Michelle0396

This is the thread I'm looking for! Thank you for sharing. I'm in similar predicament to you. I haven't been back home in the Philippines for 14 years and a very important wedding in my family (in December, mind you) and my new nurse residency program just had to collide. I checked the time-off policies, I wouldn't be able to accrue enough vacation hours. I have an interview scheduled next week and I don't know if I should disclose this information. I already prepared my elderly grandmother for disappointment but I can't help feeling like I didn't give it my all. So for my own personal compromise, I will forego the wedding this year because I would like to establish myself in the unit, rather than finish the residency program and then run off to the islands. And in exchange, I will pray and hope for vacation by 2020 for my grandmother's 75th birthday in November. It's such a tricky situation. The only reason I went home was due to a funeral and I don't want to keep sending the message to my extended family that I can't be present for the good times as well. Best of luck to you.