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Yes! I think the magic one year experience does open up plenty more options for you! Make a calendar and count down the months! You can do it!

I am an fnp im family practice. All of the the nps in my Practice, including 2 with 20+ years experience, are required to have a physician sign off on ekgs. Not sure if it is the hospital systems policy or my state's (new jersey) policy. But the state scope of practice is also vague and just says were able to order and interpret diagnostic tests.

I also have had issues with references after recieving a written offer for a job. The new employer stated my last hospital did not say favorable things about me (which i was VERY surprised to hear). The new employer asked for an additional reference from me to counter act the negative one since my other references were not unfavorable. I was very surprised and wanted to know exactly what was said about me so i could figure why they said it and what happened but u fortunately i have no idea what they said. But luckily my new employer was able to oversee the review and did not rescind my offer. It flat out sucks that this happened to you.

Yep my office manager asked for mine. It was kind of awkward to give someone my login info but apparently its common for the employer to monitor your status of credentialing etc.

If you go the adn route now, how long will it take you to get your bsn after that? Also where do you want to work as a nurse and where are you located. If you want to be in the hospital setting, many cities will only hire bsn prepared nurses. If you are open to other settings, then consider the adn. If your end goal is advanced practice then i would go with the absn even though it is more costly. However, you will get to the np role with the adn, it is just a more round about (but cost effective) route.

Thanks for posting! I think this will be helpful to current and future students. Your advice and past posts have helped me during my NP education and now my job!

In the outpatient office I work at, the NPs are considered providers and grouped with the physicians. Everyone else is called "the staff" and that includes MAs, schedulers, front desk etc.

I spent a lot of time making thoughtful and helpful replies and so did other posters. You cannot just blame NETY and say the other person is being mean when you have a disagreement with someone. Welcome to the workforce, this post shows you are not Ready to handle the inevitable peer disagreements in a professional manner.

Your reference did not think you have the knowledge to practice. You must have performed satisfactory to the schools passing standards but a personal letter of recc for employment is more then whether you are satisfactory for passing. They ask questions about not only your competence but how you are working with others and their overall personal evaluation of you. We do not exactly know what the reference said about you. We just know what HR told you and who knows how much they were exaggerating or emphasizing the wrong thins.

When i worked in oncology, some of my fellow nurses were friends w long term patients on facebook. Sometimes they would even get together outside of The hospital. I just assumed that this was against the nursing professional conduct/judgement/ethics etc but they would always tell me that its different in oncology. The people in these patients lives dont understand what they go through, but the nurses did. And they became friends over that and their relationship expanded from nurse-pateint to actual friend. One of them had no family or friends. The nurses on my floor were basically it. Which is sad, but not hard to believe if you spend most of your time in the hospital, dont work, arent married etc. Now I have no idea what is the correct answer. I didnt get to know any of the patients like they did so i have no idea what they felt, but it seems questionable.

This sounds like a good idea!!! This is completely different then ur situation, but might help you feel better knowing that ppl do eff up and you might be able to correct them/show their lying in other ways (such as your clinical evals). Just recently when I had been offered a new job, the hospital needed to verify my previous employment. No big deal, right? WRONG. I got a call from Hr asking if i lied on my resume bc my previous hospital said i only worked there for ONE month! I was furious! I suffered on that floor for almost 2 years and they tried to tell me it was only a month!!!! They tried to rescind the offer. So i dug up my offer letter from the previous hospital and allll the pay stubs, my yearly evals, competencies etc and sent it to my new job HR. New job HR said oh, thank you, and then recommended that i follow up w previous HR (with legal Counsel) bc they truly had provided false information. Sigh. So this is very different from your experience, but as you can see, sometimes, things just suck. But, they will get better!!

You did the right thing picking up a job in a hospital while in nursing school! It will Certainly pay off. Do you think the nightshift is getting to you? 3 overnights plus whatever school work you have sounds overwhelming. Can you transfer to days? Perhaps its the group if people you are working with thats making you grumpy but it might just be over exhaustion, lack of sleep etcetc

This whole situation sucks. It sucks that this professor took the energy to write a bad letter. There is a difference in writing a passing clinical eval and writing a good recommendation letter. As a PP said, Just bc they pass you in clinical doesnt mean they would recommend you for a job. But im still floored that they would go out of their way to say bad things! I was asked to give a reference for someone i went to nursing school with once who was interviewing for my floor, but i did not think highly of their nursing skills so i just said i cannot comment on their performance. I didnt say anything good. But i didnt directly say anything bad. I was under the impression that thats what most ppl would do if they cannot give a positive reference. But you should stop blaming the school, especially if you want to discuss this further with a dean. The school did nothing wrong. The reference person was the problem. The school does not dictate or write the references. The potential employer was annoying and demanded certain letters of recc in a specific way that may have made you desperate for any letter but unfortunately they can do that. I have no idea what you can do about this. Sure the nclex thing doesnt help but it isnt related to the bad reference. Its the hospitals choice what they look at in determining qualified candidates. If you had other, positive references, i would have thought they could not heavily weigh the bad one. Moving forward, when applying for other jobs (there will be other jobs!!!) just emphasize ur pca experience and find professors who you know will speak highly of you!! Ask your current manager where you are a pca if they have other friends in other hospitals since he/she thinks highly of you but you cannot be hired at this hospital.

This is what ive been taught. To have the parent at the foot of the bed or head of the bed reassuring but NOT holding them so the patient does not associate the parent with the pain. But i can understand that not every office has the staff for extra holders.

I took a 20 percent pay cut per hour when i went from working med surg nightshift to day shift at the urgent care. It was worth it to me bc i was miserable on nightshift. Im sure others think this was a crazy move but it was more about quality of life and less about money for me!