Looking for opinions/advice

[Jo89, LPN]

I’m a new LPN graduate and applied to a job in a holistic health care center on a whim thinking I would never get a call back. Surprisingly I did and they wanted me for the job. The place is very small and only has a handful of people working there. I wasn’t sure what to ask for pay in NH so I asked for 23-25 and they told me they would start me at 23 and move me to 25 once I become trained in IV. I’m going to mostly be doing IV therapy and colon hydrotherapy. Im just curious what other nurses thoughts are on a new nurse taking a job like this. I thought I would  be working in a typical nursing home as a new graduate, but I liked the idea of this place because it is small. 

[TheMoonisMyLantern, ADN, LPN, RN]

It sounds unconventional but that's not a bad thing. The most important thing as a new grad is to get a nursing job regardless of specialty. It sounds like you'll get some good experience with IV's that's a very marketable skill if you get really good at it. 

I admit that I am unfamiliar with holistic care centers because we don't have them where I live, but it sounds like you'll be working in the field of alternative medicine if this is the case, make sure the place you work at is legit and has a good reputation and has a licensed provider (MD, DO, NP) ordering the treatments you administer. I would also highly recommend you get malpractice insurance, which is advisable regardless where you work, but especially since you'll be working in a less mainstream area of medicine.

Good luck! Let us know what types of things you do when you get started, I'd be curious to know what all treatments you all do.

[amoLucia]

Sounds interesting! Please make sure you do get malpractice insurance.

And make SURE that whatever tasks you perform, they are within your Stat's scope of practice. I'd be cautious that small facilities may tend to 'push the envelope' and overstretch their staff.

Good luck!

[Jo89, LPN]

Thank you both, I didn’t really think of getting malpractice insurance before but now I definitely am. I think another thing I was hesitant about was only being able to use a small portion of the skills I learned in school but as someone else said above IV experience would be good to have.