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Better to be bored and employed and have a good pay than what some of our THOUSANDS of unemployed new grads and/or nurses with years of experience are going through.
Your bored and the job is mundane? There are an uncountable amount of nurses who would line up behind you to snatch it up. If the USA work is too boring and mundane, might I suggest you move back to your country and look for a more exciting position..just sayin
Kabayan...be thankful with what you've got. Unemployment rate in the U.S. presently is around 10% so a lot of people are suffering whilst you moan about not getting enough challenge which to me sounds so ungrateful. You can always go for other roles in your workplace but the question is..Does your superiors think your qualified for those roles ????
I used to wonder where the resentment towards foreign (pinoy) nurses are coming from when I first joined here...but now I think I know the answer.
Well I took a job in Med Surg, I am very bored at work, It is like working at a Nursing Home. All I do is give out meds and chart. Pay is good but the work is mundane and no challenge
How do you even know what it's like to work in a nursing home? are you making the comparison based on the age of the patients you see on the Med-Surg unit? I'm not trying to knock your opinion down but I was also a fresh nurse from the Philippines once (well, back in the 90's) and I have worked in both nursing home settings and Med-Surg throughout my career. Both jobs are entirely different. You do tend to feel like you're passing meds day in and day out in a nursing home but a Med-Surg unit is entirely different. You're dealing with patients with acute medical and surgical conditions that you need to be familiar with. You don't just pass meds because they are ordered by the MD. You look at the patients' labs and disgnostic tests, confirm their diagnosis and the need for the meds before you even think of pulling their meds out of the Pyxis. That's what's challenging in Med-Surg because you have 4-6 patients to do this routine on. But that's just a small part of your role. You also have to make sure your patient assessment or exam is accurate, you have to answer questions from families, educate patient on their disease and treatment, counsel them on health maintenance, discharge or admit patients...bottom line is Med-Surg is not easy if you do what you're supposed to do in that unit.
I'm one of those new grads without a permanent job...where should I send my resume?
aw, babe, you'd have to move the the big, bad US of A. Some of my coworkers tried working in Texas in the '90s. One came home before the contract ended because of "working" conditions.
Canada wants to keep her nurses.
Precious Pinay
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Well I took a job in Med Surg, I am very bored at work, It is like working at a Nursing Home. All I do is give out meds and chart. Pay is good but the work is mundane and no challenge