new grad/ltc

Specialties Geriatric

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I finished nursing school last May and looked for a job everywhere. Last week I got an offer for charge nurse/nights at a nursing home. Because it's night I will be me and the can. I am really nervous. I will have 1 week orientation. ANy advice?

Specializes in got a cna license but no job.

It's a 60 -bed nursing facility. There aren't that many but still over 35. there is also the retirement and assisted living facilities connected on different floors. They said there will be another rn on another floor.

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At my facility new grads get 3 months orientation.

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Specializes in Infusion.

I am a new grad LPN and took a job in LTC. I had about 6 days orientation, and want to cry now everytime I have to go to work. I am thinking about quitting and just getting a job in a doctors office. I feel like LTC to too hard for anyone. I have 25 LTC residents on one wing...and the other is about 16 rehab which I am a float for both. It is too overwhelming. Maybe it's easier if you don't have to learn 2 wings....

I have been there a month. The schedule keeps changing on me without me being notified of the change....its so frustrating. I am regretting becoming a nurse and pray it's not like this everywhere.

Go with your gut...it knows the best decision for you.

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Specializes in psychiatric nursing.

I am a recent RN grad and working as a night nurse in a LTC/rehab facility. We have a mix of patients with a variety of acuity, but they seem to be admitting sicker and sicker patients. I have 60 patients with only 2 CNAs. If nothing goes wrong, maybe it's doable. But something goes wrong almost every night: someone falls, someone has a serious change in condition, IVs infiltrating, chest pains, etc.

I worry about putting my license in jeopardy every day. The management is punitive and always blames things on the nurse when problems arise. The situation is not safe for the patients or me. I have actively been looking for a new job, but they are hard to come by. If something doesn't come along soon, I'm going to quit anyway and just find other work. The stress of being in this workplace that is non-supportive, understaffed, overworked, has nasty gossiping co-workers, and completely is unsafe is making me sick.

Oh, and I got only 3 days of training. SNF don't care about you or your career. They only need a warm body with a license to be in the building. It's a shame, because I love working with the elderly patients, but don't really have time beyond handing them a pill.

My managers routinely call me during my daytime sleep time to ***** at me for not completing paperwork or something else that could have been addressed at a later time.

I heard that some SNFs are managed better, but for the most part, I think most of them are terrible.

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