AmandaC83

I had a very similar experience at my first nursing job right out of school. I only worked therw for four weeks. I filled out applications while I was employed there and waited till I was hired somewhere else until I quit. I never put that place on my resume, because I think it looks bad that I worked there for such a short amount of time. Go with tour gut...if tou are not comfprtanle there, don't stay! You need to protect your license. I found that working in a hospital makes me feel much better. I recieved more training in rhe hospital and always have people to go to if I need help or don't know how tp do something.

I just started at a new hospital today and the IV catheter style that theu showed in class room orientation is different than what I have used. I am familiar with the IV catheters that has a " clicking" shield over the needle, basically after you get flash, you retract the needle and a shield comes over it and you keep going until tou hear or feel the click. At the new hospital, they use a catheter that after you are in the vein you pull out the needle and push a white button and it retracts the needle. I feel like the push buttom is so unsafe, since you pull out the needle. Has anyone else used both and have an opinion on what they like better? Did the educate me wrong and there is a safer way to retract the needle?