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Hi tchisholm71, I don't think so because you either have to have a 4 year degree or a license that allows independent practice. You can look at the info here: Certification & Renewal | CCMC I'm sure with all your experience you won't have any trouble getting your RN or certification. Good luck!

Yes, thank you! Btw, no one has responded to my complaint I submitted on the website. Surprise, surprise. Thanks to most of you for your replies and good luck!

People like you are exactly why I hate posting on this site. You can answer a question without being condescending, believe it or not. Where on the website does it say that? I looked about 10 times. I do think that website is hard to find information on, so I may have been looking in a different place that wasn't updated (though the info *should* be updated everywhere, in my opinion). I also re-read the emails I received and none if them say anything about 10-31. I could have applied earlier than you or got a different email for some other reason, it's an imperfect world. I'm so sick of some nurses and their attitudes. Some nurses are so nice and some are scum of the Earth, it's like there's no in between.

I never cared what job a man had if I was attracted to him unless it was something I was ethically against for some reason (for example, one guy I was casually dating started working for a political candidate I had a lot of problems with - that actually didn't end it itself, but our political disagreements did!) I've also never been attracted to someone BECAUSE of their job. I don't think most people think anything negative about men being nurses anymore.

I always did. I worked 3 12s and we didn't get overtime until we were over 40 hours a week. So I did get paid for the time, but not overtime as I USUALLY didn't hit 40 hours a week... Now I'm salary so I don't get anything for working extra!

Hi Sheena, I just took the test yesterday and CCMC is only open Monday through Friday. I did send them a complaint though, but who knows when or if I'll hear anything back. I wasn't given any information on the exam when I applied to take it or afterwards, so I just read about it on the website. The website still says you get your preliminary result immediately and doesn't talk about any exceptions for a new blueprint, so that's what I was going from. Thanks for the info so I won't be paranoid it's just me! I really don't even know what to suggest studying. It was all over the place. I bought a book from Trivium Test Prep "CCM Certification Study Guide 2015-2016" on Amazon. I think it did help some. There were some worker's comp and occupational health questions on there I wouldn't have known otherwise since I never worked in those areas. The book doesn't go into a lot of detail since it's designed to be faster to read than some other ones. There's a lot of questions about communication and negotiation skills that aren't too hard, but can be confusing since like boards a lot of the questions have 2 answers that could be correct. Doing the practice tests on the CCMcertification.org website was helpful since they are true to the format of the test, even though it's a new blueprint now. Some of the questions were very similar to the ones on the real test. The questions in the book I bought really aren't. Good luck on your test!

Hello, I just took the CCMC exam today for CM certification. On the website it says you'll get your preliminary result immediately, but I didn't. The notification I got was "In alignment with certification best practices, CCMC is conducting a passing standard study with the CCM exam. A passing standard study is conducted whenever a new exam blueprint is introduced to establish a cut score for passing the exam. The study will allow CCMC to review the impact of the new passing standard based on the exam results prior to releasing the final results." I can't get my result until 10/31/16. So it seems like they're not releasing results right now. But I can't help thinking this is because I failed. Has anyone else gotten this message and later found out they passed? I think this is absolutely ridiculous. It needs to say on the website or confirmation e-mail that they are not releasing results at this time. It doesn't say anything except that you get an immediate preliminary result. The person at the testing center didn't know anything about it. I seemed to be the only one there today for this exam. I don't mind waiting a few days or even weeks, but this is 2 1/2 months for a computerized test in 2016. I don't like being a guinea pig without being told.

I can't figure out how diet pop became "healthy." The hospital where I used to work had a huge menu for patients. Where I work now they have two or three entree choices a meal and some of our patients are there for two months so it's the same thing over and over.

Yes, I do have the right to be angry at women who think that men are better leaders than women just because they're men.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I think this is the worst disability denial I've ever heard and I've heard some doozies. Yet the frequent fliers I used to get on Med/Surg who would stop taking their meds to have a hospital vacation were on it... I've definitely taken care of some younger cancer patients who lost everything whether they had much to start with or not.

Yes. I worked with someone who was the valedictorian of her class and she was not a good nurse to say the least. One of the salutatorians from my class was dumb as a brick - I can't imagine what she's like as a nurse.

It just seemed to me that the women didn't think the other women were fit to be leaders. Some of them had great ideas for fundraisers and the guy that got elected did pretty much nothing. We only had 35ish in our class so everyone knew everyone.

The male nursing students in my class were definitely given special treatment and attention while in school, but I haven't seen anything on the job, though I have no doubt it happens. It made me so mad that every class would elect a male class president even though the majority of students were female.

I think there should be healthy options, but I wouldn't support ONLY healthy foods. Sometimes I need a Pepsi or a candy bar on a bad day...patients need a treat sometimes too...especially in rehab where I work - they're working it off! Also, all some patients will eat is junk food and if they're very elderly, dying, etc. who cares, let them eat it...I'd rather them just eat ice cream than eat nothing at all. I think hospitals could be more supportive of healthy eating by actually giving their staff time to eat. I work 12 hour shifts and I get up at 5 am...I often don't get to go to lunch until 1:30 or 2, so by then I'm starving. No time for a dinner break and I don't get home until 8:30 starving again and I have to eat and go to bed so I can do it again the next day. That's really unhealthy. If we had appropriate nurse to patient ratios and workloads maybe we'd get to eat like normal people.

I knew what you meant. In fact, you got a few mean responses just for posting this, right? (So did I when I asked about leaving bedside nursing.) I've had lots of jobs and never had so many mean coworkers until I started nursing. There's some no matter where you work of course, but some jobs you can just do your own work and try to stay out of the drama...in nursing you need each others' help at least some of the time. It is possible to get a non bedside job right after nursing school. A girl I went to school with and worked with got a job in a doctor's office right away after graduation. We were both nurses' aides on the same floor and she was a terrible aide. My boss didn't want to hire her as a nurse, yet she got the (I'm assuming) easier job and I was stuck on the same Med/Surg floor. I'm guessing she got the job because she knew someone. After I was a nurse for about a year I tried like heck to get a non-hospital job (I didn't want to work in a nursing home either) and couldn't find one, so I just changed hospitals and it's a little better, but still not good. I was very nervous in nursing school too and I still am sometimes (after two years), but I'm able to deal with it and I'm told it doesn't show. What I can't deal with is the toxic coworkers I have now. I'm working on my BSN and hoping with more education and experience I'll find something decent.

From my experience I would say yes to all of your questions - it is that bad. Of course that's not everyone's experience though. I've been a nurse for two years and have worked in two different hospitals (one for 3 years because I was an aide there also and one for one year). I had LOTS of jobs before that (I did a lot of temp work after I got my first non-nursing degree because that's all I could find) and I've NEVER worked with so many toxic, nasty, petty, childish, shallow, and selfish people before I worked in a hospital. Of course no one every likes everyone they work with, but these types of people have never been the majority of my co-workers in any other job. At my first nursing job everyone was nice to me, but then talked about me behind my back, including telling my manager every time I felt overwhelmed...who doesn't feel overwhelmed sometimes in their first nursing job (or in any nursing job), especially if no one helps you when a patient is going bad. My manager, as well as upper management, expected everyone to do everything perfectly all the time...there was no allowance for being a new nurse. And I'm not talking about things that caused harm to a patient or were grossly neglectful - I mean stupid or easily fixable mistakes like forgetting to chart that this person was a high fall risk one hour, even though you charted it the rest of the 11 hours (yes we had to do that) or when I was a nurses' aide leaving three pillows in a room after the patient was discharged instead of two. Every mistake she treated you like you're stupid, lazy, a horrible nurse/nurse's aide, and a horrible person. At my current job everyone says whatever they want right to your face. Patients and families have complained because a screaming match will break out at the nurse's station or in the hallway. I've had patients' family members come up to me and ask if I was ok after witnessing me being screamed at by a coworker about stupid things like they don't like their assignment (even if I didn't even make it!) I've never worked with such unprofessional people. My manager at this job is a nice person and doesn't treat you like an idiot if you make a minor mistake, but she's too nice and doesn't do anything about these people. Yesterday I was in charge and everyone tried to coerce me into doing what they wanted (like refusing to take admissions), so I went to the manager and she sided with them. Some of these nurses (at both jobs) are actually good nurses and are nice to their patients even if they're not nice to coworkers. Some of them treat their patients like crap too. I've also worked with people that are good nurses and nice people, but the other types dominate everything. As far as doctors go it's been about 50% nice, respectful, collaborative doctors and 50% doctors that yell and throw things at you. The acuity on both units I've worked on is way too high for the nurse to patient ratio. Currently I work in a very high acuity rehab and often patients are just too sick to be doing intensive therapy. Also, I worry about my license because we get in trouble if patients aren't ready for therapy on time and I feel that I'm rushing through giving meds in the morning. I can pretty much deal with anything the patients do and I've dealt with a lot - patients trying to grope me, I've been scratched and hit, and like you said being treated like a slave. A lot of them are confused and don't know what they're doing, so I get frustrated sometimes, but don't take it personally like I do with coworkers who are supposed to be professional and work together for the patients' best interests not their own. Usually when I get upset about things patients do (like getting out of bed on their own, pulling tubes out, etc.) I get upset because we're understaffed and there's not enough people to make sure they're safe or because my coworkers just don't want to help. Also, I don't post here very much, even though I might want to, because I always get nasty replies. I don't know why so many nurses are such toxic people, but I really can't take it anymore. My goal is to eventually get a non-patient care position where I can just do my work and be done with it for the day, I'd especially love a work at home job. The sad thing is that I like helping people and my patients tend to like me, but I can't deal with all the other crap that goes along with working at the bedside. I've been crying off and on all day and last night because of my coworkers and I don't know what to do and I'm sick of it. Edit: I take online classes for my BSN (I'll be done in May) because I'm hoping it'll help me find something that's not beside nursing in the future. In most of the classes we have to introduce ourselves and talk about our experience on the message board. In every class I've had almost every other person says they love being a nurse and I'm usually the only one that doesn't gush about it. So are they telling the truth or just BSing? Are people that are happy with nursing not on here replying because they're happy in their jobs and don't need somewhere to vent like we do?

I'm the same way...in my 2nd year of nursing and 2nd career nurse. I'm absolutely miserable and there's nothing I can do about it...

Thanks, I'll look into it!

It's too late I already withdrew.

#1 and 2 apply everywhere... some doctors need to realize that too...

I guess looking into it further I'm going to have to start all over again because most schools only take so many transfer credits. Great.

I've decided to transfer to a new online program, but have no idea where to start. The program I was in was just not working for me for a number of reasons. What pushed me over the edge to withdraw was that they deregistered me from a class without even telling me and for no reason as I had all my required paperwork in. There's always been a lack of communication from the program. I receive the e-mails sent to the entire university, but the info never applies to distance students as we're always last to register, last to have our financial aid processed, etc. I've always been a very dedicated student and I love learning, but I don't feel like I was learning anything in this program and that it was all just busy-work. I graduated from a diploma program in 2011, so I don't have much nursing experience and most of the people in my classes had 20-30 years nursing experience - that's great, but I felt the classes were designed only for them, not considering that some people want to get their BSN earlier in their career. For example, many of the discussion board posts want you to include experiences on that topic from your own experience and I just don't have as much experience to talk about as those with more experience. Some of the topics I have no idea what to say because I've maybe never been in that situation or had that type of experience. Another issue is that couple of my teachers are people I worked with at my previous job and that's pretty awkward! So basically I'm looking for a program where I can learn and have appropriate communication (like telling you if you're going to be deregistered and why and what you can do about it). I have a non-nursing bachelor's degree plus the classes I took in this program, so I don't need much more if the new program transfers my credits (I don't see any reason why most of my classes wouldn't transfer). If anyone can recommend a program and tell me why I'd greatly appreciate it. I don't even know where to start looking. Most of my coworkers only have an RN diploma so I don't really have anyone that can give me a recommendation.

I've had people request another nurse because I'm "too young." Was 28 at the time...same patient accepted a 25-year-old nurse...

I am so sorry about the loss of your friend! That's unacceptable to have someone working 8 12s in a row night OR day. I don't even know what to say, that's horrible. I hope you find a job that makes you happy and safe. To add to it I found out I have some problems with my feet today that are more major than I thought in addition to all the back and other problems I have from work...great. I feel like an old woman and I'm only 29 too. I'm so sorry again for your loss.

That's what I was wondering...all CM/UM job postings I've ever seen probably want previous experience...so how do you get the experience...