shippoRN

Agreed nurse1959 why would they keep our applications down the last minute if it wasn't some sort of lottery system. But if that's the case why not tell applicants that? On the other hand myself a coworker in my unit and someone else from my hospital applied not sure if it was just the three of us or other people applied too. Either way the third people (who I don't know) got the award. So did they compare all of us, and gave it to the person with the highest DTI ratio? Very frustrating and what's worse next year the applicant pool will be double or triple.

grandpaj me too. It's discouraging.

Sorry grandpaj :-( just chin up and reapply next year

I guess they are sending out the rejections now :-(

Still under review. I've already accepted that I'm going to have to reapply in jan. :-(

Been watching this thread for awhile. I found out that someone from my hospital already got accepted to the program so I don't think I'm getting it. Just wish they would tell me I'm denied and put me out of my misery.

Thanks to everyone for your responses and your support. So if you had told me four and five years ago when I went to nursing school that nursing would change so drastically i would not have believed it. Right now experience doesn't matter anymore. Hospitals in my state especially are not accepting associate nurses anymore, mostly because they are trying to increase their BSN quota due to the emergence of more hospitals applying for magnet status and the whole BS in 10 situation. There are a lot of hospitals in my state that specifically are not looking at ASN anymore and make it known, and every day it seems like more and more hospitals and making decisions not to accept ASN's. Unfortunately a lot of us ASN's are getting caught in the middle of this. As far as the whole BSN completion program goes. I have only have 6 classes left to take to get the BSN ( unless they ask for something additional) i have a ton of classes from previous degrees plus my nursing degree, so nothing was stopping me other than lack of motivation and money. I submitted an application and my transcripts and am just waiting to hear, if all goes well it should take me 6 months if i stay focused, and just do what needs to be done. Its such a disappointing thing to happen to me, but maybe it was the motivation i needed to get off my butt and get it done.

Tomorrow i go back to work after a well deserved vaca, and I dread it. During my break I got to interview with my dream hospital, for a dream position after two years since graduating trying to get an interview at this place I finally landed one. I prepared for this thing like my life depended on. Bought a new suit, got my hair done nails done, paper work organized, drilled myself on questions over and over and over. I was passed over because I didn't have a BSN. Devestated. Angry. Frustrated. are only a few words to describe how i feel. Going to work tomorrow knowing that I'm back at square one. I am so angry with myself for being to lazy to apply to a BSN completion program I made several attempts to, but never had any motivation to get it together. Now my motivation comes to late because I lost out on a job that I have dreamed about FOR YEARS. Wanna hear what's even more infuriating....all i need is 6 classes to get my BSN. I can't stop kicking myself over my stupidity. Now it's back to work, feeling the same anxiety and dread. The crying, the depession. Knowing i can't up and quit because I have responsibilities. how could i have been so stupid?

what i wish i could say would get me banned from allnurses

Not quite sure if you will need a scientific calculator, but i'd say to plan as though you'd need one. Start saving so that when class starts if your professor says you will have to get one you will already have the money to go buy it and if you don't need you'll have money to contribute to something else. Just a suggestion. Good luck.

Thanks for the replys, i have friends in other hospitals trying to help me out. All i can do is hope something comes through. It's tough having an associates (or BSN) with no experience in my city. I really appreciate the support, my family doesn't understand, especially since it took me an entire year post graduation to find a job. Until something happens i just have to suck it up since I can't quit with nothing to go to. Yes its a med/surg unit. I would just like to go to work, and be happy going to work -- although I think nursing ruined me, the other part of me know it hasn't. I enjoy interacting with my patients, i enjoy getting to know them, I absolutely love love love patient teaching, I enjoy comforting them, making sure they are okay while i'm taking care of them, I take pride in it, i really do, but how can i give the best care i can when i have half the floor at times (with my preceptor of course) with no help from the support staff and so many patient's its impossible to keep track. I don't like going to work with dread and fear in my heart, i really don't. My orientation is a joke to say the least. I'll just leave it at that. Hopefully i'll be making a newer happier post in the future. cross your fingers I find something soon.

I don't know where to begin, I don't like to sound like I'm a complainer especially since things are soooo hard for other new grads out there especially in my state. But my frustration is beyond human limits. After one year of struggling to get a job in a hospital post nursing school graduation -- I was finally hired. But it's like I've walked into my worse nightmare. While I am not off orientation as yet, I feel like I'm still left on my own to figure things out, and thrown under the bus most of the time. My orientation experience itself is down right horrid. Due to the hospital's style of nursing practice and the constant understaffing one nurse could end up with between 14-18 patients that's typically half the floor. Even though i'm suppose to be with my preceptor i still feel overwhelmed by it all. I can't tell you how many times i've cried in the bathroom and locker room. I fear for my license every time I go there. I don't feel safe practicing. I don't feel like i fit in. I can't leave because I have no where to go and no other options available to me. I've taken financial blow after financial blow since my decision to go to nursing school. I feel like nursing has ruined my life. I dread going to work when i'm scheduled. I can't believe that after all my hard work this is where I've end up. I know nursing is not easy and I am surely not afraid of hard work, but when you work with people who don't want to do their job and don't have a license to lose you have to pick up their slack AND do your job to, its frustrating. Even more frustrating that administration doesn't give a crap. I don't feel like I can go to my supervisor or manager with my concerns because I'll just end up with a scarlet S on my forehead. I've seen an administrator talk to the RN staff like they were children, didn't even look to find out what the issue was first just talked down to them. I've been yelled at so many times, people forget that I am on orientation, but it's still my responsibility to do things I don't know about that my preceptor hasn't told me about. The staff gets annoyed at my preceptor and take it out on me. I've worked at other hospitals in different capacities and have seen how the RN staff work, seen them practice, seen how other new RN's have been precepted. I've heard their complaints and frustration over things but I've never seen anything like I'm seeing at my current place of business. Due to the absurd nurse to patient ratio, how am I suppose to give quality nursing care?. Sadly its only 1 month since my being there and I'm absolutely miserable. I worked so hard for this and yet I still feel like a complete failure.

Be honest, tell them what happened, don't put the blame on your preceptor nurse, but just give your side of the story and then follow it up with what you learned from it so that you don't make the same mistake twice. You can either rise and meet this challenge or let it beat you down, and I don't think you are the type to let anything beat you down.

I didn't think i'd be waiting a year to start working in a hospital setting and getting my career started, but it took exactly one year. It was the worst year of my life but i prevailed. I didn't think i'd be spending six months of my job hunt working part time in a clinic making absolutely no money but gaining amazing experience and an equally amazing mentor. I didn't think I'd be working at a city hospital in a poor and dangerous neighborhood serving an underserved population. I didn't think I would be so humbled and humiliated after nursing school either. I learned a lot of lessons. I don't regret my career choice because I know there is so much out there for me to explore now that i've got my foot in the door. Follow your dreams, nursing school was the hardest thing I ever did in my life, but I did it. I had classmates who were mothers and wives and made it. It's a huge sacrifice, you'll cry a lot, laugh a lot, scream a lot, cuss a lot and wonder why the heck you put yourself through this torture, but it's worth it when you are chasing your dreams. Good luck to you.

I empathize, I also spent an entire year post graduation looking for a job, I only just got hired to a city hospital last month and began my orientation the other day. I suggest looking at craigslist see if you can get into a clinic, home care or LTC. Its not ideal but its a start. That's what I did. i worked in private practice for 6 months before my hospital spot came up and will continue to work there once my orientation is over. Try HHC, go to the corporate office and show up at their individual hospitals and hand in your resume. It can't hurt. It really really sucks in NYC and it doesn't help that st. vinny just closed to, that's the third hospital since june 2009, and then its graduation month to so more new grads are out there. I don't know about NJ. Best wishes and good luck to you.