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Helene Fuld is ACEN and CCNE accredited so being eligible to take NCLEX wouldn't be a problem

I am applying to TESU's ABSN program too. Is the program very competitive to get into? is there a waitlist?

I'm a new nurse, working her first job at a wound care clinic for about a month. The job is ridiculously tiring. Wound care is especially tiring because it requires more than just walking steps. I have to squat/ bend/ crouch to look at the posterior side of people's legs, trying to measure wounds at hard to find areas of the body. After work, I get so exhausted that I just collapse in bed. I have purchased a new gym membership that I have barely used because I never have the energy to workout after my shift ends. I have no energy to talk to my loved ones, or go out on dinner dates. Usually 6 hours is sufficient amount of sleep. But with this job, its not enough. The job is so fast paced which adds to the exhaustion. They expect us to finish patients so quickly (due to understaffing) . Adding the fact that I am still new, still learning, getting used to things, makes it even more stressful. I just don't know how I am going to pull through the week. It goes beyond just physical exhaustion, it is also mental exhaustion since it requires so much fast paced thinking. I walk to work feeling like a zombie, half awake, muscle pain everywhere. I just have absolutely no personal life because I am just so exhausted. Is this normal part of nursing? I know I can't be the only one experiencing this. Should I just suck it up, get used to it and accept it as a part of my life forever? I just don't think I can sustain this until old age. The fatigue is extreme. I have no personal life. Please don't tell me that I should just go for another career. Because I am not in the stage of my life where I can easily go back to school for something else. I have a family to support.

I don't think it really matters because my original point was... your judgement will never come close to the judgement required of a doctor. This was my initial point and only point.

All of this began when a nurse was offended I said nursing really wasn't the most difficult thing I ever been through and that I have studied for harder exams. Then she tried over exaggerating her own scope of practice to try to make up for her bruised go. Yea, we get it. RNs do get to use some of your judgement, but you will never make any real major decisions on your own. So please take a seat.

Even an inexperienced person can tell when an RN is tooting her own horn. Thats the last type of person on earth I would trust to believe in.

Theres nothing on here that indicates I didn't know the difference between LPN vs RNs.

I don't need egotistical RNs looking to toot their own horns to teach me what the differences in scope of practice should be for LPNs versus RNs. Down to earth, realistic, HUMBLE nurses only. I definitely know the differences between the scope of practice between LPNs versus RNs. thats why I'm here to call you out when you try to over exaggerate your own scope of practice.

RN jobs do require some sort of judgement but not nearly to the extent of type of extensive judgement that is required by doctors. Very frequently RNs try to over exaggerate their own scope of practice to boost their own egos. Even if you do use your judgement, it will be the docs telling you what to do when you encounter certain types of situations. You really don't have any real decision making power. I have been taught head to toe assessments by my instructors at LPN school, its really not rocket science

I'm a newly graduated LPN. The job search has been awful since I got licensed. Chaotic understaffed nursing homes seem to be the only place that hires LPNs. Nobody wants to work at nursing homes. They have such a hard time keeping nurses that every nursing home will work with up to 10 different recruiting agencies to try to find nurses. I have seen 1 nurse to 40 patients and even a time where I found a nurse in charge of 80 patients. My job training was literally just 3 days- which is far insufficient for a new grad. I knew I wouldn't be ready for the job in just 3 days so I just quit. The work environment was utter chaos, plenty of things that posed risk to my license. I barely had time to eat lunch. I just never realized how mistreated and unsupported nurses are. I would never worked in understaffed conditions. Having to rush as I pass out meds just scares me so much and gives me so much anxiety especially when I'm new and not sure where certain medications are. It freaks me out. I only have 8 hours to pass out meds to so many people. I feel like I'm being set up to fail. I tried to get away from the understaffing by going for home care. But it didn't work out because I was just too inexperienced to be left all alone with a patient for 12 hours a day. Right now I am working at a wound care clinic where they're trying to push through as many patients as possible through the clinic in order to boost revenues. I see as many as 20-30 patients a day, overworking everyone. As stressed as I am, I can't leave this job for because there just aren't any better nursing jobs where things are slower paced, where nurses are treated correctly. I plan on going for my RN next year , in hopes of better job prospects. But currently, seeing RNs are leaving the field in droves too, I am having doubts. I know not all jobs are at the bedside but... the pay for case management / clinic nursing jobs are really very low. I would need to work 2 jobs to support my family. Can any experienced nurses provide some guidance ?

I became a licensed LPN in NYC in November. Since then, I have trained a day in a nursing home then left because it was utter chaos there. I felt like I would never be able to keep up with all the tasks. So I switched to doing home care because I didn't want to deal with the under staffing. It didn't end up working out because these agencies do not provide training but even if they did, it would only be 2 days training- which would not be enough for a new grad especially if I'm dealing with someone's airway (trach and ventilators). So now, I'm stuck in a bad place. The nursing homes are too busy and stressful for me. Nursing home nurses are also too busy and burn out to provide me with decent training. The nursing home I was sent to , only provided me 3 days of training with a very burn out, impatient nurse who hated her job. But then I'm also too inexperienced for home care. A lot of these home care agencies don't want to train me more than 2 days because it would cost them too much money. A lot of parents also don't want me practicing on their precious children. I asked the home care agency if they could put me with less risky patients such as G tube patients without respiratory problems. But they told me that it would be very difficult to find such cases. Bayada home care has a nurse residency program which sounds perfect for a new grad like me but their pay is worse than awful. I have to save up to move to Illinois to start RN program next year. With their terribly low pay, I won't make enough to save up for tuition. So at this point, I feel like I don't where to go. I would never have imagined that my job search would be this bad. I've been unemployed for 2 months since I passed the NCLEX. The more time I spend unemployed, the more paychecks I'm losing. I specifically don't want to work at a clinics pushing papers around on the desk all day because I want to learn the important skills for nursing such as head to toe assessments. But it seems like nobody wants to offer new grads sufficient training.

Sono Bello hires LPNs in their ORs. Is the OR competitive to get into? I'm currently working at an non acute assisted living facility and also home health cases 1 on 1. I can't do nursing homes because I feel like its only a matter of time before I lose my license. Nursing homes are plain illegal businesses from top to bottom. Nurses do so many wrong things in nursing homes just to make sure they get off work on time.

Should I work for Sono Bello as an OR nurse? Would any kind of OR experience be necessary to getting a chance to work in OR? Is the OR competitive to get into?

I certainly agree with you that multi tasking, being a quick thinker, having great memory, physical stamina, a laser sharp mind that never gets frazzled are important qualities. But there is just one thing you left out : trying to make an impossible workload seem possible.

Its been a little over month since I had been applying to LPN jobs now. 94% of LPN jobs tend to be at nursing homes. I spent a day nursing home where I watched a very burn out , stressed, nasty nurse train me. She had to give meds to 30 patients, do wound care, and explain to me everything at the same time. There were so many things that she did which jeopardized her license. I don't want to mention anything specific on here. But nurses really jeopardize their license in under staffing. I've heard other terrible horror stories from staff at other nursing homes too... Nursing homes are basically "illegal businesses". I don't know how they manage to get away with so many things. I really dreaded going back after the first day of training. My hands and feet were moving non stop from 8am to 3:30pm. After that shift, I was so exhausted that I slept 11 hours. I don't think I can ever work in that type of understaffed situation. It is so dangerous. I don't know how some nurses still put up with it. They deserve so much better. If all the nurses just walked out instead of trying to tolerate their BS, then Administration would just treat us better. why? The facility cannot operate without nurses. The more nurses put up with their BS, the more they will mistreat us. Its not hard to find a job as a nurse, but a decent job with decent staffing/ pay / benefits is very hard to come by. Benefits are terrible unless you work for 1199 or hospital where it may be better. Clinic nursing is easy work but the pay is so incredibly low that I would need to work 2 jobs just to be able to be financially stable. Right now, I'm only doing 1-1 home care / luxury assisted living as an LPN where under staffing isn't a problem. I can't ever imagine going through that sort of an understaffed horror story of a nightmare on a daily basis. Many nurses come into the profession wanting to help people, but over the yrs, a lot of them just give up. If I ever get my RN, I would either go straight to the OR or do home IV infusion or aesthetic nursing. The benefits from the agencies / nursing homes are so crappy that it got me thinking about leaving the profession. Because I can't imagine growing old and sick at the age of 59 on this type of crappy insurance that barely covers anything. These nursing homes hire 4-6 different recruiting agencies all at once because they know there is extremely high turnover so they need a constant steady pipeline of new nurses coming in to fill these jobs that nobody wants.