windchaser

Hi, I know this post is 9 months old, but I thought I'd respond anyway. I worked at West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida as a staff RN on a Med Surg/Oncology floor and was making $32/hr in 2019. That was with 11 years of experience. West Florida Hospital which is an HCA hospital along with Baptist Hospital are the highest paying hospitals in town. Sacred Heart Hosp is the lowest paying. Have you been able to find an RN job yet?

This is a reply to cdietrich 404 who has tremors, I am about to finish my first semester of nursing school and I also suffer with essential tremor. I am here to tell you to GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My dr put me on Inderal 60mg and also Klonopin and it has been working very well for me so far. The Klonopine just relaxes me so much because when we are being checked off on our lab skills I get sooo nervous my hands would shake even worse!!! I would be so embarrassed just taking a simple blood pressure and my instructor would blurt out why are you shaking so everyone else of course heard her too. Well I am not about to let some ignorant person ruin my dream of finishing RN school and you shouldn't either. My advice to you is to get into a program. Go to your dr and get started on some meds. The Klonopine makes me tired but I do not have a panic attack knowing I am being closely evaluated doing a certain skill. I did injections today and am so proud of myself. Honestly I wanted to cry tears of joy because I hardly shook while administering an IM injection and I also had to draw up insulin. Such a small feat to most people, but for those of us with ET it is an awesome accomplishment! So go all out and if nursing is what you want to do don't let anyone stop you girl!!! Good luck and God bless!!!!

Hello again and thanks to Tweety for letting me know where to post.. Well long story short I was saying that I have Essential Tremor( a movement disorder) that is an uncontrollable tremor in both of my hands. I have tried meds but haven't found the right combination to get rid of or at least lessen the shakiness. I started nursing school 2 weeks ago and in lab we have started to practice taking each others vital signs. When I was being tested on taking my fellow students BP my hands were shaking so badly that I could not even release the valve on the BP bulb correctly so I failed. It was so embarrasing!!!! My instructor says that my tremors shouldn't stop me from becoming a nurse but I am worried sick I won't be able to make it through school because of this reason. I start clinicals in July and am horrified just thinking about performing simple procedures like taking the patient's VITAL SIGNS, FEEDING, INJECTING INSULIN, ETC.. because I know my hands will start shaking immediatley and I won't be able to stop them!!!!!!! I am so stressed about this that I want to drop out already even though it has taken me forever to get to this point. Has anyone here made it through nursing school with hand tremors????? If so, how were you able to make it through clinicals???? Any help is greatly appreciated