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I am so sorry you have to go through this. It is not easy on you and I can assure you it's very uncomfortable for your ex friend. I use to work with a group of women and loved my job until I made a mistake and applied and got the supervisory position, once I was their supervisor the demands, requests and complains got so out of hand that I regretted every day my position. No matter what I did - it was never enough. Worst job of my life. I think that even after you apologize and admit your mistake, things will never be the same and there will be a tension, if you are willing to tolerate it in the name of keeping the job than do it, but I think another place of work and a fresh start may be better. I wish you luck.

I hold a masters degree of science with emphases in marine biology (from graduate school in Europe). Had my degree evaluated by ECE and had done nothing at all with my degree. I did not want to teach and it did not matter in my previous job. Long story short, fifteen years later it came in handy when I decided to go in to physician assistant program, it fulfills all of the requirements as far as prerequisites go. My advise - be careful what you choose so you don't waste your time and money - it does matter what studies you pick and how they will complement your carer choice. Good luck.

Thank you all so much! I will try to get some sleep tonight - it will be hard, as I'm still jumping up from excitement.

This is how I feel about spelling and grammar on allnurses: It is not as important - it is secondary. The reason why I say this is: because the site is not designated for writing thesis in "early English literature" and have them evaluated for spelling and grammar errors, but it is for nursing staff seeking advice, a place to vent and support of people working in the nursing filed. Many of us here come from different backgrounds, with English being a second language and spelling and grammar are not a second nature to us. When you're excited or sad and you just type as fast as possible, you may spell the words incorrectly - it is not what I think about when I write a post on here. I come here to share my joy, ups and downs or simply to support another in the nursing field. Next time for all you "Grammar Police" hold back and don't go crazy - when you criticize the OP for such things it's quite embarrassing.

GRE - PASS!!!!!!! Yes, today I found out that I passed the GRE exam in the low 90-th percentile in all three categories. I am so happy, all day I literally hop scotch all over the house. I was hesitant to share this news here as I don't want to appear like I gloating about it but I'm just so darn happy. Tomorrow I'm on my way to apply to the physician assistant program. I have worked so hard and studied for so many months in preparation for the testing and I did it!!!!!!! I will be in debt for the next two decades but I don't care.

Thank you so much Fribblet - there is nothing better like a good, healthy laugh at the end of the day, I love your sense of humor. To all that I have offended with my spelling and grammar - I'm sorry. Not to make any excuses but English is my second language (Spanish is not my first) and I was not even thinking about it, now I'm embarrassed and I apologize. In response to my post: I did not mean to come across as jealous, vindictive or vicious. I was simply frustrated with the system more than the particular Rn. As I mentioned before, I do wish her all the luck and hope that she will become a wonderful nurse, better than when she was an aide. It was just a vent. Thank you all for caring enough to post a reply, it's nice to know that someone gives two cents about what I have to say.

I know that "who you know" will get you a job in any industry. Today we welcomed a new grad RN who was working at our hospital as an aide - great!!! The only thing that we did not like about her was that she was a stock up young girl who was telling us for two years that as soon as she's done with nursing school she will have her pick at any unit she wants to because she was told by the mngt.she is one of the best aides we have ( we all were laughing) because she was the worst. Well, today there she was....RN in orientation. I just feel so dissapointed because it is so hard if not impossible for many talented and smart new grads to find a job and some of the wonderfull aides who did fantastic job with our patients but never got the chance to even interview, one got hired who's short on common sense.... . I bet she knows someone higher up in our hospital ( we'll find out soon). I do wish her best of luck on her new adventure and she may turn out to be a wonderful nurse, I just wish that other new grads had an equal chance to interview, O and did I mention she got the full time day shift and christmass off..., agrrrrr I just wish I had an aunt or fairy Godmother in menagement.

Your family comes first - in this economy this should not surprise anybody, I think honesty with your current employer is your best strategy. Do it in a profesionnal way with a nough notice and you should be fine, you'll never know what the future will hold and it is a small world aafter all,lol. Best of luck.

I think this post is a fake! Ms.RN just made up the story to see the reaction. I mean - REALLY- any body that have worked the bed side even one day would know not to leave a pt. unattended - not a patient who can not do anything for herself or somebody in the shower - this post is a fake - I hope, for all involved sake.

Ouch! I hope the OP had learned a valuable lesson, she sounds genious clueless. I am not surprised, she is not the only RN who thinks in such way, sad - very sad.

I always take off my scrubs in the garage and put on my robe because as soon as I walk in my little one runs in for hugs. I usually take a shower shortley after - it wakes me up and helps me stay up for another few hours.

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Lol! You are not incompetent - you're a parent, and feeling of incompetance is one of the "perks" of parenting. Couple of weeks ago, we rushed with our 3 y/o to peds. office with moskito bites, we did not know they were moskito bites as her arms looked really bad and swollen. I thought that I somehow brought something home frome isolation rooms and now my baby is infected. As a parent you always immagine the worst case scenario with your children.

nooo, you don't sound uncaring, you sound normal! Patients can be "funny", you can bust your butt all day long for them, take care of every need, answer every call light and at the end one unanswered call light can place all your efforts in the toilet.And lazy co-workers add to that as well.

Today - 16 patients on the unit, 3 Rn's and 1 aide. The RN's are all registry and not familiar with the patients on the unit and are not notified that they all have to "share" one aide ( as it is very hard to notice).I have just got off a night shift and I'm waiting for my pick up in the hollway by the unit, the call lights are going off as they always are in the morning, I can see the aide running from room to room, the Rn's are sitting at the nurisng station glaring at their computere screans, streaching looking at facebook..., my ride is late and I'm trying to ignore the sound of call lights and not to get bothered that the light in room 100 has been on for about 28 minutes, and no one is in a hurry to answer it. I really want to stay out of it because my work is done and I'm punch out and I am a registry too and really don't want to cause trouble, but I could not take it any longer. So I shlap my butt to the nurising stationg and say in a really sweet and quiet voice - " Do you ladies know that you only have 1 aide today? and I don't think she can help the gentelman in room 100 anytime soon, so maybe if you can spare a minute you can check on the patient in 100 because I have notice his light going off for a while" - really no irony in my voice or accusations, so one of them pick up her spectra phone and says "may I help you?" and as I'm walking away I hear the patient" I have to go to the bathroom" the Rn "ok I'll send the aide in"... . So in my opinion when patients say that the nurses don't care about them, they are talking about such nurses as mentioned above - they just simply don't care, they are there to pick up extra shift to make extra money, it's not their main hospital or unit. It is so sad but true and it happends.