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So I graduated about 2 months ago and I ended up landing a Float LPN position on medicine units. I hardly had any medicine experience at all, other than my clinical rotations when i was still in school. During those rotations, we were only assigned 2 patients. I've had a couple of buddy/orientation shifts already. They're about to send me on my own soon (i'm able to ask for more buddy shifts), and just thinking about it gives me anxiety and chest pains to the point where i can barely breathe. It's worse when I'm on the floor handling 4-6 patients, which I am totally NOT used to. I absolutely know nothing. Heck, i even had trouble hooking up a primary IV line with a piggyback on a PICC line. I felt like i disappointed my preceptor or maybe he thought i was a joke. I feel like the only thing i know how to do right are taking vitals lol. There's just so many things i don't know how to do and it makes me feel super incompetent. Like medications, or even diagnoses, i feel like i dont know enough about them and the interventions associated with each and every thing. My time management is god awful as well. I can barely handle 2 total care patients alone. I feel like quitting and it's only been a couple of weeks on the floor. Being a float nurse as well just stresses me out even more cause i have to get used to 6 units and know where everything is. Am i the only one who feels like this? Any tips to get through this?

Hi there, I'm currently a student LPN waiting to write the CLPNA exam. I was wondering if it's possible to maybe work here in Canada for about 1-2 years and then getting a job as an LPN/Enrolled Nurse in Australia (I'm not quite sure if there's a difference between LPNs and ENs. But, I'm planning to go to a music school in Australia so I wouldn't be able to work as much. Would I be able to find a PRN Enrolled Nurse job in Australia, or would I have a hard time finding one? Or as an alternative, would taking a break from nursing (let's say 1-2 years) for school be a good idea? Would it be hard for me to re-license and find a job back in Canada? And one more thing, this college i will be attending has stated that once i get a student visa, i won't need to apply for a working visa in order to work in Australia. Does that apply to all jobs or just jobs that don't require an education? Thank you.