So I've been a nursing home nurse for almost a year. First I started out as an agency nurse, however because I had no experience they put me in only nursing homes and hospice. Which it was awesome, there was a lot of crash course teaching myself on how to best do the med cart and how to do dressings. But I pulled through and I have found little things that help me greatly.
And then after 6 months of working at several different nursing homes I scored a job at...wait for it....yup another nursing home. I've gotten good at passing meds, and I can easily pass meds for 15-25 residents and do dressings as needed, as well as help the aides answer lights and feed.
However skills like IVs and foley caths are things I cannot do still. I am just shy of my year of nursing (one month away) and I am hoping to get into a hospital soon. So I guess my main fear is- am I going to be able to go to a hospital easily?
I'm not talking about experience or anything like that- that will come when it comes. What I am worried with is that I am used to being in a nursing home- or hospice but there's no treating there- am I going to be able to make it to make it? I mean even with another year of experience, I really don't see how it will let me grow on skills that we just don't use. I am a charge nurse right now, but still it's at a nursing home where there is not tons of action (except for the behaviors since we are a behavioral nursing home)
Since I have never gotten the training that most new grad nurses get when they get hired into a hospital I am worried. My friends talk about how hectic it is at the hospital, and it makes it feel like I'm missing out on a lot, that I am falling further behind each time. Should I- when I get a little more experience- see if my agency will put in a hospital so I can get a feel for it?
Should I just give up on the hospital? Or what would be the best course of action for when I find it possible for me to get into there?
