DrwngRN

Hello everyone. New nurse here 6 months into my journey, I like my hospital thus far and my coworkers. But my one bugaboo, as a new nurse we have a general nurse residency program that covers all specialities. So it’s not unit specific. Some topics that are included are new nurse support and self care. However, Myself and a few other nurses are on night shift but are required to attend these day shift classes, during our normal sleep hours. Our schedules are flexed so we don’t work the night before or after the class. But still who can flip flop their sleep schedule like that? My first issue with this is self care. We are tired, we can’t focus during these classes, it is interrupting our sleep, if we are tired can we provide the best patient care, no. And my second issue is support, they focus that this program is to support us new nurses. But they won’t change the residency classes to be more accommodating. So what are they supporting? The fact that they can say they have a nurse residency program. They said our employment is contingent upon completing the program. But none of us can remember ever hearing this in our interviews or application process nor did we sign anything. I like my hospital I do, my coworkers are great all supportive of new nurses. But this program to me doesn’t benefit new nurses. It only benefits the hospital being able to say we have a nurse residency program. anyways. Rant over. Any advice? I don’t want to find a new place to work. But I also don’t want to work in an unsafe manner.

Has anyone been able to make their cerner be more like Epic? The hospital I did my clinicals at had two boxes that had both upcoming meds and upcoming orders. These boxes were usually visible at all times when navigating through epic. I thought this was extremely helpful, especially when doctors through tests and new meds in without telling you. I've communicated with my team about my concerns but all I have gotten was the you’re SOL look.