Lynne

Yes I asked them to send it electronically the first time and they said their policy is only to send by mail. But I don't even think the office is open right now. All schools seem to be closed in NJ. At this point I figure I'm applying for Spring and will have to wait until the school reopens. I guess I should be more annoyed with the school that sent it cut off LOL. ? GAH

I'm so annoyed. My application has been in for about 2 months now..maybe more. They received my final transcript 2 weeks before Philly got locked down from covid. They just sent me an email that one of the transcripts got cut off and will need to be re-sent. I can't believe they waited so long to take a glance. And, I'm sure the school that I need to have re-send the transcript from is closed. So I probably can't even get them to resend it for several months. At this point I plan to shift to Spring at the earliest and I figure that is much safer as covid will continue to be a problem. My other concern though is whether there will be any jobs. The economy downturn could be bad for new nurses, and many retired nurses rejoined the industry and might find that they want to stay put. So I feel hesitant now. Pffff. Sigh. I don't know what to do anymore.

I did, too! But one school took effing forever to send my transcript. They've had the full application for about 2 weeks now. I've read that it took a month for most people. The only other thing is that corona virus has probably affected things. The Spring cohort is starting late. I'm wondering if they are going to have to push back the fall program too. Good luck to ya! Hope we both get in!

Do you know what the class schedule is like?

Aw that's unfortunate, but you *did* help her. You ARE a good nurse because you aren't running from these feelings of what you could have done differently. If you were faced with this situation again, you'll have this experience to draw on. And because you actually, truly care (otherwise you wouldn't feel badly), you'll tap into this and be even better for it. And nothing would have changed the fact that you had a bunch of other patients to see and that it wasn't a 1:1 setting. I don't think you did much wrong here. Maybe you were impatient at times, but the constant call bell, long term needy patient, your work load etc all contributed to that feeling. Her circumstances are undesirable (being alone at the end), but it's no one's fault..not yours and probably not hers. Some people don't have kids or get married. It isn't a "fault", it's just the circumstance. Even people *with* family die alone a lot of times..and she was in a hospital, not Assisted Living with an option to bump up to skilled nursing, where someone may have been able to literally sit by her side. Again, not your choice. No sailor ever learned much from sailing in calm waters. And when good people make mistakes they acknowledge what they could do differently and accept that. That's why you *are* a good nurse. I'd be way more concerned about someone who didn't care about what happened and never gave it a second thought. Feel better and keep your head up. It's all over now, she is at peace.

Wow how do you know all this?! That's bigger than I would have expected but I'm still surprised schools are taking applications past the deadline.

Really?! I wonder why they don't fill the program quicker. Maybe the cost pushes people to look at other programs.