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So why am I feeling like I have lost motivation and steadfastness to go to work??

Has any new RN out there ever experienced the feeling of incompetency when you get on your first job and you feel like you forgotten everything you learned in school? time management for me hasn't been a problem to get ahold of, it's been what seems like a lot of lack of knowledge to be able to make nursing judgements for my patients. Feel like I forgotten the disease processes for some health issues and core symptoms and lab results to make any nursing judgements much less understanding my patients and to have a good report off for the next shift. I mean you have to sit down and really readthrough a lot of progress notes and history to understand fully what's fully going on your patient .... Am I wanting to know too much? Right now my shift reporting is not that great .... I feel like I need to know so much more about my patient and I feel like there's not time to do that.... Plus the EMR system where I am at is so visually tedious takes up so much time....I think some of this is some of the reasons why nurses don't care for clinical floor work or maybe I'm just not cut out for it..,

?best of luck to all of you out there!

I will be on nights....hoping I have just 2 more weeks of days orienting ?..I am not a day person and 12 hrs are an adjustment...especially at 57!..time management is not too much of a problem for me right now as I have been in nursing as an LPN for 15 years..... it's just been a while since I've been on the clinical floor.. but it has not been too bad of an adjustment it's just the 12 hours..... My greatest focus and concern is obviously addjusting to the role of the RN and being able to spot and know signs and symptoms of various disease processes and interventions for that.. As well as knowing procedure and protocol for admissions and obviously getting used to the EMR my hospital has..it is not very visually appealing and a little difficult for me but I'll get a handle on it.... My goal is to be a case manager or patient care coordinator by two years time frame?... Best of luck in your nursing career!

Hi... I am a new grad also and I'm into about a month-and-a-half of my orientation on a med-surg floor.. It was not my intended job but it was only one really that called me back for a position.. my goal was women's health and every hospital obviously has their new graduate nurse residency program and all that seem to be open for positions that I was available to apply to was med-surg.. and I remember in nursing school being told that it's good to have at least a year med-surg experience.. but like I said this was not my intended position to start out with.. however because of the hospital I am in that I used to work as a medical assistant years ago, is a great Hospital a magnet hospital and the way their floors are set up specially med-surg you have pods that have 10 patients on each unit.. that makes it so much more less chaotic and better able to handle your patients.. although the ratio is 1 to 5 but these are not critical care patients and less invasive type of treatment they need... I could not ask for a better crew to work with...I will probably stick with this job because it's not too far away and it's a little better than what I thought and it does pay pretty decent.. however with that being said I think all nurses even new grads especially, need to be very selective of where you work or start off with....if you are not happy where you are at then I would not feel bad to put in my notice if you dread getting up and going in.... You can easily get burned out on it just like with any job that you're not happy with and start off on the wrong foot and then feel like you don't want to be in the profession any more...I'm not trying to be negative nor am I the type of person that says give up on something.. but if you are a young grad nurse you have many years of head of you in the nursing profession and if you are able to to look at something different to start out your nursing career then just do it.....I know probably most replies to your comment are saying stick it out and only you know if you're able to stick it out and want to... I feel like as new graduates we need to have a good job start that we don't mind going to enjoy it and we can handle it and therefore have time to learn our nursing skills.... Since you say you have an hour to and from your job that's a negative right there and if you are able to find something closer to home and something that you can better handle and you enjoy just a little bit better than what you're doing now I would say go for it... Life is short and you want to get off on a good foot as a new RN grad....every person and every nurse even a new grad nurse is different and unique and only you know in your heart what you want and what you don't want what you can handle and what you can't handle...

Thank you for your advice!

May have an opportunity for school nurse at a charter school...I'm a new RN BSN, worked over 10 years as lpn..worked in education 12 years teaching.,.at my age, over 50, this would be a good fit....pay is not bad...cons for me would be paying pet care over 400$ a month?...any thoughts on it being my first RN position?