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Any other new nurses just LOVE their job? I think it's great to have a site to ask questions, and vent....but I wanted to start a positive thread. I found this site the day I took NCLEX...and honestly after a week of reading I warned my husband I would HATE my job and doubt my career when I started.

But- I've been orienting on the floor for 2 weeks now and absolutely love it. The facility is great, and my preceptor is wonderful. She's argued assignments with the chargenurses..and refused admits to keep things at a level I can handle. She gives positive reinforcement, and constructive criticism. Last night...she even oriented 2 nurses at once because I was assigned to someone who called in..and the only other one to orient me was my old clinical instructor. (who dislikes me..and made it known)

I'm having a wonderful experience as a new RN...it's everything I expected. (not saying easy by any means...I had 4 very demanding pts yesterday..but still loving it!)

Specializes in Emergency.

I am a new grad on a telemetry unit. I never in a million years thought I would enjoy cardiac nursing, since I hated the subject in school. That changed my last semester in school, when I did two clinical rotations on this unit. We students were made so welcome, and the nurses really took the time to work with us and teach. I could tell they really liked what they did. After so many clinicals where we were made to feel like an inconvenience, it was very reassuring. I put in my application to work there and was hired before I graduated. It is very challenging, and overwhelming. Right now I am on my first week off orientation (Yikes!). I have found that there is no such thing as a perfect work place, but so far this one comes darn close to it. I also like the fact that I will get to work with nursing students and hopefully be able to make their experience as positive as mine was.

Amy

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Specializes in PCP group.

This is my very first post. I hope all you "hospital" nurses don't mind hearing from a "doctor's office" nurse (LPN). I've been a nurse for a little over a year now....and I love it. The work is hard and the day is long, but at the end of the day I have a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction that I helped people. I to switched careers, at 50 years old! Always wanted to become a nurse and now I am. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

:welcome:

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Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.

I love my job. Finishing up my first year in the neuro ICU. It sure has been challenging to say the least but I couldn't have asked for a better first experience. My preceptor was awesome, my floor is incredible. I love all the people, management is decent, im very happy. I enjoy neuro as well, I was very unsure in the beginning but i'm glad I stuck with it!

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I work on a trauma/post-surgical unit and I love my job. I also just passed my first year mark and I don't see myself going anywhere. I really eventually want to do ER and then maybe go for my trauma nurse practicioner degree but I am very happy where I am at right now. I started on a medical/transplant floor and that was very discouraging. I came up to this floor after 4 weeks and burst into tears when I met my preceptor and one of the other new nurses. My preceptor was great, took me under her wing and made me feel good about myself. All of us new nurses stick together and help eachother. We also go for drinks every so often and vent about work and life. We have all really bonded. My manager isn't too bad either. I really love my assistant managers. They are really friendly and very helpful. I love my PCTs, my floor, and all my patients. I could go on forever but I will stop now.;)

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I'm five weeks into orientation/preceptorship and loving my floor. It's a tele floor in a busy inner city trauma center, and the pace can be kinda crazy for this newbee, but I couldn't have asked for a better place to begin my career. I had a good feeling about the floor when, at the interview, the nurse manager was late to pick me up b/c she was answering call lights (!), and this didn't end up being a facade. No problems with fellow staff, excellent preceptors (multiple, because of scheduling, and even this has worked out well), decent nurse-MD relations, a very "there are no dumb questions"-environment, and a very teaching-driven one as well.

There are no perfect places to work, it's true, but I could've done a heckuva lot worse than this. Of course, we'll see how I feel after a week or two on my own, or after my first coded patient or any of the other thousand things that can come up at the worst possible time, but I can't worry about things in advance. I tend to do that too much, and it doesn't solve a darned thing...

Great thread!

-Kevin

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, post op, ICU.

Med surg tele here. There are pros and cons"

Pros: great coworkers, patient resource and charge nurses, patients that like that I can joke with them, patients that truly need my help, the challenge of figuring out a problem, the thrill of being right about a diagnosis, working as a team with doctors and other staff members in the hospital.

Cons: too many patients who need too much from me, some doctors who don't want to hear that their patient is taking a turn for the worse, constant problem solving one thing after another -- it's exhausting!, some staff members who don't work as a team, hours spent on nothing but charting, staying 1-2 hours late most shifts to finish charting, patients who really feel like they are in a hotel and don't need the help from me that they insist I give.

I think it is like everything. There is good and there is bad. When the good things are happening, I love my job and am glad for the choices I've made. When bad things are happening, it is hard to remain motivated to continue such a difficult path. I don't really mind stress and craziness. I mind injustice and not being able to properly care for my patients. As I told my friend this evening, it is a job. It has its crazy times and it has its awesome times. It isn't butterflies and rainbows and I don't think it ever will be, but it is getting better every day.

Making any sense? I must have taken some sort of brain-lax. I'm writing and can't stop!

Iona

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