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What are you talking about? What Family Nurse Practitioner is seeing 40 patients per 9-hour shift day in and day out? Your very misinformed. NP's provide high quality primary health care and never resort to just 10 to 12 minutes per patients when in practice.

The hospitals spends a lot of money training new nurses through orientation only to lose the nurse after 6 month maybe a year later. A suggestion would be is re-apply but now in the cover letter state your aware it cost $15,000 to $25,000 to train a new nurse and you're willing to sign a 2 year contract guarantee that you will stay. This will separate you from the other new nurses and give you a a better chance just don't send this out to all 50 places, be discerning because you will have to live up to your end.

$23/24 in central Virginia area. My suggestion is STAY in school but work as a RN and get youself into a MSN-FNP program. Many places it's one day a week of school and after a few quarters 180 hours of clinicals a quarter. So work F,S,S night 7p to 7a. Make your money with having health insurance, use you time of for school and clinicals during the week. Suck it up for 2 more years and now make real money as a provider. My wife is 4 weeks away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner with her MSN. She already has 4 offers all of them in the 6 figures.

To receive a graduate degree without an undergraduate in topic doesn't exist in my research I have done in the past. My wife had duel bachelor's degrees in the arts of sociology and anthropology. Their wasn't a institution out there she could go to skipping a BSN going straight into a Masters program if going to a school to be a RN with an Associate degree. So she went to a University and enrolled in a BSN-RN program. What she was able to do was have her classes reviewed from her undergraduate degrees and apply many classes to the studies of the BSN. But even that was messed up because the administrator wanted her to take a class in sociology meanwhile she attained an undergraduate in sociology. Then she had to take a algebra class because she never taken a algebra class in H.S. because she tested out and went straight into trigonometry & calculus her freshman year. She brilliant. Anyhow my wife is 5 weeks away from her graduate and will be a Family Nurse Practitioner with her MSN and will continue to her Phd. It's unfortunate but my beliefs are, it's all about the money.

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My wife is a BSN-RN ICU Nurse and is deaf in her right ear, and profound hearing loss in the other. She is a travel nurse working at the top rated hospitals. She also a lip reader and gets through her job extremity well. She made her environment work for her, she doesn't work days or in med surg busy floor with lots of commotion. She uses a cardio electronic stethoscope, it magnifies 32x and cost $350 on eBay and it is the best must have equipment if it wasn't for this she would not be a nurse. Please don't bother with the Littman it falls short of what you're going to need trust me I done the comparison at a student nursing seminar years ago and had a Littman representative tell me we bought the best for my wife. My wife using her's now for the last 4 years, I agree. In addition, my wife back in RN school doing her rotations when a baby was born my wife caught a heart murmur that the doctor missed to the newborn. He bought one. Since then Two physicians and a nurse has also purchased the same stethoscope with the physician returning his electronic Littman. Today my wife is back in school attaining her MSN to be a Family Nurse Practitioner and is 5 month away from graduation. We are together learning American Sign Language and totally immersed in it for the reality is my wife is not a candidate for cochlear implant at this time. And she was told after that there's a chance she will be deaf in 10 to 15 years. We are with joy facing these challenges and more importantly preparing for them. I will post a link to ebay.

Life throws at you curve balls everyday. You dealt with it best you can. Don't regret something you can't be changed. What happen to you could be considered like tripping and falling down walking on a sidewalk. Do you stay on the ground? No, you get up brush yourself off and start walking again. My wife have had so many road blocks that if where written down the reader wouldn't believe it. Today she is a ICU travel nurse with her BSN as she finishing her FNP program. The end result is don't give up or allow anything to take away you dream, brush yourself off and continue your journey.

You redeemed yourself.

Jump ship, you will be more respected. Why? When interviewed all that needs to be said is: "that employment didn't work with your school schedule." In reality your be more respected for allowing nothing to get in the way of your goals. My wife was in same situation. She is also now just 2 quarters away with finishing her FNP and back in May worked in a 28 bed UCU Dept to a hospital that she was employed at for 14 years but was very unhappy. She now a in state travel Nurse and loving it and making a great deal more money. She now works S,S,M nights in ICU to one of the top 5 hospitals in Virginia and the assignment before this one worked a 13 week in the resource ICU pool to a trauma one top 3 hospital. We travel a few hours to the assignment and stay, have a great time and then she is back home for school and clinicals. Don't be miserable at work, you worked to hard and deserve to be happy.

You wouldn't be called for one either. Your probation isn't about what they have to do, your probation is what you have to do. Call the board of nursing, because not knowing would be considered negligence and you would be held liable for not follow the directions of the requirements. Take notes, date and time and have the information emailed to you. Sounds like your already in violation. It's unfortunate but the Board of Nursing are not effective communicators. I feel they would rather revoke your license and have you pay to have it restated then just tell you what to do.

Don't do it. My wife has did it. She went to a prestigious Women's University got dual bachelor degrees in the arts of Sociology & Anthropology. Then her mother got sick became paralyzed and she took a job in a nursing home became a CNA to better learn how to take care of her mother at home. After many years she went back to school taking classes and got into a University to attain her BSN-RN degree. Now with 8 years of University study she went back to school and is 6 month away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner. Then their the an additional 2 years to get her Doctorate Family Nurse Practitioner. She will have over 12 years of University studies, thousands of hours of clinicals more years of studies and credit hours then any physician would have only to make S100,000.00 to $200,00.00 a year less then a physician. So if you want to go down the same road of all kinds of different non-related studies? Ok but I don't recommend it.

You really answered your own question it's ICU. Why? You will be more knowledgeable, valuable & marketable. After a year or two you will most likely hate where you work. If you don't then the hospital management didn't do their job. Anyhow you will have options such as transfer to another department, go another hospital or what my wife did, become a travel nurse and gone back to school and is 7 month away from being a Family Nurse Practitioner and leave bedside nursing for good.

You got to get out of their. Why? Because you can't fix it and you lost your joy. Unfortunately Nurses are nothing but part of the room charge to hospital administration. Go back to school and be a Family Nurse Practitioner where you can actually have an impact and help people. That's what my wife is doing.

I hear your pain and frustration! My wife graduated from South University Richmond campus cohort 3 with her BSN 2 years ago. She was ask to come back to the University and be the guest speaker to two different cohorts of nursing students at the school to impart encouragement and share her amazing story back at the University 6 month after she graduated because of her amazing accomplishments before, during and after graduation. She ended up being asked and then enrolled in their MSN-FNP program in cohort 3 and now is just 10 month from graduation. But SU can BITE IT! as far as I'm concern because of their stand and or refusal to help their students secure preceptors especially in women's health and pediatrics. After contacting a possible 42 facilities and spending weeks and weeks to find a place we where not successful my wife had to quit her job that was just 5 miles away at the hospital that she was employed for 14 years. She is now traveling 165 miles to go to work and be in a teaching friendly area to finish her clinicals. We found it at Carillon Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Vurginia. Carillon has nearly 40 facilities in this area. My wife works as a travel nurse to the ICU's resource pool F,S,S nights. This is a teaching hospital and they have a Department that puts students with physicians and nurse practitioners. This place is a life saver.

Part 2 In Savannah Georgia. My wife went to the University at the Richmond campus in Virginia and graduated in cohort 3