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Okay, I have a new problem. I am very proud of my RN, which is brand new, but many LPN's feel the need to OUT-SHINE me. Everything I learned in nursing school about this was that the RN was the boss, but in the real world it is so different (of course!) Are they jealous of my higher salary with so little experience? Is their a big salary difference? Any advice as to overcome this so I can learn my job the right way, and to avoid getting into trouble?

Okay, I'm going back to do share time and second interview. They said they did not want to lose me!:heartbeat

I'd love to do home health, but you need a year of med-surg experience to start.

I have tried calling. I was even treated like a pain. They just won't say. I am 57 though, and I have to believe it is age discrim...I don't want to, but I feel it. It doesn't make since though. I am healthy, energetic, and very flexible since I don't have little ones. I even work for young mothers on holidays. Just don't know what else to think. I sish they would just come out and say it though, so that I can stop wondering.

I'm not sure what your point is but I spent many years in engineering, and I have found the "caring" and the team work in nursing THE reward.

Thanks so much for the quick reply and the words of encouragement, but I started to look in December. The places that I am now interviewing are still looking, and will actually be starting oreintations in the middle of July, and the end of July.

Thanks for your quick response, but they seem to love my resume. I get a call for everyone I send out. I plan to come back to this site to do some research, but I don't think this is the problem. Would you be interested in seeing it? Please send me a private reply and I will gladly send it to you.

Thanks for your quick response, but they seem to love my resume. I get a call for everyone I send out. I plan to come back to this site to do some research, but I don't think this is the problem. Would you be interested in seeing it? Please send me a private reply and I will gladly send it to you.

I am a new grad RN. I have a very nice job in a rehab-ltf, but I really want the education and experience I could get as a Grad Nurse in a hospital. Wtih hospital crying for nurses, and using agency nurses to fill there shortages, I am absolutlely bewildered. I am gone on numerous interviews, and they almost always assure me that they want to hire me, and will call me within a week, but they don't. Can you imagine a hospital with 200 openings turing me down. I have a spotless record, 3.5 GPA, excellent references, and I am smart. I have been in a professional position before I came to nursing. I have a BS in ED and taught, and have an excellent record there. My skill are excellent. I feel there must be a reason why I am not getting hired. I am really losing sleep over this. Can anyone help me understand this, or have you gone thru the same situations. What is the difference between nursing home nurses, and hospital nurses?

I feel that we are nurses. If we wanted to be Dr's we would be Dr's. Sure, experienced nurses know what to do, and when to do it, but we are not Dr's. When I go to my Dr. I don't want to see his assisstant, his nurse, or his nurse practioner. I respect as many Dr's as I do nurses. Meaning that there are wonderful professional's in both fields. With all due respect for you and your accomplishments, which I am sure are many, I think that it is unwise to believe that we know it all. How many of your CNA,s and LPN's think they know more than you. You might be very surprised if you where a fly on the wall.

I think you have the solution!

In my last post I reported that I failed in 80 questions, aparently I am smart enough to pass, but to stupid to read. I PASSED! New RN!

I managed to fail at 80 questions. I went in with a 97% chance or passing before I studied. I don't know what to to. The test seemed easy, but not at all familiar.

OK..just what is Suzanne's plan?

I have seen more med mistakes than I ever thought possible. Nurses cover for other nurses and so do the doc's. I'm getting the message that it is alright to make mistakes if you do do it politely. Didn't anyone else ever get this impression. I have not finished nursing school yet (2 semesters to go). I'm getting really frightened by the lies I have heard and those who tell them.

The first day I was on the externship (learning experience?) I suggested a cup of coffee during report. They were not giving report, they were talking about their wedding plans, vacation plans and everything but the patients. My preceptor told the managing nurse and the head of education about it. They gave me three days to IMPROVE. I did. I did not take breaks or lunchs, and never sat down. They said that I was doing a great job today, and every time I asked, but I got a three month review, (and that was after I was told that I was doing great,) and I was told I was not meeting my goals. I had my goals which they gave me with my duties and their expectations of me highlighted. They still said I was not meeting my goals. I don't mind if they don't like me, or are crabby, but they just lied to me, and never gave me a chance. THEY kept coming back to that stupid cup of coffee. It was a no win situation, so I resigned from an externship I worked hard to win. They are not crabby, they are crazy, or intimadated by my BS and background in education and engineering. NEED nurses????? I really want to be a nurse, and this is how they treat me. LIES, LIES, LIES. I am feeling quite insane...it makes no sense to me. If a preceptor can't teach a 3.86 student who truly cares about patients regardless of age, race, religion, or even ordors, their is something wrong with them, but I'm the one suffering. I have invested a lot of money and time to this. I even gave up my job to do this, and now I am left with nothing. Should I finish my last year of nursing school, or cut my loses????

I'm having the same problem. I'm in the RN program, ready to go into finals. I have done well in all my class work, but instead of being encoraged, I am being "written up" in clinicals. It is always about nothing. I feel like I am supposed to have a crystal ball that lights up when I am doing something WRONG....not. I think if they can't get me out of the program by failing me, they will make me look really bad and throw me out of the program. I am 56, if they didn't want me there, they should have said you are too old, before they took my money and wasted my time. I have never spent so much time crying. What should I so, drop out or let them throw me out?