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Hi everyone! I've been working on a PCU floor going on 5 months now and I just found out that I'm pregnant... Which is exciting, but I'm worried that the workload of my floor, coupled with the Covid patients that we see, would put too much stress on my body for a healthy pregnancy. This is my first baby and I just want to do everything that I can to have a safe and healthy pregnancy and this covid-era nursing environment doesn't feel safe at all. Has anyone else been in the same situation? Did you have options? I'm kind of hoping I can transfer to another floor that sees less critical patients and is a little less strenuous in that regard. I feel trapped because I really need 1 year of acute care experience to become an L&D/Postpartum nurse and enroll in a nurse-midwifery program which is why I decided to become a nurse. I never wanted to work in acute care, but here I am. At this point, I just feel like I made a huge mistake in becoming a nurse and am feeling a little down. Does anyone have any advice?

Hello! I'm very interested in research and I know I would love to pursue this field of nursing at some point in my career. However, I'm just not sure what the benefits of getting a PhD over a DNP are. From my understanding DNPs also participate in research, their schooling is a few years shorter, and they are able to practice as an NP in addition to research. To me, it sounds like DNP is the way to go even if my focus would be in research... but there just aren't a lot of people who have PhDs who talk about their experience, so there could definitely be benefits to having a PhD over a DNP that I'm unaware of! If anyone can speak to the benefits of one vs another, I would love to hear your opinion!

Hello everyone (or hopefully someone!)! I was wondering whether anyone has applied to the Lee Health Nurse Residency program in Fort Myers, Florida? I applied on September 11th and I still haven't heard anything... On the application portal the status has been stagnant at "Applied" which means they haven't reviewed it yet. I actually called HR yesterday and the representative said this was pretty typical since they receive a lot of applications and it takes a while for the nurse resident recruiters to review them all. Which gives me some hope because she didn't come out and say that they weren't hiring new nurse residents, but now I'm just wondering how long is a while and if anyone else is in the same boat? Has anyone else applied to the Lee Health residency recently? Are you stuck in the same spot as I am? If so, how long have you been waiting? Or have you progressed on to being reviewed and interviewed? And if so, how long did it take for them to review your application?