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1. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

   I'm almost 10 mths in and very glad I made the change! I wonder how I survived 39 yrs of med surg..... Since I've become comfortable in pre and post op I've been training in lasers and corneal treatments- so there is some variety. The patients for ...

2. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you- I’m in the middle of my second week- the people are very helpful-I just feel like a fish out of water. My previous job was so much more stressful and complex but I didn’t have to focus so hard mentally as I’m doing now- paper charting and ...

3. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you, helps to know I’m not alone in these feelings.

4. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you Toomuchbaloney!

5. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

   True, I was expecting to be majorly disrupted, just wondering from other long term nurses about how long it’s take before everything feels routine. 3 months??

6. New Job Anxieties For "Mature" Nurse - Help!

   pensivern posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been a med surg RN for nearly 40 yrs and have recently started a new position in an outpatient eye surgery center. While my former job was extremely stressful, I felt completely competent, was the "go to" person for everyone and the time flowed...

7. Long term med surg to outpatient surgery adjustment

   pensivern posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Does anyone work in an outpatient eye surgery center? After 39 yrs of bedside nursing on a very busy stressful med- surg unit, I decided to look for an easier job to transition to as poor staffing, (new nurses leaving in droves), management ch...

8. How to adjust to new job?? Struggling...

   pensivern replied to joansmith1's topic in General Nursing

   Wheaties, just curious if you ever adapted to your job in corrections or eventually left?

9. 1 year bedside to Ambulatory Surgery

   pensivern replied to jj16's topic in Operating Room

   Just curious if you took the eye surgery position and if you like it? I’m starting in a similar position soon and anxious about the transition although only 3 years away from retirement.

10. Med-surg->outpatient eye surgery

    pensivern posted a topic in PACU

    Does anyone work in an outpatient eye surgery center? After 39 yrs of bedside nursing on a very busy stressful med- surg unit, I decided to look for an easier job to transition to as poor staffing, (new nurses leaving in droves), management changes ...

11. Age vs Years Nursing

    pensivern replied to Erika Patterson's topic in General Nursing

    59 and 37 years as an RN

12. Any nurses had arthroscopic knee surgery?

    pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

    WOW!, I was hoping I’d be feeling pretty good at 6 weeks, not 6 months post-op. How long did you try PT before undergoing the procedure?

13. Any nurses had arthroscopic knee surgery?

    pensivern posted a topic in General Nursing

    I’m 59 yrs old and work on a busy med- surg floor- 12 hr shifts. A few weeks ago I injured my knee doing yard work- heard a big “ pop” , knee gave in and have experienced pain ever since with walking. I‘ve had similar knee pain before but never to ...

14. Forced to do 12 hr shifts

    pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a big fan of ASMR, for some reason it only helps me drift off during the day for short naps, never at bedtime.

15. Forced to do 12 hr shifts

    pensivern replied to pensivern's topic in General Nursing

    That's what happened to us, they allowed a few to do a combo or straight 8s, but as those people left, and new hires only being 12 hr shifts, they want to convert everything to 12s. No, it's not fair, but either is freezing our pensions or taking awa...