jeslynhatRN

SunshineBaby, you wouldn't happen to be in Brevard County would you? I spoke from someone there the other day about the school clinic nurse positions available (as I am interested in public/community health - Just graduated in May, got a job on a med surg floor in july and have been there ever since... hate it!) I''m trying to figure out how to get into the public health system when there really are no open positions... or, what should I do to head that way? I've decided I'd rather be able to spend the time with the pt to educate them rather than shove some meds there way and move on to the next person... I want to help prevent them from becoming sick - I don't like the acute setting at all! Any advice is appreciated!

Thank you all for the advice... Seeing as how I am working tomorrow night and so us she, I think I'll bring it up to her then. I hope everything works out so as not to make anyone upset about it. Thanks again! I'll let you know the verdict!

I know how you feel... totally. Tomorrow night I start off on my own after close to 3 months of precepting. For the past week, I have been so teary and depressed and I constantly am telling myself, "I've picked the wrong field... I am so stupid, why did I choose this?... " I want to quit - period. But I can't because I don't want to disappoint anyone including myself. I am at the most miserable I have ever been, even my husband has noticed how miserable I am. To top it off, I hate the floor I'm on (the people are nice and I can ask many of them questions, but it's a cardiac step-down/tele/med surg unit) and I've decided this is totally not for me. I miss being able to see my friends and family (as I work nights) and I feel isolated and alone. Sometimes on my way to work, I think how great it would be to be in a little fender bender or something so that I don't have to go in (nothing that will kill me, just enough to not be able to go in that night). I have decided I need to call my PCP and try to get back on anti-depressants because of all of this. I feel your pain, but I read eveything on here and it starts to make feel better... a little... very little, lol!

Yes, it's supposed to be 2 weeks... :/

I'm a new nurse, just finished precepting and will begin my first solo night on Tuesday. When I asked last month about being able to still have the same schedule as my preceptor so that I could have a go to person, I was told that it was fine by the two nurse managers and the charge nurse who does the scheduling was aware of this. Our new schedule started yesterday (Sunday) and had not gotten past the "2nd Draft" stage because the charge nurse was gone for like 2 weeks... So I assumed I'd still work the same schedule that I put myself down for and made plans for this 5 day weekend I had coming up this Thurs-Mon. This morning I get a message from the charge nurse saying she has taken me off of this Wednesday and has put me on for Saturday because they were short... huh? How can she tell me 2 days before that she's changed the schedule (to a day when my preceptor can't work and this will leave me without my go to person for only my second day off precepting) when I know in our policy manual it says they are required to give us at least two weeks notice? I don't know what to do... I had made plans for this weekend already and I could really use the 5 days off in a row... I am coping badly enough now and was wanting to spend some time with my family to help keep my spirits up... I am so upset that this has been done, but I don't want to ruffle any feathers so soon... what should I do? I am so depressed as it is, I really was looking forward to this weekend... I need advice!

I'm a new nurse, just finished precepting and will begin my first solo night on Tuesday. When I asked last month about being able to still have the same schedule as my preceptor so that I could have a go to person, I was told that it was fine by the two nurse managers and the charge nurse who does the scheduling was aware of this. Our new schedule started yesterday (Sunday) and had not gotten past the "2nd Draft" stage because the charge nurse was gone for like 2 weeks... So I assumed I'd still work the same schedule that I put myself down for and made plans for this 5 day weekend I had coming up this Thurs-Mon. This morning I get a message from the charge nurse saying she has taken me off of this Wednesday and has put me on for Saturday because they were short... huh? How can she tell me 2 days before that she's changed the schedule (to a day when my preceptor can't work and this will leave me without my go to person for only my second day off precepting) when I know in our policy manual it says they are required to give us at least two weeks notice? I don't know what to do... I had made plans for this weekend already and I could really use the 5 days off in a row... I am coping badly enough now and was wanting to spend some time with my family to help keep my spirits up... I am so upset that this has been done, but I don't want to ruffle any feathers so soon... what should I do? I am so depressed as it is, I really was looking forward to this weekend... I need advice!

I graduated from nursing school in May, got a job at a hospital in July and am almost done with my precepting. My preceptor is really great, she's the same age as I am but has been a nurse for 5 years. I am so depressed working! I feel like crying before I go in... once I actually get to work, I'm okay, but it's the going in that I have a hard time with. I am up to 5 patients now (under my preceptors eye) and I told her the other day, I just don't feel like I know what I'm doing in the grand scheme of things... I question almost everything I do. She says that I am doing great and that I ask all the right questions... I just feel like my head is barely above water and at any moment I'm going to go under. There has only been one day (that was really, REALLY bad) in which we only had 4 pts, and it was one catastrophe after another with all four of them that the two of us taking care of these pts couldn't even manage to keep up! She was on the verge of tears and so was I. I know I lack confidence in my abilities, but I feel depressed enough that I think I may ask my doc to be put back on anti-depressants (I was on them years ago). I guess what I need is reassurance that things will get better and that I'm not just a pill pusher (because that's all it feels like I do around the clock...).