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I started as a new grad at CCF. I had a horrible preceptor, but didn't know I had a horrible preceptor until about 6 months in. I thought I just wasn't really understanding. I found my own mentor(s) and read additional books about nursing on my specific floor and then I did okay. Three years later, I just wish I would have spoke up and asked for multiple or a different preceptor. Be in control of your learning.

I'm finishing up their PMHNP program. Do you like to teach yourself? Do you like unclear expectations, no guidelines, and no help finding preceptors? Then NKU is for you!

Sure! I can't private message yet. Are we allowed to post email addresses for contact?

They told me straight up!

So, I said decided I would stick it out with the hopes of it getting better. I'm sad (glad?) to say I'm throwing in the towel here after some incidents. #1--OR staff making inappropriate comments and checking out tattoos on the patients. They were basically confirming everyone's biggest fears about what might happen when they are under anesthesia. Yikes! The deal breaker--surgeon saying the patient on the table looked like a f-ing f--t (gay slur.) And the team saying, "he always says that stuff, don't let it bother you." I really hope to find a better place. Because...wow.

I started back in August. I'm completing my first 7 weeks. The support in my class is wonderful. I'm having a hard time getting in touch with an advisor. The classes are really like any other online class. You get what you put into it. You can read the lectures/book reading in depth and really understand the material or you can skim through stuff and get by. My lecture class has two professors and they both have been super nice.

You may be able to get into another hospital system. Not all hospitals do super thorough background checks.

Any way to try to get it expunged? I actually had a professor who had a soliciting prostitution charge on his record. He was suspended and is still working, so there's that. Good luck to you!

So...I recently started in the OR as a circulator after gaining some critical care experience to pad the resume. I wanted to circulate since nursing school, but listened to those peeps that say, "no skills, not real nursing...blah blah blah." Here I am in my "dream job" and it's not feeling very dreamy. I love circulating, I love holding patients' hands while they drift off into anesthesia land. I do NOT love the environment. I do not like that my day revolves around how 4 other people's days are going. In my short time (still in orientation) I've been screamed at, thrown under the bus, and witness to a cry-baby meltdown that rivaled the stomping feet of my toddler. Sure there are days where that doesn't happen, but it seems quite rare. This stuff doesn't scare me or make me want to cry, I just don't want to deal with it. In my past positions, tantrums were rare. I'm only a few months in, so I definitely haven't given it a good try. But I really don't like the idea of being stuck in a room with a bunch of different egos and personalities. Not sure what to do.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I recently started a new OR job too, and an interaction with a surgeon who is "that way" has left me rattled and in a funk. I don't know how to break out of it. My experience with surgeons who are "that way" is that they will always be "that way" and no one will do a thing about it. Good luck to you. Sorry again for the terrible interaction.

So...I didn't apply for the Acute Care program, but I am interested in the PMHNP program. I am hesitant because the application process seems...too easy? Am I being paranoid or are they desperate for students?

UH has a two year commitment, just phone interviewed last week. :)