AnnaR

I'm a new grad RN. I just graduated this last May. I was offered a position in the ICU. I took the position. Very disappointed to find that They now have me working in med surge for a few months. Very upset. This ICU position wasn't advertised this way nor was this brought up in my interview. I worked in labs and as a CNA for 12 years, and I worked as a nurse extern. So I do have experience already. I feel I am being taken advantage of due to a lack of staff to train me in the ICU and I'm picking up slack of med surge nurses who are burned out. I'm planning on quitting asap. Looking for a new job. My end goal is to get my DNP or NP. What careers come with a DNP?

Hi everyone, I work full time in a laboratory and I'm also a nursing student. I injured my back and hip pretty badly at work, and employee health placed me on work restrictions. my manager and supervisor was aware of these restrictions but did nothing to help me. my injury kept getting worse because of this. My doctor and employee health told me to report my manager to HR for not helping me and following the work restrictions. Since then, they both have rude to me and it seems as though they have taken it incredibly personal. recently, I was drawing morning routine labs on inpatients. It was a typical 12 hour work day of being in intense pain and not getting help with the restrictions. One of the patients was chatting with me for a long time and I became distracted and accidentally mislabeled his vial of blood. As soon as I noticed it, I ran to the lab, found the specimen, spoke to the lab tech, found the person in charge of the lab told them, then I called the nurse in charge of that patient to let her know of my mistake, then I wrote myself up. The specimen was discarded and the patient was redrawn. randomly, my manager showed up, at 1130 at night, told me he "happened to just be in town" he brought me to his office and handed me a written corrective action report over my mislabel. I haven't known of any other lab assistant at my work who got this, even though many have made multiple mislabeling mistakes and I've worked as a lab assistant for 8 years and never made a single mistake before.