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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.

I love how difficult situations,difficult patients and coworkers are shaping me into a proffesoinal I am becomming, I love how I take charge of my emotions and carry on and do my job. I love how each time I go to work I am reminded how blessed I am to be healthy have a healthy family and just have a job. What I hate? - nothing worst than a lazy coworker.

Why would you say something like that ( and all the people who gave kudos)? She allready feels inadequate,so yeah go ahed and make her feel worse.I hate to say that, but you will have one of "those" too, and may turn for support and just to vent on here - and you will not like to see comments like yours under your post.

I don't know, every programm is different and the requirements change constantley. Don't give up - there is a lot of people out there that have been trying for years to get into the nursing program and are not getting in. I was one of them, it took me 4 years of trying and I have 4.0 gpa but I was not passing the entrance exam untill I finally did and got acceptance letter into two - but I have been at the end of the rope.Just keep on pushing forward, regroup and reorganize - you'll get there.

People like her should quit! When I have to work with a person like that I keep busy at all costs to avoid contact to a minnimum, because today in this economy I thank God every day on the way to work for blessing me with with this job. There is other people out there who would be thankfull for the opportunity to work even a day.

ha, ha, I have been asked this questions a milion times first by the nurses in that took care of me, by the doc's and a priest.Yes I have been loaded with meds at that point so some speculate that the chemical changes that are going on with the brain may bring on the illusion of seeing things from the past. I don't talk about it often because that is not much to say - no I did not float to the light I did not see the tunnel, heared voices and all the things that others report - but what I did see and remember with out a doubt and I can see it clearly like it happend yesterday was my dad and the child. My dad past away from pancriatic cancer he was in great pain before he died and they were pomping fluids in him, so after he died his body swelled up and his face had to be rapped in gause for the funeral service, I was the only one who saw him that way in the cascet because they closed it for the funeral and I put some money in his pocked for the "driver" lol. When I saw him he was standing next to my bed ( I supose I was in the bed because I looked at him like you look at people standing above you) he wore the gause bandaid around his face but it did not covered the whole face like in the cascet, so I know it was after he died, he held a hand of the maybe 2 y/o child I don't if it was a girl or a boy, anyway they were just there standing looking at me, no talking at all but there was a mutual understanding between us without the words spoken, my dad was there healthy,beautiful with out a trace of pain on his face, such peace radiating from his face and the child was just there looking careless and happy, I remembe them just like that, beautiful.I only told my mom and grandma about it because I did not wanted people to think I was a psycho - you know how teenagers can be, but my family was all happy to hear the news. So, no I can't tell you how it is out there, maybe because it was not my time..., today I think they were there to make sure I'm not scarred or something... maybe it was all a dream, I would like to believe not. Another think I noticed that started happening to me was the feeling of picefulness and calm, my life has it challenges but I love the place I'm in and feel that there is still something for me to do here... .I also feel the presence of whatever there is, and when I worked the med/oncology unit ( we had celestial discharegs every other day) I would always "talked to the dead people"lol, while doing the post mortem, the thech's and nurses constantly told me it was akward that I talked to them like that. Like I said maybe it was my brain playing tricks on me.

wow, when I was in 4 day coma or comming out of coma or whatnot - the first thing that I remember and that stuck in my memorry right after I heard the nurse screaming my name was my dad holding a hand of a child I have never seen before and have not meeat yet. Now, my dad died a month before my ordeal, I was 15 at the time. When I was 36 I had a rough time during a pregnancy and eventually lost the baby.Today I'm certain that my dad was standing there holding the hand of a child we lost - he's taking care of the baby.:)

Sure, I have seen that going on too, not at my current hospital. I had worked on gen.med/oncology when I would from time to time patient sitt, lot of times we would get CIWA patients ( pt. going through withdrowal alcohol or drug) or suecide patients in which case every 15 minutes you have to document on the paper the activity of the patient and in this big hospital it was against the rulles to read or study or what not. In my current hospital beside the patient care tech's, the agency provides the sitters and they are told in trainig of what is expected of them on the job and reading books or web surffing are basis for termination and boy - do they spy on eachother,lol. I'm not trying to sound negative or tell you that you can't study while at work - I'm just simply stating what I have observed over the last few years on the job. :)

In the acute care hospital if you are sitting a patient you are not allowed to bring anything into the room with you maybe your purse and you are definetley not be allowed to study. I would recommend you get your cna and work as a patient care tech - you will learn much more vital skills usefull in nursing than sitting, I was a care tech and did a lot of patient sitting and sometimes I had patients that keept me on my feet all night long. Bottom line - if you're thinking about studying while sitting - not going to happend, you may get in serious trouble, but if you are looking for a summer job and some pocket change sitting is great. Good luck.

AMEN!!!!!!

Don't you wish there was a day such as "Take your spouse to work day" - or maybe there is one? Sometimes I get so mad at my hubby for not understanding how tired I am after work - in his understanding and- it is only from watching movies, where you see the nursing staff on the unit seatting, drinking coffe and holding babies with huge smiles on the face - my job is a piece of cake and I should be able to come home and go to the gym, cook, spend time with kids and him - venting now! I wish there was a way for them to see one day at our job. I am just wishfull thinking right now, and I'm sure I'm not alone here..... .