new grad confusion

[joyrochelle]

Hello all---a lovely cloudy day to you...( as it is here in detroit...blegh)

ok then...here I go...um, well i have actually posted about this earlier, and obviously it's a bug in my orifice.

I started as a GN in a beautiful....and low risk, LDRP in April with intentions to stay on as an L&D nurse once registered. It is a really nice suburban hospital, nice staff, middle class clientele, non-teaching, roughly 2000 deliveries a year.

I worked previously at a hospital that did twice as many per year, rotating between NICU, pp, and L&D. The L&D nurse manager wore a suit of ice, and although the charges were SO awesome, I wasn't too certain that I would even apply or get a job there if I did. The NM made me feel very unwelcome and even though they had hired two GN's for the last two years prior, she made it sound as though I had little chance of hire once graduated.

Now, I saw that there are two MN f/t positions open in that unit, so i applied online, and spoke to my favorite charge there, and she said she would speak to the NM about it, kind of an advocate i think. ( i admire her so much!)

I guess my major discourse is that I don't want to feel that I am unable to handle some deliveries cuz I don't have the high risk experience. I ultimately want to become a CNM, and i feel that the most experience i can acquire is of utmost importance. The charge i spoke to brought up the two main pints here: a unit like the lower risk one is good for building a foundation and moving on, yet the higher risk one is good to develop a well rounded base for future positions in any environment....grrr.

I wish I had a magic ball telling me what to do! I mean, i can't make the NM give me the position anyway, so I guess it's out of my hands. And I definitely don't want to burn any bridges at the other hospital that I am orienting at, there are very nice and have almost completed my orientation!

ANY input out there??? I am such a freak about this!

Please help a new grad in distress...and Shay--please don't rip me a new one about this! :)

[fergus51]

I had the same problem Christian nurse. I worked med-surg for a few months until L&D came up. Are you able to relocate? If not, you can either take med-surd for a brief period (or NICU, or peds, or something) and wait, or you can continually harass nurse managers with your desire to work OB. We recently hired a new grad here in L&D (which is basically UNHEARD OF here in Canada) because she had done all her consolidated practicums on L&D, and had taken various extra courses related to OB while in school (like fetal heart monitoring, lactation, etc.). Her persistence paid off.

joy, if you're going to get a really good orientation time, it may be a good learning experience. That said, you'll still need to do low risk before becoming a midwife anyways. Seems like 6 of one or a half dozen of the other (either lrob, then hrob or hrob then lrob).... No one can tell you what's best for you.

[joyrochelle]

that is very true, fergus....just wanted some input....thanks!

[joyrochelle]

well, got the fated call this am....nurse recruiter states that they do not and have never had a new grad orientation, which isn't true. My friend graduated last year and got in there w/ 1 other new grad, and same for the year prior.

I feel pretty slighted, y'all. I mean, I guess it's better this way cuz apparently that NM doesn't want me on her unit. And that steams me cuz she's the one who has been rude and snotty and basically a beetch to me, in fact made me really wonder if I wanted to be in the class of APN's after watching her mannerisms.

It wasn't meant to be I guess. SO i keep on keepin' on!

and on to a greater education and lower stress workplace....

[fergus51]

Well, hopefully the day will come that the NM will get a house dropped on her, and you can move to HROB with a supportive group!:)

[joyrochelle]

:roll

hahahah---exactly!!!

:chuckle