Getting back into nursing...any advice/recommended reading?

Published Mar 14, 2011

18 Posts

Specializes in Palliative Care, Hospice, Home Health.

hi everybody! i graduated from nursing school in august 2008, which then i started at a level one trauma center in their critical care program. i completed the program, but at the end of it, they did not have positions for us, but held us to our contract, so we were displaced to other positions within the network. i was displaced to case management, where i was doing d/c planning/calling insurance companies, etc. (i also have a social work degree). while i like the job, i felt like i didn't spend all the money and time to go to nursing school to basically go back to social work. i had to stay a year after being displaced under contract, which no nursing jobs opened when i was looking (i went back and forth about going back into nursing). i finally did get a job at a nursing home, which i left to go to home care. i was going to school for a master's in gerontology, but i'm not liking the program. i have finally decided to go back to school for my nurse practitioner (what i always wanted to do since i got into nursing and was set to start before i got displaced) so i know got a position in a long-term acute care hospital. since i just basically handed medicine out at the nursing home, and i have only been doing basic visits in my home care position (more paperwork than anything) i was wondering if anybody had any advice to get back into "hospital" nursing or websites/book that might be useful. thanks!:heartbeat