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I work in a community hospital on a surgical unit- over the past year (12 months) we have lost 21 employees. This is a mind boggling number, and management is choosing to gloss over this. For a school project I plan to speak to management at a union negotiations meeting about how unsafe this is but I am having trouble finding research to back me up. At 3 years of nursing, I am the third most senior employee with the organization on the unit; some nurses were recently hired with more nursing experience but different backgrounds. These nurses have around 6 months of experience at our organization and are already orienting new employees to the unit. I get asked many questions from them, orients in tow, since they have never worked in an acute hospital setting. The rest of the employees are new grads. When I first began, the unit had many nurses with 20+ years, and I want to warn of what my last job was like- where new nurses would stay for 6-12 months experience, and leave immediately. Nurses at my old job with 1 year of experience were training new nurses, and in charge. I am wondering if this is just a Connecticut thing, or maybe a hospital-conglomerate thing. If anyone has any research articles they've come across or any personal stories, I'd very much appreciate it!

same. I had contacted the MBA program about a question of doing a dual FNP/MBA and have not heard back from them either. It seems the entire college is unreliable.

Anybody hear anything? I'm extremely frustrated. I called the school again and they still had no information.

I just got off the phone with the nursing graduate school. They informed me that they will be inviting individuals to interview starting next week. Quite late in the year but I'm glad an interview is still a possibility!

Still haven't heard anything

Keep me updated if you hear something? It's going on a month and a half now and its really stressing me out.

I applied to the uconn FNP program for 2017. Anybody get any answers yet? My application still says 'submitted' and I feel like i should have gotten a response of some kind by now. Calling the school isn't helping at all. Anybody out there get a response?

Depends on what you want to do. ABSN if you chose that route, no associates since you unlikely to get hired in a hospital. Personally I would go the PA school route, however its much harder to get in, more expensive, and more grueling. Ortho PA's or APRNs seem to have the best hours, since most surgery is elective and scheduled Mon-Fri

I've not been a nurse for very long at all, and already I've had a figurative door slammed in my face more times than I can count. Being a brand new RN is bad enough, but only having an ASN as well? Then consider yourself unemployable, at least in my area. I've worked in a hospital for a few years now as an aide, with several ASN nurses, and to me they are equally as competent as BSN nurses. So I don't get the big fuss, and how, within 6 months, the state I live in has gone BSN/magnet crazy. Even nursing homes require either experience or a BSN. It's not like I'm stupid or incompetent, and I already have a bachelor's in a related field, and I've been an aide for 3 years. You would think that makes me more well rounded and more marketable, but alas, these restrictions are black and white. I just wanted to vent, and welcome others who share my frustration to comment