Rionoir

First of all, let's be clear, RN to BSN is just some hoop that you have to jump through and not a step of your nursing career that anyone cares about too much aside from the fact that you did it. anyway, my experience at Capella is that the course materials, assessment, requirements, etc. are put together by the school and the instructors aren't all super familiar with the resources provided and some of them have grading expectations that are much higher than the sample paper and grading rubric suggest making it very difficult to know what is expected of you. I would contrast this with Western governors, who has people other than the professors, grading papers, and sticking strictly to the rubric for grading, making it much easier to write a paper that matches the expectations of the course. Strongly recommend WGU > Capella.

Ask your classmates what psych meds they are currently taking to get through nursing school. I guarantee 90% of them will list at least one. ? I had a couple terrible instructors as well - it's always the ones with the least amount of actual nursing experience too. Suck it up and do the work and pass your tests and then a whole new world will be opened to you on the other side of this. ?

12 hour shifts is literally the best part of being a nurse ?‍♂️?

NICU, and any specialty with kids, is almost always going to pay less because a lot of people want to work with babies and kiddos and they know they don't have to pay as much. If you don't absolutely feel like you MUST work NICU or with children, then I'd pick an adult specialty and make it easier on yourself.

ADA only requires reasonable accommodations to help you attend classes - extra time to take tests if you have severe test anxiety, an elevator to get to your class if you can't use stairs, etc. It really doesn't cover anything if you physically can't attend class, as that falls outside of reasonable accommodations. It is not like FMLA where you can take a leave of absence from a job for a certain number of days without being let go. Is this a condition that is going to go away? Most nursing jobs are going to have physical capability requirements, have you considered that?

2 months is nothing, even for an experienced nurse switching to med surg for the first time. I have seen ICU nurses float to med surg and get taken down a few pegs by the end of their shift. Now can we talk about this FOUR YEAR CONTRACT?! Who the hell signs something like that?

There's certainly a thousand other options besides 12-hour night shift nursing to consider before throwing up your hands and saying "Maybe I just shouldn't be a nurse cuz I hate my current job!" ?‍♂️ I got my dream job in ICU straight out of school, finished orientation and went on nights, and promptly quit... whoops. lmao Find the job that lines up with your lifestyle. Some people are great at sleeping whenever they can and other people need a consistent sleep schedule to function. You seem to be the latter. Find a job that lines up with that.

Having a policy on moonlighting isn't that unusual. However, if someone thought I was going to run all my shifts at another job past them before taking them they can... do things I won't write here. ?

I just came back to a M-F with no holidays job and already miss my 12s. I miss the frequent MTW one week and WThF the next week schedule. I never minded working a holiday rotation or the occasional weekend, although we had weekend shift people and didn't have to do a lot of weekends. Having said that... your current employer doesn't sound like they are giving you much respect, and I definitely wouldn't stay in a situation like that. There are a lot of great employers in my area so that just wouldn't be tolerated.

If former patients weren't allowed to work in mental health facilities, they'd have very little staff.

If the ED environment appeals to you, then by all means go that route. However, ICU will prepare you to be more independent and give you a broader skillset than ED. There's nothing wrong with trying both though - the best part of nursing is trying out some different specialties and finding what you like.

I'm surprised that's even an option - pool usually requires several years of experience.

I'll say it again in case I wasn't clear - it sure seems like it happens to certain people on a daily basis and to other people almost never over the course of nearly 5 decades. I have only taken a very remedial statistics course, but I'm pretty sure the odds of that happening purely by chance are approaching a statistical impossibility. Maybe look inward once in a while when you find yourself in those situations. Maybe just reread this thread a few times and see if you can pick out the hostile phrases that you yourself used by assuming things about me when I simply pointed out a statistical fact about another city...

I dunno, that's a tricky situation. Some people deserve the dressing down they get once in a while for being lazy and/or ignoring things they shouldn't. Maybe look to see if the other nurses are smirking first before inserting yourself. ?

I think they meant "stupidity" instead of "freak accident" ?