Thank you everyone for the good advice and words of wisdom. You’ve confirmed my beliefs that I am where I belong. The only reason I was contemplating even leaving because I didn’t want to be “selling myself short” or missing learning opportunities....
So, I have been an RN, BSN for 5 years. I did one year at a subacute rehab before transferring to a med-surg floor in the same health system. I really loved my floor, it was a small inter-City hospital that was kind of rough but I really enjoyed it...
I faced a similar situation a few months ago. I liked my job/co-workers, but after moving to a new state I was then commuting an hour each way. I applied in March to a new hospital (with better pay/benefits) 10 minutes from my new house. Literally, ...
Good point... that would be terrible. I guess The only positive in that situation would be that no Clinicals would mean no urgency to stress about switching jobs this month though.
I should also add: some people may say “you should have done this months ago.” Which obviously crossed our minds, but my husband really wanted that full time ER position to help with his gaining more knowledge and experience for school, and he was ab...
So, for the past year my family has been prepping for big changes to our employment status. My husband and I are both RN,BSN. My husband is about to start his final year of FNP school. I have been a medical surgical nurse for 4 years, part-time for ...
We already work for the same health system, as we have for several years now. He works on the ICU and I applied for the ED, the unit managers cover for each other sometimes, which is how she knows my husband. In the interview the unit manager said ...
Background: I've worked for a hospital affiliated short stay rehabilitation unit (located in SNF, down the street from actual hospital) for two years now. I have received nothing but great reviews since starting. I accepted the position as a new gra...
I was a CNA for ten years before becoming a nurse, and I learned to master mouth breathing. As the years go on it won't even bother you as much. And to the previous poster who said its the "CNAS problem," I hate to break the news to you, but you are...
Its hard work, but you have to stay focused. I was widowed two years ago very suddenly during my 2nd year of nursing school. I was left a single mother to two young children. I had a few key support people and I also sacrificed a lot of sleep. I ne...
I'm sure you've heard about the nurse in the news recently who lost her license for taking a picture of her patient's penis... So yeah, that'll do it...
I agree that its common in nursing school to see students get treated differently. When I was in med surg 2 (8 months pregnant with many complications during finals too), I bombed my final and missed the passing cut off by 0.87 percent. Two other s...
I have a weird phobia about fingernails. After a bad experience involving cleaning feces from under a patients fingernails (very tricky task), I always get grossed out when I see dirty fingernails. Really long fingernails creep me out too.
My school had a representative from a review course come and talk to my class about a month before graduation. They like gave this whole presentation that basically convinced us we would fail if we did not take their course. They even had like free...