Lost my dream job

[shippoRN]

Tomorrow i go back to work after a well deserved vaca, and I dread it.

During my break I got to interview with my dream hospital, for a dream position

after two years since graduating trying to get an interview at this place I finally landed one.

I prepared for this thing like my life depended on. Bought a new suit, got my hair done

nails done, paper work organized, drilled myself on questions over and over and over.

I was passed over because I didn't have a BSN.

Devestated. Angry. Frustrated. are only a few words to describe how i feel.

Going to work tomorrow knowing that I'm back at square one.

I am so angry with myself for being to lazy to apply to a BSN completion program

I made several attempts to, but never had any motivation to get it together.

Now my motivation comes to late because I lost out on a job that I have dreamed about FOR YEARS.

Wanna hear what's even more infuriating....all i need is 6 classes to get my BSN.

I can't stop kicking myself over my stupidity.

Now it's back to work, feeling the same anxiety and dread. The crying, the depession. Knowing i can't up and quit because I have responsibilities.

how could i have been so stupid?

[Dalla]

RN to BSN with only 6 classes? Man, the program I am in requires 10 classes totalling 30 credits. At $400 a credit - $12,000. And BSN nurses only make like $0.50 more than ADN nurses? What a ripoff! BSNs had better have preference in hiring over ADNs.

[OldNurseEducator]

RN to BSN with only 6 classes? Man, the program I am in requires 10 classes totalling 30 credits. At $400 a credit - $12,000. And BSN nurses only make like $0.50 more than ADN nurses? What a ripoff! BSNs had better have preference in hiring over ADNs.

I believe the OP said she HAD ALL but 6 classes. I don't THINK she meant she only had to do 6 classes for a BSN.

Just sayin'.

[shippoRN]

Thanks to everyone for your responses and your support. So if you had told me four and five years ago when I went to nursing school that nursing would change so drastically i would not have believed it. Right now experience doesn't matter anymore. Hospitals in my state especially are not accepting associate nurses anymore, mostly because they are trying to increase their BSN quota due to the emergence of more hospitals applying for magnet status and the whole BS in 10 situation. There are a lot of hospitals in my state that specifically are not looking at ASN anymore and make it known, and every day it seems like more and more hospitals and making decisions not to accept ASN's. Unfortunately a lot of us ASN's are getting caught in the middle of this.

As far as the whole BSN completion program goes. I have only have 6 classes left to take to get the BSN ( unless they ask for something additional) i have a ton of classes from previous degrees plus my nursing degree, so nothing was stopping me other than lack of motivation and money. I submitted an application and my transcripts and am just waiting to hear, if all goes well it should take me 6 months if i stay focused, and just do what needs to be done. Its such a disappointing thing to happen to me, but maybe it was the motivation i needed to get off my butt and get it done.