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I graduated with my BSN in June 2020. Since then I've had 3 jobs. I have a few questions about my resume. If anyone could give advice I would be really thankful. An answer to any of the questions below will help! - Should I remove my clinical experience from my resume? June 2019 to March 2020 - My first job out of college was from July to October 2020 as a med-surg nurse and it only lasted for 3 months. Should I remove this from my resume? I've gotten questions at interviews in the past about this job and I don't like to talk about it because I was terminated at the end of my orientation. I did learn a lot of different skills at this job though. - If I get rid of clinical experience and my first nursing job it will leave me with two contract jobs doing immunizations (1st was for 3 months and 2nd was for 5 months). Both were at the same company. The job descriptions were a bit different (one was only covid vaccines and the other was all immunizations). There's also a gap of time between the two jobs. One was March to May 2021 and the other was September 2021 to February 2022. Should I somehow combine them or keep them separated on my resume?

I'm a fairly new nurse. I graduated back in Spring 2020. My current job is a contract job and ends in December. I'm trying to figure out what I should do after it ends. After this job ends my experience will be 3 months on a medical surgical unit and 5 months as a vaccination nurse (mostly just administering covid and flu shots in a clinic setting). Most of the areas that I'm interested (post-partum, nursery, travel nursing, etc.) require at least a year of experience at a hospital. I also feel like I've lost a lot of nursing knowledge since nursing school. I feel like I've messed up a lot since graduating and now it will be difficult getting a job. Any advice on what steps I should take next? I'm feeling lost and wondering if I should even be a nurse.

I feel like I'm really bad at interviews so I could use some advice to prepare. I'm not exactly sure what questions I should prepare for. I'm interviewing for a med-surg floor and really nervous. I feel like they might ask about my previous work experience and work gaps on my resume. For example, last fall I had my first nursing job on a med-surg floor. This job only lasted 3 months. Then I had a few months unemployment gap. Then I got a temporary position giving Covid vaccinations which only lasted 2 months. If the interviewer asks about my first job I'm not sure if I should be 100% honest or make something up. The honest answer is that I was terminated on my last day of orientation because my manager had concerns with medication safety, critical thinking, and prioritization. In a previous interview I had I was asked about why I left and I said that the unit wasn't a good fit for me. They asked me to explain more and I didn't know what to say. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! I really need this job.

It says the hours are MWF 5:45am-4pm and no weekends. It's also accepting new grads and there's paid training. This sounds too good to be true. I've heard a lot of bad things about acute inpatient dialysis (on-call, long hours, etc.). Is the outpatient setting better?

I graduated Spring 2020 with my BSN. I started my first job as a med-surg nurse in August 2020. I was there for 3 months before I was fired because my critical thinking and prioritization skills weren't where they should be according to my manager. I was unemployed for some time and then started a temporary Covid vaccinator job from March to May. I've been applying to a lot of jobs since the end of May. I don't really want to do med-surg again so I've been applying to areas that I'm interested in such as post-partum, NICU, nursery, and allergy nurse. I haven't heard back from any of the jobs though. Do you think I haven't heard back since I only have 5 months of experience (3 months med-surg and 2 months vaccinator)? I'm feeling very lost now and not sure if I'm going to be able to make it as a nurse. I feel like I'm forgetting a lot of nursing knowledge since it's been so long. I was thinking about trying to apply for med-surg again, but do nights. I know I'll probably be miserable, but if I could try to do it for 9 months then I'd have a year total experience in med-surg. What do you think I should do?

I graduated last Spring with my BSN. Since then I’ve had 2 nursing jobs. One was working on a med-surg unit for 3 months and the other was working as a Covid vaccinator for 2 months. The first job I was terminated from on the last day of my orientation because I couldn’t handle the work load and I made some med errors. My second job was only temporary and ended about 2 weeks ago. I don’t know what to do now. I’m unemployed and not completely sure what area of nursing is right for me. I do know that I hated my med-surg job, but it could have just been that hospital. What I didn’t like about it was the unit was understaffed and I ended up having too many high acuity patients to take care of at once. Sometimes there wouldn't be any secretary or nursing assistants on the unit so I would have to do their jobs, too. I also didn’t like the constant phone calls from doctors, family members, lab, etc. As far as the Covid vaccinator job, I actually liked it a lot more than my first job. It was fast paced at times, but I was only dealing with one person at a time. So I’ve been thinking a lot about what I should do. I have less than a year of experience and most job listings require more than a year. For my area, this mostly leaves me with choices of home care, long term care, and med-surg. At one point I was considering long term care, but then I interviewed for a position and they told me their nurse to patient ratio was 1:25. I can’t see myself taking care of that many patients at a time and it doesn’t seem safe. I also know I would be miserable and way too stressed. One option I’m considering is going back to college to get my school nurse certification. This would take 3 semesters though and I’m not even completely sure if that’s what I want to do. Some other areas I'm interested in, but not yet qualified for are: post-partum, nursery, and doctor's offices/clinics. I feel like I’m all over the place and I need some advice. Thanks to anyone who responds!

Did anyone here get their school nurse certification from Rowan? I'm currently in the process of applying. It's 18 credits and 3 semesters long. It says that it's a hybrid program so I was wondering how often I will need to be on campus since Rowan is about 45 minutes away from where I live. Any information or experiences with this program would be appreciated! Thanks!

Here's some background: graduated nursing school Spring 2020, got a med-surg job at a hospital, was fired after 3 months due to not being able to handle workload, have been unemployed for 3 months now. I received an offer from a LTC facility today and I'm unsure if I should take it or not. They told me that it's 25 patients per nurse. While these patients are stable and not acute, I was unable to handle 6 patients on the med-surg floor. My family is telling me to take the job and quit after a few weeks if it's too much for me. I honestly would feel kind of bad doing that. They said the orientation at most is usually 2 weeks (6 days total). So they aren't spending too much money on orientating me. I guess I could also just not include it on my resume if it's for a short time. I'm unsure if my next employer would see it in a background check though. What do you think I should do?

I have an interview tomorrow for a LTC/rehab nurse job. What are some common questions they might ask me that I can prepare for? I've already prepared a few below: - Why do you want to work here? - Why did you want to be a nurse? - Why did you leave your last job? - Why are you an outstanding candidate for this position? - What does quality patient care mean to you? - What are some of your strengths and weaknesses? - Why do you want to work part-time? This will be my first in person interview for a nursing job. What are some other questions I can expect? Are any of these questions unlikely (so I don't waste time on them)? I also plan to ask them some questions at the end of the interview: - What would my orientation be like? - What is the average nurse to patient ratio here? ---> (btw, what's a good ratio for LTC?) - What advice would you give to a newer nurse like me to succeed? Thank you for any advice!!

I only have 3 months experience in med-surg. When I was on the med-surg unit I usually had 6 patients. It would take me a really long time to do med pass and assessments just for these 6 patients (for example, 8am-10:30 or 11am). I've heard that nurses working at nursing homes can have around 30 patients at a time. Is this true? I don't know how I would be able to complete med pass in a timely manner with that many patients. Do you have to do assessments every shift for these patients, too? I'm also wondering how different skilled nursing is from med-surg in terms of families visiting, calling doctors and getting orders, and charting. The job I'm looking at also has 8 hours shifts instead of 12 hour shifts. There's 7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm, and 11pm-7am. Which one would be the best for a fairly new and unexperienced nurse like me? Thank you to anyone who responds with advice!

What is a typical day like as a home care nurse? I have 3 months of experience as a medical-surgical nurse. I'm now looking for another job and it seems that there are a lot of job openings for home care in my area. It says new grads welcome and training provided. I was thinking as a new nurse it might be a challenge being on my own (compared to having other nurses around at a hospital). What do you think? Should I go for it?

I'm applying for a nurse residency program. A cover letter isn't required and I actually wasn't even going to write one, but then I saw a post about how they can improve my chances a good amount. This is the first cover letter I've ever written and it'd be helpful if someone could look it over for me. Thanks! Cover Letter.pdf