cbkelley

I have been offered a RN job in a correctional facility. I have been searching for a new job due to the conditions at the job I'm currently at. I work in hospital on a med/surg/tele floor and have been there 2 years(length of time I have been a nurse). I work 12 hour nights and it is routine now that we have anywhere from 8-9 pt starting out and by the time you get an admission we sometimes have 10 a piece. No designated charge nurse(we all just pick up parts of the responsibility as we can), sometimes no secretary, and maybe one nursing assistant for the entire floor. Many of our patients are post surgical and require quite a bit of attention,lots of tpn, ng tubes,iv meds,etc. I somehow manage it all but it is a lot for one person to handle. I also have been looking because it seems that med/surg nursing is not very inline with my personality. After the interview I had at the correctional facility, it seems that the job would be more of a fit with my personality and more along the lines of er/clinic type nursing rather than floor nursing. I know it will bring its own challenges and I am up for learning new things. I guess it should not be a hard decision, but I guess I still have some reservations about leaving my current job. Any opinions about accepting the job offer? Or any insight to working corrections as a nurse?

I am having some what of a dilemma. I am graduating soon and have been doing the normal job search since earlier this year. However, I have had some offers recently for jobs in the area I live now, but I do not know if I should take any of them. My real goal is to apply to this nurse residency program but they only have two cohorts a year like in jun and jan. And since when I am graduating and time constraints I cannot do the jun cohort. My goal would be to be part of the jan because they will take you as long as you do not have six months experience at the time you are applying for the program (august-sept). Would it would be rude to take a job around here knowing that I could possibly be leaving the job if I was accepted at another place. I just hate to know the fact that they would have to spend time orienting me and all of that and then I leave because of another opportunity. However, I hate to just sit around for a few months possibly doing nothing, especially if getting accepted did not work out. Any opinions about this situation would be very helpful...

Our school has were you can review the questions you missed after the exam. But we have to use a lockdown browser when we take this test (we cant click outside the windows, can't copy or paste, and can't open other programs). And we only get to see the ones we missed and get the rationale why it wasn't correct and this is done silently looking at it on the computer and we get about 10 mintues. If you make below passing, which is 75, then you are required to meet with the professor and discuss the exam. Everyone has the option of meeting with the professor and discussing problems they had with the exam if they wish to do so. Before they implemented this lockdown browser and were having problems with people(last semester)we did not get to review the exams until after our last one which was like 3 days before the final, go figure!!!