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Which hospital is he at? You can PM me if you don't want to make it public knowledge.
I am also aware that when you start a nursing career, you gotta start at the bottom. We all have to do the gruntwork-- not only to get where we want to be as a nurse, but to learn basic skills and lessons that can only be learned at the bottom.
That being said, I'm not yet a nurse- only a "wanna-be" so I have no idea what I'm talking about. I may eat those words later, but I am very confident that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
Anybody else have thoughts on this matter?

. So I told him this morning, friends don't let friends drink and-- post!

I'll tell you what...the first year of nursing is so very, very painful. It will be the worst year ever. The mistakes you make, the people that find them and flaunt them, the cliques, the sheer amount of things to remember, and then do--it will blow your mind. And I'm not even remotely kidding.

And then, it gets better

But...to be in a non-supportive environment, bad shift, poor managers, or in a unit that's not your cup of tea magnifies things 1000 fold.

Even when we find our niche, and we like what we do, that first year breaks us. I can't remember the stat, but it's something like 60% of new grads leave their first job within that first year. I'll look it up because I did a paper on it for my BSN.

You will be utterly amazed how the wrong unit/shift can break you.

Even with a simple monetary contract (like I had) it was torture. Being under the thumb of my workplace for my 2 year contract was horrible. I planned out how many shifts I had left, calculated how much I"d have to pay, reviewed the paperwork, etc.

I'm still here, at the same place. But the contract period was suffocating. Suffocating!

Of course, a free BSN is worth a lot. Like multi said though, it's not really free.


Lol!
I have unfortunately been the victim of drinking and posting.
I used to administrate a fertility message board and I'd review my postings and think "huh? What the heck did I say??"

On this board, I'm REAL careful not to drink and post. I might get myself banned!

Chinook~

I would love to show you around! What is bringing you to Tucson? Do you know where you will be living? I think posting here is the only thing that will keep me alive through the weekend

SUNNY WITH A HIGH OF 69 IN TUCSON TODAY