jss1985

Thanks for your response. Someone else at my job mentioned something similar to this. I don't know if this counts or not, but I've been at my hospital for 12 years and 95% of the people there know me, I've either floated to where they work or they've floated to where I work.. basically I've worked with most of the ppl there at some point or another. Such is the case for the new floor I'm orienting on now. On my new floor is 1 nurse and 1 PCT who use to work with me on my old floor 6 years ago, along with a couple agency PCTs as well, the other staff on the new floor I know from floating. So I don't know if being an RN on my old floor would be any different than this? I've also had 4 people from the old floor question my leaving (in a nice way). One of them being a social worker who "thinks" it was Management's idea to move me, saying "I don't know why they didn't try to keep you here, you know how to work with these kids."

OK but what is leading you to this idea? I'm confused. I've been in psych for 13 years now, not as a nurse but still.

I'm sorry. I'm not sure what you're trying to say exactly?

Thank you for your insight ? what you said about the adults being easier compared to the kids was one of the driving points behind my original decision. I think they are easier in the sense that you said,.not having to deal with those family members, etc but then they are harder in the sense that they have more meds and more medical problems. I'm sure they probably punch harder too. I've been hit 2 times over the last decade by adolescents. I'm just so mad at myself, like I thought I had really thought this whole thing through. But bam! Unforseen plot twist. It's like I didn't realize how good and easy I had it where I was.

Hi guys. This might be a bit long, I apologize, but I really need to get this off my chest and I'd really appreciate your insight... For the past 10+ years up until I became an RN recently, I've been a PCT on a pediatric psych unit. I really got used to it... great co-workers (2 or 3 of them can be a little psych themselves haha), we all shared a good sense of humor. What I didn't like about working with the kids is that when it comes to the problematic ones, let's say you've tried everything non-invasive (therapeutic communication, setting boundaries, reinforcing rules, etc) and nothing works, the doctors (and SOME nurses) will STILL look for every reason in the book not to move to more invasive maneuvers like give IM medication or do seclusion. It's a lot of woo-woo'ing if you will. With the adult psych pts, its the polar opposite, one wrong look and its IM or seclusion. So I chickened out of remaining on my unit as a nurse because of this. I was then faced with deciding between day shift with adult psych or night shift with detox. Both units have awesome nurse managers. I would have gone with detox but they only have 4 nurses on night shift (not all at once, but just in total), so I feared that would put me at a disadvantage as a new RN if I needed help of some kind if the crap were to hit the fan. So I went with the adult psych/day shift. I'm 4 weeks into orientation and I have mixed feelings about my decision. However, what I've found is that.... 1. adults is more work, more chronic medical comorbidities, and more medications than the kids. Yes I was made aware of this beforehand, so shame on me in this regard. Nonetheless, I assumed I was probably better off than facing the issues with the kids that I mentioned above. 2. I get along with everyone, no issues but... I can't put my finger on it. It's somewhat of a different vibe than my old co-workers, nothing really bad but just.... Different, I don't really know. I guess I miss my old crew and my old unit. I felt... Comfortable. Even 2-3 of my old colleagues questioned my decision not to stay with the kids since I know them well and have experience there. This further deepened my mixed feelings/regrets. I thought about asking to go back to my kids floor as a nurse, but one... It looks like there's no vacancy right now. Two... My old manager might be a idiot about it because I didn't ask him if I can work there in the first place. Three... It will be a slap in face to my new manager because she really made sure I wanted to be with the adults beforehand. I even thought about switching to detox as well. Despite the staffing problem there, I enjoyed the vibe on the unit. Either way, If I ask to switch now I will look like an indecisive fool. Should I just stick it out where I am? Should I just go to another facility altogether to avoid bringing emotion into this? I mean Im a nurse now, I can go anywhere right? I don't know what to do now LOL...

Nevermind got it

Don't know. Maybe something else then.

Maybe she's letting us in one by one by last name alphabetical?? Im B.

That would definitely explain the lateness

Hi future RN, yes im in waiting room as well.

Did they have an 11am meeting this time? Seems like most of is got 6pm. 11am would have been better for us who work evenings.

Are we supposed to reply to confirm our attendance or just show up at 6?

I got an email too... Do we have to reply to confirm? It didn't say

No. Im sure Tuesday or Wednesday will be the day.

When you log onto cunyfirst, go to search, select bmcc and Spring 2021. For the class, select NUR and type 112 then hit search. There's only 3 sections, each with a lec/lab/clinical. Click each section and it will show you how many are enrolled vs. seats left at bottom of the screen. The number enrolled hasn't changed since this morning so it appears luka is right. I hear you on the stress. Going thru something similar on my end. Too many damn uncertainties all dragged out over a 2 week (almost) holiday period, it sucks. My back-up program (which im not too excited about because my clinical site is not written in stone as of yet) at my out of state school starts Monday the 11th, financial aid says I have $320 left over to pay for classes, I haven't taken a loan yet, I havent ordered books yet (another $300).... All because im waiting on BMCC to get on with this already. I may just order my books for now and if I get in bmcc I can just return them after.