piggypop

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1. Burnout already?

   piggypop replied to JesRN331's topic in New Nurse

   I also started in med-surg and hated it. I learned that I don't want to return to that high acuity, bedside nurse environment again if I can help it. The nice thing is is that med-surg is only the surface of what's out there! Maybe try to look for ot...

2. My Reasons For Avoiding The Acute Care Hospital

   piggypop replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, I wish I would have found this post before I'd worked at a hospital. This sounds just like me in a nutshell! It's nice to hear my own thoughts being echoed and validated.

3. Bending and Breaking the Rules in Nursing

   piggypop replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   What a sweet story. That is rather strange though, that a hospice patient would have such a dietary restriction. But it's such a good example of breaching some (at times silly) rules that sometimes can be broken. Thanks for sharing.

4. How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

   piggypop replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Professionalism

   I'm not going to lie, but if the implication is that you have to start with bedside care as a new nurse--that's a little insulting tor me. I just left a med-surg job in which I lasted up the three month mark before I had to resign. It was horrible. N...

5. Interview today did i blow it

   piggypop replied to nursingsteph0716's topic in Job Hunt

   I think it sorta depends on what exactly you said and how you felt. If you said a few positive things and she was explaining positive things, I wouldn't think you were doomed. If things go a step further, before taking the job I'd ask to shadow some...

6. Unorthodox Interview. Help!!!

   piggypop replied to jeangarc18's topic in Job Hunt

   That must've been a bummer to have gotten yourself psyched up only to not have the interview. Good luck! I'm sure interviewing on a busy day would have really shaken your nerves.

7. Interview Help PLEASE!!!!

   piggypop replied to KatieBug713's topic in Job Hunt

   I'm no expert in interviewing (being in only one formal interview myself), but I feel what you're saying. If I interpreted this correctly, you left a month or so after you were done with your orientation?... Anyway, I feel like I'm in a similar situa...

8. Nontraditional Nursing Jobs?

   piggypop replied to piggypop's topic in Job Hunt

   @tinks599 - I have heard about going into research, and may be something I look into. But I can't imagine that's something offered to a graduate nurse. Outpatient oncology sounds interesting, actually. I think at this time outpatient may be more my p...

9. Nontraditional Nursing Jobs?

   piggypop posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I'm a new grad (I graduated last May) and I worked on a hospital floor for a mere three months before leaving because I was so overwhelmed with that type of environment that I just couldn't do it. Plus my health was majorly deteriorating, so while I'...

10. Resume critique request c:

    piggypop replied to piggypop's topic in Job Hunt

    Thank you! These comments have been extremely helpful in where I want to revise this resume! I guess my one question is that there have been comments to delete the "summer jobs," but as my actual nursing work experience is very limited (i.e., one job...

11. Resume critique request c:

    piggypop posted a topic in Job Hunt

    My story is that I was working on a med-surg unit for a few months, but I recently resigned because it was just too much for me to start with. I honestly tried to stick the job out, but I couldn't. So I have three months experience and not a whol...