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Thanks to everyone! I got the job!:)

So I'm a CNA and I've been working in LTC for 6 months now because it has been impossible to get on with any of my local hospitals. Today I finally( after months) got a call back from a hospital five minutes away from my home! They were so eager they wanted me to come in today. I had a interview with the nurse manager, and we really got along. He said I would be a great fit here, and that I looked and sounded very professional,good eye contact, etc etc. he said he wants me to come back in the morning for a peer interview with the cnas that work on the floor. He said its a get to know you kinda thing and to see if I will fit into the unit. He highly recommended I ask a lot of questions and not to just sit there in quiet. Lol. Once that's done, he can put in a recommendation for me and the rest is up to HR. I'm stumped on questions to ask. Any thoughts, or suggestions?:) TIA!

I can not tell y'all how much I appreciate all the responses. After everything that happened I just wanted to give up completely! It's taken me a while to accept the consequences of my actions, but now I see that that was a bump in the road and someday I will be a nurse! Thanks a million to all the wonderful people here on AN!☺☺☺☺

Yes! Hi!:) haha. Thank you so much! I'm transferring to a university and I'm gonna try to go for my BSN! I'm very excited about refocusing my energies on this! Glad to be back on the boards! How are things with you?:)

To NOT give up***

I've been on All Nurses for a few years now and I've always had one goal: to become a RN. That goal has not changed. Over the past three years of schooling, I have been through many hurdles. After all the hard work I went through to get through my pre requisites, I was so excited to finally be able to even apply to nursing programs. A year later, I had gotten about eight rejection letters. Eight. Each one made me feel like I was never gonna get that one letter that started with " congratulations.."! I thought those letters meant that I was never gonna be a nurse. With each rejection letter, I cried. I felt sorry for myself and I questioned my career path and maybe that this wasn't what I was meant to do with my life. But I soldiered on! Last year I finally received my acceptance letter! I was ecstatic, I finally felt like things were falling into place. I was in a RN program, I was engaged and to be married the next year; it just felt right. But things didn't end up right at all. The weekend before I started nursing school, my fiancé wanted to go out. I obliged and that night he convinced me to smoke marijuana for the first time. That was the biggest mistake of my life. The first day of nursing school, we got drug tested. I tested positive for THC. It is my own fault completely. My family kicked me out, and my and my fiancé broke up. My whole life fell to pieces. Literally. I enrolled in different classes, but my heart wasn't in them. I didn't finish them and my GPA dropped. I've been slowly picking up the pieces of my life. It's been hard, but I'm doing it. It's taken me a whole year to get back here on AN because I'm scared to want to want so badly. I want this so badly. To help others. I truly feel like this is my calling. I'm restarting my classes in the fall, and I'm gonna get myself back on the right track. I just wanted to share my story and to tell everyone to me we give up. I haven't and neither should you. We can do this!

I'm in a paramedic program now at the same school. So I'm going to finish this than do a BSN program for nursing.

I admit that I made a mistake, I was drinking, and I just did it to do it. I regret it, but there's nothing to be done about it now. Thanks for the posters who are sympathetic and not judgmental.

Get help? I smoked one time, it was a mistake. I'm not a drug addict. But thanks for the input.

Update: I got kicked out of the program because my drug test showed up positive for THC. I tried marijuana for the first time about 3.5 weeks ago.

I just can't believe it. This summer has flown by so fast, last night was my last night of having a life. Lol. I made sure that it was fun, needless to say we didn't get back till six this morning. Lol. From now on nursing school is going to consume my free time, but I am so ready for the challenge. Let's do this:D

I just started reading it last night!

Yes! Good to know I'm the not the only one having mini panic attacks. Lol. I'm sure we will all do great:)

Gotten all of their supplies, thumbed through the books, and thought " what the heck did I get myself into?!". Lol. I feel like I've dreamed about starting nursing school for so long, and now that im 5 days away from starting I'm kind of freaking out. Haha.