italianrn07

I have been an RN for 5 years and have done different types of nursing trying to find my "niche". I did hospital nursing for three years working ortho/neuro and rehab, then nursing home for a year, and recently outpatient surgery center. I really l...

I have five years of overall experience as an RN and really want to get into a clinic. I have tried hospital, LTC, and surgery and didn't like any of those because of weird hours and weekends/holidays. I have been applying but never get a phone cal...

what kind of network did you apply to?

that's a really good idea, thanks!

paradiseboundRN- yes I do have issues with anxiety and depression. In the last five years I've been a nurse I have had family members die and my mom had cancer and I had two babies and suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety with both. I am...

HI everyone. I have been an RN for 5 years now and I'm at a crossroads where I need to make a decision to either go back to school or leave nursing profession altogether. Over the last 3 years I have been "let go" from two jobs. I have tried diffe...

I was terminated from two jobs due to "poor work performance". I just felt like I couldn't keep up and was forgetting to complete or follow through with things. medication errors. I have looked into social work. I'm still paying off student loans...

Hi all, I saw a job posting for a Pacemaker RN at a clinic. Does anyone know what this RN would do or if it is a interesting job? Thanks.

palmetto girl, Ortho/Neuro is a specialized unit, but I think it would be a great place to start. You will learn a lot and use many nursing skills. The orthopedic patients we see are people who have hip or knee replacement surgery, have surgery to ...

Hi all, I'm currently working on a busy neuro/ortho/trauma unit at a hospital and before that worked on a rehabilitation unit at a hospital. I liked my job with rehab patients but left due to issues with my day/night rotation (got sick of it ruining...

Thank you for the encouragement.

I used to get more migraines working night shift trying to sleep during the day and my sleep patterns getting all messed up. I quit that job because I felt awful, so if you know irregular sleep patterns are a trigger, I would suggest not doing night...

Hi everyone, just looking for some advice. I am not happy at my current job but I really like the hospital I work for and am looking to transfer from one unit to another. There is a question on the internal transfer form that asks if they can conta...

Hi all, I am currently working in rehab at a hospital and am a newer nurse (8 months) and not happy in my current job, looking for a change. There is a new cancer center being built in my area and was thinking about applying for an oncology clinic jo...

I personally do not have children (yet anyway) and I have the same crap going on at my work place. There is one nurse who consistently comes in 10 minutes late and makes excuses that she had to get her kids to daycare, etc. It's gotten so tolerated...

Hi, I work 12 hour shifts, 3 days a week. What I do is go work out on my days off. It is very hard though if I work 3 week days and it's my weekend off, then I try to workout on Sat or Sun. Sometimes exercise gets put on the back burner because of...

Sounds like you had one heck of a night! I have had an experience on night shift with a psychotic patient, but not quite as bad as that! I commend you. Sometimes you just have to not say "wow it's quiet night" :)

JJoy, I agree with what you are saying. I can see both sides of it. But I think my unit in specific needs to fix the problems as to why the staff are leaving so much in the first place instead of just hiring new staff and losing them months later l...

I totally understand where you are coming from. The unit where I work has had high turnover and when I was hired I was one out of 4 RNs just hired because many had quit. Now we just had 2 RNs quit and are in a bad staffing situation. The first cou...

Hi, I graduated in May 2007, currently working at Bellin hospital. Hi Holly!

Hi everyone, I am a newer nurse, been at my current job for 8 months now on a rehabilitation unit in a hospital. I work 12 hour rotating shifts, 2 weeks days 7am-7pm then 2 weeks nights 7pm-7am. I took the job because I was right out of nursing schoo...

I also work in a hospital rehab unit, 12 beds. I like rehab, but with bad staffing it has been hell. We have one CNA no matter what. Even if we have 5 patients that are 1 assist, or 10 patients with half being 2 assist, it doesnt matter and our un...

I have actually just posted in the first year nursing section about working rotating shifts. I absolutely hate it! I have no social life because my schedule is so different and I never work the same days of the week. Once I get fairly used to nigh...