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Just wondering if anyone has worked as a nurse auditor or knows much about it. any info would be helpful. thanks!

you could always find a job on the floor and start orientation and see how you feel and then make the decision as to whether you need a refresher course. i'm sure you will be amazed at how fast things come back to you. then that way you won't go through that whole process when you didn't really need to. btw, i'm interested in clinical trials. how do you go about getting your foot in the door and how do you come across these types of jobs? i'm wanting to get away from the floor!

thanks kizzykatlove for the reply! i have tried to look online for outpatient clinics. many of the ones i've found are surgery centers that want nurses w/ PACU experience. do you know any specifically that are hiring (nurses w/o pacu exp.) i could contact? i am an RN w/ a year experience in postpartum. so i would need a center/clinic that is willing to train or does not require pacu/critical care experience. question, is "las vegas mental health" a facility/company or were you suggesting to search under that phrase? just wondered because i searched for it online and didn't find a particular facility. thanks so much for the help!!!

I'm considering getting a new job in the vegas area. was wondering if anyone knows of any outpatient/non-hospital job openings. I would love to work in a prenatal clinic or ob-gyn office and also have an interest in psych. any outpatient/community health job would be great... to any students who have done rotations in las vegas, have you seen any areas that fit the above description in your clinicals? what psych facilities would you suggest? it was MUCH easier to find a career i enjoyed when i was looking in the state i graduated nursing school from! i don't really know what is out there besides the major hospitals... any help would be much appreciated! thanks!!! ~Newbie

Thanks for the advice everyone! Much appreciated. I am planning on seeing a psychiatrist soon. Any advice on what to do in the mean time? Should I quit this job (L&D) and try to find an area in nursing that is less stressful? (wish me luck on that!) Quit nursing all together and do pharmaceutical sales or something that requires a bachelors? I've thought about doing dialysis? I also have an interest in psych (for obvious reasons, although i don't know if the blind leading the blind is such a great idea.) I really wish I could just throw in the towel but that's not really an option. Any suggestions on what to do? Stay on orientation until i get some help????? uggghhhh :uhoh21:

Hello everyone. I am new to this site, been reading on here for a couple of weeks. I desperately need some advice! I have been a nurse for over a year and am still having a lot of stress/anxiety that I was told would "go away after a year of experience." I am now on my third job in a hospital setting and am wondering if nursing is not for me. I have a hx of mental illness in my family and I really think nursing is going to push me over the edge. I have been depressed for two months and am considering seeing a psychiatrist or something. I have tried office nursing and was stressed, now i'm back to hospital nursing and i'm stressed....so i really don't know what to do. Part of the stress/anxiety is due to hopping from job to job (not my choice, moved etc.) and the other part is due to moving to a new state w/o family support, my husband being gone all the time, hx of anxiety disorders in family etc. But i truly feel that the majority of the stress in my life is caused by NURSING! The sad thing is that I know I am capable and my heart is in the right place, I just feel like I can not do this emotionally. I also don't want to quit my job right now being that I am not even off orientation and I haven't given this unit anything in return for all they've done for me. But deep down, I do not want to stay and I'm crying everyday. Another thing, is that I am anxious because although while on orientation the patients aren't "yours" per se, I know they will be mine soon enough and I've been there w/ two other jobs and the stress is too much! So I've pretty much decided to quit this job (can't handle it emotionally) but i really don't know what other job to do. I am sick of going from job to job and being unhappy. i know i have to get this anxiety under control or nothing will ever work out. The whole situation is complicated. But I feel like I've done my best and have given nursing a fair shot. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it is not nursing, it's me! Any thoughts, suggestions, advice would be appreciated! I've already talked to everyone in my family a million times and still don't know what to do! And of course my poor husband is soo worried!