New grad RN and new jobs

[Nicollette]

Hi,

So I graduated nursing school in May and was hired as a float pool RN. I have a little over four months of experience under my belt, however, I have so much anxiety and doubt before and during each shift that I honestly don’t know if I can keep going. My goal is to eventually be in the OR but I can’t put in an internal transfer app in my facility until mid June and it seems a lot harder to find periop programs right now to be trained in the OR due to covid and all. I have an opportunity to possibly work for another facility in my area administering covid vaccines. They said it will be about a 4-6 months temporary assignment. Is it worth it or would that look terrible on my resume to have worked so short in each job? Am I setting myself up for failure??

[CatRescuer223]

Your anxiety may be from constantly being sent to different units (float pool.) you might benefit from working in 1 unit consistently. But, that being said, having short employment on your resume isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Do you have any long term employment of any kind on your resume ? I don’t think that it would look bad to take an extra job that helped beat this darn pandemic.

[Sour Lemon]

On 1/15/2021 at 2:26 AM, Nicollette said:

Hi,

So I graduated nursing school in May and was hired as a float pool RN. I have a little over four months of experience under my belt, however, I have so much anxiety and doubt before and during each shift that I honestly don’t know if I can keep going. My goal is to eventually be in the OR but I can’t put in an internal transfer app in my facility until mid June and it seems a lot harder to find periop programs right now to be trained in the OR due to covid and all. I have an opportunity to possibly work for another facility in my area administering covid vaccines. They said it will be about a 4-6 months temporary assignment. Is it worth it or would that look terrible on my resume to have worked so short in each job? Am I setting myself up for failure??

If your goal is to be in acute care, it might be better to keep the acute care job. Our OR nurses are being put on medical floors right now to function as resource nurses. It's not a specialty that's doing much hiring where I'm at.

[Nicollette]

On 1/18/2021 at 3:56 PM, CatRescuer223 said:

Your anxiety may be from constantly being sent to different units (float pool.) you might benefit from working in 1 unit consistently. But, that being said, having short employment on your resume isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Do you have any long term employment of any kind on your resume ? I don’t think that it would look bad to take an extra job that helped beat this darn pandemic.

I do want to work on one unit eventually but my contract states that I have to stay in float pool until June and tbh IDK if I cant hold out that long. This is my first nursing job but prior, I worked as a scribe for 4 years and in retail for 3 years. Do I still put those on my resume? I put the scribe but not the retail job since I was told not to put nonmedical related jobs.