ColletteRN

The Sugarland location was my first choice, and I applied a LONG time ago. Probably around the time they first posted the application, lol. Has anyone gotten any word about match day from Sugerland yet? I'm getting antsy, And my application status still say "applied"

I just got the email for the video interview. Crossing my fingers that I do well and move on to the second stage.

We've been married for nine years and in all that time, we've never had something sprung on us like this before. In his job field, it almost never happens. We were under the impress that we would be at our current base at least 3-4 more years. I had no reason to think this would be a problem. I definitely won't be signing any more contracts in the future though. My husband spoke to an advisor for me who said his military orders should be able to get me out of the contract no problem. Hopefully it works out.

I was accepted into a new graduate residency in the ICU, my dream position. Upon acceptance, I was required to sign a contract saying I'll work for the hospital for at least two years after my residency is complete. I fully intended on staying the full time and much longer because I honestly love the job. However, my husband is in the military and we recently learned that we will be moving our family to the other side of the country in a couple of months. This was completely unexpected, they literally blonde sided us with it. I don't really have a choice, I have to pack up and leave. What are the repercussions for breaking the contract with the hospital. I really don't want things to get complicated and have to involve lawyers and all that.

I graduated with my ADN last September and now I'm looking for a program to start my BSN. I'm working full time now, I have two kids, I'm busy as heck and I honestly don't have time to attend classes on campus. I'm a really independent learner and I prefer online courses anyway. Does it make a difference to potential employers if I earned my BSN online instead of on campus? Obviously I would make sure that any school I choose was accredited and well known, but I don't wanna waste money on a degree if I'll just end up getting passed over for someone with the exact same degree who earned it on campus.

Thanks guys, hearing your equally miserable experiences makes me feel better. Since I stopped working there, I feel so much better. No more anxiety, no more migraines, I'm sleeping like a baby í ½í¸ƒ The paycheck was nice, but it wasn't worth putting my health, my license, and my patients health in jeopardy because of horrible conditions and management. I am soon moving to a different state with much better new grad opportunities, so cross your fingers for me that I get in with a good company.

I'm a new grad and I took my first job in a LTC facility. The job market for new grads in my area is beyond horrible, so I had to take whatever I could get until I had some experience under my belt. To my surprise, I only received five days of orientation before I was thrown to the wolves. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I work at probably the WORST facility in the state. My daily patient load fluctuated between 25, on a good day, to almost 40 on a bad day. I understand that a high nurse to patient ratio is common in LTC facilities, but for a new grad with five days of orientation, zero support from fellow nurses, and only on her second week as a real nurse...its hell. Pure hell. We also don't have a unit secretary or admissions nurse, so all paperwork, admissions, discharges, phone answering, message taking, everything had to be done by the floor nurses. We are prehistoric and work with paper charts, so a new admission could take two hours or more depending on their admitting diagnosis. God forbid you get more than one admission on a shift, AND you're still expected to pass meds on time, do all dressings and treatments, deal with CNA drama, family members hovering over you, and deal with any emergent situations in a timely manner. If I had more supportive team members it might be bearable, but I work with the biggest group of backstabbers and bullies in existence. As the new grad, I'm new bait and they can't wait for me to slip up so they can report to the DoN that I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I've even gotten written up for something I didn't do. The nurse on the previous shift messed up and it all fell on me. It all got to be too much. It was to a point where I secretly hoped I'd fall and sprain an ankle or something so I wouldn't have to go to work. I had so much anxiety that I couldn't sleep well. And I started having migraines again for the first time in years. The last straw came the other day when I was called into the DoN's office before the start of my shift and told that another nurse had called in and I was to take over her assignment AND mine. When I told her that I wasn't taking the assignment because I was uncomfortable with it (which I'm well within my rights to do so) she tried to bully be into taking it by threatening to write me up and saying she "doesn't appreciate my attitude and obvious lack of respect for authority", and after going back and forth with her for a while, I threw in the towel and walked out and I don't plan on ever going back. Now I just feel frustrated and lost. How am I going to explain to future potential employers why I walked out on a job after only three months? At the time, I was just so frustrated and fed up that it was the only thing I could think to do. Sorry for the long rant. I guess I just need some advice from the supportive experienced nurses of Allnurses. Reading posts on here is the only real support I've gotten as a new nurse...and that sounds kinda pathetic, lol.