angelfire77

Don't loose you license before yoou can reap any benefits. As a recent grad with 0 experience you are putting other lives in jeporady and risking your newly aquired license. No one, and I mean no one is going to be there for you when you make a mistake. You are the least experienced and setting yourself up to be a sitting duck. The agency that is hiring you is only looking at $$$$ and they won't be there for you when you fall. DON'T DO IT!!! Get a job. preferbly in a teaching hospital where you can be trained and then go from there. Good luck in your career!

As a 23 year agency nurse I have heard and seen it all. Some of the regular staff are gracious and some of them are just nerds. Over the years you aquire the sixth sense of knowing if the regular staff is being rude to you because you are an agency nurse or is this just their character? I have found that just a kind word, or sometimes just being quiet and doing the job you were hired to do does the trick. Most of the time we walk into situations where these people have been working understaffed for a long time and they are grateful to have a helping hand, especially one that doesn't gripe continously, respects their break time and pitch in and do your part. There are good nurses and there are bad nurses. Agency or not, and most of the time if you really have a problem with a staff member, it's because your work is so good that you are showing their peers that they aren't such a good nurse after all. But all in all, it all goes with the territory. Like I tell some of them that gripe about the salary that we make, "This is a decision that I made and you made yours. You have the same opportunity as I have to make the same money that I do. It's all about choices!" Agency nursing has been good to me and I'm a good NURSE!

I don't know about the pay rates, as I am an Agency nurse. Both institutiions are excellent. However if I were you, with only three years under your belt I would choose Hermann Memorial and work and gather experience in other areas. 10 years down the line you don't want to be thrown into what I call "Nurses Shock Syndrome", when for some unforeseen reason you have to work in another area of healthcare and you are thrown to the wolves with only pedi experience. Some people say nursing is nursing. I beg to differ with them. The basics of nursing is the same but Cardiac nursing is another world from General Pedi. Trauma nursing is worlds away from Labor and Delivery. Get my drift? Good luck in your career!

Calm down, take a deep breath and go and retake the test. You will do fine and stop worrying about the things you can't change at this point. Just trust in God and pass the test. I will be petitioning God for you and your family. Remember, "The prayers of the righteous availeth much." Be Blessed!:caduceus: