kimbo9

Hello you guys. First of all, I want to let you know that I admire each one of you. You inspire me to pick myself up and try again. I'm fairly new to the board. I just want to know if anyone has ever had a similar issue as this. My sister in law and I went to nursing school at the same time, but different schools. She ended up graduating two years ago with her BSN, and I was dismissed from my ADN program because of my grades. We always got along ok. When I was in school, she would sometimes ask me about how my school did things, then would go on about how her school was harder. I just brushed it off. Seems like each semester that went by, she said less and less to me. Since she has graduated, she has totally avoided me . I had a very hard time after being dismissed and it made me depressed. She wasn't even there for me. I asked her for advice, she never gave it to me. Encouragement? No way. Now that she is a nurse, I want to ask her about her job, but she avoids having a conversation with me. She could care less what my plans are, and isn't about to ask me what my plans are in nursing. I can't understand why she is doing this to me. I have done nothing but be nice to her and encouraged her when she was in school, but she obviously has a chip on her shoulder for some reason. I thought us both becoming nurses would bring us closer, but its done just the opposite. As for me, I plan to go back this semester and start over. I believe I'll do just fine without her .

Where I live, the technical school that offers the ADN definately prepares students better in clinicals than the BSN at the university. The students in the ADN program were pretty much thrown in with the wolves in their first semester. There is no walking around with a nurse and watching like the students in the BSN program. I'm not saying that ADN nurses are better than BSNs, but they do get better prepared in my area.

Well the new charge nurse quit the other night. We all helped and encouraged her. I guess it was just too much responsibility for her.

No, it's a shame that a hospital put a newly graduated BSN nurse in charge when she has had no prior experience in nursing, or anything else for that matter. We fully support her and have nothing against her personally. I don't care if it's an LPN, ADN, or BSN. If they are unexperienced, they should not be in charge.

No. Not at all. This new grad has never done anything in the medical profession. This is actually her first job.

I totally agree with that. I don't have a problem with having someone with a higher educational background as charge nurse. I just think they need to have a little more experience than no experience. I think that experience is just as important, if not more important, than the educational background. Oh and this is not a LTC facility, its a hospital.

Let me ask you guys your opinion on this. They just hired a graduate nurse on our med surg floor and made her the charge nurse. She has zero experience. She is a BSN nurse, and the majority of us are LPNs that have been here a while. I don't have a problem with a grad nurse being a charge nurse, but with no experience at all? Has management in this hospital lost their minds?