historylady MSN, RN

historylady has 15 years experience as a MSN, RN.

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1. Is this anxiety or should I quit nursing?

   historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I am not big fan of a better life through Pharmacology, when the issue can be resolved in another manner. I too suffer from work related anxiety. I love direct nursing care but I have come to the realization that the stress and anxiety that I get ...

2. Nursing Homes. The bodies are just pilling up.

   historylady replied to xanderx's topic in COVID

   Sorry to say but death is part of life. I don't think that anybody is disrespecting or ignoring the LTC population. Two things that you must remember. 1st, the news media business is to sell news. They can take one small thing and blow it out of pr...

3. Who wants to hire a graduate nurse at 55?

   historylady replied to RNat55's topic in General Nursing

   Hello RN at 55, There is definitely age bias present in the world of nursing. I was older when I graduated and it took me a while to get the first job and then I was hired based ona friends recommendation into a LTC facility that was desperate for...

4. Preceptor is SO BAD!

   historylady replied to Guest606's topic in General Nursing

   Have you asked her how she is doing? She sounds very overwhelmed by it all. Some new grad nurses come in brimming with self-confidence, other don't. IF she is going in the bathroom and crying, you need to find out the reason. Ever person has a dif...

5. Preceptor is SO BAD!

   historylady replied to Guest606's topic in General Nursing

   This is how we are losing new grad nurses. New grad nurse - you have three courses of action. One you can do nothing and wait the day when you are on your own and something you should have been taught happens needs to be done and you do it wrong an...

6. Slowing Down

   historylady replied to historylady's topic in Professionalism

   Thank you for your response. Yes I have looked into staff development and ambulatory.

7. Slowing Down

   historylady posted a topic in Professionalism

   I have arthritis and fibromyalgia (and a few other things). Needless to say I have chronic pain. Some days are good days and some days are not so good, needless to say to don't move as fast as a used to. The problem I have is that I don't know to w...

8. My transfer nurse advisor says I won't make it !

   historylady replied to chichimel's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Only you can decide if nursing is the right career for you. I am a second degree nurse and i was also told that I would not make it as a nurse. I did make it and I am a good nurse. But it was a struggle. The nursing profession has one big flaw, nu...

9. Experienced RN's cannot get new jobs!

   historylady replied to duca's topic in General Nursing

   Yes I find this to be very true. I find that getting hired has more to do with age rather than experience. I has seen younger nurses with the same experience get hired over older nurses with same experience. Age discrimination is alive an well in ...

10. New nurse having a hard time with coworkers

    historylady replied to Me93RN's topic in Relations

    I feel your pain. Nursing is a profession and therefore the people practicing it should be professional. Unfortunately, nursing is also a female dominated profession. When ever you get a group of females together, the catty behavior has a tendenc...

11. Is this a possible case of age discrimination?

    historylady replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    Age discrimination is alive and well in the nursing world. When I started nursing ( at at 49) I was told that hospitals and such don not want to take on new nurses over age 45. It takes 2 to 3 months to get a new grad trained to work independently....

12. RN School Clinicals on Resume??

    historylady replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Job Hunt

    I don't know anything about the clinicals you were exposed to, but my final two clinicals, I was expected to handle my case load on my own. My nurse preceptor watched, answered questions, and oversaw what I was doing. I think it has a lot to do wit...

13. Nursing in crisis

    historylady posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nurses talk to one another, that is a fact. You want to learn something about something ask nurses. What I am hearing is frightening. the profession of nursing is in crisis. New grads can't get jobs unless they have experience but can't get exp...

14. hiring older nurses

    historylady replied to KThurmond's topic in General Nursing

    It is not so much just the age of the nurse. it is being a new nurse that is older. I was told it took over $30,000 to take a new graduate nurse and mentor them to be skilled nurse. Many places will not spend that type of money on a person with su...

15. My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    historylady replied to Live..&..Learn's topic in Relations

    There will always be the way you are taught in nursing school and the way things are done in the real world. But often times the way things are done in the real world are also not the way things "should" be done in the real world. The things th...