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I don't pretend nursing was my first career choice. Now that I am a nurse, I know I chose this profession for the short term as a stepping stone to something else down the road. I am not sure what down the road is yet but I knew before starting nursi...

No kids and no plans to have them anytime soon. Just a really supportive husband and pets. Thanks for your post :)

I am done. Not officially because I need to figure out my next move, but I am done with healthcare, not just nursing. I have realized that my personality does not fit this profession. I am not a patient or tolerant person. I entered healthcare becaus...

Hi there. I have an ADN in nursing with an MS in psychology. At the encouragement of my nurse manager, I applied for a nurse educator position at my hospital. I didn't think I was qualified for the job but applied anyway and have an interview. I am a...

I haven't had the interview yet but I will keep you posted.

I have been offered to train as a diabetes educator and become certified in the future. Just wanted to here from those of you that are and what a typical week at work looks like for you. What are the positives and negatives? What is the salary. Tha...

Just wondering what an RN can do to start their own business or work from their home. Tired of working for corporate a** holes who suck the life out of you and make you continuously work with fewer resources for their bottom line. I would like to wor...

what do you mean assisted living?

Sounds heavenly.

This is a second career for me and I am a smidge over 30. First career was to be a psychotherapist. The BS and MS education in psych was amazing. But practicing as a therapist did not turn out well (didn't realize how chronic mental illness is and di...

I am really hoping to get a clinic job asap and get off of nights. I like my job and my crew on nights but I just can't do this hospital schedule anymore. I feel like if I could get off nights, I could then refocus my energy and start to delve deeper...

I here ya. I don't hate nursing, I hate bedside nursing and working in the hospital with a passion. My mental, emotional, and physical health has sufferred. Even now I sit here and want to call into work because I work a 12 and have only slept 4 hour...

There is currently a clinic day position available that I have applied to. Is there any way I can talk to my NM or HR about being placed in this job considering I am having such difficulties with NOC's? Can they do that? I know seniority is seniority...

Pedicurn, you are a premium member. Can NOC's cause this? I mean I am not blind to feeling there are some other underlying issues I need to figure out, but when I was on orientation for on days I don't remember hating life this much. And, when I have...

Thanks!!! I am having a hard time determining if it's working NOC's that is causing this. Do you know if working nights can cause someone to feel this way mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Yes. I have a huge problem with this. I feel like I have all of this knowledge to share but feel more like a glorified waitress. Every time before I leave a room I always ask "Is there anything else I can do for you while I am in here. Or is there a...

Thanks for all the great responses. I am just not sure what to make of anything right now. I think I need to see a professional. I have been in contact with my nurse manager (whom I had a conversation with about this maybe 2 months ago because I was ...

Very interesting. I definitely have never felt content. I don't even know what that would look like. I almost feel like that is a bad thing. Like if I were content, I would see that as a failure because I am not working towards some new goal. I'm a v...

I know I am depressed. I have felt my every day motivation slipping away. As much as I want to look for something else, I think working NOC's is a big culprit. Before nights I actually cleaned my house, ran errands, cooked things (sometimes) exercise...

I have to go to work tonight and I am just dreading it. I wish I could call in. I wish I could take a fricken month off of work and take some time to sort through my head. Want to curl in ball. Maybe I should start searching out some restaurant jobs....

I actually did that, went to a career counselor when I bailed on therapy after graduation. I learned a lot of what I already knew about myself. But, again, I could feel myself forcing my path because I was afraid of having no direction. Afraid of no ...

Even now as I think about it, I can't decide if I just don't have the patience for any of it anymore. The more I have worked with people in a variety of settings the more I have become pessimistic about people in general. The bad and negative really ...

I currently work straight NOC's 8's and 12's. I just got a job offer on a unit I want to work on but it's day/night rotation. Any thoughts on rotating like that or should I just stay on stratight NOC's? I have rotated eve/NOC and loathed it but it wa...

I meet with the nurse manager next week so I will get the particulars. I swear when working in the hospital, no shift is a good shift, except per diem :)

Wow! How vile and crude. What a fricken idiot. We'll see how anti birth control he is when some girl who will obviously be hallucinating at the time, let's him have sex with her. Ugh. I think I lost a few brain cells processing that idiot's thoughts....