Losing your skills?

[ErinJane]

Anyone out there feel like they are losing their skills while searching for a nursing job? I have a good (if not very looked down upon) position at a pizza place which more than pays enough for me to live on, but I feel like I am going to be rusty if I don't get a job soon.

What are you doing to keep yourself in touch which nursing? Reading? Practicing? Studying?

[LoriNJ]

I definitely understand where you're coming from, I worked for 4 months in a department store after graduating from nursing school while I was job hunting. I really felt like I wasn't going to remember anything. I tried to read up on general ideas if I had time, went through med-surg slides from school, flipped through a clinical nurse handbook, but honestly didn't get too much into all of it. I actually had my first day working at a hospital on the floor today and I was surprised how quickly I picked it up again. Granted, I forgot the little things, but I felt like for a first day and not doing it for 6 months it went pretty well. I think you'll just remember once you start working. You worked hard in school and it will all come rushing back!