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Hi! Im starting a job in a subacute rehab. I only have acute care experience for 3 years and would like to ask help on how to get by in a 7a-3p shift with 30 something patients. more like a general routine. thanks for the input!!

Good morning everyone! I dont wanna start the day like this, but i will. I graduated Jun '06, nurse since august '06. I am sooo depressed. How come nobody hasn't called me back yet? Ever since my hospital announced that they're closing (January), i started applying. But no luck! Up to now, nobody has called me. Why is that?? I applied in several hospitals here in NJ. I am currently pursuing NY. WHY?? Now, new graduates are gonna emerge. Will I have better chances of landing a job? I hope my fears are wrong. I work in the SBHCS, specifically Union Hospital. I went for an interview in Livingston, and told me i was "too new". Which is funny because the reason i went there was my friend, who graduated on the same class, went on the same hospital as me. Well, she works in Telemetry and I work in MS. They gave her a position, and rejected me coz I'm too new?? With 8 months experience??? Actually, they hired 2 people or more from my class. Not fair!! My coworkers try cheer me up. Since I'm the youngest (21), they think of me as a baby and feel bad because I dont have the same amount of years of experience like they do. They havent even started looking yet. They tell me Im a nurse so dont worry im gonna find a job somewhere.. WHERE?!? :-( I just moved out of my parents house in Nov. and i guess im gonna have to move back in if i cant find a job... Seriously guys, can i really find a job?? Is there actually a shortage?? Or thats just some myth they made up so people would go to Nursing?? They say not a lot of people like Med-Surg, I like MedSurg. How come nobody's hiring for MS RNs?? Can you guys gimme some tips? Could i have been doing something wrong with the way i look for jobs? Maybe Im looking at the wrong places?? I have an Associates' btw. Ive been wanting to go for my BSN but this job thing is not working pretty good for me.. Plus. I'm so scared that the next hospital I go to would close again, it would be the third in a row if that happens. ::Knock on wood:: I live in Jersey City, btw.. Arrgghhh......

Hi! Does anybody have any information about Hoboken University Medical Center? I graduated last year, the first floor that I went to closed so I moved to another hospital. 2 months later, they announced the hospital (Union Hospital) was closing. It's so frustrating and devastating. Im losing faith but I'm holding on. I wanna make sure my third hospital would be "THE oNE." or at least something stable. HobokenUMC is pretty close to where I live. NY hospitals are on my options too, but I'm hoping i could land somewhere close to home. Thanks in advance everyone!!

thanks so much guys!! well, i slept 12 hours after i read the posts. haha.. belated happy valentine's day!!:roll

"the incident report becomes a part of your file." what will this serve in the future? i guess its something bad. would it be like when other employers call they'll say, "oh she missed giving 1 dose of antibiotic.." or something? thanks again.. i guess ill be able to sleep a little bit now... THANKS!! (i am so sleepy that the word "file" kinda looked like "life" to me for a second there hehe.. i read again... haha silly me..)

last night, my night was good. better than my usual bad nights. for some reason i always have them. last night, actually this morning was not an exception. just when i thought i was doing better with my job. 6 am. time to give the last medications for the night. whew! what a relief. so i made my rounds. this one patient, her BP has been elevated the entire night. i kept rechecking her and i was getting in the 170s. kept paging the intern, no reply. i was able to give everyone their meds though. thats what i thought. 7 am, gave the change of shift report. i was finally home, in bed ready to have a nice 3-day off. then my cellphone rings. its the hospital. i thought maybe they're calling me to work tonight since its gonna be snowing. so i didnt pick up. i let them leave a message. ill call them when i wake up. left a message. i decided to listen to the vm anyway. it was my PCC (pt care coordinator). "...We're calling about this patient X, u took care of her last night, but i cant see where u signed for the ancef that u gave to her this morning please call me back." so i searched my brain, did i give it? i called her. "Did u give her her dose of ancef this morning coz u didnt sign for it?" "i think i gave it... actually im not sure.." "you wanna call me back and think about it?" "oh okay,. thanks thats a good idea. click." ****. i dont think i gave it. i was so focused with her BP. i didnt get to check if she had meds. and i left the medication on her cassette. crap. so i called back. told her about the BP issue. "But what does her pressure have anything to do with her ancef? is there any reason why you didnt give it to her?" i said the same reason. "okay. bye-bye." click. this pt. came in for cellulitis. and they just changed her vanco to ancef q8h. okay. here's what i think would happen when i get back: a) i get written up b) ill get fired c) they'll let it go (0.000000000000000001%) so, here's my question/s: what happens when u get written up? what could be the worst that could happen? is there a chance i will be fired? or lose my license??? im really scared. i just started my career, and now what if it ends so quickly? im not scared, im terrified. i need some advice, or anything pls. i havent slept for 50+ hours now. pls help.

During my practicum, weeks before my graduation, where we basically function "like nurses" my instructor said so many things that tore my entire being. Sucked out all the confidence i had (which was not a lot) and made me wanna just get the hell outta there bcoz i couldnt take anymore of the things thats he told me. now, this comes from a very insensitive person in terms of criticism: comes in on one ear, out the other. I was probably having a bad week. I couldnt function at all. She gave me excellent feedbacks in ICU rotation, but for some reason, my performance sucked on med-surg. Here's SOME: "I cant see you as a safe nurse." "You're not using your common sense." "I dont know if i should pass you because you are not meeting the criteria to pass this course." "It's too late to fail you. Why are you always anxious?? " Okay. i have to stop, those are one of the most terrifying moments of my nursing school life. i feel weird. Boy, am i sooo grateful to be out of that place.

im a new grad nurse. i applied for a night shift amd luckily got the "last" position available in a Med-Surg floor. i was oriented on day shift for about 3 weeks and am about to go to night shift next week. Now, being still fresh from nursing school, the information is still there: cranial nerves, TSH and T3/T4, etc. basically the ideals. now i started liking days. ive never worked nights before. the only reason i took this job was the hospital where i used to work (orientation) had problems with us new grads. i never really considered the learning experience im gonna get. now im scared that since at nights, no procedures are done, not much doctors on the floor, patients are mostly sleeping or something, im not gonna be able to grow. i think day nurses get more expereince. im scared that i might get "stuck". i just realized that our firstreal job really counts. I was aiming for ER or ICU or at least a telemetry floor. I was a bit disappointed that i got the MS position. Also, i also noticed that most nurses at nights where i work at least, are not as competent as i imagined them to be. some of them will give reports and then not even mention that a pt is going for a surgery. i mean, how can u miss that? and pt has a foley? how can u say he "wets his bed.. he's incontinent of urine i guess.." and then when we come to assess the pt, he has a Foley with bloody urine?? i mean, i dont want to be an ok nurse. i want to be a good nurse. well, maybe i am being too idealistic. for me, i wanna start my career in a straight line because i think if we start overlookiing things and its like we just go there for the money. and i dont want that. i want to start practicing being a safe nurse as early and as much as possible. ok ill stop now. insight plleeeaasse.... TY!!!

i took the nclex today and it shut off at 75. im sooo scared because i feel like 75 questions was not enough to determine my competency,,, and i feel like i should've had more questions because i felt like most/all of my answers were wrong... im a nervous wreck right now,,, staring at the ceiling... wacthcing blankly on the TV,, nothing else on my mind,, my classmates calls it th "Post-Nclex Stress Disorder.." juz wanna share guyss.. thanks