Aliceozwalker

I could really use some advice about anyone who was severely anxious and unsure about their career after joining. A bit of background information. I have always struggled to know what I wanted to do ever since I was in elementary school. I was so uns...

Some of you may remember me from some of my previous posts. I have been a nurse for about 2.5 years now and have hated most of it. I began in an inpatient unit while I did hospice and then switched to a clinic. I was very hopeful that the new clinic ...

OP here. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to reply. I really appreciate all of your feedback and advice. My mental health issues can be debilitating. I have been dealing with anxiety and depression issues ever since I was a child. Unfortu...

Hello. I have been in nursing for a little over two years and I'm going to be honest... it has been a truly terrible experience. So much so that I'm reconsidering the profession. To be fair, some if not most of this is definitely on COVID. But everyo...

Thank you all for such well thought out and written perspectives. I'm sorry I haven't written back in such a long time, honestly, the only way I could cope was not thinking about the future for a while. I am a huge introvert and do have social anxiet...

Hi everyone, I know that some people have been following my posts, and I did mention that I would post when I had some news. Five weeks ago a full-time position was posted for the clinic at the hospital I work at (hospital pay, 9-5, Mon-Fri). I ...

I am so sorry to be posting again so soon but a situation just happened that has led to me considering leaving both nursing jobs. This job is definitely the better of the two under normal circumstances. All staff members at my community job rece...

Hello! I post fairly regularly on this site but haven't posted in about three weeks. I figured would make a post as to where I was at since there were some concerns. As several members suggested before I followed up with both my MD and psycholo...

Thank you so much for always responding, SmilingBluEyes and LibraNurse27. ? My parents are really pushing for me to stay part-time until December unless I find another position. At that point, I will have completed two years at the hospital and spent...

I wish my anxiety was getting better the more experienced I got but if anything it feels like it's gotten worse. This also puzzles my psychologist but it could be that the more experienced I get, the more responsibility and difficult patients I get, ...

I actually don't live in the US. Where I live has universal free healthcare, so often nursing rates at the hospital are set based on the area across hospitals. In short, all hospitals and every unit make the same in a particular area. This has begun ...

Hi everyone, I am an RN who has been struggling quite a bit recently and thus has made several posts. To give a quick summary for those unfamiliar with my situation, I have been working at a medical unit at a local hospital part-time for close t...

Hello everyone, While I have been venting quite a bit on this forum about my declining health and lack of job offers, I am trying to look at things from a different perspective. Yesterday I was rejected from two more positions in the community(n...

I should probably re-frame that. ? I would maybe consider going back to school if I had something else I strongly desired to do. But since I have anxiety and social anxiety I always really struggled in figuring out what to do. I actually took a super...

Believe it or not, my hospital job has a required course for my unit that is not covered by the hospital. So you have to pay for it out of pocket. 0.0 It is actually a source of irritation for many of the people on my unit, they and I feel that if th...

I actually have almost two years of experience. ? But yeah not enough for an educator role, the hospital I am requires at absolute lowest 5 years.

I honestly and truly wish school nursing was more of a thing in my country (I don't live in the States). ? I have looked and apparently, there isn't a school nurse position in over 150km.

Both of the courses I am currently taking are required for each one of my jobs. So I had to take them to stay in my current roles. The one in September is a recommended course for the hospice, and they offered to pay for me to take it provided I stay...

Thank you very much. I do need a new healthcare provider so I will start to look into that immediately. Work is not going to get any better with being short-staffed, they have been short for the past 2 weeks at least once a shift. So I need to start ...

I did start to consider that more strongly but apparently so have some other hospital nurses. They just hired another nurse who got full-time and she is from the ICU! Apparently, she just got so fed up with being forced to stay in the ICU at the hosp...

Sorry for all of my posts recently, I'm just struggling at the moment. I recently made a post about how much I disliked my current med/surg hospital job and wanted to quit. I have been in that job for a year and a half so feel I gave it a good chance...

Sorry if this is a dumb question but what does PMP for? I tried looking it up but didn't see much on the web. Is it Primary Physician? If so, my family physician has been a problem to get a hold of recently. My family is actually discussing switching...

Thank you again for responding to me. Unfortunately, part-time nurses do not have benefits at my hospital and can only book up to three sessions to speak to a counsellor through EAP. I already used mine earlier last year. I do, however, have a psycho...

Thank you that is good to know! ?

Three days ago I had an interview for a part-time clinic position at a nearby hospital. The interview was actually quite intense and fast-paced, it was a panel zoom interview with 5 upper staff members. I was booked for a 30-minute slot and when I tr...