Brainyheart

Hi there everyone...I worked as a new grad on a very challenging med/oncology floor for 8 months (until this past July), then left to take a job in home infuison nursing because I am really interested in IV therapy and because certain things about th...

Hello...I will be starting with a regional home infusion company in two weeks, and I would love to hear of everyone else's experience in the field. I am a new nurse (8 months), and they are willing to train me. I have been interested in IV therapy ...

No, you are not weak, but only overwhelmed. I am leaving floor nursing after only 8 months because I feel that it is simply unsafe and, to add to the absurdity, we are being pressured about having too much overtime. I have never in my 46 years felt...

Thanks so much! I already have quite a collection of books and materials (including Weinstein, and the one the new company uses, by Lynn Dianne Phillips); I am trying to learn as much on my own as I can before the new job starts. I have also been a t...

Hi, again... When I said that there are "hard things" about nursing that can be changed, I wasn't necessarily saying that this is all up to each individual nurse. There are huge systemic problems that are beyond the control of any one person; that's...

I am a very late responder to this post...I would never say that "nurses" are pathetic, but I think the basic structure of nursing is truly dysfunctional---as bad as any family can be. I am only in 8 months, and I am leaving the bedside for a differ...

hi, bbrown06, maybe it might be a good idea to see if there are any in-house transfer positions in med-surg available. i am going full-time into a completely different venue, but i will be looking to work per diem back at the bedside as soon as i am ...

I am...I will have had 8 months on a med-oncology floor by the time I start my new job (in home infusion nursing). I have always wanted to be involved in some aspect of IV nursing, and now I will get to have more regular hours...I have been working e...

P.S.: Sorry, Mark, for calling you Mike!!! I apologize...

:igtsyt: I am in 7 months, too, and I will be quitting. I will NOT leave nursing, only bedside nursing. I certainly feel better about my own skills after 7 months, and that's why I now have the courage to get out of this job. I really don't think it ...

Mike: You are NOT alone! I am 7 months in on a ridiculously chaotic med-oncology floor:scrm: and I am waiting as I write this to see if I got a new (non-bedside) job that I interviewed for yesterday. I cannot survive where I am, and I will keep lo...

Hi, Everyone, I'm a new grad in the Boston area too (licensed July 21). I think there are just too few formal new grad programs and too many of us, so I am scouring any job in med-surg that does not specify a required amount of experience and trying...

Hi everyone, I just got my first interview last week and will hear next week if I got the job; I have been applying since late April. I am prepared to keep looking, though...One thing I had to do was to shake out of the mentality that I could ONLY l...

Mine means that I aspire to think with my heart and love with my mind, and sometimes get so mixed up I don't know which is which!:smilecoffeecup:

Hi, I am just starting the UMASS RN/BSN online program...I got my license in July and I just had my first interview last week. I am excited to be going to school again (I love it; grad in May from Lawrence Mem/Regis). Any tips about starting a job ...

Probably there will be opportunities in the fall, but some places I called said there will be nothing until February. I shook myself out of the idea that I HAD to have a formal "new grad" program before I could start my career; these seem to me to b...

Hi! I'm entering my second year (Whoo-Hoo!) of a 2-year ASN evening/weekend program, and it has been very doable with a full-time job. One plus for me is that I take public transportation to/from work, so I do a lot of reading/studying then. One t...

Hi...I'm not an RN yet either (May 2007, with God's help!), but I also feel led to burn nursing and I hope I can become a CNS in burn/wound care. I just have a sense that burn patients are sometimes among the "least and littlest" (even if they're ad...

OOPS! Just realized that I may have posted in the wrong place...should this have been a new thread? I apologize.

Here's my plan... I am starting my second year in an ASN program (will grad May 07 if all goes well), and I am seriously considering going right on (while working as a new nurse) to an MSN program that's newly opening a CNS component starting in Sept...

[color=olive]hi, everyone! [color=olive] [color=olive]i am starting my 2nd year in an asn program and i am very interested in burn nursing as a specialty. any advice from anyone about what i should be looking at/doing? i am hoping to get my msn fa...

Thanks, everyone! You give me hope that it might be possible. I know we get a special lecture or in-service on burn nursing this coming semester during peds, so I want to be ready to see what's available. Yesterday I visited the director of an MSN...

Hi again, wackyj, No, you can only do the ASN at LMRC. But Regis has a fast-track RN to BS program (and on to the MSN if you want), and it's a direct shoot from LMRC. I think it's a good way to do it, but then again, I am much older than you! I've he...

My first "live" demo of a catheterization was a male, and the guy was just so patient and dignified and classy, with all those students watching (all women!). I guess I don't feel embarrassed as much as afraid of doing it wrong. I haven't actually ...

I had an INTENSE period of insomnia @ 2 years ago, and my MD was concerned about depression. I was afraid to take anything, even though I have struggled w/depression all my life. I finally gave in b/c it was now affecting my physical health. Turns...