LVN no experience

[Ariana30]

Hello, I just wanted to vent my frustrations and I'm hoping that someone will share their experience as well. I graduated year 2010 and I have my license in the Philippines as an RN but I'm now in CA. I moved here 2 years ago. To make the story short, I never worked as an RN since I got my license and I just got my LVN license here in CA and I feel like it's hard to get a job specially if you don't have any experience. I applied like 2 places and was told that they'll only provide 3-4 days training and I don't think it's enough since I don't have any experience. Is anyone here with the same situation? How did you guys start?Were you able to get a place with enough training? Thank you.

[NurseDSC]

On 9/5/2019 at 1:44 AM, LastYoungRenegade said:

As a brand new LVN, I was hired at a psych lockdown LTC. I had like 7-9 days of training. The rest was learn as you go unfortunately.

I'm hoping to get into psych/BH/MH. How was it going from a student nurse to pysch?

[scrapbooksmile4ever]

I was at that LTC facility for 2 years, it was hard and stressful and at times overwhelming because of the few staff and little RN supervision. I worked evening so I also had little help and most of the patients sundowning after dinner. It took a while to learn the behaviors of the patients. Some days were good, some days were bad. I learned a lot but in the end, that environment wasn’t for me.