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Hi Calinp; I know it has been a while since i last posted here and i hope that you are still an allnurses.com member of this forum. Your reply to my previous post has been very helpful during my application process to the Phd program and i followed all the advice you gave me :) Are you at UCSF now, and if so, is there a way i can contact you by email for a few more UCSF-specific questions? Thanks again.

Hi Calinp; I know it has been a while since i last posted here and i hope that you are still an allnurses.com member of this forum. Your reply to my previous post has been very helpful during my application process to the Phd program and i followed all the advice you gave me :-). Are you at UCSF now, and if so, is there a way i can contact you by email for a few more UCSF-specific questions? Thanks again.

Hello everyone; It has been nice reading all your posts since i am in the process of applying to the Phd program at UCSF too. I am interested in the BSN-Phd program and i have 2.5 yr experience as an RN. My interest would be in Public health-and HIV. I have attended one information session at the campus and met with 3 professors. I have finally finished writing my goal statement but the hurdle for me at this point is the GRE. I don't know how exactly to study for it especially since i work nights, 32 hrs/week. Do i take some time off to study, or do i enroll in, say, Kaplan program for it? And then i will think of the rec letters after that. Please, help.....especially those that have gotten into the program or are in the application process. Any advice will be appreciated! Congrats calinp and NPtoPhd; do u plan to work when going to school? calimp, what problems did u face with the recommendation letters? Please continue to share your experiences as u go along. I am glad to finally find a Phd forum on here that is even close to home. Thanks to you all.

Ohhh! Guys, you are sooooo appreciated for your advice and i will be thinking about what you all have said every step of the way. God bless y'all:icon_hug:

Hi guys; Thanks for all your responses. I called off since that night and had 3 off days so i have kinda digested things a little. I am going to get more aggressive at finding that HH job that i want and give in my resignation letter after i get another job. With most of your advice and that of other friends i have decided it might not be very smart idea to quit before i find something else. But i don't know if i will be feeling the same way tomorrow because when i wrote that letter i did not care what happens and i feel that way a lot. I am tone between hanging in there until i get a nother job at the expense of possibly losing my license and running while i can and hope for the best. I have talked to my manager in the past about cutting my hours down but apparantly there's a hiring freeze which has affected transfers and any kinda changes within the hospital ,soo.. And oh, he says i should "be patient, help is coming soon"...yeah right. Anyhow, i really appreciate your advice and please keep them coming. If you live in the San Francisco Bay area and you have any ideas about HH positions please let me know. I will keep you'll updated on things.

Thanks KCIN for your reply. I am in the San Francisco bay area and yes i have tried the travel agencies but most say they don't have HH positions. I haven't given up yet and i am still trying other places. I am working at a large teaching hospital which is undergoing a lot of inspections for several issues and we are paying the price for it.

Hello fellow nurses; I wrote in earlier about my interest in switching to HH from Med/Surg. I have been trying to put in applications around my area and making phone calls but all in vain. I was hoping i will hang onto my night mare job as i look around but last night pushed me to the wall. I can't take the stress of it all; the frustration of being overworked, unappreciated and worst of all working in an unsafe enviroment and providing paper work care instead of the patient care that my patients deserve. I can't take the stress and constant fear and palpitations i get each time my phone rings and i think my manager is calling me in for a grave error i could have made. I am sick and tired of 95 % of the times i work crazy assignments and don't even have a minute all night to find out why my pt is NPO or why they had the surgery they did and hence giving crapy report to the on-coming nurse. I am sooo exhausted by all that and devastated that i have to let this job that i thought would be my dream career go but i feel like it is the sanest thing to do in order to preserve my intergrity, licence and love for nursing. I would rather spend 5min listening to my pt's concerns about their diagnosis than 15min trying to figure out why the printer is jammed and won't print out the MARS; or 10min giving my pt a bath than running around to get other departments to do their jobs so i can do mine. I have written out a 2 paged letter to my manager only because i need not to BS my way out but leave knowing that i have been pushed to the limit and have let them know about it ( Of course they don't give a #$@& but it feels right to me). I plan to hand it in this coming monday and i am scared to death especially since i don't have a plan B at this moment. I have a pending HH application and i am waiting and praying for a miracle that i get the job. But like my fiance said this morning as i my way through the letter writing, i need to protect my career and not my job and that i deserve better. Pleaaaeaase, somebody, anybody send me your thoughts on all this; whatever advice you might have will be appreciated. I would like to believe that where there's a will, there's a way!

Thanks RNRutRO for your helpfull input. I am still looking for the HH job and i will definately start with per diem before i quit the hospital job. Thanks again! :-)

Thanks for your advice :-)

Thanks Nurse JNETTE. I will let you know what happens :-)

Thanks for your reply nurse hobbit.

Thanks for your reply, paradiseboundRN; I am going to apply for HH and see what happens. Do you have any advise on how i should handle my job reference . I don't want to use my manager for reference since i don't want to lose my job before i get the HH one. Will it be ok to use a co-worker and former preceptor instead of my manager?

Hello nurses; First of all I would like to thank all of you for your dedication to this website because it is very informative. I am new to this, so please bare with me. I have a general question that i need anybody to, please respond, in which ever way you wish. I have been a nurse for 1yr and a few months now. I started with med/surg but the experience i have had has been mostly very stressful to say the least. I feel that i am burnt out by the constant stress of floor nursing were the administration and regulations constantly take you away from really caring for patients to just loads and loads of paper work to "cover yourself should inspectors come by" etc. I won't go much into all that but my state of mind now is definately to get out of there while i still have my licence and before i totally get tired of the profession as a whole. I am a people's person and really like working with pts one-on-one and so i have had thoughts of switching to Home health. I feel that i will find more fulfillment in life and in nursing out side hospital nursing but i don't know where to go. I also have a fear of trying to switch jobs around this time when the economy is in this state and with a lot of employers laying off people but i feel like i can't take it any more. I live in the San Francisco Bay area. Pleassssee, anyone, help me and offer your ideas and advice. Thanks in advance!!