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I personally don't think that those that bully even realize in the beginning that they are bullying. Then as time goes on they believe they are trying to improve the nurse. As someone who has been bullied I can tell you that I tend to keep to myself and just do my job the best I can. Some days it makes for a long shift. I love what I do, but sometimes I don't think that administration really knows what's going on sometimes.

It took me three months to get the job I have now when we moved to El Paso. I've gotten so tired of all the test you take when you apply for a nursing job. My husband is a business major and I actually let him answer the questions for the "what you you do" and "how would you react" business oriented questions. This is wrong of course and I know this, but I'm a nurse. I truly care about my patients and their health, even if the company I'm working for or the patient themselves don't!

Well, it's now March and this road I started back in 2006 has almost reached it's end.....I sit here and can not believe that in 54 days I will have completed my classes and should be a GN. I look back at all the tears, sweat, sleepless nights of worry and I'm glad that I've made it this far. This was not a journey I chose for myself but I am proud now to say that I am making it through. I'm on spring break right now and just passed my med/surg, OB and waiting on results of PEDI. When we go back it's the Sims, Practiums and Kaplan prep for NCLEX. Thank you to all that have followed me through this journey.....it is not yet complete, but I can see the light on the other side.....and I am excited.

I am half way through the first semster of my nursing program......as a class, we've laughed we've cried and now we are starting psych.....and I'm sure we will all laugh and cry again. We have lost a few classmates already and I pray every day we don't lose more. Looking to December......and the end of the semster.

Another update....WoooHooo......I am just completing my third week of the LVN bridge program....yes ladies and gents I said nursing program. In fact I just returned home from my first day of clinicals and I can't help but wonder....."Why, do they say clinicals are hard?" One patient, I can't take phone orders, I can't call a doctor, I can't mess with a PCA machine, I can't draw blood, I can't do anything with out my instructor present.....wow, I'm loving this!!!!!

If you really want to work in a hospital, I would try to stick it out in your current nursing program if you can. I am an LVN working in a hospital and yes I pretty much do most of what the RN's do. But I am currently in school to finish my schooling and was just accepted into the nursing program. Why? Because about two years ago the hospital deciced it wanted all RN's on the floor. They changed their minds, but I kept going anyway. Keep going if you want to work in a hospital.

Okay so here is another update........I am retaking my microbiology, the class is a killer, my teacher doesn't like computers so his tests are usually fill in the blank with no word bank and he counts off for spelling. But........I got in! I got my packet last week and was given seven days to get most of it complete. WooHoo I got in! Now I gotta get through micro.

I work on a med/surg floor.....it's more poo and pee. Still body fluids and a lot more stinky.

When you pass your boards and get your license it doesn't state where you went to college.....you just become LVN, RN, BSN and MSN......I stated before I wouldn't pay extra for a certain college. Right now my husband and I are both in college and I like another writter envy those students that can spend time sleeping and studying all night long. I work weekends to pay the bills that have to be paid to live in an apartment and drive. My husband works full time at night stocking to pay for our classes. We are paying for the classes we take as we take them and hope to finish with no debt. I am an LVN trying to get my RN and he is finishing up his bachelor's in business. I can tell you I have had to repeat two of my classes because of things going on at work and home that would not allow me time to study. Yes education is expensive.....but No I would not recommend anyone borrow that much for it.

The one I work for is not the largest but it is kinda big and I have crappy insurance to begin with and they are claim that the economy is making them do all of the cuts backs......

I agree totally with "It's me" our system is broken.....but I don't really feel that government based system is the way to go either....look at the country right now. What is the answer? How do we fix this? Did anyone on the campaign trail have any answers?

So the long and short of it is that I am taking better care of my body and will hope that I don't end up in the ER. I am stoping the bills before they get higher. My primary care doctor is the one that refered me to the GI doctor and I can not return to her until after the 1st of July because of classes. Our insurance is in it's open enrollment right now and I cancelled mine so it would not do an automatic renewal. If you do nothing it continues as it is was the previous year, so I called last week and said stop my insurance. I will be one of the many Americans without insurance.

That is just the hospital part. I did pay the doctor for the test which was $179. But is I pay the $270 and make payments for the rest.... I will have no insurance to return to the doctor for the follow up. And if God forbid I need more tests.....I won't be able to get them done. I am losing weight, exercising every day (I walk two miles), eating better (lots better, which has helped the loose stools, now only have them about five times a week) and I have lost six more pounds. I am taking better care of myself so that hopefully I don't end up in the ER. I am in college so I am in classes Monday thru Thursday, so I can't work an extra shift. And to make matters worse my husband's job cut back his hours from 40 to fifteen a week because of the economy.

Yes, I think so too. I have cared for at least four patients that were illeagals and there is one on our floor that has been there for almost a month getting daily dialysis. So I guess what I will do is what most of the people do in the hospital I work at. I will just wait until I get so sick I have no choice but to go to the E.R.

I am currently going through the motions to get my ADN.....we have not borrowed one dime for it. If we can't pay for a class, I don't take it until I can. This fall it will get harder, but are doing our best to get by.....