Oh this !!XXOO!!! "not a good fit"

[redknight]

:redbeathe Wel, this is a great formIt is helping me get through one hell of a week. First let me say to those who talk of being to old. I`m 58 and just grad.and got my lic. in one shot.I left a phleb. job of 18 years. 5 weeks vacation, paid every holiday off. I ran a satilite office and it was an easy job by which I was`nt paid bad. The doc`s in the building would pay me under the table to go draw their special pts at home, because the hosp. could`nt get them and thats how good I am at it. So where is this going? I got canned from my first nursing job after 2 and a half months. They stated that it was`nt going to work that I was not catching on fast enough.The preceptorship was bad,but they thought they had a good program, but the part that gets me is how easy it was for them to walk away from the commitment. As I read the various forms I have come to realize that they still eat their young and management wants you up and running as soon as poss. without regaurds to out come. You know that saying looks good on paper but do`nt work in practice. Thats the program by which just had. So what do I do? Do I go back to where I came? Do I take the unemployment they offerd? I am so discouraged by how this has gone. I`ve never had to worry about my job before. It was secure.I love taking care of pt,s, but I need that interaction with pt,s.They do`nt talk about this in nursing school

So give me some advice. How do I go about this? What do I put on my resume? Do I stay? I`m so gun shy now. Need your help kids.

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

So ho did you recover from that? How did you get to find where you fit?

Where did you seem to shine in clinicals in your program? Where did you work that you were not successful? Were you in a hospital or LTC?

You have to really get analytical about why you wanted to be a nurse. Did you see yourself taking care of adults? kids? traumas? icu? nicu? or doc's office?

Ultimately, you are the only one who can answer the question of where you would fit best, but we can help you if you give us more clues about your interests and your abilities.

[redknight]

It was a SNF unit. The pace is alot diff.from nursing school. where you`d have 1 or 2 pt. as to 24 pts that you are expected to do all the meds. on time.Which I just can not manage to get done. Not with all the other interuptions that happen along the way.I think I am better in an area that is more controlled

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

I think with your skills, you might try a hospital med-surg unit and when you get it really down pat, you might move over to another specialty. Med-surg is pretty busy, but you'll get a much stronger knowledge base. Choose the right hospital, one that has a good preceptorship and mentoring program, because you'll still need guidance when you move to working the floor by yourself.

Like someone else said before, this might very well turn out to be a blessing in disguise for you. Coming right out of school to work in a SNF, you miss out on a lot of educational opportunities, and the first thing that the new grad needs is to be able to translate the head knowledge to the clinical setting. It's a difficult process for anyone, but most SNF's just don't have the resources to train you properly, IMO.

That said, never mind what they said about you fitting the SNF, was the SNF what you expected? Did it fit into your expectations? Do you want to try another SNF or move on to something else?

Again, think about what you see yourself doing as a nurse. Describe the perfect nursing job for you. Write it all down--what do you love, what do you hate, what hours, what setting.

You probably already know the answers to all of those questions and you need to really search it out because you'll spend a lot of time at work and hopefully, the next job will be that dream job.

[medsurgrnco, BSN, RN]

Going from the limited number of patients students have in school to a SNF sounds like a setup for failure. Med/Surg floors are very busy, but they do have more support for new grads. I'm wondering if perhaps you are slower than the younger ones because you are more thorough which is needed as a nurse, and esp. as a new grad. If you read other posts, you'll see that many of us struggle with finding a decent nursing job.