BogieRN

I'm getting unemployment but I had more than one full time job in the last year. The hospital said I was fired due to breaking the code of conduct! Luckily that doesn't keep me from getting unemployment. My other job said they offered me work and I appealed it stating I contacted them multiple times and they refuse to give me work. Still waiting on a decision for that company. But I'm getting paid for now. Just appeal any denial. Everyone I know has gotten it approved on appeal.

What state are you in? Did you go crazy waiting to hear from the boards? I've only been waiting a month and I am in a constant state of panic. I wanna go get a job while I wait but I feel like as soon as I get a job the boards will notify me!! I'm on unemployment but what I get in a week I make in a day as a nurse.

As much as I dont want to return to school it looks like I'm headed that way. With so many online courses how do you pick the right one? Any advice wpuld help

I have a prescription for xanax. I test positive multiple times. I'VE never been refused a job. I also tested positive when I had a script for hydrocodone, again it didnt keep from getting the job

Being book smart doesn't make you more compassionate, it doesn't teach you to care not only for the patient but also the family. Not all situations are by the book situations, books can't teach you basic common sense. I never said the nurse that made the mistake was a BSN. Everyone makes mistakes we are human, I've never made a drastic mistake that had a the effect this person's mistake did. I requested more money at a union job as I was way under paid for my experience and was told no because it was union and I had already accepted the position.

Are they having you sign contracts to get your BSN by 2020? Im trying to find a hospital job but they all want Bsns. Tampa General called but asked aboit my intentions aboit going back to school and had 2 dates, one which I had to be enrolled in school by and the other I had to be finished by. Still not sure I want to go back for my BSN

You're lucky you're an LPN working in L&D, Im going on 4 years as an RN and get rejected for every L&D, mother/baby and nursery job I apply for. If you enjoy your job stick it out until you get your RN. Most jobs where I'm at give you pay based on half your LPN experience. I don't know much about raises, the one job I got a raise at I got 25 cents. Working home health the last 14 years I actually took a pay cut as an LPN! And I would much rather work 3 12s instead of 5 8s. But it all comes down to what will make you happy. Do you need the extra money, do you want to work 40 hours, do you want to start over and work with new people? Make a pro con list and go from there

You see more Children's hospitals now. I live in an area where the hospitals have less beds for minor things, major issues are sent to one of the two major peds hospitals. It's not easy getting hired at them either!

I was offered a job in corrections. Went through everything, informed them of my arrest at age 13. Was called and informed my offer was resinsined due to an ex that had started harassment preceding against me when I was 20. I knew nothing about him doing this and found nothing in the court systems about it. But since he filed with the agency I was hired for I could do nothing about it. Amazing how your past can haunt you

But the cost alone to pay back that 170 grand usually isn't worth it. My 40 grand monthly payback is 402. That's more than my car payment

I'm satisfied with my pay. $20 an hour to sit on my butt for 9 hours a night watching a kid on a vent sleep while on watch tv. I should be doing more with my degree bit for now this will do!

My thoughts are this. I started at the bottom. Went from CNA to MA to LON and now RN. When I was in LPN school I need clinicals at all the major hospitals in my county, which is a lot. I was never told LPNs were being weaned out of the hospitals. After graduating It was impossible to find a job in a hospital, I didn't like SNFs so I didn't pediatric home health. Aftwr 10 years I went back for my RN, again I was not aware ASNs were being weaned out of the hospitals and Bsns were the new thing. I applied to every pediatric hospital position I could find only to be told I didn't have enough experience. So my 10 plus years working with Trachs, vents, gtubes and the like was not good enough. So I'm back in home health making a dollar more than I did as an LPN. So now I'm back to my only option of going back to school. I glad some of you feel you have learned a lot going through the higher education programs. I myself learned more In practical nursing school than I did in RN school. As a new Rn I worked in a fast paced LTAC and could rum circles around nurses who had been RN for years or had their Bsns. Higher education or book smarts don't make you a better nurse. I saw book smart nurses make mistakes that had drastic effects. Since most jobs want us to be Bsns then the state's should get rid of schools that offer LPNs and ASNs. Or make it mandatory that you have taken BSN classes to sit for the NCLEX. Cause guess what you BSNs sat for the same test us ASNs sat for! And we should be demanding more money to become BSNs. I'm sorry but a dollar more an hour is no where worth the thousands of dollars to go back to school for another year plus. There is already a shortage of nurses. Baby boomers are retiring and the demand for Bsns is gonna make for worse shortages. When I was hired at the LTAC I was told 4-5 patients. When I left we were up to 8. Nurse burn out is real. And its only gonna get worse