I'm a recent LVN grad (graduated Aug 2015) and i recently got a job at a pediatric clinic. First job ever, no job in the past and so I have no experience and i took this job because you know, you have to start somewhere. It started of great, loved the patients and my co workers are nice. But ive recently noticed that, we'll I've been working for 4 weeks now and I'm being treated as a MA. I haven't done any real nursing and the doctos refer to me as their MA. It's frustrating not only because of the lack of title appreciation but the pay sucks too. $16/hr. Dont get me started on the patient load. We have 7 doctors in total and you get assigned to one and they have at least 25-30 patients A DAY. In total that olace treata over 200 patients a day. Its crazy you have so much to do in short time, lota of pressure and im working as best as i can and i dont get any acknowledgement of how hard im working, but more like making me work FASTER.
This is making me very stressed and depressed. Im
not sure what to make of this because I've barely started my nursing career and new to whole job world. So i need help with finding encouragement to continue this job or should I just quit and start elsewhere. And how long should I wait until I can truly be sure this isn't right for me?
Be SURE this in within your scope! In my state, only RN's can do phone triage!
They needed a nurse to do telephone triage( which I should mention turns out I will be trained and to report to a MA for that, in which honestly I'm risking my license there) so they know I'm an LVN but they consider me an MA. And the MA there act like they are nurses, call themselves nurses which I politely tell them they are not licensed so they shouldn't call themselves nurses. The thing that is holding me back is the fact it'll be too soon( little over a month) and it might look bad in my record. But if im definitely considering looking for another job. I just needed advice because I'm Inexperienced and i do plan on going back to school to get my RN :)
Be SURE this in within your scope! In my state, only RN's can do phone triage!
In my state LVN can do telephone triage but must have an RN or a physician within reach if any questions erupt and LVN can also have a set guide to show us step by step the process to make decisions.
BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN
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Be SURE this in within your scope! In my state, only RN's can do phone triage!