RNbug

I have 3 different friends that each failed the NCLEX 3-4 times and then they passed. For some people it just takes a little longer, but GOD has a reason for everything he does. So just hang on and keep trying! You can do it!

I work on a surgical unit at night. I work the 12h shift and we have some very disrespectful dayshift nurses that come in behind us. Don't get me wrong-not all of the are, but most of them are. They are SUPPOSE to be there for report at 0645, but do you know what time they get there? 0710! Yeah and nothing has been said to them for the 8 months I have worked there. I am suppose to be there and ready for report at 1900. So when I get off the elevator at 1845-1850 they are asking "ready for report yet?" and being serious! I am luck to clock out at 0730 in the mornings! Most mornings even after I report off I still have to help out on the floor because they will not answer the call bells or phone!!!!!! :angryfire I have mentioned this to my unit manager but she just says oh well! So I might get to leave 5% of the time on time. This is the only place I have worked since I graduated and so this is the world I know.

hey! i know the feeling! i just graduated last may. i hated the clinicals and i often wondered if this was what i wanted. i still wonder the same question, but everyday makes me glad i did finish and become a nurse. we had some really mean nurses on our clinical floors just like what you are going through. you know the saying - nurses eat their young? well in some cases its true. i started work at the same hospital that i done my clinicals in and those hateful, snotty nurses act the same way to everyone-even their co-workers! so don't let them discourage you!!!! nursing school is very hard and it sounds like you are very interested and care about it, but in the same sentence-(for me anyway) nursing school didn't prepare me for the real world of nursing! it is nothing like nursing school prepared me for. my advice to you is finish school, your doing great!! when you start working as a nurse it will be different, in some ways not better and other ways a whole lot better. most of the time for me it is a whole lot better! i hope that my information has helped you in some way. take care and keep up the good work!!!