Jo89

I'm a new grad RN in a residency program on a neuro trauma unit. Previously I was an LPN in long term care for three years. I've only had a few shifts maybe six or seven now on on the floor but I'm already questioning if I should leave. My past three shifts I was miserable. I am training on days and nights. I did days the last three and took two patients on my own. I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm so overwhelmed. I want to get the experience but now im questioning if it's even worth the stress. The unit is mostly comprised of newer nurses, people are willing to help but I can tell they are busy snd stressed. It's a tough unit, you're only supposed to have four patients but they sometimes get five. Any advice is much appreciated.

I've applied to many new grad positions for July, but the one I wanted the most turned me down. Is it worth it to try and get in for September start? Or just accept a position at another hospital.

Have you thought about applying to assisted living homes? You see mostly the same residents and it's more of the same routine. You can also most likely do 8 hour shifts and get a rotating set schedule. It's not the only option but something to think about.

What's up with the new grad RN pay? It's so low where I am (NH) and it seems to be non negotiable. Is this something that is usually negotiable? I have my LPN and I'm gonna be taking about a ten dollar pay cut if I want to get any experience at a hospital it seems.

I had a very small pay raise during my one year review at my company. It’s been about a year and a half now and since then I’ve been accepted to an RN program. I also feel like I am being underpaid compared to the pay rate in the surrounding area. My question is do I go directly to HR or I do I have to meet with my DON first?

I’m an LPN, I applied to an RN program in my area and just got my decision letter and got waitlisted. The school will not disclose where students are on the waitlist. Is this normal? Should I just wait it out or start looking at other options?

I’m a newly graduated lpn and just got hired at a holistic health care center. We agreed upon a rate of pay and then a 2 dollar increase when I started doing IV work. She informed me the day I was hired I would get paid 18 dollars an hour for that day since I was there the whole day and observed procedures. After receiving my first check I am still only getting paid 18 dollars an hour. I informed them of this and they told me that is the rate of pay until I am fully trained and on my own. This was not agreed upon. I’ve never heard of this before in any kind of job setting. Is this normal? I’m not sure what to do because otherwise I really like this job so far.

Thank you both, I didn’t really think of getting malpractice insurance before but now I definitely am. I think another thing I was hesitant about was only being able to use a small portion of the skills I learned in school but as someone else said above IV experience would be good to have.

I’m a new LPN graduate and applied to a job in a holistic health care center on a whim thinking I would never get a call back. Surprisingly I did and they wanted me for the job. The place is very small and only has a handful of people working there. I wasn’t sure what to ask for pay in NH so I asked for 23-25 and they told me they would start me at 23 and move me to 25 once I become trained in IV. I’m going to mostly be doing IV therapy and colon hydrotherapy. Im just curious what other nurses thoughts are on a new nurse taking a job like this. I thought I would be working in a typical nursing home as a new graduate, but I liked the idea of this place because it is small.

I just graduated from an LPN program. I also hold a BFA that I got when I was in my 20’s. I’m 31 now. I know eventually I want to be a nurse practitioner. My question is should I continue on at a community college and do a LPN to RN bridge program and try to work my way up from there or try to get into a direct entry masters NP Program while working as a LPN as I still need to take some prerequisites to apply. I know this is going to come down to being a personal choice but I would just like to see some other people’s opinions. Thank you.

Thanks for the replies. I have about two weeks left of my program and I’m finishing up preceptorship in a nursing that’s very understaffed. It made me a little nervous to see one nurse to thirty patients because I’m so slow with things right now and I’m afraid I’m going to make a mistake with that many people.

I’m just wondering what the orientation phase has looked like for newly licensed nurses at new jobs and how long had it typically been? Also curious what kinds of jobs newly licensed lpns’s have taken.

I’m almost done with my LPN program, I have about three months to go. I just started clinical last week. We had to do virtual clinical in place of sim lab over the Summer, so it has definitely been hard going from in class, to all online, back to in class. My program requires that you get a 74 test average on nursing exams before they factor in anything else or you don’t pass. They also require that you take an achieve a 100 on a math quiz each semester or you can’t go to clinical, you only get three try’s to get a 100 or they tell us we will fail clinical. I’m just wondering this is typical of nursing programs? It seemed kind of extreme to me but I also have never taken any courses before this. This program seemed hard to me, this semester they have us taking a test every week for one the nursing classes.