MadamPomfrey_

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1. Unsure about going from NICU back to Adults

   MadamPomfrey_ replied to MadamPomfrey_'s topic in Career Support

   Thank you so much for your response. I never thought about what PICU entailed. It does sound very interesting. I am so back and forth with NICU. Sometimes I have a good week or two, i'm loving it (the actual nursing care) and wanna stay, and then oth...

2. Unsure about going from NICU back to Adults

   MadamPomfrey_ replied to MadamPomfrey_'s topic in Career Support

   No I am not being targeted at all. I don't have any personal problems with anyone and I think I am mainly liked by eveyone, but it's just the environment some of the people create that can be awful - especially some of the nurses that are in higher p...

3. Unsure about going from NICU back to Adults

   MadamPomfrey_ replied to MadamPomfrey_'s topic in Career Support

   Thank you so much for commenting! I feel that when we do admit the more critical babies, they do try and give it to a newer nurse with less experience, as long as a senior nurse is on to help with anything the newer nurse needs. I have had babies on ...

4. Unsure about going from NICU back to Adults

   MadamPomfrey_ posted a topic in Career Support

   So I have been an RN for 2 1/4 years now. In nursing school I worked on a Stepdown Unit - first as a unit clerk (one year), and then as a nursing assistant (about a year and a half). I started my first nursing job on the same Stepdown unit and worked...

5. Feeling frustrated/embarassed...want to quit nursing...

   MadamPomfrey_ replied to sophie<3's topic in Career Support

   If anyone was wondering how it is going for me, I just wanted to make a reply to my last comment! Here I am now 2 and a half months later still working in the NICU and I am loving it. I have gained so much confidence and am feeling less freaked out....

6. Feeling frustrated/embarassed...want to quit nursing...

   MadamPomfrey_ replied to sophie<3's topic in Career Support

   Wow, I could not relate to you any more! I have been a nurse for a little over a year. I worked on a Stepdown Unit for 3 years total -- while in nursing school as a unit clerk and CNA, and then as an RN right after passing my boards. I worked there a...