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I agree....there are several Podcasts you can get on your Iphone if you have one, that are free or very inexpensive. I purchased rosetta Stone from someone on Craigslist for only $125.00. It was used, but it works just as well as a new one! :)

sorry to hear that. i, too, have had some similar experiences, and i am a very good nurse also. i have the references and the reviews to back it up. all i can tell you is that try to move on and take this event as a positive thing.....it may be that you are really meant to be somewhere else...some nurses are so evil...a lot of nurses are jealous. i worked as a traveler in a job as a recovery nurse....i had never done recovery, but i had 4 years of cardiac medsurg; one year of interventional radiology and 6 years of er experience. i told the manager that i didn't have pacu experience....i was upfront about it. she agreed to hire me anyway. one week after being in pacu, my recruiter calls me and says that the manager was "concerned" about my performance....talk about being ****** off and caught off guard.....all the nurses had told me all week long how "quick" i had caught on, etc. so the only way the manager could even come to the conclusion that i wasn't making it was at the recommendation of one or all of those ***** nurses. luckily, i made it work for me. i've been there a year now, but now only per diem. what kills me is that when i decided to go back to er fulltime, the manager that thought i wasn't cutting it, offered me a fulltime job and wanted me to sign on with them! who the hell would do such a thing? they didn't give me any benefit of the doubt. why would i work fulltime for a manager that has no balls and for nurses that tried to railroad me into leaving. so keep a smile on your face, tell them to **** off and move on to something better.

Thanks for the info!

I hate this kind of behavior. My biggest pet peeve is when the patient pulls the "race card". I just want to strangle them.

Yes, are there any good books to use to study for CVN? I went to the ACCN website, and it talks all about the credentials, etc, but I don't see any study guide per se, to study for this test. (I mean, the CEN has a book that you can order and study from.)

Washington State pays well also. Anywhere on the west coast pays better. :)