to finish my BSN hinges on this, not that they'd care of course.

I am so sick and tired of my LPN job history being used against me like this. The only thing I can do to change the past is to work and prove my reliability, but how the heck can I do that when I a) can't get the d#@$ interview or b) runs into HR black hole?

At this rate I'll never get my permanent license in KY because without a job I can't do the clinical internship, no clinical internship= no license even after taking and passing boards. I have my boards scheduled for Sept 23rd. Yet somehow I don't think my situation will improve any before then. Some of my friends think I should accept a job anywhere even if its a place I have absolutely no interest in working just to have a job. Sounds like a good idea, but in reality its not if your trying to prove your reliability and longevity at a place. I don't want to get a job someplace just to say I have a job, knowing I'll leave at the first chance I get. I want to work NICU, but I am realistic to know that I probably won't get it so I have been applying to many other units at more than one hospital.

I don't know what to do anymore. I'm discouraged, disgusted, and feeling I wasted a year of my life getting a degree that I can't use. I feel like prosective employers are effectively barring me from getting my license, whether they realize it or not. I'm just lucky KY recently changed the law to allow one to take the NCLEX BEFORE getting the clinical internship otherwise I wouldn't even be able to register or take boards without having a job first.

I'm trying to be confident that I'll pass my boards on the first try. Once I do, if I still don't have a job I'm leaving KY. At least other states will give me my license once I take and pass boards. Though right now I can't even apply out of state until I take and PASS.