Just need a hug.. Anyone else??

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Hey everyone - just feeling like I need hugs today; so I'm asking for them and sending them out to anyone else who feels like they need them. :icon_hug:

The whole new nursing role just seems to take its toll. I'm in a internship program where we "rotate" from floor to floor. I'm on the end of my second rotation now and I've had a great preceptor this round and about to change again to a new floor next week. Actually, we will be bidding on open positions in the next week or so for a permanent job. Problem is the floor I want to work on, is the floor every new grad and most of the other interns want to start on (med/surg) and there are no open positions currently there (I talked to the director) sigh..

So i'm currently looking for positions at hospitals closer to my home (where I'm at is about 1 hour away).

In any case I hate to be a whiner but is seems this new nursing thing has turned me into one. I just have felt so beat up. It's just amazing you work your A@@ off to make it through school, then you walk through fire again to pass your boards, then you get out on the floor and your faced with new trials.

It's just never ending, and I'm wondering when I find my little groove again. Everything just feels "off" in my life right now, can't seem to get into an exercise routine, can't seem to get work down pat, sigh, sorry, in any case just venting here and again asking for hugs and sending them to anyone else feeling the same thing....

Specializes in MedSurg Tele.

I absolutely need a hug. Honestly, I don't get enough of them, maybe if I get one hug within a week, I am happy.

It can be really tough to work on a unit. Period. I just don't know what else to say anymore. Everyone on my unit looks tired. We need clowns or hug-me teddy bears to put a smile on our face. Whatever works, right?

But I have been planning on organizing my day better with a sketch sheet. Since there are no homework assignments for orientation, I have decided to make my own. It'll be my blue print for the day.

Specializes in MedSurg Tele.

I need a good laugh.

Specializes in MedSurg Tele.

:) I need a hug.:)

Specializes in Utilization Management.

one big hug for amy coming up!! :)

((((huggggs)))))

im here!!!!! im a nursing student, hopefully graduated for the next 2 yrs.. :)

Specializes in Cardiac.

Yeah, I feel that way too. I've been cruising the boards looking for fellow stressed out nurses. I worked 6 months in the ER preceptoring, and got out because it was too high-stress and too fast paced for a new grad like me. Then I found a new job in Cardiac Care 12 hour nights, and still feel that history could repeat itself... that maybe I'm not cut out for nursing and that my first job didn't work out because of me. It's rough... this career. I'm sure we'll be fine in the long run, we'll look back and have sage advice and laugh about this time in our lives. But right now I'd like to know my job, have an exercise routine and diet figured out, be debt free... for now though I'll just venting with ya'll. :)

Hi everyone just checking in... here's a hug for today for whoever needs one...:icon_hug:

I keep telling myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other. And an occasional glass of wine or beer combined with some laughter and friends helps as well too.. :biere:

hey there!! if someone need a hug!! Im just here!!! willing to be hugged! :lol2: just message me!! hehehe

Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..

It's just never ending, and I'm wondering when I find my little groove again. Everything just feels "off" in my life right now, can't seem to get into an exercise routine, can't seem to get work down pat, sigh, sorry, in any case just venting here and again asking for hugs and sending them to anyone else feeling the same thing....

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Healer}}}}}}}}}}} Sorry it is tough right now! I think being in that "in-between" and unsettled stage is very stressful - ie finding a job, where, and will you like it, and will you be up for it, etc... try just doing "today" - you may be expecting too much of yourself right now!

Sure you need to work on getting a job - but try not to spread yourself too thin. As to the exercise - see Healthier Living Support Part III - at

https://allnurses.com/forums/f240/healthier-living-support-part-iii-156279.html

Where we all talk about what we "should" be doing (and some of us are doing it lol)

Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
...one nurse said i was "making it up" that i'm getting more difficult assignments because i'm new and another told me, "you're at the bottom of the food chain" when i started to vent about how i'd been running my butt off all night and the other nurses were sitting watching tv and reading magazines.

!!!

I would slap those nurses silly I tell YOU! If they lose a good nurse they will just shrug? No, they will complain about staffing! Idiots...

Yeah, I know, an attack on invisible nurses, hope it's ok, hee hee...

{{{{{{{{{Hugs to everyone here!}}}}}}}}}}}} It sounds very difficult!

Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.

They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. Psalm 126:5-6

Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
:crying2: Can I have one too? Been crying for the last two days straight. Got fired from my first nursing job after just a couple months, due to extremely unfair situation. I didn't do anything wrong! And now I may lose the chance to adopt my foster son because I don't have a job. Loooong story, but yeah, hugs would definitely be appreciated.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{jade-athyst}}}}}}}}}}}}} So sorry - :(

Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
Big Mona - I'm sorry it sounds like its been really tough for you - I believe that you get hit with stuff call it beginners luck! lol! Along similiar lines I always seems to have patients that develop problems simulateneously around 7 p.m. right before change of shift????? ...

Good Luck hope things get better for you.. ;)

Ah yes, the dreaded change-of-shift curse... :nono:

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