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I’d be searching for another position ASAP, at least, if you can afford to take some more time to keep looking. That’s super shady to be hired for days and then be told out of nowhere, that nope, you’re on nights instead. I think it just sets the table for the employer to continue to use you and lie about future things. It’s sad that hospitals are apparently doing this, nonetheless. But absolutely, I’d be saying “nope” and run for the hills.

Have you thought about working outside of the hospital setting? Nursing is such a wide scope and there’s so many places we can work, like school nursing, dialysis, chemotherapy infusion centers, public health, home health, etc. There are so many options out there that don’t involve the hospital. I myself am not a fan of 12 hour shifts, nights, and weekends, so hospital nursing isn’t my thing. But definitely do try a different facet of nursing before you completely let the entire career/education go.

Agree so much with this. As nurses we spend so much time preaching to our patients the importance of empathy but then we can’t even feel some empathy towards our own fellow nurses. It’s a shame that as nurses, we’re made to feel like the lowest humans on earth when we have a life mishap and end up late for a clinical rotation. Nurses HAVE to start cutting their fellow nurses some slack. Sure there’s always one bad apple who will take advantage of that but we can’t let our profession keep being dominated by the complete lack of understanding for one another.

Side effects for me were pretty much the same with the first and second shot. I received the Moderna vaccine. The morning after each shot, I had a horrible frontal headache, light sensitivity, and my eyes hurt (sounds weird, I know). Lasted about 2 days after the first shot, only lasted 1 day after the second shot. I was also incredibly tired after each shot for the day afterwards (Felt like I was in the first trimester again ?). I had some very transient nausea with the second shot when I’d gone home that night and laid down for bed.

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I am an LPN who has been in practice for 7 years and am currently working on my LPN to RN bridge. I just started my program last week and it is an 11 month program. I currently work 3-4 12's per week and am stuck in a cross road with my job. Our census is low at the moment, so management is cutting down on nurses, and it has been discussed today that we might go to 1 nurse on day shift and 1 nurse on night shift. I am personally not comfortable being the only nurse out on the floor for a 12 hour day shift, taking care of 61 residents. I have med techs and aides who can help but I feel that this is a risk to my license. I made my concerns noted today to HR and my DON but I ultimately cannot change what administration might chose to do. I am thinking about applying to a clinic position that would be full time and M-F, but I am not sure if I could manage this, along with school. My RN program is on Thursdays from 5P-9P and then we have 2 12 hour clinical rotations every other weekend. Has anyone here ever done an LPN to RN bridge program and been able to work a M-F job. I don't want to leave my job where I am because I love my co-workers and residents but I also do not want to take a chance with my license on the line. Any advise is welcome. Please and thank you in advance.

Since management refuses to step in and protect the patient, next time a patient of her experiences an adverse event (codes, falls, etc), I would handle it as much as you can if she is nowhere to be found and then document in the chart “this nurse handled situation, patients primary nurse made aware of situation once found. Primary nurse was sleeping in conference room (or wherever you found her sleeping)”. Then leave it at that. Let management see that documentation in the legal chart and see if they change their tune.