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This Does Not Make Sense - But happens anyway!..... In my state NO LPN can't cut a diabetics nails! If you're the only RN working in a large nursing home you have to cut all the diabetics' nails. I guess the BON thinks LPN's can't handle this simple task.

I'd go with the hospital job for the reasons you listed. Plus it doesn't seem like a doctors office would have a career ladder for a BSN to climb.

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Be sure you really want to be an RN for love of the work. The work is not as simple as you think and jobs aren't as plentiful as you have been told. You are very young so you have time to decide what type of work enjoy most. Don't assume you will be able to quit working when you have a family. The economy and your personal financial picture can change. Also the profession is moving toward BSN as baseline for entry so imo that is what you must aim for. Please don't think you can graduate from high school, go to a 2 year cc program and viola you become an RN. Many people have that misconception. It takes longer than 2 years to get an ADN becaue you'll need A's in many prerequisite courses. On the road to becoming a nurse it helps if you enjoy studying. Best of luck.

As charge you do have some responsibility to supervise and see that meds were given, not tossed into the shaprs bin. I'd report her to the BON in a New York minute! She is lazy, dishonest and VERY dangeous.

Good. HCA must have the worst reputation for nurse abuse and unsafe pt conditions yet they keep buying more hospitals. I'll never work for HCA.

Exactly. The 25 yr old newbie nurse is an Epic fail on therapeutic communications. Clueless as to what some of us are going through at work.

Lady Jane, Thanks for bringing this serious threat to our livelihoods back from the dead. Every SINGLE US RN currently employed as a nurse or hoping to work as an RN should be aware of this issue.

Dude. If you're so good with computers why can't you show who you were quoting in your post? And why do you have to scream your post? I'm not really middle age but I'm old enough to respect that the members here who are 40's 50's and older are from the generation that INVENTED computers. Their generation was writing code before it was dumbed down for the masses to be able to use. Your implication that older people don't understand computers is absurd! I can post html code pics but I work a lot and can't spend hours searching for cute code pics. On the positive side since I work and make a lot I can afford technology that many can only drool over. Oh and I DO know how to use ALL of it. As I said oldies understand computers we just don't post in text or post myspace comment codes. Any "oldie" poster here here can spend the time to search for code to put up a silly pic of someone hiding behind a couch thus swaying opinion and in effect mobbing the OP into backing down on her stance. Some oldies choose not to search for cute code pics because that's way too like 'myspace.' This has always been a professional site where people are allowed to vent. BTDT has a very valid vent and a right to be heard. You missed my point entirely. My point wasn't newbie against oldie. It actually isn't all about you this time. It's about the problems caused when we allow to many foreigners to take over our profession. Tell you newbies what I'll do. When I have enough money to retire I'll change my political stance and encourage as many foreign nurses to be imported to the US as possible. It's about nursing in the US and protecting our turf. A simple lifting of Visa restrictions could easily render your hard won license almost worthless. Trust me it almost happened before. I'm weary of highly vocal "insulted" newbies that are trying to shame posters like BTDT. She has a valid vent about language problems. Others vent about the dangers of importing masses of foreign nurses. Perhaps you just haven't experienced the problems caused by these issues yet. Seriously, AN wouldn't be very informative if all oldies are shamed into shutting up completely. Stop eating your old!

Exactly. The newbies haven't 'been there' or haven't been nurses long enough to have worked in a large city where you are the only native English speaking person around. Also if someone posts a cartoon of ducking under a couch just after you post your valid vent, it tends to sway posters to think what you said is shameful. You have a valid vent/issue/complaint that many veteran nurses have dealt with. I'm glad you're not afraid to post something that some think isn't "pc" enough for their tastes. I liked Karen's post/suggestion.

To my knowledge, hospitals and nursing homes do a check of their currently employed nurses every 2 years. They check for criminal background (arrests), BON actions, nursys, OIG, and the 2 national databases for healthcare practitioners. It looks better if you tell the current employer before they find it. Remember it was only a reprimand and we all learn from our errors. Good luck.

Totally agree. This "Hospital Corporation" has set you up to be the perfect fall guy when something horrible happens. I went through a similar situation when my old hospital was bought out by HCA. HCA then merged 2 hospitals and put the nurses in impossible situations...DAILY! When mistakes were investigated it was no problem for HCA to blame all errors on the nurses. When the stuff hits the fan the hospital holds all the cards and owns all records so you can't prove you weren't at fault. OP you know you have to leave.

btw Sorry for typos I'm using an old computer with missing keys.

NO NO NO. This is ABSOLUTELY verbotin and will get you discipline in BOTH states. When you apply for the new license in the new state the new BON will always ask if you have a pending investigation. OP don't do something like this. You sound innocent so you should be cleared. Ask for a hair drug annaylis.

Sorry if I'm not "helpful" or as much of a bleeding heart as some would like but I do not buy it. Seriously, be honest. You have a clean license and no previous sanctions, failed a pre-employment drug screen where YOU ARE NOT employed and now you have to meet with the Board of Nursing? Why would some place who does not know you report a pre employment drug screen to the bon?

I'm in an area with a lot of nursing programs too. Even experienced nurses are having trouble finding work.

Kudos. I'm glad you are thinking of yourself and saying no to the guilt trips/extra shifts. Nursing is very hard work and you need your days off. Agree that the hospitals short staff to make more money. There are plenty of nurses they could hire.

Personally I think it's because nurses are told that we are 'mandated to report' violations of our practice act. If you don't report something (with appropriate documentation) your license could be on the line.

Looks just like my unit. All pretty high school aged nurses with long hair and hoop ear rings. Where are the male nurses?

Haha. We need shorter term-limits on these entitled witch hunters/members of the Board of Nazis. Then then can get back on the units to see what the real problems are-(intentional short staffing, etc)

I feel the same as VanillaNut. This ad is a waste of money that could have been spent on much better things...like designing good courses ncsbn could then market to nurses who make med errors and such. This ad is the BONs justifying their existence at the expense of public trust of nurses. PLAIN AND SIMPLE! Do you see the BOM running these ads?? NO WAY!

This ad is ridiculous and a waste of money. Employers already background check, finger print us and look us up in all national databases. And patients know the how to lodge a complaint against a nurses license. If they don't then they complain to the healthcare facility and the facility lodges the BON complaint. I wonder if the NCSBN will run this ad with the Johnson and Johnson 'It's great to be a nurse', 'Become a nurse' type ads? Sad.

There is no shortage of nurses. Many graduate and can't find jobs yet schools are still cranking out nurses like puppy mills.

I can't help but think some jobs for new RNs would open up if all states would implement safe nurse/pt ratios. But I don't think that will ever happen as hospital corporations are too powerful.

As an RN friend sadly found out, elkpark is correct. Nurses are highly regulated and held to a much higher standard whether you are on the clock or off. As soon as an RN has a complaint of any sort go to the Board of Nursing you find out just how regulated nursing is. Trust me the board of Nazi's WILL hold an RN accountable for ANYTHING they deem negative that the nurse does 24/365. I wouldn't give the shot.